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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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1609: The Douai or Douai-Rheims Bible appeared:...

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1609

The Douai or Douai-RheimsBible appeared: this was the version used by English-speaking Roman Catholics until the twentieth century.
Bible. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

1609-10: Ben Jonson's comedy Epicœne, or The Silent...

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1609-10

Ben Jonson 's comedy Epicœne, or The Silent Woman was first performed.
Dutton, Richard. Ben Jonson, Authority, Criticism. Macmillan, 1996.
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1609: Wadham College, Oxford, was founded by Dorothy...

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1609

Wadham College , Oxford, was founded by Dorothy Wadham , after her husband's death.
Thackrah, John Richard. The University and Colleges of Oxford. Dalton, 1981.
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Markham, Felix. Oxford. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967.
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1609: A particular myth of national female heroism...

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1609

A particular myth of national female heroism was launched in John Fletcher 's play Bonduca (the Icenian queen better known as Boudicca or Boadicea ).
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
123-4

1609: The Vagrancy Act set out to control rogues,...

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1609

The Vagrancy Act set out to control rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars (prostitutes, in particular). This was the first in a long series of such Acts.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
90, 92

1609: Louise Bourgeois, a French midwife with feminist...

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1609

Louise Bourgeois , a French midwife with feminist views, published her Observations diverses, in which she takes an authoritative tone and seeks to keep the practice of midwifery in female hands.
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.
under Medical Writing
Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.
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1609: British sailors were stranded by a storm...

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1609

British sailors were stranded by a storm on Bermuda.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 557
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
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18 January 1609: John Healey's English version of the Latin...

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18 January 1609

John Healey 's English version of the Latin Mundus alter et idem, 1605, by satirist Joseph Hall was licensed by the Stationers' Company as A Discovery of a New World.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
8 September 2008

Elizabeth Isham: 28 January 1609

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28 January 1609

EI was born at her father's country estate, Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire, the eldest in a family of three.
This is the birth date given on the home page of the Constructing Elizabeth Isham

Elizabeth Shirley: 10 February 1609

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10 February 1609

ES was one of two movers in the founding of St Monica's Convent at Louvain, of the Order of the English Augustinian Canonesses , where the seven nuns who came from St Ursula's moved...

Lady Anne Clifford: 25 February 1609

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25 February 1609

LAC was married, at midnight, to Richard Sackville . Two days later, on his father's death, he became Earl of Dorset and she became mistress of Knole House.
This is the great house which...

Lady Eleanor Douglas: About March 1609

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About March 1609

Lady Eleanor Touchet (later LED ) married Sir John Davies , Attorney-General of Ireland and also a poet.
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
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20 May 1609: Shakespeare's Sonnets were registered with...

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20 May 1609

Shakespeare 's Sonnets were registered with the Stationers' Company ; they were published (whether by the author or as some kind of piracy) the same year.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
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Shakespeare, William. “Introduction”. Sonnets, edited by Alfred Leslie Rowse, Macmillan, 1964, p. vii - xxxvii.
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Everett, Barbara. “Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Sonnet”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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Cicely Bulstrode: 4 August 1609

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4 August 1609

CB died at Lady Bedford 's house in Twickenham, Middlesex.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Autumn 1609: The astronomer Galileo Galilei, using a telescope...

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Autumn 1609

The astronomer Galileo Galilei , using a telescope of his own invention in his garden at Padua, first observed the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, and mountains on the moon.
Radford, Tim. “Light fantastic at the end of the universe”. Guardian Weekly, 1 Mar. 2000, p. 19.
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Sobel, Dava. Galileo’s Daughter. Viking, 1999.
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Mary Ward: Late 1609

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Late 1609

Having visited England, and still seeking direction as to her life's work, MW re-crossed the Channel with the companions she had gathered.
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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Lady Arbella Stuart: By the end of December 1609

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By the end of December 1609

LAS was placed under surveillance for reasons which are not clear.
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 Mary Wroth: 1610

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1610

Robert Jones dedicated a songbook, The Muses Gardin for Delights, to LMW .
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 Mary Wroth: Around 1610-1620

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Author event in Lady Mary Wroth

Around 1610-1620

LMW wrote her major work, Urania, a prose romance with poems and sonnets, some interspersed but most printed in a block at the end.
Wroth, Lady Mary. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. Editor Waller, Gary F., University of Salzburg, 1977.
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Lady Arbella Stuart: January 1610

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January 1610

LAS gave James I an ultimatum: either he should find her a husband, or she would find one herself.
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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William Shakespeare: After about 1610

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After about 1610

Shakespeare 's company, now known as the King's Company of Players , moved their centre of operations to the private Blackfriars Theatre, which drew a wealthier class of patron.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Rose Hickman : 1610

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1610

Calling herself, correctly, by her later married name of Rose Throckmorton, the eighty-four-year-old RH sat down to pen her memoirs or family history, which her relations later entitled Certaine old storyes recorded by an aged...

1610: The assassination of Henri IV of France left...

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1610

The assassination of Henri IV of France left his widow, Marie de Medici , ruling as Regent for her young son, Louis XIII .
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.

12 March 1610: Galileo published at Venice his recent astronomical...

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12 March 1610

Galileo published at Venice his recent astronomical discoveries (including the existence of the moons of Jupiter) in Sidereus Nuncius, or The Starry Messenger.
Sobel, Dava. Galileo’s Daughter. Viking, 1999.
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Lady Anne Clifford: 6 June 1610

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6 June 1610

LAC performed in her tutor Samuel Daniel 's masque Tethys' Festival, a celebration of the great rivers of England; she played the River Aire, which flows near her birthplace.
Holmes, Martin. Proud Northern Lady: Lady Anne Clifford, 1590-1676. Phillimore, 1975.
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