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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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Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: 25 September 1621

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25 September 1621

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , died of smallpox in Aldersgate Street, London.
Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990, http://U of A HSS.
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Mary Ward: 21 October 1621

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Author event in Mary Ward

21 October 1621

MW set out with four of her companions in pilgrims' dress to Rome to see the Pope (who by this time was the short-lived Gregory XV ).
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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John Donne: 22 November 1621

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Author event in John Donne

22 November 1621

JD was appointed Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in Aldermanbury, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Mary Wroth: 15 December 1621

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Author event in Lady Mary Wroth

15 December 1621

LMW wrote to assure Buckingham , the king 's favourite, that she meant no offence to the court by her book, yet offering to withdraw it.
Wroth, Lady Mary. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth. Editor Roberts, Josephine A., Louisiana State University Press, 1983, http://BLC.
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29 December 1621: The Witch of Edmonton, a tragicomedy collaboratively...

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29 December 1621

The Witch of Edmonton, a tragicomedy collaboratively written by Thomas Dekker , John Ford , William Rowley and others, had its first specifically recorded performance, among the Court's Christmas entertainments; it had reached the...

Hannah Wolley: About 1622

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Author event in Hannah Wolley

About 1622

The future HW (whose name at birth is not known) was born into a family of several sisters.
Hobby, Elaine. “A woman’s best setting out is silence: the writings of Hannah Wolley”. Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration: Literature, Drama, History, edited by Gerald Maclean, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 179-00.
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Anna Trapnel: About 1622

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Author event in Anna Trapnel

About 1622

AT was born at Stepney in East London.
Scott-Luckens, Carola. “Contextual Materials for The Cry of a Stone by Anna Trapnel”. Women Writers Project, Sept. 1999.

Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln: 1622

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1622

Oxford University Press published the widowed Elizabeth, Lady Lincoln 's advice-book, The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie.

1622-1854: No more than 6% of households in Britain...

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1622-1854

No more than 6% of households in Britain included members from three generations; more than 70% had two generations represented.
Dingwall, Robert et al. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing. Routledge, 1988.
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1622: Marie le Jars de Gournay (niece of Michel...

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1622

Marie le Jars de Gournay (niece of Michel de Montaigne ) published what became her best-known work, L'Egalité des hommes et des femmes.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1622: William Gouge in Of Domesticall Duties voiced...

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1622

William Gouge in Of Domesticall Duties voiced the prevailing view that women's lives had public as well as domestic aspects: for them, he wrote, a conscionable performance of household duties was a publike worke.
Crawford, Patricia. “Public Duty, Conscience, and Women in Early Modern England”. Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England, edited by John Morrill et al., Clarendon Press, 1993, pp. 57-76.
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Lady Mary Wroth: 15 February 1622

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Author event in Lady Mary Wroth

15 February 1622

LMW sent Lord Denny , as a mornings [sic] work,
Wroth, Lady Mary. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth. Editor Roberts, Josephine A., Louisiana State University Press, 1983, http://BLC.
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alliterative Railing Rimes Returned upon the Author, the mirror-image of lines in which he had attacked her.
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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Wroth, Lady Mary. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth. Editor Roberts, Josephine A., Louisiana State University Press, 1983, http://BLC.
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Ephelia: March 1622

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Author event in Ephelia

March 1622

Mary Villiers (later Mary Stuart, Duchess of Lennox and Richmond) , who may have later written and published as Ephelia, was born at Wallingford House in London, the eldest of three children, and the only girl.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Bathsua Makin: 5 March 1622

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Author event in Bathsua Makin

5 March 1622

Bathsua Reginald (already a published writer) married Richard Makin , who served the king in some capacity, at St Andrew Undershaft church in the City of London.
Brink, Jeanie R. “Bathsua Reginald Makin: ’Most Learned Matron’”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
54
, 1991, pp. 313-26.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Eleanor Douglas: By May 1622

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Author event in Lady Eleanor Douglas

By May 1622

Lady Eleanor Davies (later LED ) was involved in unexplained personal quarrels, which produced abusive letters with hostile comments on her appearance.
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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7 May 1622: The Changeling, a tragedy by Thomas Middleton...

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7 May 1622

The Changeling, a tragedy by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley , was licensed for performance.
Middleton, Thomas, 1580 - 1627. The Selected Plays of Thomas Middleton. Editor Frost, David L., Cambridge University Press, 1978.
307-8

After 11 May 1622: Abraham Darcie published a formal defence...

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After 11 May 1622

Abraham Darcie published a formal defence of women: The Honour of Ladies: Or, A True Description of their Noble Perfections.
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 Cary, Viscountess Falkland: September 1622

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September 1622

Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland , travelled to Ireland with her husband , who had been appointed Lord Deputy of that kingdom, and who was sworn in during this month at Dublin.
Rankin, Deana. “’A More Worthy Patronesse’: Elizabeth Cary and Ireland”. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, edited by Heather Wolfe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 203-21.
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Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, 1994, pp. 183-75.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Henry Cary

Lady Margaret Cunningham: 2 October 1622

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Author event in Lady Margaret Cunningham

2 October 1622

Nearly a year before she died, Margaret Cunninghame sent a letter to her sister-in-law, containing her will.
Cunningham, Lady Margaret. A Parte of the Life of Lady Margaret Cunningham.
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Ewan, Elizabeth et al. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women : From the Earliest Times to 2004. Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Lady Anne Clifford: 6 October 1622

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Author event in Lady Anne Clifford

6 October 1622

LAC bore her second surviving child, Isabella , named after the ancestor through whom the Westmorland titles, lands, and sheriffwick descended.
Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997.
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Elizabeth Joscelin: 12 October 1622

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Author event in Elizabeth Joscelin

12 October 1622

EJ gave birth to her daughter, Theodora (who grew up and married at about the age of twenty-five).
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Leigh, Dorothy et al. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Editor Brown, Sylvia, Sutton, 1999.
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Elizabeth Joscelin: 21 October 1622

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Author event in Elizabeth Joscelin

21 October 1622

EJ died of puerperal fever nine days after the birth of her daughter.
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Margaret Cavendish: Probably 1623

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Author event in Margaret Cavendish

Probably 1623

Margaret Lucas (later Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle) was born, the youngest (by six years) of a family of eight.
Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Bloomsbury, 1988.
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Cavendish, Margaret. “Introduction”. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader, edited by Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview, 2000, pp. 9-37.
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Mary Fisher: Perhaps as early as 1623

Women writers item
Author event in Mary Fisher

Perhaps as early as 1623

MF was born within two miles of York. She was said in 1653 to be about thirty, but she bore at least three children after 1662.
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.
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1623: William Whately's controversial treatise...

Writing climate item

1623

William Whately 's controversial treatise A Bride-Bush; or, A Direction for Married Persons appeared in a corrected second edition.
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
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