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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 Eleanor Douglas: 7 December 1626

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7 December 1626

Sir John Davies , husband of Lady Eleanor (later LED ), died: three days after he had mocked her for weeping in public, some months after he had burned her first book.
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
42-3

Elizabeth Richardson: 14 December 1626

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14 December 1626

Elizabeth, Lady Ashburnham , became (at St Giles in the Fields in London) the second wife of Sir Thomas Richardson , then Speaker of the House of Commons and Chief Justice.
“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/.
under Thomas Richardson

Anne Bradstreet: 1627

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1627

Lord Lincoln and other associates of AB 's father were arrested.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
119

Mary Carey: About 1627-30

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About 1627-30

Mary Jackson (later Carey) , aged eighteen, suffered a sore sicknesse the nature of which she does not specify.
Carey, Mary. Meditations and Poetry. 17 Oct. 1653–12 Jan. 1658.
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Mary Ward: About 1627

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About 1627

MW wrote—or perhaps dictated—a second autobiography, in Italian, which begins with her aged fifteen.
Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols.
1: 48-9

Dorothy Osborne: 1627

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1627

DO was born at Chicksands in Bedfordshire, youngest of ten children.
Osborne, Dorothy. “Introduction”. The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple, edited by G. C. Moore Smith, Clarendon Press, 1928, p. ix - li.
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Osborne, Dorothy. The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple. Editor Smith, G. C. Moore, Clarendon Press, 1928.
320
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1627: An anonymous book appeared at London entitled...

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1627

An anonymous book appeared at London entitled A Mothers Teares over Hir Seduced Sonne (seduced not sexually but by the Catholic faith away from the Protestant).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1627: Francis Bacon's New Atlantis first appeared...

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1627

Francis Bacon 's New Atlantis first appeared as part of his Sylva Sylvarum; it is a utopia dealing with science and politics, and had been written in 1624.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: By 20 February 1627

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By 20 February 1627

Elizabeth Cary Falkland almost certainly composed a remarkable work whose preface in its later folio printing is dated this day, on the life of Edward II : a historical parable alluding to contemporary politics.
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Rachel Speght: Probably February 1627

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Probably February 1627

Rachel Procter (formerly RS ) bore the first of her three recorded children, a daughter who was christened Rachel on the 28th of this month.
Speight, Helen. “Rachel Speght’s Polemical Life”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
65
, No. 3/4, 2002, pp. 449-63.
456

Lady Eleanor Douglas: March 1627

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March 1627

Three months after her first husband's death Lady Eleanor Davies married Sir Archibald Douglas , a professional soldier.
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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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anne Audland: August 1627

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August 1627

Anne Newby (later AA ) was born at Kendal in Westmorland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Isham: Late October 1627

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Late October 1627

EI made her first extended visit away from home: to relations in London. A visit to London after her mother's death had been quickly aborted. This time she stayed into the next year.

Susanna Hopton : By 27 October 1627

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By 27 October 1627

Susanna Harvey (later Hopton) was born: she was baptised on this day at the church of St-Martin-in-the-Fields in London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Eleanor Douglas: November 1627-March 1629

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November 1627-March 1629

LED first lobbied Henrietta Maria and Charles I about her estates, then began publicly prophesying.
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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Anne Bradstreet: 1628

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1628

Anne Dudley married, at sixteen, Simon Bradstreet , who had worked for her father, and was now, like him, the steward to a noble family.
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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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1628: William Harvey published at Frankfurt Exercitatis...

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1628

William Harvey published at FrankfurtExercitatis Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1628: Publication began of the legal treatise known...

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1628

Publication began of the legal treatise known to later generations as Coke upon Littleton: The first part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, or a Commentarie upon Littleton by jurist Sir Edward Coke

1628-1632: John Comenius wrote his Didactica Magna,...

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1628-1632

John Comenius wrote his Didactica Magna, which argues for the education of girls.
Barbour, Paula L., and Bathsua Makin. “Introduction”. An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1980, p. iii - xi.
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Comenius, John Amos. “Introductions”. The Great Didactic of John Amos Comenius, translated by. Maurice Walter Keatinge, 2nd ed., Russell, 1967, pp. 1-169.
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Elizabeth Richardson: 29 February 1628

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29 February 1628

ER was created Baroness of Cramond in her own right, a title which was to descend to her husband 's heirs, not her own: he could not be overtly ennobled because of his judgeship.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Thomas Richardson

Elizabeth Hooton: 11 May 1628

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11 May 1628

Elizabeth Carrier married Oliver Hooton or Hooten , a prosperous farmer, at Ollerton in Nottinghamshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
127

7 June 1628: Charles I backed down and accepted the Petition...

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7 June 1628

Charles I backed down and accepted the Petition of Right, a statement of the subject's rights and freedoms drawn up by the elderly jurist Sir Edward Coke .
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
3: 299, 600
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Coke

13 June 1628: Dr John Lambe, cunning man or astrologer...

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13 June 1628

Dr John Lambe , cunning man or astrologer and servant of the Duke of Buckingham , was beaten to death by a London mob as punishment for a rape.
Purkiss, Diane. The Witch in History: early modern and twentieth-century representations. Routledge, 1996.
147, 171

Lady Eleanor Douglas: After 23 August 1628

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After 23 August 1628

It was noted, on the Duke of Buckingham 's assassination, that LED had prophesied his death: her reputation grew.
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.
2: 393
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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Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: After 23 August 1628

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After 23 August 1628

Elizabeth Cary Falkland composed both An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham, and a companion piece, an elegy on the duke.
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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Wolfe, Heather, editor. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
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Akkerman, Nadine N. W. “’Reader, Stand Still and Look: Lo Here I Am’: Elizabeth Cary’s Funeral Elegy ’On the Duke of Buckingham’”. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, edited by Heather Wolfe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 183-00.
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