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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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Elizabeth Joscelin: 1616

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1616

Elizabeth Brooke married a man named Taurell Joscelin. They were six years married before she became pregnant.
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Dorothy Leigh: By 1616

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Author event in Dorothy Leigh

By 1616

DL died before her book was published. The exact date and the place are not known.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Bathsua Makin: 1616

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1616

Bathsua Reginald (later BM ) published, giving her birth name of Reginald, a volume of poems in seven languages addressed to royal persons, entitled Musa Virginea Græco-Latino-Gallica.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Brink, Jeanie R. “Bathsua Reginald Makin: ’Most Learned Matron’”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
54
, 1991, pp. 313-26.
316-17

1616: William Goddard published A Satirycall Dialogue,...

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1616

William Goddard published A Satirycall Dialogue, Or a Sharplye invective Conference, betweene Alexander the Great , and that truelye woman-hater Diogenes.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

1616: Helkiah Crooke in Microcosmographia: A Description...

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1616

Helkiah Crooke in Microcosmographia: A Description of the Body of Man laid out an exhaustive account of the human body, in which he rejected the one-sex model (the original editions spell this Mikrokosmographia).
Smith, Bruce R. “Premodern Sexualities”. PMLA, Vol.
115
, No. 3, May 2000, pp. 318-29.
322

About 1616: Forceps for use in childbirth were invented...

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About 1616

Forceps for use in childbirth were invented by a member of the Chamberlen family, probably Peter Chamberlen the Elder ; they were kept a secret.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
139
Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth Century England. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984.
448-9
This date is given variously by different sources...

Katherine Chidley: February 1616

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February 1616

KC was married at Shrewsbury: her husband was Daniel Chidley , a tailor.
The Feminist Companion misprints the year as 1626.
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Dorothy Leigh: 26 February 1616

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26 February 1616

DL 's The Mothers Blessing was entered in the Stationers' Register. It was published the same year, with one dedication to Elizabeth of Bohemia and another to Leigh's three sons.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

William Shakespeare: 23 April 1616

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23 April 1616

WS , poet and playwright, died on St George's day at New Place in Stratford, the fine modern house he had bought with his theatrical earnings in 1597.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
475
Rogers, Pat, editor. An Outline of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1992.
127

July 1616: Frances Howard, Countess of Essex (and by...

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July 1616

Frances Howard, Countess of Essex (and by her latest marriage Countess of Somerset), pleaded guilty to accusations of having Sir Thomas Overbury poisoned to end his publicizing her sexual misconduct.
Purkiss, Diane. The Witch in History: early modern and twentieth-century representations. Routledge, 1996.
215-16, 223
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Anne Clifford: July 1616

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July 1616

LAC travelled north to bury her mother 's lead-encased body at St Lawrence's Church in Appleby, Westmorland.
Clifford, Lady Anne. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition. Editor Acheson, Katherine O., Garland, 1995.
51-2, 56
Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997.
38

Abraham Cowley: By early August 1618

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By early August 1618

AC , civil servant, poet, and essayist, was born in London, the posthumous seventh son of his father, who was said to be a grocer.
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
1: 309n2
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, et. al., 1781, 4 vols., http://SpCol PR 553 J67 1781.
1: 3-4

November 1616: Ben Jonson published his Works, including...

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November 1616

Ben Jonson published his Works, including (unconventionally) nine plays, as well as masques and two poetry collections.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Rachel Speght: 14 November 1616

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14 November 1616

RS 's A Mouzell for Melastomus (a polemical reply to Joseph Swetnam 's Araignment of Lewde, idle, froward [sic], and unconstant Women, 1615) was listed in the Stationers' Register .
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. xi - xxxvi.
xii

Agnes Wenman: Before 1617

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Before 1617

At some unknown date, AW translated into English a large part of The Historyes and Chronicles of the World by twelfth-century John or Joannes Zonaras .
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.
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.

Gertrude Thimelby: About 1617

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About 1617

Gertrude Aston (later GT ) was born at Tixall Manor or Hall in Staffordshire. She was one of ten children.
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.

Rachel Speght: 1617

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1617

RS 's A Mouzell for Melastomus (i.e. for Joseph Swetnam ) is dated this year, though it may have appeared before the end of 1616.
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. xi - xxxvi.
xxxii

Lady Anne Clifford: 18-20 January 1617

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18-20 January 1617

The king undertook to mediate on the estates which LAC claimed; she told him she would not accept a verdict against her.
Clifford, Lady Anne. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition. Editor Acheson, Katherine O., Garland, 1995.
66-8

Mary Ward: 23 January 1617

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23 January 1617

At Liège on her twenty-second birthday, MW began an autobiography on the model of St Augustine 's Confessions, which takes her life to the age of fifteen only.
Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols.
1: 5, 402, 404

Mary Ward: February 1617

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February 1617

MW 's Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary was officially approved by Jacques Blaes , Bishop of St Omer.
Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols.
1: 397
Cameron, Jennifer. A Dangerous Innovator: Mary Ward (1585-1645). St Pauls Publications, 2000.
211

Lady Eleanor Douglas: 20 February 1617

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20 February 1617

Lady Eleanor Davies (later LED ) was enriched by her father 's death.
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
20-1

Lady Anne Clifford: 14 March 1617

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14 March 1617

After a long series of hearings in different courts, Lord Dorset , LAC 's first husband, signed the King's Award, relinquishing her claim to the Clifford lands.
Clifford, Lady Anne. “Introduction / Annotations / Bibliography”. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619, edited by Katherine O. Acheson, Garland, 1995, pp. 1 - 37, 133.
3

Agnes Wenman: Shortly before 4 July 1617

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Shortly before 4 July 1617

Agnes, Lady Wenman , died; this was the day of her funeral.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Ward: July 1617

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July 1617

MW left Liège (where she had moved from St Omer) on one of several visits to England (this one was explicitly recognised as dangerous, owing to the persecution of Catholics).
Peters, Henriette. Mary Ward: A World in Contemplation. Translator Butterworth, Helen, Gracewing Books, 1994.
215
Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols.
1: 402, 405

Aemilia Lanyer: Summer 1617-summer 1619

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Summer 1617-summer 1619

AL ran a school for the children of divers persons of worth and understandinge
qtd. in
Woods, Susanne. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford University Press, 1999.
33
at St Giles in the Fields, then on the outskirts of London.
Woods, Susanne, and Aemilia Lanyer. “Introduction”. The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xv - li.
xxvii