Ehrengardt, Thibault. “Louise Labé, Head Corner Stone”. Rare Book Hub, Oct. 2015.
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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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1555: French poet Louise Labé (c. 1520-1566), a...
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1555
French poet
(c. 1520-1566), a salonnière in the city of Lyons, daughter and wife of rope-makers, published her Oeuvres at Lyons.
1555: Bridewell Prison, the first house of correction...
1555
, the first house of correction for vagrants and beggars, was established in the same building as the recently-founded
a residence for apprentices during their training.
February 1555: The law was changed to permit burning alive...
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February 1555
The law was changed to permit burning alive for heresy: during the rest of
's reign at least 274 persons were burned in England for their Protestant belief.
21 March 1556: Thomas Cranmer was burned alive for heresy...
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21 March 1556
was burned alive for heresy at Oxford, after withdrawing the recantation he had formerly made under threat of such a death: this was one of the most famous Protestant martyrdoms under
.
Mary Basset: By June 1556
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By June 1556
, still in her very early twenties, was married for the second time, to
, a courtier, a religious conservative, and recently secretary to
, Roman Catholic...
Queen Elizabeth I: 2 August 1556
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2 August 1556
Princess Elizabeth (later
) wrote what historian Patrick Collinson regards as the most important letter of her life (for political, not literary reasons): a declaration of innocent loyalty to her
.
Mary Basset: 1557
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1557
, dedicatee of
's translation from Eusebius, made Basset one of her chamber gentlewomen at Court.
Mary Basset: 1557
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1557
included in his edition of The Workes of Sir Thomas More, Knyght . . . wrytten by him in the Englysh tonge the translation by
of the Latin section of More's Treatise...
4 May 1557: The Royal Charter of the Stationers' Company...
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4 May 1557
The Royal Charter of the
of London, granted by
, restricted the privilege of book-production to its limited membership.
Anne Locke: 8 May 1557
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8 May 1557
, having left her home in London at the urging of
, arrived (with her two small children) in Geneva to seek refuge from the religious persecution of
's reign.
June 1557: Tottel's Miscellany was published....
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June 1557
's Miscellany was published.
Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny: 7 December 1557
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7 December 1557
Printer and publisher
entered in the Stationers' Register a volume of poetry entitled Precious Perles of Perfecte Godlines, which was said to be begonne by the
, and finished...
1558: John Knox published his Monstrous Regiment...
1558
published his Monstrous Regiment of Women, maintaining that woman had no natural or god-given authority to rule.
September 1558: The Emperor Charles V died at Yuste in Extremadura,...
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September 1558
The Emperor
died at Yuste in Extremadura, two years after abdicating from the
which he had created.
17 November 1558: Queen Mary I died, and Elizabeth I assumed...
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17 November 1558
died, and
assumed the throne of England and Wales.
Queen Elizabeth I: 20 November 1558
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20 November 1558
In a speech delivered a few days after her accession,
spoke of the crown as a burden laid on her by God, which she obediently accepted.
Marguerite de Navarre: 1559
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1559
's L'heptameron was published, posthumously and anonymously, at Paris.
1559: Negotiating between opposing factions, Elizabeth...
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1559
Negotiating between opposing factions,
sought to establish the English Church under her headship;
's Prayer Book of 1552 became the official Book of Common Prayer.
1559: Realdus Columbus published at Venice his...
1559
published at Venice his Latin book of human anatomy which publicised his discovery of the clitoris.
1559: The Roman Catholic Church set up the Index...
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1559
The
set up the Index Librorum Prohibitorum or list of prohibited books, to protect its flock from dangerous and heretical ideas.
1559: After a suppressed edition of 1555, there...
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1559
After a suppressed edition of 1555, there was published the anonymous A Myrroure for Magistrates: a collection of verse laments by famous men and women about how fortune brought them down in the end.
Queen Elizabeth I: 15 January 1559
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15 January 1559
Having succeeded to the throne in 1558,
was crowned, as the climax of processions and ceremonies which had lasted several days.
Queen Elizabeth I: 10 February 1559
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10 February 1559
delivered a speech to
in which she declined their petitions that she should marry.
Anne Locke: March 1559
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March 1559
and her family left Geneva to return to London following the accession of the Protestant
in November 1558.
1560: John Knox was instrumental in establishing...
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1560
was instrumental in establishing the Reformed Church in Scotland; this became the Presbyterian church.