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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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John Donne: 15 August 1617

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15 August 1617

Ann Donne , JD 's wife, died five days after giving birth to a stillborn child.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Grace, Lady Mildmay : 2 September 1617

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2 September 1617

Sir Anthony Mildmay , husband of GLM , died after nearly fifty years of marriage. She wrote a remarkable meditation while sitting with his body in its coffin, before it was buried at Apethorpe.
Hasler, P. W., editor. “The House of Commons 1558-1603”. The History of Parliament, 1981.
Pollock, Linda. With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman Lady Grace Mildmay 1552-1620. Collins and Brown, 1993.
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Grace, Lady Mildmay : Autumn 1617 or later

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Author event in Grace, Lady Mildmay

Autumn 1617 or later

GLM , a recently-widowed grandmother near the end of her life, fifty years on from being a child taught by her mother, composed what is sometimes called her autobiography and sometimes her journal.
Warnicke, Retha M. “Lady Mildmay’s Journal: A Study in Autobiography and Meditation in Reformation England”. Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol.
20
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1989, pp. 55-68.
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29 September 1617: Frances Coke, daughter of the jurist Sir...

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29 September 1617

Frances Coke , daughter of the jurist Sir Edward Coke and of his second wife (the former Lady Elizabeth Hatton ), was married at Hampton Court to John Villiers , elder brother of King James...

Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland: By early October 1617

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By early October 1617

Dorothy Sidney (later DSCS ) was born at Syon House on the edge of London. She was baptised in the village of Isleworth on 5 October.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Ady, Julia Cartwright. Sacharissa. 3rd ed., Seeley, 1901.
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Mary Ward: Later 1617

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Author event in Mary Ward

Later 1617

Faced with evidence of scepticism about her projects among the top Catholic hierarchy, MW made at St OmerThree Speeches about her mission.
Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols.
1: 411, 408

Elizabeth Warren: 19 December 1617

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19 December 1617

Since EW was christened at Woodbridge in Suffolk on this day, she was probably born not long before.
“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/.

Katharine Evans: About 1618

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About 1618

The future KE was born around this year, according to her own very general statement in 1658 that she was about forty.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: 1618

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1618

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , had her portrait painted in a formal pose, holding a finely-bound copy of her own versified psalms.
Sidney, Sir Philip. “Critical Materials”. The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, edited by William A., Jr Ringler, Clarendon Press, 1962, p. various pages.
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After 11 March 1618: Samuel Daniel published The Collection of...

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After 11 March 1618

Samuel Daniel published The Collection of the Historie of England, an account concentrating on the later middle ages from the Norman Conquest; he had issued a First Part in 1612.
Woolf, Daniel. The Idea of History in Early Stuart England. University of Toronto Press, 1990.
64, 94, 338
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

23 May 1618: Religious conflict began in Germany and central...

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23 May 1618

Religious conflict began in Germany and central Europe which became known the Thirty Years' War: it originated in acts of violence by Protestants against Catholics.
Sobel, Dava. Galileo’s Daughter. Viking, 1999.
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Cameron, Jennifer. A Dangerous Innovator: Mary Ward (1585-1645). St Pauls Publications, 2000.
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8 July 1618: Michael Dalton had entered in the Stationers'...

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8 July 1618

Michael Dalton had entered in the Stationers' Register his book The Countrey Justice, Containing the Practice of the Justices of the Peace out of their Sessions, designed to raise the level of local administration...

29 October 1618: Sir Walter Ralegh or Raleigh, courtier, poet,...

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29 October 1618

Sir Walter Ralegh or Raleigh , courtier, poet, and historian, was executed on trumped-up political charges after the dismal failure of a voyage he had made to what is now Guyana, seeking for silver and gold.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anne Bradstreet: 1619

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1619

AB moved from Northamptonshire to Sempringham in Lincolnshire with her family when her father became Lord Lincoln 's steward.
Bradstreet, Anne. “The Introduction”. The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet, edited by Joseph R., Jr McElrath and Allan P. Robb, Twayne, 1981, p. xi - xlii.
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Lucy Cary: 1619

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1619

LC was born, one of the eleven children of Elizabeth Cary, later Lady Falkland .
Latz, Dorothy L. "Glow-Worm Light": Writings of Seventeenth-Century English Recusant Women from Original Manuscripts. University of Salzburg, 1989.
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Lady Mary Wroth: Probably 1619

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Probably 1619

This is the date that scholars now generally assign to LMW 's pastoral drama, Loves Victorie.
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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Salzman, Paul. “Possession, Access, and Online Editing”. The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, 31 Mar. 2016.

Winefrid Thimelby: Probably by 1619

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Probably by 1619

WT was born, most likely at Irnham in Lincolnshire, the youngest but one among thirteen children to survive in her family.
Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1997.
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1619: The first public school for girls was founded...

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1619

The first public school for girls was founded in Deptford, London.
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.

1619: Blacks were sold for the first time as slaves...

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1619

Blacks were sold for the first time as slaves in Jamestown, Virginia.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
549
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
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1619: Arthur Newman published Pleasures Vision...

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1619

Arthur Newman published Pleasures Vision . . . A Short Dialogue of a Womans Properties, between an Old Man and a Young.
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.

Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln: 15 January 1619

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15 January 1619

Lord Lincoln, husband of Elizabeth, Countess of Lincoln , died, only three years after coming into his earldom.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
7: 696
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Bathsua Makin: Before March 1619

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Author event in Bathsua Makin

Before March 1619

Bathsua Reginald (later BM ) wrote, but did not publish in any surviving form, a guide to an innovative shorthand system, entitled Index Radiographia or Ad Anna . . . Reginam.
Brink, Jeanie R. “Bathsua Reginald Makin: ’Most Learned Matron’”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
54
, 1991, pp. 313-26.
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Teague, Frances. Bathsua Makin, Woman of Learning. Bucknell University Press, 1998.
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28 April 1619: The Maid's Tragedy, written jointly in 1610-11...

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28 April 1619

The Maid's Tragedy, written jointly in 1610-11 by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont (who had since died), was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it was published this year.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

By May 1619: The Calvinist Synod of Dort in Holland confirmed...

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By May 1619

The Calvinist Synod of Dort in Holland confirmed the doctrine of total human depravity, setting it at the head of their articles of doctrine.
Synod of Dort. http://www.ccel.org/creeds/canons-of-dort.html.

Lady Anne Clifford: 13 May 1619

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13 May 1619

LAC attended the funeral of Anne of Denmark ; here she enjoyed much talk with my Old Lady of Pembroke
Clifford, Lady Anne. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition. Editor Acheson, Katherine O., Garland, 1995.
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and other acquaintances: she notes this to be the last time she saw Lady Pembroke.
Clifford, Lady Anne. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619: A Critical Edition. Editor Acheson, Katherine O., Garland, 1995.
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