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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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1 November 1592: Moderata Fonte (also known as Modesta Pozzo)...

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1 November 1592

Moderata Fonte (also known as Modesta Pozzo ) did her last work on a treatise in Italian on women, the day before she died in childbirth
Pozzo, Modesta. The Worth of Women. Translator Cox, Victoria, University of Chicago Press, 1997.
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Cox, Virginia. “The Single Self: Feminist Thought and the Marriage Market in Early Modern Venice”. Renaissance Quarterly, Vol.
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, No. 3, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1995, pp. 513-81.
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Queen Elizabeth I: 1593

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1593

QEI made a verse translation from Boethius 's The Consolation of Philosophy.
Elizabeth I, Queen. The Poems of Queen Elizabeth I. Editor Bradner, Leicester, Brown University Press, 1964.
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Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: 1593

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1593

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , published a further-revised and expanded version of her brother 's Arcadia.
Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990, http://U of A HSS.
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1593: Dona Reyna Nasi, widow of Don Joseph Nasi,...

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1593

Dona Reyna Nasi , widow of Don Joseph Nasi, Duke of Naxos , opened a Hebrew printing office at Belvedere, her home near Constantinople.
“Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress: Women of Italy”. Jewish Virtual Library.
“Jewish Encyclopedia”. JewishEncyclopedia.com, 2002.

1593: The Testament of Cresseid by Robert Henryson...

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1593

The Testament of Cresseid by Robert Henryson (one of the Scottish Chaucerians) was printed nearly a century after his death; it redraws the character of Chaucer 's fallen heroine.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
His name has sometimes been given as Henderson.

1593: London began keeping weekly Bills of Mortality:...

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1593

London began keeping weekly Bills of Mortality: registers of deaths and their supposed causes, parish by parish.
Defoe, Daniel. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe. Editor Shugrue, Michael F., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
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1593: A telescope bequeathed to his widow this...

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1593

A telescope bequeathed to his widow this year by a resident of Barcelona suggests that the telescope was originally a Spanish invention.
“Spaniard may have invented telescope”. Guardian Weekly, 26 Sept. 2008, p. 29.
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18 April 1593: Shakespeare's first published work, the narrative...

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18 April 1593

Shakespeare 's first published work, the narrative poem Venus and Adonis, was registered with the Stationers' Company ; the only recorded copy is in the Bodleian Library .
Barber, Giles. “A Continuing Tradition: Non-Book Materials in the Taylor Institution Library”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
xvii
, No. 3-4, Apr.–Oct. 2001, pp. 261-7.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Christopher Marlowe: 30 May 1593

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30 May 1593

CM , spy, homosexual, poet, and playwright, was fatally stabbed in the head at a private house in Deptford near London where a room had been booked for supper for four men.
Nicholl, Charles. “Scribblers and Assassins”. London Review of Books, 31 Oct. 2002, pp. 30-3.
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Nicholl, Charles. The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe. University of Chicago Press, 1995.
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7 July 1593: Christopher Marlowe's tragedy Edward II was...

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7 July 1593

Christopher Marlowe 's tragedy Edward II was posthumously entered in the Stationers' Register .
Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.

25 July 1593: Henri IV of France converted from Protestantism...

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25 July 1593

Henri IV of France converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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17 September 1593: Thomas Nashe's prose fiction The Unfortunate...

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17 September 1593

Thomas Nashe 's prose fiction The Unfortunate Traveller was entered in the Stationers' Register .
Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.

28 September 1593: Christopher Marlowe's poem Hero and Leander...

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28 September 1593

Christopher Marlowe 's poem Hero and Leander was posthumously entered in the Stationers' Register .
Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: By 1594

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By 1594

Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke , had completed at least a draft of the metrical translation of the psalms begun by her brother Philip .
Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990, http://U of A HSS.
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“Introduction”. The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, edited by John C. A. Rathmell, translated by. Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, New York University Press, 1963, p. xi - xxxii.
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Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: Probably by 1594

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Probably by 1594

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , commemorated her brother in a pastoral ode, The Doleful Lay of the Fair Clorinda.
Waller, Gary F. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: A Critical Study of Her Writings and Literary Milieu. University of Salzburg, 1979, http://BLC.
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1594: The statutes of the Grammar School at Bunbury...

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1594

The statutes of the Grammar School at Bunbury in Cheshire allowed for the admission of a number of girls.
Adamson, John William. ’The Illiterate Anglo-Saxon’ and Other Essays on Education, Medieval and Modern. Cambridge University Press, 1946.
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2 May 1594: The Taming of the Shrew, a comedy by Shakespeare,...

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2 May 1594

The Taming of the Shrew, a comedy by Shakespeare , was entered in the Stationers' Register.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
2 May 2008
McMullan, Gordon, and John, 1579 - 1625 Fletcher. “Introduction”. The Tamer Tamed, Nick Hern Books, 2003, p. xiii - xvii.
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7 June 1594: Dr Roderigo Lopez, a Portuguese Jew who had...

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7 June 1594

Dr Roderigo Lopez , a Portuguese Jew who had lived thirty-five years in England, most of them at the head of the medical profession, was executed for his alleged part in a plot to...

Anne, Lady Southwell : 24 June 1594

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24 June 1594

Anne Harris , aged about twenty, married Thomas Southwell , her close contemporary, in St Clement Danes church in London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

19 November 1594: Edmund Spenser's Amoretti (sonnets) and Epithalamium...

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19 November 1594

Edmund Spenser 's Amoretti (sonnets) and Epithalamium were entered in the Stationers' Register .
Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Richardson: 27 November 1594

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27 November 1594

Elizabeth Beaumont married John Ashburnham , whose family held land in East Sussex. He was the son of a Roman Catholic, and was knighted in 1604.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Leigh, Dorothy et al. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Editor Brown, Sylvia, Sutton, 1999.
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Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: 29 November 1594

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29 November 1594

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 's printer, William Ponsonby , entered Philip Sidney 's The Defence of Poesie in the Stationers' Register .
Sidney, Sir Philip. “Editorial Materials”. Miscellaneous Prose of Sir Philip Sidney, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones and Jan Van Dorsten, Clarendon Press, 1973, p. various pages.
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Agnes Wenman: 1595

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1595

Agnes Fermor married Richard Wenman (an Anglican) at Easton Neston in Northamptonshire; he became a knight the year after their marriage and a viscount in the Irish peerage after her death.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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.

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: 1595

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1595

Spenser published Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke 's Lay, together with his own Astrophel, in his Colin Clouts Come Home Againe.
Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of. “Introduction”. The Triumph of Death, edited by Gary F. Waller, University of Salzburg, 1977, pp. 1-64.
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Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: 12 April 1595

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12 April 1595

Printer Henry Olney entered Philip Sidney 's The Defence of Poesie in the Stationers' Register , to rival the edition that year by William Ponsonby , printer for Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke .
Sidney, Sir Philip. “Editorial Materials”. Miscellaneous Prose of Sir Philip Sidney, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones and Jan Van Dorsten, Clarendon Press, 1973, p. various pages.
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