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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 Rich, Countess of Warwick: 11 November 1624

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11 November 1624

Mary Boyle (later Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick) was born at Youghal in Ireland, the youngest but two among fifteen children.
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln: 30 December 1624

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30 December 1624

Elizabeth, Countess of Lincoln 's eldest grandson, Edward Clinton, was baptised at St Bride's Church, on Fleet Street in London.
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: 698

Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: 1625

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1625

Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland , went through the last of her eleven successful childbirths when she bore her son Henry.
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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Mary Ferrar: : 1625

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1625

The elderly widow Mary Ferrar , her sons Nicholas and John , and daughter and grandchildren, set up at the manor of Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire a semi-monastic family life which included collaborative authorship.
The...

Jane Owen: After 1625

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Author event in Jane Owen

After 1625

JO had died within the past nine years when her book was published in 1634.
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.
Owen, Jane. “Introductory Note”. Jane Owen, edited by Dorothy L. Latz, Ashgate, 2000, p. ix - xiii.
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English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln: 1625

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1625

Elizabeth Lincoln 's son and heir, the Earl of Lincoln , sued his mother in Chancery as guardian of his younger brothers.
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

1625: Barbados was settled by the British....

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1625

Barbados was settled by the British.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 557
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
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1625: Hackney coaches (those not privately owned...

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1625

Hackney coaches (those not privately owned but available for anybody to hire) went into service in London.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
280

Ann, Lady Fanshawe: 25 March 1625

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Author event in Ann, Lady Fanshawe

25 March 1625

Ann Harrison, later ALF , was born on Lady Day in London, in Hart St, parish of St Olave's.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Sir Richard Fanshawe and Ann, Lady Fanshawe”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 91-9.
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Fanshawe, Ann, Lady et al. “The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis and John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 101-92.
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27 March 1625: James I (James VI of Scotland) died, and...

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27 March 1625

James I (James VI of Scotland) died, and his son Charles I assumed the throne.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Morrill, John. “The Stuarts (1603-1688)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 286-51.
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Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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John Milton: 9 April 1625

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9 April 1625

JM matriculated (that is, was formally received as a university member) at Christ's College, Cambridge , where he took his BA in 1629 and MA in 1632.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Ward: 11 April 1625

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11 April 1625

Pope Urban VIII ordered the closure of MW 's houses in Italy; her schools in Rome shut down that summer in spite of the tears and lamentations
qtd. in
Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols.
2: 172
of the pupils' parents.
Peters, Henriette. Mary Ward: A World in Contemplation. Translator Butterworth, Helen, Gracewing Books, 1994.
403

Summer 1625: England experienced an outbreak of bubonic...

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Summer 1625

England experienced an outbreak of bubonic plague.
Hill, Christopher. The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714. Sphere Books, 1969.
278

Elizabeth Isham: 22 June 1625

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Author event in Elizabeth Isham

22 June 1625

EI 's mother died on the day after midsummer day, after suffering what sounds like a stroke.
Clarke, Elizabeth, and Erica Longfellow. “Elizabeth Isham’s Autobiographical Writings”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham.
Isham, Elizabeth. “Booke of Rememberances”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham, edited by Elizabeth Clarke.
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Lady Eleanor Douglas: 28 July 1625

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Author event in Lady Eleanor Douglas

28 July 1625

Early in the morning at Englefield, Lady Eleanor Davies (later LED ) had her first vision, which set her on the path towards becoming a public prophet.
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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Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Lady Eleanor Douglas: August 1625

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Author event in Lady Eleanor Douglas

August 1625

Lady Eleanor Davies (later LED ) printed her first tract: an account of her vision, a commentary on those of the prophet Daniel, and a prophecy: A Warning to the Dragon and all his Angels.
Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Elizabeth Richardson: September 1625

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Author event in Elizabeth Richardson

September 1625

During a visitation of the plague, which she was trying to escape by staying outside London in Chelsea, Elizabeth, Lady Ashburnham (later Cramond) , wrote her daughters a letter of advice with prayers and meditations.
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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Brilliana, Lady Harley: 30 September 1625

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30 September 1625

Brilliana, Lady Harley , wrote the first of the eight letters to her husband that survive between this year and 18 May 1633.
Harley, Brilliana, Lady. Letters of the Lady Brilliana Harley. Editor Lewis, Thomas Taylor, Camden Society, 1854.
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Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater: 1626

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1626

Elizabeth Cavendish (who later wrote under her married titles, both as Lady Brackley and as Lady Bridgewater ) was born into a family of five surviving children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Shirley: 1616 or 1626

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Author event in Elizabeth Shirley

1616 or 1626

ES composed The lyfe of our moste reverent mother Margrit Clement, the former prioress of St Ursula's at Louvain; it is probably the earliest biography of a woman written in English from first-hand...

Marie de Sévigné: 5 February 1626

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Author event in Marie de Sévigné

5 February 1626

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal (later MS ) was born in Paris.
Ojala, Jeanne, and William Ojala. Madame de Sévigné: A Seventeenth-Century Life. Berg, 1990.
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Williams, Charles G. S. Madame de Sévigné. Twayne, 1981.
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Alice Thornton: 13 February 1626

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Author event in Alice Thornton

13 February 1626

Alice Wandesford (later AT ) was born at Kirklington in North Yorkshire.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: July 1626

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July 1626

Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland , left her husband in Ireland and crossed back to England with four of her children.
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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Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1 - 59; various pages.
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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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Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: 14 November 1626

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14 November 1626

Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland , was finally received into the Catholic Church , years after her reading in the Catholic Fathers had first made her wish to do this.
Serjeantson, R. W. “Elizabeth Cary and the Great Tew Circle”. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, edited by Heather Wolfe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 165-82.
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Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1 - 59; various pages.
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Anne, Lady Southwell : 2 December 1626

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2 December 1626

This date heads The workes of the Lady Ann Sothwell, which stands first in ALS 's so-called commonplace-book, the collection assembled by herself and her second husband , of poems (by her and others)...