Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles, Jr Wallace, Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Events Timeline
Orlando includes short event entries, freestanding and embedded in author profiles, about moments and processes relevant to literary history and organized into four categories: Women writers, Writing Climate, Political Climate, and Social Climate. Explore the timelines by searching for date(s) and/or words or phrases associated with them.
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Susanna Wesley: Summer 1691-early summer 1697
Women writers item
Author event in Susanna Wesley
Summer 1691-early summer 1697
Leaving the London area,
and her
lived at South Ormsby in Lincolnshire.
Sarah Butler: 12 July 1691
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Butler
12 July 1691
A Captain
(whom an unconvincing argument makes the husband of the extraordinary novelist
) was killed at the battle of Aughrim in Ireland: the battle at which English Protestant power...
12 July 1691: At the battle of Aughrim in county Galway,...
National or international item
12 July 1691
At the battle of Aughrim in county Galway,
's forces in Ireland (having just taken the town of Athlone with fearful destruction) won a decisive victory over those of
...
Elizabeth Bathurst : 13 July 1691
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Bathurst
13 July 1691
's first project on taking over her
's publishing firm was for Truth Vindicated by the Faithful Testimony and Writings of the Innocent Servant and Hand-Maid of the Lord,
, Deceased.
Mary Mollineux: 24 August 1691
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Mollineux
24 August 1691
, at the palace of the Bishop of Chester and Lancaster, debated with Bishop
and other ecclesiastics on the legality, or rather the scripture authority for, compulsory payment of tithes to the...
September 1691: Thomas Betterton changed his status at the...
September 1691
changed his status at the United Company of actors from sharer to salaried performer, likely because of the instability of the company's finances.
October 1691: Following William III's victory over James...
National or international item
October 1691
Following
's victory over
at the Battle of the Boyne the previous summer, the Treaty of Limerick severely curtailed the rights of Irish Roman Catholics to practise their religion, own property...
Celia Fiennes: December 1691
Women writers item
Author event in Celia Fiennes
December 1691
On her mother's death,
moved to London to join her married
: as usual she made a brief note of sights she saw on this journey.
Elizabeth Singer Rowe: Before 1 December 1691
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Before 1 December 1691
The seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Singer (later
) must have submitted her poem Upon
's Passing the Boyne to The Athenian Mercury (which had changed its title after only one issue from The Athenian Gazette).
Mary Davys: Probably between 1692 and late 1693
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Davys
Probably between 1692 and late 1693
(whose name at the time is unknown) married
, a graduate of
, Dublin; the marriage was cut short by his early death.
If she did indeed publish a...
Joan Whitrow: 1 January 1692
Women writers item
Author event in Joan Whitrow
1 January 1692
addressed a New Year message to both the joint monarchs: To
and
, Grace and Peace, The Widow Whitrow's Humble Thanksgiving to the Lord.
This text is available online...
Alice Thornton: 1692
Women writers item
1692: Richard Ames published Sylvia's Complaint,...
Writing climate item
1692
published Sylvia's Complaint, of Her Sex's Unhappiness, an antifeminist attack following several he had published the previous year.
1692: Nineteen people were found guilty of witchcraft...
1692
Nineteen people were found guilty of witchcraft at Salem, Massachusetts, and condemned to death by burning.
1692: Nahum Tate published A Present for the Ladies:...
Writing climate item
1692
published A Present for the Ladies: Being a Historical Vindication of the Female Sex.
January 1692-October 1694: Peter Anthony Motteux edited The Gentleman's...
Writing climate item
January 1692-October 1694
edited The Gentleman's Diary; or, The Monthly Miscellany, which combined aspects of the almanac and the periodical, and aimed particularly at women readers.
By 1692: The theory of hysteria as a specifically...
By 1692
The theory of hysteria as a specifically female form of insanity was becoming established.
1 February 1692: The London Mercury (by no means the only...
1 February 1692
The London Mercury (by no means the only journal to use this title at different times) began publication, with an appeal to
's Athenian Mercury and to the fair Sex, of what Degree...
Mary Mollineux: 9 February 1692
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Mollineux
9 February 1692
sent a poem in Latin to her
, who was again in prison for their
faith: this is one of many short poems that made part of her letters to him in...
Elizabeth Stirredge: 13 February 1692
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Stirredge
13 February 1692
finished writing for her children the account of her life which was published after her death as Strength in Weakness Manifest.
wrote 13-2-1692; see above for reasons why she probably was...
13 February 1692: A war party of the Macdonald clan was ambushed...
National or international item
13 February 1692
A war party of the Macdonald clan was ambushed and massacred in the Pass of Glencoe in Argyllshire by a force chiefly composed of Campbells.
Lady Lucy Herbert : 1 March 1692
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Lucy Herbert
1 March 1692
The year after her
's death,
was clothed at the convent of the
: Nazareth Monastery (called the English Convent) at Bruges, where she took the name
.
2 May 1692: Richard Baldwin began weekly publication—in...
2 May 1692
began weekly publication—in London—of The Scotch Mercury, which ran irregularly until 22 May.
Katharine Evans: June 1692
Women writers item
7 June 1692: An earthquake destroyed two-thirds of the...
National or international item
7 June 1692
An earthquake destroyed two-thirds of the thriving settler town and hub of Port Royal in Jamaica, killing 5,000 of the probably more than 7,000 inhabitants, slave and free.