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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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1604: Christopher Marlowe's The Tragicall History...

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1604

Christopher Marlowe 's The Tragicall History of D. Faustus was posthumously published, though this edition may not have been the first.
Marlowe, Christopher. “Introduction”. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, edited by Michael Keefer, Broadview, 1991, p. xi - xcii.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1604: James I published Counterblaste to Tobacco....

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1604

James I published Counterblaste to Tobacco. The king describes smoking as loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs.
Warren, Michael. “A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain: 1066 - 1999”. Michael Warren’s Chronology, 6 Jan. 2003.

1604: A law was passed to invoke sanctions against...

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1604

A law was passed to invoke sanctions against bigamy.
Gillis, John R. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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16 January 1604: One year into his reign in England, King...

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16 January 1604

One year into his reign in England, King James I received a petition that there might bee a newe translation of the Bible to improve on existing, imperfect English versions.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
16 January 2009

14 June 1604: John Cawdrey entered in the Stationers' Register...

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14 June 1604

John Cawdrey entered in the Stationers' Register the first dictionary not involving Latin: A Table Alphabeticall . . . of Hard Unusual English Words, for the benefit & help of Ladies, gentlewomen or any...

Lady Mary Wroth: 27 September 1604

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27 September 1604

Mary Sidney married Sir Robert Wroth ; he was about ten years older, and recently knighted.
Roberts, Josephine A., and Lady Mary Wroth. “Introduction and Notes”. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, Louisiana State University Press, 1983, pp. 3 - 75, 219.
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1 November 1604: Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, written since...

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1 November 1604

Shakespeare 's tragedy Othello, written since 30 September of the previous year, was performed before James I at Whitehall.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
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9 November 1604: Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton entered...

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9 November 1604

Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton entered in the Stationers' CompanyThe Honest Whore (part one); it was published this year.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Anne Bacon: 1605

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1605

Elizabeth, Lady Russell 's translation of A Way of Reconciliation . . . Touching touching the Trueth [sic] Nature, and Substance of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Sacrament was printed.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Elizabeth Russell

1605: An Act of Parliament authorised the City...

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1605

An Act of Parliament authorised the City of London for the work and expenditure necessary to create a water supply for its citizens.
Rudden, Bernard. “The Purchas’d Wave”. London Review of Books, 22 July 2004, pp. 28-9.
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Lady Mary Wroth: 6 January 1605

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6 January 1605

LMW performed in The Masque of Blacknesse, which Ben Jonson had written to accommodate the queen 's desire for herself and her ladies to represent black women.
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. Writing Women in Jacobean England. Harvard University Press, 1993.
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Roberts, Josephine A., and Lady Mary Wroth. “Introduction and Notes”. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, Louisiana State University Press, 1983, pp. 3 - 75, 219.
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16 January 1605: Miguel de Cervantes published at Madrid the...

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16 January 1605

Miguel de Cervantes published at Madrid the first part of his immensely influential mock-romance Don Quixote; copies reached England by the summer.
Ungerer, Gustav. “Recovering Unrecorded Quixote Allusions in Ephemeral English Publications of the late 1650s”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
xvii
, No. 1, Apr. 2000, pp. 65-9.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
16 January 2009

Martha Moulsworth: 3 February 1605

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3 February 1605

After being widowed for the first time, the future MM married her second husband, the successful London draper Thomas Thoroughgood ; he died ten years and nine months later.
Moulsworth, Martha. "My Name Was Martha". Editors Evans, Robert C. and Barbara Wiedemann, Locust Hill, 1993.
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Depas-Orange, Ann. “Moulsworth’s Life and Times”. "The Birthday of my Self": Martha Moulsworth, Renaissance Poet, edited by Ann Depas-Orange and Robert C. Evans, Critical Matrix, 1996, pp. 7-10.
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Easter Saturday 1605: Luisa de Carvajal, a Roman Catholic nun of...

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Easter Saturday 1605

Luisa de Carvajal , a Roman Catholic nun of noble Spanish family, landed at Dover as a missionary or activist at the behest of English Jesuits . While in London she wrote revealing letters about the city.
Alberge, Dalya. “It’s dirty and lawless. The food’s terrible—London circa 1605”. Times online, 23 Sept. 2008.

Lady Hester Pulter: Perhaps June 1605

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Perhaps June 1605

Hester Ley (later LHP ) was born in sweet Hibernie where I first had life:
Pulter, Lady Hester. Poems, Emblems, and The Unfortunate Florinda. Editor Eardley, Alice, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies , 2014.
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at the manor of St Thomas Court, now part of the city of Dublin.
The Oxford Dictionary...

Margaret Hoby: 21 July 1605

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21 July 1605

MH wrote for the last time in her surviving diary.
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 Melvill: 26 July 1605

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26 July 1605

John Welsh was imprisoned in Blackness Castle (across the River Forth from Rosyth) in connection with the abortive Church of Scotland General Assembly at Aberdeen. EM wrote for him in prison A Sonnet Sent...

Lady Anne Clifford: 30 October 1605

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30 October 1605

LAC 's father died, plunging her into legal battle for the right to inherit his estates.
Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997.
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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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Agnes Wenman: Late 1605

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Late 1605

Although married to a member of the Established Church, AW was interrogated after Guy Fawkes attempted to overthrow the government, as a suspected Catholic activist.
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.

5 November 1605: A group of Catholic plotters, led by Guy...

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5 November 1605

A group of Catholic plotters, led by Guy Fawkes , made an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament with gunpowder.
Morgan, Kenneth O., editor. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford University Press, 1984.
607
Neill, Michael. “Glimpsed in the Glare”. London Revew of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 24, 17 Dec. 2015, pp. 39-41.
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Mary Ward: Late 1605

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Late 1605

MW and her father travelled to London just as the Gunpowder Plot by Catholics was discovered: her father was arrested (as were many of their relations) and interrogated.
Two of her maternal uncles were among...

Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: From about 1606

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From about 1606

Elizabeth Cary wrote innumerable slight things in verse.
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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Lady Mary Wroth: 1606

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1606

LMW shared with other ladies the dedications of Nathaniel Baxter 's Sir Philip Sidney's Ourania.

Elizabeth Richardson: 1606

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1606

Elizabeth, Lady Ashburnham (later Elizabeth Richardson, Lady Cramond) , wrote her earliest surviving text: a manuscript book of prayers. It is now in the Folger Shakespeare Library .
Leigh, Dorothy et al. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Editor Brown, Sylvia, Sutton, 1999.
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About 1606: Anna Walker beautifully transcribed a copy...

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About 1606

Anna Walker beautifully transcribed a copy of her devotional work A Sweete Savor for Woman, designed for presentation to its dedicatee, James I's queen, Anne of Denmark .
Trill, Suzanne. “A Feminist Critic in the Archives: Reading Anna Walker’s ’A Sweete Savor for Woman’ c. 1606”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 2, 2002, pp. 199-14.
201, 203, 204, 206, 207, 210-11