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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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1613-14: John Webster's tragedy The Duchess of Malfi...

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1613-14

John Webster's tragedy The Duchess of Malfi was performed on stage; it was unpublished until 1623.
Hunter, George Kirkpatrick, and S. K. Hunter, editors. John Webster: A Critical Anthology. Penguin, 1969.
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Lady Eleanor Douglas: 20 January 1613

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20 January 1613

In Dublin, Lady Eleanor Davies (later LED ) bore her daughter, Lucy Davies (later Lady Huntingdon) , who was to become her tireless and most reliable supporter.
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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14 February 1613: Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I, married...

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14 February 1613

Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I , married Frederick, Elector Palatine of the Rhine: known as Elizabeth of Bohemia or the Winter Queen, she was a great patron of women writers in English.
Lee, Sophia. The Recess. Editor Alliston, April, University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
352n23, 21

Before 29 June 1613: Henry VIII, by Shakespeare (probably with...

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Before 29 June 1613

Henry VIII, by Shakespeare (probably with the collaboration of Fletcher ), had its first performance: when it was acted on this date, a fire broke out which destroyed the Globe Theatre .
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
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Rose Hickman : 21 November 1613

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21 November 1613

RH died in London at the age of eighty-six, nearly thirty years after her second husband's death.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Allan, Sue. Lady Rose Hickman—Her Life and Family. Domtom Publishing Ltd, 2009.
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Cicely Bulstrode: 13 December 1613

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13 December 1613

A poem, The Wife, posthumously attributed to Sir Thomas Overbury , was entered in the Stationers' Register. It appeared next year with extraneous material, some of it written by several women, who included...

Margaret Fell: 1614

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1614

Margaret Askew (later MF ) was born at Marsh Grange near Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire, an isolated farming area amidst the fells.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
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Anne, Lady Southwell : Early 1614

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Early 1614

A miscellany titled from the longest poem in it, The Wife, and ascribed overall to Sir Thomas Overbury , reached print after being entered in the Stationers' Register in late 1613. It included two...

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: Between 1614 and 1616

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Between 1614 and 1616

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , spent some time at the health resort of Spa (now in Belgium).
Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990, http://U of A HSS.
195-7, 201-2

1614: Barber-surgeons in Salisbury complained of...

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1614

Barber-surgeons in Salisbury complained of divers women and others in this citie altogether unskilfull in the Arte of chirurgenes, who take cures on them to the greet danger of the patient.
Walker, Kim. “’Divine Chymistry’ and Dramatic Character: The Lives of Lady Anne Halkett”. Women Writing 1550-1750, edited by Jo Wallwork and Paul Salzman, English Program, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, 2001, pp. 133-49.
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Lady Mary Wroth: 14 March 1614

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14 March 1614

LMW 's husband died (apparently of a sexual complaint), leaving her with a month-old son.
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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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

29 March 1614: Sir Walter Ralegh, aged about seventy, published...

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29 March 1614

Sir Walter Ralegh , aged about seventy, published his History of the World, written as a prisoner in the Tower of London: it is a pessimistic work, without heroes and without the usual...

Lady Anne Clifford: 2 July 1614

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2 July 1614

LAC bore her first child: her daughter Margaret (whom she named after her mother). Margaret married in 1629, and bore the first of her many children (Lady Anne's first grandchild) in 1631.
Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997.
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1 November 1614: Ben Jonson's comedy Bartholomew Fair was...

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1 November 1614

Ben Jonson 's comedy Bartholomew Fair was performed before James I , to whom it was dedicated, by the Lady Elizabeth's Servants .
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Collinson, Patrick. “Saints on Sundays, Devils All the Week after”. London Review of Books, 19 Sept. 2002, pp. 15-16.
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1615: The list of pupils attending grammar school...

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1615

The list of pupils attending grammar school at Rivington near Bolton, Lancashire, included one girl, Alice Shaw, this year, and others in the following two years.
Kay, Margaret Martha Ashton, and Ernest John Bonner. The History of Rivington and Blackrod Grammar School. Manchester University Press, 1931.
71-3

John Donne: 23 January 1615

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23 January 1615

JD sealed his conversion from Roman Catholicism (probably long since complete) by being ordained a priest of the Church of England at St Paul's Cathedral, of which he was later to become Dean.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

8 February 1615: Joseph Swetnam's The Araignment of Lewde,...

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8 February 1615

Joseph Swetnam 's The Araignment of Lewde, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it appeared as by Thomas Tel-troth.
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. xi - xxxvi.
xiv and n13

30 April 1615: John Donne preached To the Queen at Greenwich,...

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30 April 1615

John Donne preached To the Queen at Greenwich, his earliest surviving sermon.
Donne, John. “Chronological Table”. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, edited by John Davy Hayward, Nonesuch Library, 1955, p. xi - xii.
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By 8 June 1615: Antiquary and historian William Camden anonymously...

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By 8 June 1615

Antiquary and historian William Camden anonymously published the first part of his Annales, a Latin history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth .
Woolf, Daniel. The Idea of History in Early Stuart England. University of Toronto Press, 1990.
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Lady Arbella Stuart: 25 September 1615

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25 September 1615

LAS died a prisoner in the Tower of London; a postmortem found she died of malnutrition (self-induced) and liver failure.
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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Mary Ward: 1 November, All Saints Day, 1615

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1 November, All Saints Day, 1615

MW sent a letter to the Jesuit Father Roger Lee which commentator Jeanne Cover calls from its topic the Estate of Justice.
Cover, Jeanne. Love—the Driving Force. Marquette University Press, 1997.
195-6

Lady Anne Clifford: 1616-1619

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1616-1619

LAC kept a regular diary of which the years 1616-17 and 1619 survive.
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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Mary Ward: January 1616

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January 1616

MW 's petition or memorial to Pope Paul V about founding her Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary reached Rome, carried by Thomas Sackville .
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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Mary Oxlie: : Some time after 1616

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Some time after 1616

MO wrote her only poem known to survive, a heartfelt compliment To William Drummond of Hawthornden; it mentions some of the contents of his Poems, 1616.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Héloïse: 1616

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1616

Nearly five hundred years after they were written, the letters of Héloïse and Abelard were published at Paris in Latin.
Charrier, Charlotte. Héloïse. Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, 1933.
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