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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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1606: The Court of the Star Chamber heard a case...

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1606

The Court of the Star Chamber heard a case in which Anne Gunter was accused of witchcraft, while other parties believed the accusation was wrongful.
Wootton, David. “Brutish Babies”. London Review of Books, 11 Nov. 1999, pp. 34-35.
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Lady Mary Wroth: Late January 1606

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Author event in Lady Mary Wroth

Late January 1606

LMW 's husband succeeded to his father's estate, Loughton House at Loughton in Essex, where the king sometimes visited for hunting.
Hannay, Margaret P. Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth. Ashgate, 2010.
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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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Mary Ward: May 1606

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Author event in Mary Ward

May 1606

MW set out on her first foreign journey, from London to Flanders, that is St Omer in France.
Chambers gives two inconsistent dates: the Thursday before Whit Sunday (i.e. eight weeks minus three days...

Mary Ward: May 1606-after Easter 1609

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May 1606-after Easter 1609

MW spent these years at St Omer and at Gravelines in France, initially as one of the Order of Poor Clares .
Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols.
1: 112-13, 188

3 May 1606: An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players made...

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3 May 1606

An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players made a powerful bid to prevent swearing on stage.
Dobson, Michael. “For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen, and a Table of greene fields”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 3-8.
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After 3 May 1606: From allusions in Shakespeare's Macbeth,...

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After 3 May 1606

From allusions in Shakespeare 's Macbeth, it seems that this tragedy was completed after this date.
Shakespeare, William. “Introduction”. Macbeth, edited by Kenneth Muir, Methuen, 1953, p. xi - lxxiv.
xviii-xx

Lady Anne Clifford: 3 November 1606

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3 November 1606

LAC 's mother launched her daughter's claim to inherit her father 's estates.
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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Lady Margaret Cunningham: 1607

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Author event in Lady Margaret Cunningham

1607

Lady Margaret Cunningham sent her first husband, Sir James Hamilton of Crawfordjohn, Master of Evandale, three linked sonnets which must later have circulated in manuscript.
Ewan, Elizabeth et al. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women : From the Earliest Times to 2004. Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

1607: Enclosure activity in the countryside led...

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1607

Enclosure activity in the countryside led to riots; James I declared against depopulation, while condemning those who set themselves up as their owne judges and reformers.
Larkin, James F., and Paul Hughes. Royal Proclamations of King James I, 1603-1625. Clarendon, 1973.
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13 May 1607: The first enduring British settlement in...

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13 May 1607

The first enduring British settlement in North America was established at James Fort (later Jamestown, Virginia).
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
7: 275; 12: 457
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
271, 280
Brown, Alexander. English Politics in Early Virginia History. Russell and Russell, 1968.
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Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson. Virginia Under the Stuarts, 1607-1688. Princeton University Press, 1914, http://U of A Ruth Flr 3.
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Morton, Richard Lee. Colonial Virginia I. University of North Carolina Press, 1960.
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Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: From July 1607

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From July 1607

During a seven-year hiatus in records about Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , she probably rented Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate Street, London.
Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990, http://U of A HSS.
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September 1607: Hugh O'Neill's rebellion in Ireland came...

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September 1607

Hugh O'Neill 's rebellion in Ireland came to a final end with the Flight of the Earls: this was the last stand of Gaelic Ireland against the colonising English.
Boylan, Henry, editor. A Dictionary of Irish Biography. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
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5 September 1607: The crew of the merchant ship Red Dragon,...

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5 September 1607

The crew of the merchant ship Red Dragon, heading for Asia but becalmed for a month off the coast of Sierra Leone, put on a performance of Shakespeare 's Hamlet (a play only five...

7 October 1607: The Revenger's Tragedy (formerly ascribed...

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7 October 1607

The Revenger's Tragedy (formerly ascribed to Cyril Tourneur but now seen by scholars as Thomas Middleton 's answer to Shakespeare 's Hamlet) was entered in the Stationers' Register .
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Anna Maria van Schurman: 5 November 1607

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5 November 1607

AMS , scholar, religious leader, and proto-feminist, was born in Cologne.
Waithe, Mary Ellen. “Anna Maria van Schurman 1607-1678”. Modern Women Philosophers, 1600-1900, edited by Mary Ellen Waithe, Kluwer, 1991, pp. 210-11.
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Irwin, Joyce L. “Anna Maria van Schurman: The Star of Utrecht (Dutch, 1607-1678)”. Female Scholars: A Tradition of Learned Women Before 1800, edited by Jeanie R. Brink, Eden Press, 1980, pp. 68-85.
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Madeleine de Scudéry: 15 November 1607

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15 November 1607

MS , writer of heroic romance, was born at Le Havre in Normandy; she was one of two surviving children in her family.
Her baptism at Notre Dame de Le Havre is recorded as...

26 November 1607: Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear was registered...

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26 November 1607

Shakespeare 's tragedy King Lear was registered with the Stationers' Company for publication in a quarto edition the following year.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
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Neill, Michael. “Glimpsed in the Glare”. London Revew of Books, Vol.
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, No. 24, 17 Dec. 2015, pp. 39-41.
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Lady Anne Clifford: 10 January 1608

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10 January 1608

LAC performed (with Lady Mary Wroth ) in Ben Jonson 's Masque of Beauty.
Katherine Acheson , editor of LAC 's early diaries, dates this performance 1609.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Ben Jonson
Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997.
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Lady Mary Wroth: 10 January 1608

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10 January 1608

LMW appeared in Jonson 's Masque of Beauty, with the same twelve companions as in his Masque of Blacknesse.
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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Lady Margaret Cunningham: 29 September 1608

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29 September 1608

Lady Margaret Cunningham , after ten years of marriage to the abusive Sir James Hamilton of Crawfordjohn, wrote out a detailed account of her wrongs, as A Parte of the Life . . . .
Cunningham, Lady Margaret. A Parte of the Life of Lady Margaret Cunningham.
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John Milton: 9 December 1608

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9 December 1608

JM , poet and political theorist, was born in Bread Street, Cheapside, London, the third child in his family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Barbara Blaugdone: 1609

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1609

The future Barbara Blaugdone , Quaker minister and autobiographer, was born, most likely somewhere in the West Country, perhaps at Bristol, where she later lived.
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 Carey: Between 1609 and 1612

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Between 1609 and 1612

From her own references to her age, Mary Jackson (later MC ) must have been born some time during these years.
Carey, Mary. Meditations and Poetry. 17 Oct. 1653–12 Jan. 1658.
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Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: 1609

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1609

Elizabeth Lady Cary (later Viscountess Falkland), bore the first of her eleven children born alive, who was named Catherine.
Her biographer-daughter's turn of phrase implies that she also had stillbirths or miscarriages.
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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Rebecca Travers: About 1609

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Author event in Rebecca Travers

About 1609

RT was born (under some different birth name).
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.