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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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23 August 1628: Charles I's favourite George Villiers, 1st...

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23 August 1628

Charles I 's favourite George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (whose daughter Lady Mary, later Duchess of Richmond, is widely identified as the poet Ephelia ), was assassinated at Portsmouth.
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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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

John Bunyan: Shortly before 30 November 1628

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Author event in John Bunyan

Shortly before 30 November 1628

JB , religious allegorist and autobiographer, tinker, and dissenting preacher, was born at Elstow near Bedford, the eldest of three children.
Sadler, Lynn Veach. John Bunyan. Twayne, 1979.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Katherine Chidley: About 1629

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Author event in Katherine Chidley

About 1629

KC moved, apparently on compulsion, with her family from Shrewsbury to London—where, however, they found a broader field for their political-religious activity.
Gillespie, Katharine. “A Hammer in Her Hand: The Separation of Church from State and the Early Feminist Writings of Katherine Chidley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1998, pp. 213-33.
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Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: About 1629

Women writers item

About 1629

Elizabeth Cary Falkland , in about a month, translated a theological work by Cardinal Perron , one of the key religious polemical treatises of the early seventeenth century.
Wolfe, Heather, editor. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
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Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: About 1629-1630

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About 1629-1630

Elizabeth Cary Falkland wrote verse lives of Mary Magdalen , Saint Agnes , and St Elizabeth of Portugal , and many poems about the Virgin Mary and various saints.
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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Gertrude Thimelby: 1629

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Author event in Gertrude Thimelby

1629

The child Gertrude Aston (later GT ) wrote a poem on a sister's marriage.
Thimelby, Gertrude. Tixall Poetry. Editor Clifford, Arthur, J. Ballantyne, 1813.
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Mary Ward: Probably March 1629

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Author event in Mary Ward

Probably March 1629

MW spoke about her Institute to a pair of senior clerics appointed by Pope Urban VIII to advise him; they were not, as he supposed, neutral or favourable towards it.
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 Jane Cavendish: 14 August 1629

Women writers item
Author event in Lady Jane Cavendish

14 August 1629

Someone addressed a poem of compliment to the child LJC (now Harleian MS 4955, ff, 86-7 in the British Library ).
Millman, Jill Seal, and Gillian Wright, editors. Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Poetry. Manchester University Press, 2005.
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: When parliament (which Charles I had prorogued...

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Autumn 1629

When parliament (which Charles I had prorogued on 26 June) re-assembled, he dissolved it for what he intended to be the last time, having decided to rule without it.
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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Christmas Day 1629: John Milton finished his ode On the morning...

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Christmas Day 1629

John Milton finished his ode On the morning of Christ's Nativity. It was his first religious poem in English.
Campbell, Gordon, and John Milton. “Introduction and Notes”. The Complete Poems, edited by Bernard Arker Wright and Bernard Arker Wright, New Edition, J. M. Dent and Sons, 1980, p. xv - xxix, passim.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Hester Biddle: Probably 1629 or 1630

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Author event in Hester Biddle

Probably 1629 or 1630

The future HB was born; details about her birth family are unknown.
Hobby, Elaine. “Oh Oxford Thou Art Full of Filth: The Prophetical Writings of Hester Biddle, 1629[?]-1696”. Feminist Criticism: Theory and Practice, edited by Susan Sellers and Susan Sellers, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991, pp. 157-69.
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Elizabeth Cellier: Perhaps about 1630

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Author event in Elizabeth Cellier

Perhaps about 1630

If, as has been suggested, EC was about fifty when she published Malice Defeated, then she would have been born about this time.
However, if she was speaking truth at the time of her...

Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: 1630

Women writers item

1630

Elizabeth Cary Falkland 's Reply of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron appeared in print at Douai: the only part of her translation from Cardinal Perron to be published.
The Falkland edition of 1994...

Lady Mary Wroth: Between 1630 and 1643

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Author event in Lady Mary Wroth

Between 1630 and 1643

LMW moved from Loughton to nearby Woodford.
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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Dorothy White: About 1630

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Author event in Dorothy White

About 1630

DW was born, probably at Weymouth in Dorset.
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.

Anne Wentworth: 1629/30

Women writers item
Author event in Anne Wentworth

1629/30

The future AW was probably born in Lincolnshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Isham: 1630

Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Isham

1630

The year that EI turned twenty-one, as she wrote in her diary, now my father thought to marry me.
Isham, Elizabeth. “Diary”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham, 5 Apr. 2011.
1630

Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln: Probably 1630

Women writers item

Probably 1630

Elizabeth, Countess of Lincoln , died; she was in her fifties.
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1630: John Sibthrope, a British inventor, patented...

Building item

1630

John Sibthrope , a British inventor, patented a heating range, with a stove top heated by an enclosed, wood-burning fire.
Panati, Charles. Panati’s Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things. Perennial Library, 1987.
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By 1630: Scottish book-collector, letter-writer, and...

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By 1630

Scottish book-collector, letter-writer, and possibly poet Lilias Grant had a catalogue compiled of her library of twenty-eight mostly pious books, including The Mothers Blessing by Dorothy Leigh (first published in 1616).
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.

Diana Primrose: : 15 January 1630

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Author event in Diana Primrose:

15 January 1630

The only known work by the unidentified DP , A Chaine of Pearle; or, a Memorial of . . . Queen Elizabeth (a sequence of ten poems) was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it...

Joan Whitrow: February 1630

Women writers item
Author event in Joan Whitrow

February 1630

A baby named Joan Robinson who was baptised at the church of St Botolph-without-Aldgate in London this month may have been the future JW . This date fits approximately with what her epitaph said of...

Anne Bradstreet: 23 March-12 June 1630

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Author event in Anne Bradstreet

23 March-12 June 1630

AB , her parents, and husband , were at sea aboard the ship Arbella, crossing from Southampton in England to Salem in the infant colony of Massachusetts.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Eleanor Douglas: May 1630

Women writers item
Author event in Lady Eleanor Douglas

May 1630

Sir Archibald Douglas , LED 's second husband, made a threatening appearance at Englefield (the estate of her first husband, which she and her son-in-law's family were disputing for).
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: 3 June 1630

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Author event in Lady Anne Clifford

3 June 1630

LAC married her second husband, Lady Pembroke 's second son, Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery , Lord Chamberlain to Charles I .
Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997.
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