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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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Lady Mary Wroth: 13 May 1619

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13 May 1619

LMW appeared with other court ladies at the funeral of Anne of Denmark .
Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990, http://U of A HSS.
203-4
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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Martha Moulsworth: 15 June 1619

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15 June 1619

Martha Thoroughgood , a widow for the second time, married her third and last husband, London goldsmith Bevill Moulsworth ; he died after eleven years and eight months of marriage.
Moulsworth, Martha. "My Name Was Martha". Editors Evans, Robert C. and Barbara Wiedemann, Locust Hill, 1993.
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Depas-Orange, Ann. “Moulsworth’s Life and Times”. "The Birthday of my Self": Martha Moulsworth, Renaissance Poet, edited by Ann Depas-Orange and Robert C. Evans, Critical Matrix, 1996, pp. 7-10.
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Lady Eleanor Douglas: Late 1619

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Late 1619

Lady Eleanor Davies (later LED ) and her husband Sir John Davies returned to England from Ireland; he had fallen out with James I and lost his job.
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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Lady Anne Clifford: 1620

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1620

LAC set up (in her mother 's name) a memorial to the poet Spenser in Westminster Abbey.
Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997.
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Lady Hester Pulter: Round about 1620

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Round about 1620

According to her own account Hester Ley (not yet Lady Hester) was thirteen
This depends on accepting Eardley's, rather than the ODNB's, estimate of her birth date.
when she was married to Arthur Pulter...

Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln: 1620

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1620

Theophilus Clinton, now Earl of Lincoln (Elizabeth Lincoln 's third, but first surviving, son), married Bridget Fiennes ; this marriage turned Lady Lincoln's mind to writing on breast-feeding.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
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1620-1725: Thirty-five people were executed as witches...

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1620-1725

Thirty-five people were executed as witches in New England during this period of a century; nineteen of them died at Salem in 1692.
Wootton, David. “Brutish Babies”. London Review of Books, 11 Nov. 1999, pp. 34-35.
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Lucy Hutchinson: 29 January 1620

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29 January 1620

Lucy Apsley, later LH , was born at the Tower of London, first daughter in a family which had five children surviving, and was to have six more (but only one more survivor).
Lucretius, and Lucretius. “Introduction”. Lucy Hutchinson’s Translation of Lucretius, "De rerum natura", edited by Hugh De Quehen, translated by. Lucy Hutchinson, University of Michigan Press, 1996, pp. 1-20.
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Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press, 1973.
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22 March 1620: The first English translation of Boccaccio's...

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22 March 1620

The first English translation of Boccaccio 's cycle of tales generally known as the Decameron was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it was printed this year, possibly the work of John Florio .
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Rachel Speght: June 1620

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June 1620

RS 's mother died suddenly at Deptford in Kent (where her husband had acquired property). It is not known what she died of; there were no serious epidemics in progress at the time.
Speight, Helen. “Rachel Speght’s Polemical Life”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
65
, No. 3/4, 2002, pp. 449-63.
454 and n22

Elizabeth Richardson: 29 June 1620

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29 June 1620

Lady Ashburnham (later Elizabeth Richardson, Lady Cramond) was left poor at the death of her first husband in the Fleet Prison, where he had been incarcerated for debt.
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.
Leigh, Dorothy et al. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Editor Brown, Sylvia, Sutton, 1999.
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Grace, Lady Mildmay : 27 July 1620

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27 July 1620

GLM died less than three years after her husband .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

6 September 1620: The Mayflower sailed from England with settlers...

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6 September 1620

The Mayflower sailed from England with settlers for New England, bent on escaping religious restrictions at home.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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October 1620: Francis Bacon published his influential Novum...

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October 1620

Francis Bacon published his influential Novum Organum, a Latin work of science and scientific theory; it formed the second part of his Instauratio Magna.
Cameron, Jennifer. A Dangerous Innovator: Mary Ward (1585-1645). St Pauls Publications, 2000.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Cary: About 1621

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About 1621

MC was born.
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.

Lady Jane Cavendish: About 1621

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About 1621

Jane Cavendish (later Lady Jane) was born, the eldest child of aristocratic parents.
Souces differ as to her date of birth. Her own entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says 1620/1. Her father's...

Judith Man: About 1621

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About 1621

According to her own statement about being eighteen at Christmas 1639, JM must have been born about this time.
Barclay, John. Argenis and Polyarchus. Translator Man, Judith, H. Seile, 1640.
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About 1621: Thomas Middleton wrote his tragedy Women...

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About 1621

Thomas Middleton wrote his tragedy Women Beware Women; it was not published till 1657.
Middleton, Thomas, 1580 - 1627. The Selected Plays of Thomas Middleton. Editor Frost, David L., Cambridge University Press, 1978.
xvi, 187-8

1621: In A New Booke of Spelling with Syllables...

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1621

In A New Booke of Spelling with Syllables . . . Devised Chiefly for Children, Edward Coote set out to teach Orthographie not only to children but also to the ignorant of mature years...

1621: Robert Burton, a don at Christ Church, Oxford,...

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1621

Robert Burton , a don at Christ Church, Oxford , writing as Democritus Junior, published his quirky and learned Anatomy of Melancholy; he kept on adding to it, and left the posthumous sixth...

Rachel Speght: 18 January 1621

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18 January 1621

RS entered in the Stationers' RegisterMortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed, Imaginarie in Manner; Reall in Matter.
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. xi - xxxvi.
xii

Rachel Speght: 13 February 1621

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13 February 1621

RS 's father , recently widowed, married again. His new wife was a widow named Elizabeth Smith, the mother of two children.
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. xi - xxxvi.
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Speight, Helen. “Rachel Speght’s Polemical Life”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
65
, No. 3/4, 2002, pp. 449-63.
454

Lady Mary Wroth: After July 1621

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After July 1621

LMW continued writing after her book Urania appeared in print: besides the continuation she left further poems and some letters.

Lady Mary Wroth: 13 July 1621

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13 July 1621

LMW 's pastoral prose romance, The Countesse of Montgomeries Urania, was licensed for printing; it appeared that year.
Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.

Rachel Speght: 6 August 1621

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6 August 1621

RS married at St Mary Woolchurch, London (not one of her father's two parish churches), a clergyman named William Procter .
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. xi - xxxvi.
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Speight, Helen. “Rachel Speght’s Polemical Life”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
65
, No. 3/4, 2002, pp. 449-63.
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