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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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January 1697: Daniel Defoe proposed in his early publication...

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January 1697

Daniel Defoe proposed in his early publication An Essay upon Projects (advertised for sale this month) the founding of an academy for women.
Kersey, Shirley Nelson, editor. Classics in the Education of Girls and Women. Scarecrow Press, 1981.
87-94
Defoe, Daniel. Essay Upon Projects. Printed by R. R. for Tho. Cockerill, 1697.
31
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1697-9: In a decade including too many lean years,...

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1697-9

In a decade including too many lean years, Scotland was devastated by famine: the last one to occur on the British mainland, though conditions were bad again in Scotland in 1783-4.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
36
Jack, Ian. “A Country Emptied”. London Review of Books, Vol.
41
, No. 5, 7 Mar. 2019, pp. 19-22.
Jack, Ian. “A Country Emptied”. London Review of Books, Vol.
41
, No. 5, 7 Mar. 2019, pp. 19-22.
20

1697: John Evelyn included in his Numismata. A...

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1697

John Evelyn included in his Numismata. A Discourse of Medals, Ancient and Modern a list of women famed for writing: Margaret Cavendish , Katherine Philips , Aphra Behn , Bathsua Makin , and Mary Astell .
Evelyn, John. Numismata. Benjamin Tooke, 1697.
265

Hester Biddle: 5 February 1697

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5 February 1697

HB died in Clerkenwell, London, aged about sixty-seven.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Frances, Lady Norton: 16 February 1697

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16 February 1697

Grace Norton , the only child of Frances, Lady Norton , was privatly marryed at St Mary Magdalen's Church in London to an Irish baronet, Sir Richard Gethin , her exact contemporary, who had estates...

Anne Halkett: 19 February 1697

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19 February 1697

Hearing news of a death made AH resolve to get her manuscripts to Simon Couper and a Mr Grene, who were to preserve and to make [them] known, that is to publish them, after...

Jane Lead: March-November 1697

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March-November 1697

The first five numbers appeared of Theosophical Transactions, the Philadelphian Society 's journal: not a work of JL 's but a journal intimately connected with her writings.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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Sperle, Joanne Magnani. God’s Healing Angel: A Biography of Jane Lead. Kent State University, 1985.
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Mary Astell: May 1697

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May 1697

MA 's philosophical second part to A Serious Proposal to the Ladies was published, again as by a Lover of her Sex, dedicated to Princess (later Queen) Anne .
Norton, J. E. “Some Uncollected Authors, XXVII: Mary Astell, 1666-1731”. The Book Collector, Vol.
10
, 1961, pp. 58-65.
62

Celia Fiennes: May-August 1697

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May-August 1697

CF rode her first Great Journey, to and around northern England and (whether or not as part of the same journey) through Kent.
Fiennes, Celia. “Editorial Note and Introduction”. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, edited by Christopher Morris, Macdonald; Webb and Bower, 1982, pp. 8-31.
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Susanna Wesley: From May or June 1697

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From May or June 1697

SW lived at Epworth, Lincolnshire until her husband 's death in 1735.
Wesley, Susanna. “Introduction”. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings, edited by Charles, Jr Wallace, Oxford University Press, 1997.
xiii-xiv

By May 1697: Sir John Vanbrugh's comedy The Provok'd Wife...

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By May 1697

Sir John Vanbrugh 's comedy The Provok'd Wife 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.

Elizabeth Bury: 29 May 1697

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29 May 1697

After fifteen years as a widow Elizabeth Lloyd married as her second husband, at Bury St Edmunds, Samuel Bury , a Presbyterian minister nineteen years her junior.
Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint, 1720.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mehetabel Wright: Probably after mid-1697

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Probably after mid-1697

MW was born at Epworth in Lincolnshire, the seventh of probably nineteen children of whom ten lived to grow up.
The number of children is not established beyond doubt. It was in May or...

Sarah, Lady Piers : 9 June 1697

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9 June 1697

Sarah, Lady Piers, began her correspondence with Catharine Trotter , in which the last surviving letter was written on 19 August 1709.
Piers, Sarah, Lady. “letters to Catharine Trotter”. British Library Additional MSS 4264: ff. 284-332, 9 June 1697–19 Aug. 1709.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

14 June 1697: John Dunton's Athenian Mercury ceased pu...

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14 June 1697

John Dunton 's Athenian Mercury ceased publication.
Crane, Ronald Salmon et al. A Census of British Newspapers and Periodicals, 1620-1800. University of North Carolina Press; Cambridge University Press, 1927.
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Catharine Colace Ross: 10 July 1697

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10 July 1697

CCR died at Edinburgh.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Pix: By 31 July 1697

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By 31 July 1697

MP 's comedy The Innocent Mistress was published.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 481

Susanna Wright: 4 August 1697

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4 August 1697

SW , future American poet, was born in Warrington, Lancashire, England, the eldest child in her family. She had seven younger siblings.
James, Edward T. et al., editors. Notable American Women, 1607-1950. Harvard University Press, 1971, 3 vols.

Ariadne: Probably Autumn 1697

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Probably Autumn 1697

Lincoln's Inn Fields , London, saw the opening of a comedy entitled The Unnatural Mother; since the author was a Young Lady it has been ascribed to Ariadne .
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.
29-30

20 September 1697: The Treaty of Ryswick ended the Nine Years...

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20 September 1697

The Treaty of Ryswick ended the Nine Years War: only nine years of peace followed.
Defoe, Daniel. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe. Editor Shugrue, Michael F., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
323
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

Frances, Lady Norton: 11 October 1697

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11 October 1697

Grace, Lady Gethin , daughter of Frances, Lady Norton , died in London at the age of twenty-three, only ten months after her wedding.
Freke, Elizabeth. The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke, 1671-1714. Editor Anselment, Raymond A., Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2001.
67 and n97

About November 1697: A tragedy by Charles Hopkins, Boadicea, Queen...

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About November 1697

A tragedy by Charles Hopkins , Boadicea, Queen of Britain, starring Elizabeth Barry , scored an immense success.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

M. Marsin: 16 November 1697

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16 November 1697

Two of MM 's tracts or compilations, A Clear and Brief Explanation (which reconfigures her Practical Treatise), and The Figurative Speeches: by which God has veiled his Secrets, were advertised.

22 November 1697: For this day Dryden wrote his Alexander's...

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22 November 1697

For this day Dryden wrote his Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Musique, An Ode, In Honour of St. Cecilia's Day; it was performed to music by Jeremiah Clarke .
Dryden, John. Selected Poetry and Prose of John Dryden. Editor Miner, Earl, Modern Library College Editions, The Modern Library, 1985.
503

Mary Pix: By late November 1697

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By late November 1697

MP 's The Deceiver Deceived opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 488-9