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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 Bacon: 1602

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1602

The year after her elder son 's death, AB passed on the family estate of Gorhambury Place, near St Albans, to her younger son, Sir Francis .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1602: A pond was in use at Rochester in Kent for...

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1602

A pond was in use at Rochester in Kent for the punishment of ducking wayward wives.
Gillis, John R. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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1602: Angélique Arnaud was still a child when,...

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1602

Angélique Arnaud was still a child when, because of the eminence of her family, she was appointed abbess of the convent of Port Royal in France; she began to reform the convent after her...

26 July 1602: Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet was entered...

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26 July 1602

Shakespeare 's tragedy Hamlet was entered in the Stationers' Register , probably not long after its first performance.
Shakespeare, William. “Introduction and Textual Note”. Hamlet, edited by Edward Hubler, New American Library, 1963.
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Dobson, Michael. “A Furtive Night’s Work”. London Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2005, pp. 7-8.
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Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: Autumn 1602

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Autumn 1602

Henry Cary, later Viscount Falkland , married Elizabeth Tanfield , only for being an heir, for he had no acquaintance with her.
Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, 1994, pp. 183-75.
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Her biographer daughter, Lucy Cary , mistakenly says she was married at fifteen.
Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, 1994, pp. 183-75.
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Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: 1602-1608

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1602-1608

Elizabeth Cary probably composed The Tragedie of Mariam between the dates of her marriage and beginning to live with her husband .
Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1 - 59; various pages.
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8 November 1602: The Bodleian Library, Oxford, first admitted...

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8 November 1602

The Bodleian Library , Oxford, first admitted readers (nearly five years after Sir Thomas Bodley 's original offer to restore Duke Humfrey's Library).
Trim, David J. B. “Sir Thomas Bodley and the International Protestant Cause”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
xvi
, No. 4, 1998, pp. 314-40.
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Lady Arbella Stuart: 25 December 1602

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25 December 1602

LAS , tired of living cooped up under her grandmother 's eye, wrote to propose to Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford , that she should marry his grandson Edward.
Stuart, Lady Arbella. “Introduction and Textual Introduction”. The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart, edited by Sara Jayne Steen et al., Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 1-113.
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Lady Anne Clifford: 1603

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1603

The child LAC left a surviving summary of this year's events; it may or may not be the first such document she wrote.
Clifford, Lady Anne. “Introduction / Annotations / Bibliography”. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619, edited by Katherine O. Acheson, Garland, 1995, pp. 1 - 37, 133.
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Aemilia Lanyer: Between 1603 and 1606

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Between 1603 and 1606

AL made the visit to the Countess of Cumberland at Cookham in Berkshire which inspired an important poem.
Woods, Susanne. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford University Press, 1999.
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1603: Edward Jorden argued in A Briefe Discourse...

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1603

Edward Jorden argued in A Briefe Discourse of a Disease called the Suffocation of the Mother that the passive condition of women is subject unto more diseases and of other sortes and natures then men...

1603: John Florio published his translation of...

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1603

John Florio published his translation of Montaigne 's Essays.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Queen Elizabeth I: 17 February 1603

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17 February 1603

QEI 's latest surviving dated writing is a letter to Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy (later Earl of Devon), regarding the Irish rebel leader, Hugh O'Neill, Lord Tyrone .
Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press, 2000.
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Elizabeth Melvill: Probably after March 1603

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Probably after March 1603

EM is now identified as the M. M. (for Mistress Melville) listed on the title-page as author of Ane Godlie Dreame, Compylit in Scottish Meter, a 60-stanza dream-vision poem printed at Edinburgh this...

March 1603: Thomas Heywood's domestic tragedy A Woman...

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March 1603

Thomas Heywood 's domestic tragedy A Woman Kilde with Kindnesse was acted; it was published in 1607 with Heywood'a name (for the first time) on its title-page.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
295
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Arbella Stuart: 10 March 1603

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10 March 1603

A plan by LAS to escape from her confinement at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire was foiled by her grandmother, Bess of Hardwick .
Stuart, Lady Arbella. “Introduction and Textual Introduction”. The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart, edited by Sara Jayne Steen et al., Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 1-113.
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23 March 1603: The English conquest of Ireland was completed...

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23 March 1603

The English conquest of Ireland was completed when Hugh O'Neill submitted to the English forces there; he would not have done this had he known of the imminent death of Queen Elizabeth .
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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Boylan, Henry, editor. A Dictionary of Irish Biography. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.

Queen Elizabeth I: 24 March 1603

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24 March 1603

At 3 a.m. QEIdeparted this lyfe, mildly like a lambe, easily like a ripe apple from the tree
Brett, Simon, b. 1945, editor. The Faber Book of Diaries. Faber, 1987.
(probably of bronchitis or pneumonia); James VI of Scotland succeeded her as James I of England.
Neale, J. E. Queen Elizabeth. J. Cape, 1934.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

24 March 1603: On Queen Elizabeth's death, James I (James...

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24 March 1603

On Queen Elizabeth 's death, James I (James VI of Scotland) assumed the throne.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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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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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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28 March 1603: Basilikon doron, or, His Maiesties Instructions...

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28 March 1603

Basilikon doron, or, His Maiesties Instructions to his Dearest Sonne, Henry the Prince, by James I , was registered with the Stationers' Company : it was in print within two days, and a rival...

Lady Arbella Stuart: July 1603

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July 1603

LAS came from Derbyshire to the court at London, enjoying new freedom under the new monarch, James I .
Stuart, Lady Arbella. “Introduction and Textual Introduction”. The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart, edited by Sara Jayne Steen et al., Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 1-113.
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August-September 1603: In another outbreak of bubonic plague, 33,500...

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August-September 1603

In another outbreak of bubonic plague, 33,500 people (a tenth of the population) died in London.
Hill, Christopher. The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714. Sphere Books, 1969.
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Callow, Simon. “Every man in his humour”. The Guardian, 26 Aug. 2006, p. Review 7.
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Elizabeth Grymeston: 1604

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1604

EG was dead by the time her book was published, although she was not much past forty years old and seems to have been alive in 1601 (since some of its contents are based on...

Elizabeth Grymeston: 1604

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1604

EG 's Miscelanea. Meditations. Memoratives was posthumously published, bearing her name, with a dedicatory letter from someone called William Smith addressed to someone who shared the author's first and last names, and was therefore perhaps...

Elizabeth Melvill: Probably after January 1604

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Probably after January 1604

A Godly Dreame, a translation into English of the Scots-language Ane Godlie Dreame (issued by the same Edinburgh publisher the year before) is probably the work of the original author, EM .
Melvill, Elizabeth. A Godly Dreame. Robert Charteris.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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qtd. in
Laroche, Rebecca. “Elizabeth Melville and Her Friends: Seeing ‘Ane Godlie Dreame’ through Political Lenses”. CLIO, Vol.
34
, No. 3, 1 Mar.–31 May 2005, pp. 277-95.
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