Bible. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Events Timeline
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:...
Writing climate item
1609
The Douai or Douai-RheimsBible appeared: this was the version used by English-speaking Roman Catholics until the twentieth century.
1609-10: Ben Jonson's comedy Epicœne, or The Silent...
Writing climate item
1609-10
Epicœne, or The Silent Woman was first performed.
's comedy 1609: Wadham College, Oxford, was founded by Dorothy...
1609
Oxford, was founded by
, after her husband's death.
, 1609: A particular myth of national female heroism...
1609
A particular myth of national female heroism was launched in Bonduca (the Icenian queen better known as Boudicca or
).
's play 1609: The Vagrancy Act set out to control rogues,...
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.
1609: Louise Bourgeois, a French midwife with feminist...
1609
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.
, a 1609: British sailors were stranded by a storm...
National or international item
1609
British sailors were stranded by a storm on Bermuda.
18 January 1609: John Healey's English version of the Latin...
Writing climate item
18 January 1609
Mundus alter et idem, 1605, by satirist
was licensed by the
as A Discovery of a New World.
's English version of the Latin Elizabeth Isham: 28 January 1609
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Isham
28 January 1609
Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire, the eldest in a family of three.
was born at her father's country estate, This is the birth date given on the home page of the
Elizabeth Shirley: 10 February 1609
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Shirley
10 February 1609
Louvain, of the Order of the
, where the seven nuns who came from
moved...
was one of two movers in the founding of
at Lady Anne Clifford: 25 February 1609
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Anne Clifford
25 February 1609
Knole House.
was married, at midnight, to
. Two days later, on his father's death, he became Earl of Dorset and she became mistress of This is the great house which...
Lady Eleanor Douglas: About March 1609
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Eleanor Douglas
About March 1609
Lady Eleanor Touchet (later
) married
, Attorney-General of Ireland and also a poet.20 May 1609: Shakespeare's Sonnets were registered with...
Writing climate item
20 May 1609
Sonnets were registered with the
; they were published (whether by the author or as some kind of piracy) the same year.
's Cicely Bulstrode: 4 August 1609
Women writers item
Autumn 1609: The astronomer Galileo Galilei, using a telescope...
Autumn 1609
The astronomer Padua, first observed the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, and mountains on the moon.
, using a telescope of his own invention in his garden at Mary Ward: Late 1609
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Ward
Late 1609
Having visited England, and still seeking direction as to her life's work,
re-crossed the Channel with the companions she had gathered.
Lady Arbella Stuart: By the end of December 1609
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Arbella Stuart
By the end of December 1609
Lady Mary Wroth: 1610
Women writers item
Lady Mary Wroth: Around 1610-1620
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Mary Wroth
Around 1610-1620
Urania, a prose romance with poems and sonnets, some interspersed but most printed in a block at the end.
wrote her major work, Lady Arbella Stuart: January 1610
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Arbella Stuart
January 1610
William Shakespeare: After about 1610
Writing climate item
Author event in William Shakespeare
After about 1610
Blackfriars Theatre, which drew a wealthier class of patron.
's company, now known as the
, moved their centre of operations to the private Rose Hickman : 1610
Women writers item
Author event in Rose Hickman
1610
Calling herself, correctly, by her later married name of Rose Throckmorton, the eighty-four-year-old Certaine old storyes recorded by an aged...
sat down to pen her memoirs or family history, which her relations later entitled 1610: The assassination of Henri IV of France left...
National or international item
1610
The assassination of France left his widow,
, ruling as Regent for her young son,
.
of 12 March 1610: Galileo published at Venice his recent astronomical...
12 March 1610
Venice his recent astronomical discoveries (including the existence of the moons of Jupiter) in Sidereus Nuncius, or The Starry Messenger.
published at Lady Anne Clifford: 6 June 1610
Writing climate item
Author event in Lady Anne Clifford
6 June 1610
Tethys' Festival, a celebration of the great rivers of England; she played the River Aire, which flows near her birthplace.
performed in her tutor
's masque