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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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Anne Askew: 15 July 1546

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15 July 1546

AA is said to have composed and sung the ballad which is her best-known work, in Newgate Prison the night before her execution.
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, 1996.
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Askew, Anne. The Examinations of Anne Askew. Editor Beilin, Elaine V., Oxford University Press, 1996.
149

Anne Askew: 16 July 1546

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16 July 1546

AA was burned alive at Smithfield, just outside London Wall.
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, 1996.
xv

Katherine Parr: 17 July 1546

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17 July 1546

The day after Anne Askew was executed, Henry agreed at KP 's persuasion to halt the religious persecutions: two men in the Tower under the same Act were released and no more were burned.
Martienssen, Anthony. Queen Katherine Parr. McGraw-Hill, 1973.
220

Anne Askew: November 1546

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November 1546

After AA 's death the Protestant propagandist John Bale procured her dramatised accounts of her interrogations and published them as The First Examinacyon of Anne Askewe.
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, 1996.
xxxiii

Marguerite de Navarre: 1547

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1547

Marguerite de Navarre published at LyonsMarguerites de la Marguerite des princesses, très illustre royne de Navarre. It was illustrated with woodcuts.
Clive, Harry Peter. Marguerite de Navarre: An Annotated Bibliography. Grant and Cutler, 1983.
21-2
Putnam, Samuel. Marguerite of Navarre. Coward-McCann, 1935.
365
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Rose Hickman : 6 January 1547

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6 January 1547

RH 's first surviving child and only daughter, Mary, was baptised in London. She died before her mother, leaving children and grandchildren living.
Allan, Sue. Lady Rose Hickman—Her Life and Family. Domtom Publishing Ltd, 2009.
15-16

Anne Askew: 16 January 1547

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16 January 1547

John Bale published AA 's Lattre Examinacyon.
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, 1996.
xxxiii

28 January 1547: King Henry VIII died, and the youngest of...

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28 January 1547

King Henry VIII died, and the youngest of his children (the only boy among them) assumed the throne of England and Wales as Edward VI .
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
42-3
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 77

Katherine Parr: 5 November 1547

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5 November 1547

KP 's friend the Duchess of Suffolk helped circulate the first draft copies of The lamentacion of a sinner, made by the most vertuous Ladie, Quene Catern.
Martienssen, Anthony. Queen Katherine Parr. McGraw-Hill, 1973.
195-6

Queen Elizabeth I: April 1548

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April 1548

The early translation from Marguerite de Navarre by Princess Elizabeth (later QEI ) was printed as The Godly Medytacyon of the Cristen Sowle, concerninge a love towardes God and hys Christe.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Katherine Parr: 5 September 1548

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5 September 1548

KP died of puerperal fever at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, after bearing a daughter on 30 August.
Martienssen, Anthony. Queen Katherine Parr. McGraw-Hill, 1973.
237-8

Anne Locke: Probably soon after 1549

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Probably soon after 1549

Anne Vaughan married her first husband, Henry Locke (variously spelled), a London mercer and a neighbour of her family, who shared her Protestant convictions.
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1549: A poor people's rising took place in East...

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1549

A poor people's rising took place in East Anglia, led by Robert Kett ; the government of Protector Somerset sided with the commons against the gentry, but was for this reason brought down.
Clark, Jonathan Charles Douglas. Samuel Johnson: Literature, religion and English cultural politics from Restoration to Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
33n81
Collinson, Patrick. “What news?”. The London Review of Books, 1 Nov. 2001, pp. 19-22.
22

1549: English clergy in England and Wales were...

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1549

English clergy in England and Wales were first permitted to marry.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
under Church of England

Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit : 21 January 1549

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21 January 1549

Elizabeth Tyrwhit and her husband were given custody for a few months of Princess, later Queen, Elizabeth , replacing her governess Katherine Astley —who, however, was then reinstated.
Tyrwhit, Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers, edited by Susan M. Felch, Ashgate, 2008, pp. 1-51.
11-12
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit : 25 February 1549

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25 February 1549

Elizabeth Tyrwhit 's husband, Sir Robert Tyrwhit , bought the manor house at Leighton Bromswold (now in Cambridgeshire). The house was later replaced, but its spacious gate-house remains.
qtd. in
Tyrwhit, Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers, edited by Susan M. Felch, Ashgate, 2008, pp. 1-51.
9
“Parishes: Leighton Bromswold”. British History Online.
Parishes: Leighton Bromswold

20 May 1549: A parliamentary Act of Uniformity prescribed...

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20 May 1549

A parliamentary Act of Uniformity prescribed use of the first Book of Common Prayer in parish churches; every church had to possess a copy.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
242
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “How good is it?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 3, 3 Feb. 2011, pp. 20-2.
21
Smyth, Adam. “23153.8; 19897.7; 15635”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 16, 27 Aug. 2015, pp. 37-9.
37

Probably by June 1549: The first collection of nineteen psalms translated...

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Probably by June 1549

The first collection of nineteen psalms translated into English verse was published by Thomas Sternhold ; later editions, after Sternhold's death (in August this year), added a few more psalms translated by John Hopkins .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Sternhold

15 August 1549: St Francis Xavier landed at the port of Kagoshima...

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15 August 1549

St Francis Xavier landed at the port of Kagoshima in Japan as a missionary preacher.
“Japan”. Local Catholic Church History and Genealogy.

Marguerite de Navarre: 21 December 1549

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21 December 1549

Marguerite de Navarre died at the castle of Odos in Bigorre, France, apparently following a stroke.
Biographer Samuel Putnam puts the date as 1 December. Biographer Martha Freer in her more detailed study says...

Anne Bacon: Probably 1550

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Probably 1550

Two translated collections by Bernardino Ochino , Fouretene Sermons and Certayne Sermons, appeared; the translation of the former and of most of the latter is by Anne Cooke (later AB ).
Ochino, ex-Vicar-General of...

Lady Jane Lumley: By 1550

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By 1550

The barely teenage Lady Jane Fitzalan was married to John, first Baron Lumley , an orphan and a Roman Catholic, whose father had been executed for treason.
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under John Lumley

Lady Jane Lumley: About 1550

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About 1550

Soon after she became a child bride, LJL , still living in her father 's house, made the earliest extant English translation of a Greek tragedy: Iphigeneia from Euripides .
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Marguerite de Navarre: 1550

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1550

Ladies Anne , Margaret , and Jane Seymour published at Paris their Latin Hecatodistichon, translated into French the following year as Le tombeau de Marguerite de Valois, royne de Navarre.
Clive, Harry Peter. Marguerite de Navarre: An Annotated Bibliography. Grant and Cutler, 1983.
145
Demers, Patricia. “The Seymour Sisters: Elegizing Female Attachment”. The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol.
xxx
, No. 2, 1 June 1999– 2025, pp. 343-65.
343

1550: Giovan Francesco Straparola published the...

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1550

Giovan Francesco Straparola published the first volume of Pleasant Nights.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.