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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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Lady Rachel Russell: Summer 1692-Summer 1695

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Summer 1692-Summer 1695

LRR was almost blind with cataracts, which prevented her from writing.
Schwoerer, Lois. Lady Rachel Russell: "One of the Best of Women". Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
198-9

Grisell Murray: 25 October 1692

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25 October 1692

Grisell Baillie (later Murray) was born. She was the eldest of three. Her only brother died in infancy, and her sister Rachel was four years younger than Grisell.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Lady Grisell Baillie
Lord Byron and his Times. Aug. 2011, http://www.lordbyron.org/.

Eliza Haywood: 1692-3

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Author event in Eliza Haywood

1692-3

EH was probably born at the turn of the year.
Blouch, Christine. “Eliza Haywood and the Romance of Obscurity”. Studies in English Literature, Vol.
31
, 1 June 1991–2026, pp. 535-52.
537

Late 1692: A Lottery Act was proposed to raise a million...

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Late 1692

A Lottery Act was proposed to raise a million pounds for expenses incurred in the Nine Years War.
Defoe, Daniel. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe. Editor Shugrue, Michael F., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
322
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
179

9 December 1692: The actor William Mountfort was treacherously...

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9 December 1692

The actor William Mountfort was treacherously murdered after trying to prevent two rakes from abducting his colleague Anne Bracegirdle .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 416

Elizabeth Cellier: Perhaps after 1693

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Author event in Elizabeth Cellier

Perhaps after 1693

Either EC or some relation of hers was alive at St-Germain-en-Laye in France this year; she was said to have outlived her husband .
Richards, Penny. “A Life in Writing: Elizabeth Cellier and Print Culture”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 3, 2000, pp. 411-25.
414 and notes
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Alicia D'Anvers: 1693

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Author event in Alicia D'Anvers

1693

ADA mocked the university again in another satire, The Oxford -Act: A Poem.
It is available online from the Women Writers Project , www.wwp.northeastern.edu.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Catharine Trotter: 1693

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1693

CT , aged not yet twenty, composed Verses sent to Mr Bevil Higgons , On his sickness and recovery from the Small-pox.
Trotter, Catharine. The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn. Editor Birch, Thomas, J. and P. Knapton, 1751.
2: 557

From about 1693: British seamen based on the island of Madagascar...

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From about 1693

British seamen based on the island of Madagascar mounted an escalating series of pirate attacks on passing shipping; plans were formed for procuring them pardon (at a price).
Baer, Joel H. “Penelope Aubin and the Pirates of Madagascar: Biographical Notes and Documents”. Eighteenth- Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, 2001, pp. 49-62.
49-52

1693: A Messenger of the Press trying to arrest...

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1693

A Messenger of the Press trying to arrest a journeyman printer, William Anderton , for treasonably printing Jacobite material, had to call in two men before he could overcome the physical resistance of Anderton's wife...

1693: John Dunton dedicated volume 11 of his Athenian...

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1693

John Dunton dedicated volume 11 of his Athenian Mercury to the fictional Worshipfull Society of Mercury-Women . . . of London.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
25-8

1693: John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education...

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1693

John Locke 's Some Thoughts Concerning Education was anonymously published.
Locke, John. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. A. and J. Churchill, 1693.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Paul, Lissa. The Children’s Book Business. Routledge, 2011.
82

1693: John Dryden published his edition of Juvenal's...

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1693

John Dryden published his edition of Juvenal 's Satires, translated into English poetry by various hands, including that of Aphra Behn .
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

19 January 1693: Ann Merryweather was condemned to be burned...

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19 January 1693

Ann Merryweather was condemned to be burned for printing treasonable pamphlets.
Winn, James Anderson. John Dryden and His World. Yale University Press, 1987.
621n78

February-March 1693: John Dunton published, in London, the four...

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February-March 1693

John Dunton published, in London, the four issues of The Ladies' Mercury, a sister paper to the Athenian Mercury.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
23
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
23
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Catharine Trotter: After 8 April 1693

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After 8 April 1693

Olinda's Adventures; or, The Amours of a Young Lady, a short epistolary novel generally ascribed to CT , appeared anonymously in Letters of Love and Gallantry, here titled The Adventures of a Young...

Anne Wentworth: Just before 22 May 1693

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Just before 22 May 1693

Assuming that AW was the woman of that name living in St John's Court, then she died shortly before this date, which was that of her funeral in Clerkenwell.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette: 25 May 1693

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25 May 1693

MML died at the age of fifty-nine.
Haig, Stirling. Madame de Lafayette. Twayne, 1970.
14

Lady Lucy Herbert : 1 June 1693

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1 June 1693

LLH (Sister Teresa Joseph) made her profession as a nun at the English Augustinian convent at Bruges.
Durrant, Catherine S. A Link between Flemish Mystics and English Martyrs. Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 1925.
316
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Astell: 21 September 1693

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21 September 1693

MA wrote the first of her letters to John Norris , to challenge (with extreme tact and politeness) a point made in his Discourses Upon the Beatitudes, 1690.
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986.
73-4

Mary Davys: October 1693

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October 1693

A Mrs. Mary D. who published in Peter Motteux ' The Gentleman's Journal a 600-word tale entitled A Gift and no Gift may well have been MD .
Bayer, Gerd. “A Possible Early Publication by Mary Davys and Its Swiftian Afterglow”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
59
, June 2012, pp. 194-7.

October 1693: The Gentleman's Diary; or, The Monthly Miscellany...

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October 1693

The Gentleman's Diary; or, The Monthly Miscellany (edited by Motteux ) put out an issue devoted to women, entitled The Lady's Journal.
Miegon, Anna E. The Ladies Diary and the Emergence of the Almanac for Women, 1704-1753. Simon Fraser University, Sept. 2008.
104

Elizabeth Singer Rowe: 21 October 1693-7 January 1696

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Author event in Elizabeth Singer Rowe

21 October 1693-7 January 1696

Elizabeth Singer (later ESR ), as Philomela, published poems in John Dunton 's The Athenian Mercury (formerly The Athenian Gazette).
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
383
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang, 1973.
39, 52

23 October 1693: Alexander Davenant fled to the Canary Islands...

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23 October 1693

Alexander Davenant fled to the Canary Islands in order to escape arrest for mishandling the finances of the United Company (now London's only licensed theatre); joint managers Sir Thomas Skipwith and Christopher Rich were...

Catharine Burton: 8 December 1693

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8 December 1693

CB entered (as a novice) the convent of the English Carmelites at Hopland in Antwerp (where she made her profession a year and a day later).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.