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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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1623: During a terrible famine in Scotland, many...

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1623

During a terrible famine in Scotland, many poor people died in the streets in Edinburgh.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Drummond of Hawthornden

Anne Halkett: 4 January 1623

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Author event in Anne Halkett

4 January 1623

Anne Murray, later AH , was born in London; she had an elder sister and several brothers.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 3-7.
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Halkett, Anne et al. “The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis and John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 9-87.
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Bathsua Makin: 14 February 1623

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Author event in Bathsua Makin

14 February 1623

BM , living in the parish of St Andrew Undershaft, Crosby Square, London, bore her first child, a daughter who died aged four, and was buried on 9 March 1627.
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/.
Teague, Frances. Bathsua Makin, Woman of Learning. Bucknell University Press, 1998.
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Mary Ward: 12 May 1623

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Author event in Mary Ward

12 May 1623

MW left Rome to walk to Naples with five others, including one servant who carried anything that the others could not manage for themselves.
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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Lady Eleanor Douglas: 7 July 1623

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7 July 1623

Lucy Davies (daughter of Lady Eleanor Davies, later LED ), was married, aged ten, to Ferdinando Hastings , heir of Lord Huntingdon; a second ceremony was held a month later. She remained, though, with her family.
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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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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Elizabeth Walker : 12 July 1623

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Author event in Elizabeth Walker

12 July 1623

Elizabeth Sadler (later EW ) was born in Bucklersbury (a central part of the City of London, close to the present Bank of England).
Walker, Anthony, and Elizabeth Walker. The Vertuous Wife: or, the Holy Life of Mrs. Elizabth Walker. J. Robinson, A. and J. Churchill, J. Taylor, and J. Wyat, 1694.
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Brilliana, Lady Harley: 22 July 1623

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22 July 1623

Brilliana Conway became the third wife of Sir Robert Harley of Brampton Bryan Castle in Herefordshire, a forty-four-year-old magistrate and Member of Parliament who was said to be an austere and decided character.
Eales, Jacqueline. Puritans and Roundheads. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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George, Margaret. Women in the First Capitalist Society. University of Illinois Press, 1988.
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Lady Margaret Cunningham: September 1623

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Author event in Lady Margaret Cunningham

September 1623

LMC died at a place called Malsly less than a year after the letter of October 1622 in which she seemed to see her death as imminent.
Ewan, Elizabeth et al. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women : From the Earliest Times to 2004. Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

8 November 1623: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies,...

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8 November 1623

Shakespeare 's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, collected (with one or two omissions) and posthumously published this year in a handsome large-format edition (the First Folio) were registered with the Stationers' Company .
Dobson, Michael. “Whatever you do, buy”. London Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2001, pp. 8-10.
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Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
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Lea, Richard. “Shakespeare’s First Folio fetches ¥2.8m”. Guardian Unlimited, 13 July 2006.
Smith, Emma. Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book. Oxford University Press, 2016.
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Mary Penington: Shortly before 13 December 1623

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Shortly before 13 December 1623

Mary Proude (later MP ) was born at Goodnestone Court near Faversham in Kent, her parents' only child.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anne Bradstreet: About 1624

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About 1624

AB 's family moved again, from Sempringham in Lincolnshire to Boston in the same county, a centre of Puritan activity.
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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Lady Mary Wroth: By January 1624

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By January 1624

LMW succeeded in paying half her debts.
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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Anne Whitehead: About 1624

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About 1624

According to the ODNB Anne Downer (later AW , early Quaker convert) was born at Charlbury in Oxfordshire, one of three sisters, at a less than certain date.
An Anne Downer, daughter of Andrew...

Alice Sutcliffe : By 1624

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By 1624

Alice Woodhouse was married to John Sutcliffe , who came from a substantial family of land-owners in Lincolnshire and at Mayroid in Yorkshire (now part of Halifax).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Hughey, Ruth. “Forgotten Verses by Ben Jonson, George Wither, and Others to Alice Sutcliffe”. Review of English Studies, Vol.
10
, No. 38, Apr. 1934, pp. 156-64.
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1624: Thomas Heywood published Gynaikeion: or,...

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1624

Thomas Heywood published Gynaikeion: or, Nine Bookes of Various History concerninge Women (on the title-page the first word is printed in Greek letters).
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
Catalogue No. 11

January 1624: The first permanent British settlement in...

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January 1624

The first permanent British settlement in the Caribbean was founded on Saint Kitts.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
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1624: An Act covering England and Wales was passed...

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1624

An Act covering England and Wales was passed to prevent the destroying and murdering of bastard children.
May, Allyson N. “’She at first denied it’: Infanticide Trials at the Old Bailey”. Women and History: Voices of Early Modern England, edited by Valerie Frith, Coach House Press, 1995, pp. 19-49.
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1624: James I issued a proclamation (culmination...

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1624

James I issued a proclamation (culmination of a series) aimed at getting nobles to leave London and return to their estates.
Larkin, James F., and Paul Hughes. Royal Proclamations of King James I, 1603-1625. Clarendon, 1973.
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1624: The Monopolies Act, a crucial episode in...

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1624

The Monopolies Act, a crucial episode in the restriction of absolutism, stripped away most of the traditional power of the Royal Prerogative, leaving it to control only printing privileges and inventions.
Shapin, Steven. “Rough Trade”. London Review of Books, 6 Mar. 2003, pp. 14-16.
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Elizabeth Joscelin: 12 January 1624

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12 January 1624

EJ 's The Mothers Legacie, to her unborne childe was entered in the Stationers' Register. It was posthumously published with her name the same year.
Leigh, Dorothy et al. Women’s Writing in Stuart England. Editor Brown, Sylvia, Sutton, 1999.
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English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Jane Lead: 1623 or 1624

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1623 or 1624

Jane Ward (later JL ) was born in Norfolk.
Her biographer Joanne Magnani Sperle notes that JL 's year of birth is open to debate (most biographers, and commentator Paula McDowell , list it...

Lady Anne Clifford: 28 March 1624

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28 March 1624

LAC 's first husband, Richard Sackville , died at the age of thirty-four, leaving her (at the same age) a titled widow, free and financially independent for the first time in her life.
Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997.
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Anne Docwra: By April 1624

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By April 1624

Anne Waldegrave (later AD ) was born at Bures in Suffolk.
Docwra, Anne. The Second Part of an Apostate-Conscience Exposed. 1700.
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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.

24 June 1624: Virginia became a Crown Colony.img: see #...

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24 June 1624

Virginia became a Crown Colony.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
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Brilliana, Lady Harley: 21 October 1624

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21 October 1624

Brilliana, Lady Harley , bore the eldest of her seven children, Edward , later her chief correspondent.
Lewis, Thomas Taylor, and Brilliana, Lady Harley. “Introduction”. Letters of the Lady Brilliana Harley, Camden Society, 1854, p. v - xxix.
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