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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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28 December 1694: Queen Mary died of smallpox during a severe...

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28 December 1694

Queen Mary died of smallpox during a severe epidemic, leaving her husband, William , to reign alone.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
990
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
2: 1971

28 December 1694: The twelve-year-old marriage between the...

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28 December 1694

The twelve-year-old marriage between the future George I and Sophia Dorothea of Celle was dissolved; Sophia Dorothea's lover had already been killed, probably without her husband's knowledge.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under George I

Joan Whitrow: Around New Year 1695

Women writers item
Author event in Joan Whitrow

Around New Year 1695

After Queen Mary died of smallpox, JW was impelled by God to go from Putney, where she lived, to London proper, and call the people to fasting instead of feasting.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
160

Héloïse: 1695

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Author event in Héloïse

1695

F.-N. Du Bois published at the Hague what was probably the first of the many fictionalized accounts of Héloïse 's life: Histoire des amours et des infortunes d'Abélard et d'Eloïse.
Charrier, Charlotte. Héloïse. Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, 1933.
605

Jane Lead: Probably 1695

Women writers item
Author event in Jane Lead

Probably 1695

JL 's followers published her Wonders of God's Creation Manifested, In the Variety of Eight Worlds, with a preface by its Subordinate Author or male scribe.
Sperle, Joanne Magnani. God’s Healing Angel: A Biography of Jane Lead. Kent State University, 1985.
267
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1695: John Locke published The Reasonableness of...

Writing climate item

1695

John Locke published The Reasonableness of Christianity.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

1695: As an index of the decline of brewing as...

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1695

As an index of the decline of brewing as women's work, historian Deborah Simonton notes that Aberdeen had only ten female brewers this year, compared to 150 in the previous century.
Simonton, Deborah. A History of European Women’s Work, 1700 to the Present. Routledge, 1998.
62

Dorothy Osborne: 7 February 1695

Women writers item
Author event in Dorothy Osborne

7 February 1695

Lady Temple, the former DO , died in her late sixties.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Françoise de Graffigny: 11 February 1695

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Author event in Françoise de Graffigny

11 February 1695

Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt (later FG ) was born at Nancy in Lorraine.
Trousson, Raymond. Romans de femmes du XVIIIe siècle. Robert Laffont, 1996.
59
DeJean, Joan E. et al. “Introduction and Note on Text”. Lettres d’une Péruvienne, Modern Language Assocation of America, 1993, p. ix - xxvi.
ix-x

Elisabeth Wast : April 1695

Women writers item
Author event in Elisabeth Wast

April 1695

EW 's family moved from one parish to another within Edinburgh: from Tron Kirk parish in the Old Town, to that of College Kirk.
Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises. 1724.
34

Mary Davys: 3 April 1695

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Davys

3 April 1695

MD 's baby daughter Ann was buried at St Patrick's.
Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlix.
xii

17 April 1695: Sor (Sister) Juana Inez de la Cruz, nun and...

Writing climate item

17 April 1695

Sor (Sister) Juana Inez de la Cruz , nun and writer, the greatest poet the American continent produced in the seventeenth century,
“The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project”. Dartmouth College: Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
died in her convent in Mexico City.
“The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project”. Dartmouth College: Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

30 April 1695: Thomas Betterton, Elizabeth Barry, and Anne...

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30 April 1695

Thomas Betterton , Elizabeth Barry , and Anne Bracegirdle gave the first performance of their breakaway Actors' Company , premiering Congreve 's Love for Love.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 439, 443, 445, 446
Hume, Robert D. “Jeremy Collier and the Future of the London Theatre in 1698”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford, 3 Jan. 1998.

Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy: 23 June 1695

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Author event in Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy

23 June 1695

MCA 's Memoirs of the Court of England, written by the way of letters was advertised in Athenian Mercury, London, as by the Countess Daunoy.
Palmer, Melvin D. “Madame d’Aulnoy in England”. Comparative Literature, Vol.
27
, 1975, pp. 237-53.
251

Elinor James: After mid-1695

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Author event in Elinor James

After mid-1695

EJ published a broadside, Mrs. James's Reasons that Printing may not be a Free-Trade, an attempt to influence the government in its regulation of the printing business.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

By mid-1695: The government's failure to renew the Printing...

Writing climate item

By mid-1695

The government's failure to renew the Printing or Licensing Act ended pre-publication censorship (through the need to obtain a licence), as well as controls on the number of master printers.
McDowell, Paula. “Women and the business of print”. Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800, edited by Vivien Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 135-54.
137-8
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
9: 216
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
132

Ariadne: September 1695

Women writers item
Author event in Ariadne

September 1695

The Actors' Company at Lincoln's Inn Fields , London, opened their first full season (which, remarkably, featured five new plays by women) with She Ventures, and He Wins, a singularly good-humoured comedy by Ariadne .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 452

1695-6: During this theatre season over one third...

Women writers item

1695-6

During this theatre season over one third of all new plays were by women (or adapted from work by women).
Backscheider, Paula R. Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern England. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
71

17 September 1695: The first of the Penal Laws against Catholics...

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17 September 1695

The first of the Penal Laws against Catholics restricted Catholic education rights: this produced the emergence in Ireland of the celebrated, and mythologized, hedge schools.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
208
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
22-3

By November 1695: Thomas Southerne (or Southern)'s Oroonoko,...

Writing climate item

By November 1695

Thomas Southerne (or Southern)'s Oroonoko, a tragedy adapted for the stage from Aphra Behn 's novel of the same title (his second recent stage adaptation of Behn), had its first performance.
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.

Catharine Trotter: Probably December 1695

Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Trotter

Probably December 1695

CT 's first play, Agnes de Castro. A Tragedy, opened at Drury Lane .
Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002.
254
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
406
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 455

Mary Mollineux: About 1 December 1695

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Author event in Mary Mollineux

About 1 December 1695

A week before the onset of her last illness, MM asked her husband to write down for her a couplet she had composed, in Latin, about virtue and its rewards.
Mollineux, Henry, and Mary Mollineux. “A Testimony Concerning my Late Wife Mary Mollineux, Deceased [and other pieces]”. Fruits of Retirement, T. Sowle, 1702, p. A8v - C2v.

Mary Mollineux: 8 December 1695

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Author event in Mary Mollineux

8 December 1695

MM was seized with violent Pain and Sickness; this continued for a month until she was very weak and rarely conscious. It turned out to be her last illness.
In Quaker terms this was...

Elizabeth Singer Rowe: 24 December 1695

Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Singer Rowe

24 December 1695

John Dunton 's The Athenian Mercury featured Platonick Love by Elizabeth Singer (later ESR ), a poem which very deliberately echoes Friendship by Katherine Philips as well as treating favourite Philips themes.
Bigold, Melanie. “Elizabeth Rowe’s Fictional and Familiar Letters: Exemplarity, Enthusiasm, and the Production of Posthumous Meaning”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
29
, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-14.
5n20

Aphra Behn: 1698

Women writers item
Author event in Aphra Behn

1698

The posthumous volume of AB 's The Histories and Novels was variously innovative: in collecting short fiction at all, and in supplying the collection with an introductory biography and an engraved portrait.
Behn, Aphra. The Histories and Novels. S. Briscoe, 1698.