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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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Hannah Allen: Perhaps by 10 November 1632

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Perhaps by 10 November 1632

Hannah Archer (later HA ) was born before this if, as is quite possible, she is the Ann Archer christened this day at Crich in Derbyshire.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Martha Moulsworth: 10 November 1632

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10 November 1632

On her fifty-fifth birthday, MM sought to make sense of her life-story by writing it into a poem: The Memorandum of MM , Widdowe.
Moulsworth, Martha. "My Name Was Martha". Editors Evans, Robert C. and Barbara Wiedemann, Locust Hill, 1993.
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Mary More: 1633

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1633

Mary Tyther, later MM , was born to parents living in Bread Street, in the City of London.
Makin, Bathsua et al. Educating English Daughters. Editors Teague, Frances et al., Iter Academic Press; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016.
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1633: Dramatist John Ford published a particularly...

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1633

Dramatist John Ford published a particularly violent and disturbing tragedy entitled 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1633: John Donne's Poems were posthumously published...

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1633

John Donne 's Poems were posthumously published with his initials.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Alice Sutcliffe : 30 January 1633

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30 January 1633

AS 's Meditations of Man's Mortality, or, A Way to True Blessednesse was entered in the Stationers' Register. Its first edition, of which no copy survives, may have appeared that year or the next.
“Women Writers Online”. Women Writers Project, 1999.
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After early March 1633: George Herbert's volume of devotional poems,...

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After early March 1633

George Herbert 's volume of devotional poems, The Temple, was posthumously published following his death on 1 March this year.
Herbert, George. The Temple. Scolar Press, 1968.
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Lady Jane Cavendish: 21 May 1633

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21 May 1633

The then Earl of Newcastle offered hospitality at Welbeck to Charles I on his journey north to be crowned King of Scotland: probably the first taste of court life for the children Lady Jane and...

Lady Eleanor Douglas: Later 1633

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Later 1633

LED published three tracts at Amsterdam, having travelled there expressly to do so.
Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press, 1995.
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22 June 1633: A committee of the Holy Office of the Inquisition...

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22 June 1633

A committee of the Holy Office of the Inquisition passed judgement of heresy on Galileo 's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican (published in February 1632).
Sobel, Dava. Galileo’s Daughter. Viking, 1999.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
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Lady Eleanor Douglas: 26 June 1633

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26 June 1633

LED and her husband were granted a pass to travel to Holland. They claimed that the journey was for the good of his health, but another attraction was that the Low Countries lacked England's...

Margaret Hoby: 4 September 1633

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4 September 1633

Margaret, Lady Hoby , died at Hackness in Yorkshire at the age of sixty-two.
Hoby, Margaret. The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady: The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, 1599-1605. Editor Moody, Joanna, Sutton, 1998.
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Hoby, Margaret. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady: The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, 1599-1605, edited by Joanna Moody, Sutton, 1998, p. xv - lvii.
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Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: Early September 1633

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Early September 1633

Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland 's husband broke his leg in several places; she rushed to his bedside and nursed him devotedly till he died, at Theobald's Park in Hertfordshire.
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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Lady Eleanor Douglas: 23 October 1633

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23 October 1633

LED 's Amsterdam publications (one of which was believed to threaten the king 's life) were publicly burned.
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: 1634

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1634

AB gave birth to the first of her children, with seven more labours over the next eighteen years. The other major event of the year was her father becoming the Governor of Massachusetts.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
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Alice Thornton: 1634

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1634

The child Alice Wandesford (later AT ) was taken to Ireland in connection with her father 's career.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
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Alice Sutcliffe : 1634

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1634

Meditations of Man's Mortality, or, A Way to True Blessednesse by Mrs. Alice Sutcliffe wife of John Sutcliffe Esquire, Groome of his Majesties most Honourable Privie Chamber was published by Henry Seyle of London in...

Elizabeth Stirredge: 1634

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1634

Elizabeth Tayler or Taylor (later ES ) was born at Thornbury in Gloucestershire.
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.

Hester Shaw: 1634

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1634

In the same year that man-midwife Peter Chamberlen sought to form a corporation of midwives under his own control, HS and a colleague, Mrs Whipp, headed a deputation to present a petition against him.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jane Owen: 1634

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1634

JO had died at some time within the last nine years when her work Antidote against Purgatory was published with her name: almost certainly in Continental Europe, perhaps by the English College Press at St...

1634: Peter Chamberlen (perhaps the third of that...

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1634

Peter Chamberlen (perhaps the third of that name) attempted to form a corporation of midwives with himself as governor; he did not succeed.
Dingwall, Robert et al. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing. Routledge, 1988.
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Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth Century England. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984.
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1634: Charles I granted a warrant to Sir Saunders...

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1634

Charles I granted a warrant to Sir Saunders Duncombe to construct and hire out sedan chairs in London and Westminster.
Jones, Thomas, editor. “Short Cuts”. London Review of Books, 8 Aug. 2002, p. 20.
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Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette: Before 18 March 1634

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Before 18 March 1634

MML was born in the parish of Saint-Sulpice in Paris; she was baptised on this day.
Haig, Stirling. Madame de Lafayette. Twayne, 1970.
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July 1634: William Cavendish, Earl (later Duke) of Newcastle,...

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July 1634

William Cavendish, Earl (later Duke) of Newcastle , gave a masque at one of his Nottinghamshire estates for Queen Henrietta Maria : Love's Welcome at Bolsover.
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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23 August 1634: The orphan heiress Sarah Coxe was forced...

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23 August 1634

The orphan heiress Sarah Coxe was forced at sword-point into a coach, and carried to a house with a private chapel where Roger Fulwood married her.
Schwarz, Joan I. “Eighteenth-Century Abduction Law and Clarissa”. Clarissa and Her Readers, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 269-08.
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