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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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20 October 1595: Michel de Montaigne's Essays were entered...

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20 October 1595

Michel de Montaigne 's Essays were entered in the Stationers' Register , three years after the author's death.
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.

Elizabeth Joscelin: 1596

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1596

Elizabeth Brooke (later EJ ) was born, the only child of her parents' marriage, though she had step-sisters from her father's second marriage.
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.
93

1596-8: Amid savage persecution of Roman Catholics...

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1596-8

Amid savage persecution of Roman Catholics in the area of York, two women were burned for persuading a minister to be a Catholic.
Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols.
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1596: Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, was founded...

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1596

Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge, was founded under the terms of the will of Lady Frances Sidney, Dowager Countess of Sussex .
Powell, Ken, and Chris Cook. English Historical Facts: 1485-1603. Macmillan, 1977.
145

By about July 1596: Edmund Spenser probably finished A View of...

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By about July 1596

Edmund Spenser probably finished A View of the Present State of Ireland, written in dialogue form, which remained unpublished until 1633.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Anne Dowriche: 3 July 1596

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3 July 1596

A religious pamphlet by AD 's husband, Hugh , was entered in the Stationers' Register : she contributed prefatory verses to it, signed with her initials.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Rachel Speght: Between August 3, 1596 and August 2, 1597

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Between August 3, 1596 and August 2, 1597

RS was born, perhaps in Cambridge, since there is no record of her birth in London.
McLean-Fiander, Kimberly R. D. A Critical Edition of Rachel Speght’s Mortalities Memorandum. University of Alberta, 1992.
7, 10
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. xi - xxxvi.
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Margaret Hoby: 9 August 1596

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9 August 1596

Margaret Sidney married, reluctantly, Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby (whose mother, Elizabeth , was a letter-writer of distinction: one of the famously learned Cooke family and thus a sister of translator Anne Bacon ).
Hoby, Margaret. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady: The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, 1599-1605, edited by Joanna Moody, Sutton, 1998, p. xv - lvii.
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Elizabeth Shirley: 10 September 1596

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10 September 1596

ES made her profession as a nun at the Dutch or Flemish Augustinian convent of St Ursula's at Louvain in what is now Belgium.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1997.
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Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: Probably 1597; before autumn 1602

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Probably 1597; before autumn 1602

The teenage Elizabeth Tanfield made a translation, The mirror of the Worlde translated / Out of French into Englishe / by E. T., from the geographer Abraham Ortelius .
This work was discovered and...

1597: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, probably...

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1597

Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet, probably written in 1594-5, was both staged and published.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
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5 February 1597: Francis Bacon's volume of Essayes, Religious...

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5 February 1597

Francis Bacon 's volume of Essayes, Religious Meditations, Places of perswasion and disswasion, was published.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Aemilia Lanyer: 18 May-2 September 1597

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18 May-2 September 1597

AL had several consultations (about medical and financial matters) with the popular astrologer Simon Forman .
Woods, Susanne. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Aemilia Lanyer: 11 September 1597

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11 September 1597

The philandering astrologer Simon Forman angled for an invitation from AL .
Welcome — Casebooks Project. 5 July 2013, http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk.
Though she did invite him, and he stayed the night, he wrote that he never obteyned his purpos.
Woods, Susanne. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford University Press, 1999.
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12 October 1597: Michael Drayton's England's Heroicall Epistles...

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12 October 1597

Michael Drayton 's England's Heroicall Epistles was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it appeared the same year.
Drayton, Michael. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton. Editor Brett, Cyril, Clarendon Press, 1907.
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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.

31 October 1597: John Dowland's First Book of Songs and Airs...

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31 October 1597

John Dowland 's First Book of Songs and Airs 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.

Queen Elizabeth I: About 1598

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About 1598

QEI made verse translations from Horace and Plutarch .
Elizabeth I, Queen. The Poems of Queen Elizabeth I. Editor Bradner, Leicester, Brown University Press, 1964.
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Brilliana, Lady Harley: Probably 1598

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Probably 1598

Brilliana Conway (later BLH ) was born at Brill in Holland, the second daughter in her family of six children who survived. (Most sources give a later date.)
Her editor, Thomas Taylor Lewis ...

Elizabeth Melvill: By 1598

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By 1598

Elizabeth Melvill married John Colville of Culross in Perth, an eldest son and a laird but not, as has been wrongly reported, with the title of lord.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Baxter, Jamie Reid. “Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: new light from Fife”. The Innes Review, Vol.
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, No. 1, May 2017, pp. 38-77.
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1598: George Chapman published the first seven...

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1598

George Chapman published the first seven books of his translation of Homer 's Iliad, the first English version done direct from Greek; he finished the Iliad in 1608 and the whole of Homer in 1616.
Burrow, Colin. “Chapmaniac”. London Review of Books, 27 June 2002, pp. 21-4.
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1598: John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury,...

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1598

John Whitgift , Archbishop of Canterbury, prohibited the running of any school in the Cathedral, of maiden children especially, except for the Queen's School, and that for the choristers.
Adamson, John William. ’The Illiterate Anglo-Saxon’ and Other Essays on Education, Medieval and Modern. Cambridge University Press, 1946.
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Reynolds, Myra. The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760. Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
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Lady Margaret Cunningham: 24 January 1598

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24 January 1598

LMC was married to Sir James Hamilton of Crawfordjohn, also known as the Master of Evandale, who was a rich and well-connected Roman Catholic, but wavering in his religion and apparently unstable in general.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cunningham, Lady Margaret. A Parte of the Life of Lady Margaret Cunningham.
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13 April 1598: The first clauses of the Edict of Nantes...

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13 April 1598

The first clauses of the Edict of Nantes decreed tolerance for Protestants in France; further clauses followed on 2 May.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
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Martha Moulsworth: 18 April 1598

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18 April 1598

The future MM married her first husband, Nicolas Prynne ; he died after five years and eight months of marriage.
Moulsworth, Martha. "My Name Was Martha". Editors Evans, Robert C. and Barbara Wiedemann, Locust Hill, 1993.
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Grace, Lady Mildmay : After 20 July 1598

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After 20 July 1598

GLM participated in medical argument with a Mr Harris. She noted down a recipe for oil of cinnamon made with water (she had never, she said, used sack) on the back of a letter in...