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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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Delarivier Manley: April 1696

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April 1696

DM 's The Royal Mischief, A Tragedy was produced at Lincoln's Inn Fields ; it was printed the same year.
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
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Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii.
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Marie de Sévigné: 6 April 1696

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6 April 1696

Eleven days before her death, MS wrote the last of her extant letters: to her cousin Madame de Coulanges .
Sévigné, Marie de. Correspondance. Editor Duchêne, Roger, Gallimard, 1972, 3 vols.
3: 1153, 1884

Joan Whitrow: 11 April 1696

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11 April 1696

JW personally delivered into King William 's hands a detailed political message received from God three days before and printed as a broadside: To the King and Both Houses of Parliament.
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.

Marie de Sévigné: 17 April 1696

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17 April 1696

MS died at Grignan in Brittany.
Biographers Jeanne and William Ojala give the year of her death as 1691. This must to be a misprint, however, as they correctly date her fatal illness to April 1696.
Ojala, Jeanne, and William Ojala. Madame de Sévigné: A Seventeenth-Century Life. Berg, 1990.
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Williams, Charles G. S. Madame de Sévigné. Twayne, 1981.
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Sir Isaac Newton: By 2 May 1696

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By 2 May 1696

Isaac Newton had moved from Cambridge to London to take up his new employment as Warden of the Mint.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Penelope Aubin: 4 May 1696

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4 May 1696

Penelope Charleton was married to a Huguenot immigrant, Captain Abraham Aubin , at St James's, Dukes Place, London, a church with a reputation for performing clandestine marriages.
Welham, Debbie. “The Particular Case of Penelope Aubin”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
31
, No. 1, Mar. 2008, pp. 63-76.
66
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.
53-4 and n10

Mary Pix: 30 June 1696

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30 June 1696

One of two separate, near-simultaneous editions appeared of MP 's first play, the tragedy Ibrahim, The Thirteenth Emperour of the Turks.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
413
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 464

Mary Pix: Probably September 1696

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Probably September 1696

MP , with Manley and Trotter , was lampooned on stage in The Female Wits—not virulently, but as fat, greedy, and unladylike.
The cast-list of The Female Wits, unpublished till 1704, suggests that...

Delarivier Manley: Probably September 1696

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Probably September 1696

DM was mocked as leader of a school of women playwrights in an anonymous comedy, The Female Wits.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 467

Marie de Sévigné: Later 1696

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Later 1696

MS 's letters first appeared anonymously in her cousin's Les mémoires de messire Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, which was published at Paris just six months after her death.
Ojala, Jeanne, and William Ojala. Madame de Sévigné: A Seventeenth-Century Life. Berg, 1990.
208, 211
Williams, Charles G. S. Madame de Sévigné. Twayne, 1981.
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Mary Pix: 17 October 1696

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17 October 1696

MP 's farce or comedy The Spanish Wives was published.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 464

21 November 1696: Sir John Vanbrugh's comedy The Relapse: or...

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21 November 1696

Sir John Vanbrugh 's comedy The Relapse: or Virtue in Danger opened at Drury Lane .
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.

Susanna Hopton : 28 November 1696

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28 November 1696

SH 's husband Richard died at Kington in Herefordshire, well on in his eighties.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elisabeth Wast : 1 December 1696

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1 December 1696

EW formally accepted Christ as her spouse.
Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises. 1724.
39

Delarivier Manley: December 1696

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December 1696

DM was introduced by Catharine Trotter to John Tilly , governor of the Fleet Prison ; he became her first long-term lover, with whom she stayed till December 1702.
Ballaster, Ros. “Early Women Writers: Lives and Times. Delarivier Manley (c. 1663-1724)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol.
5
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2001, pp. 2-5.
3

M. Marsin: 29 December 1696

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29 December 1696

The Post-Boy advertised as just published MM 's tract The Near Aproach [sic] of Christ's Kingdom, clearly proved by Scripture, with her initials, and printed for the author.
Burns, William E. “’By Him the Women will be delivered from that Bondage, which some has found intolerable’: M. Marsin, English Millenarian Feminist”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, 2001, pp. 19-38.
24n10
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Catharine Burton: About 1697

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About 1697

CB , now a nun called Mother Mary Xaviera of the Angels, had a vision as she sat sewing in her cell, of her patron St Francis Xavier , who bade me write, for the...

Joan Whitrow: 1697

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1697

JW published what appears to be her final pamphlet, Faithful Warnings, Expostulations and Exhortations, to the Several Professors of Christianity in England, as well those of the Highest as the Lowest Quality.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Katherine Philips: From 1697

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From 1697

Letters from KP began appearing in print with Familiar Letters written by Lord Rochester and others; four further compilations followed before 1700.
Philips, Katherine. “Introduction and Textual Notes”. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, Volume II: The Letters, edited by Patrick Thomas, Stump Cross Books, 1992, p. xi - xviii.
2: xiiff
Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books, 1990–1993, 3 vols.
2: 1

Jane Lead: 1697

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1697

JL 's Philadelphian Society , finding that publication was making them known, embarked on a programme of deliberate expansion and publicising.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
172

Jane Lead: 1697-1701

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1697-1701

JL 's followers published her diary or spiritual autobiography, the first part as A Fountain of Gardens Watered by the Rivers of Divine Pleasure, And Springing up in all the Variety of Spiritual Plants...

M. Marsin: 1697

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1697

MM published five works this year with her initials or in some cases her name (M. Marsin), including All the Chief Points Contained in the Christian Religion.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

M. Marsin: 1697

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1697

One of the works which MM published this year (with her initials) was The Womans Advocate (an 8-page fragment).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1697: An Act of Parliament encouraged magistrates...

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1697

An Act of Parliament encouraged magistrates to set up signposts at confusing crossroads where travellers might otherwise take the wrong road.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1697: Legislation removed the status of several...

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1697

Legislation removed the status of several London districts (dating from the middle ages) as sanctuaries for debtors; only the Mint retained this status, until 1723.
Stirk, Nigel. “Fugitive Meanings: The Literary Construction of a London Debtors’ Sanctuary in the Eighteenth Century”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
24
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2001, pp. 175-88.
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Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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