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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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29 September 1634: Milton's masque later known as Comus was...

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29 September 1634

Milton 's masque later known as Comus was performed at Ludlow Castle with music by Henry Lawes , to mark the installation of Lord Bridgewater as Lord President of Wales.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Milton

Brilliana, Lady Harley: By 26 October 1634

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By 26 October 1634

Brilliana, Lady Harley , bore the youngest of her seven children, her daughter Elizabeth, who was christened on this date.
Lewis, Thomas Taylor, and Brilliana, Lady Harley. “Introduction”. Letters of the Lady Brilliana Harley, Camden Society, 1854, p. v - xxix.
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Probably late 1634: Francis Quarles published his Emblemes (bearing...

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Probably late 1634

Francis Quarles published his Emblemes (bearing the next year's date), which remains the best-known of the English emblem books.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: About 1635

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About 1635

Elizabeth Cary Falkland wrote her single original work of controversial theology: an answer to an anti-Catholic polemic by her eldest son, Lucius , who in turn was replying to the Catholic convert Walter Montagu ...

1635: The first national postal service was established,...

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1635

The first national postal service was established, running between London and Edinburgh.
Warren, Michael. “A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain: 1066 - 1999”. Michael Warren’s Chronology, 6 Jan. 2003.

1635: Sarah Jerom was the only woman among the...

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1635

Sarah Jerom was the only woman among the holders of the first one hundred patents: for a machine that sliced timber (English patent number 87).
Vare, Ethlie Ann, and Greg Ptacek. Patently Female. John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
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Elizabeth Richardson: After February 1635

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After February 1635

After the death of her second husband , Elizabeth Richardson (Lady Cramond) began writing prayers for each day of the week.
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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Elizabeth Richardson: 4 February 1635

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4 February 1635

Sir Thomas Richardson (second husband of ER ) died, leaving her for the second time a widow.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Thomas Richardson

Bathsua Makin: 4 April 1635

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4 April 1635

When BM 's father died he left her his large library of books.
Brink, Jeanie R. “Bathsua Reginald Makin: ’Most Learned Matron’”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
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, 1991, pp. 313-26.
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Teague, Frances. Bathsua Makin, Woman of Learning. Bucknell University Press, 1998.
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Winefrid Thimelby: 30 September 1635

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30 September 1635

WT , in her teens, was professed as a nun, with the English Augustinian Canonesses at St Monica's at Louvain in Belgium.
Latz says she was fifteen, though this conflicts with the birthdate which...

16 November 1635: The Stationers' Company ruled that journeymen...

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16 November 1635

The Stationers' Company ruled that journeymen were to remove paper from the printing press themselves, and not use girls and boys to do it.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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8 December 1635: Queen Henrietta Maria's personal Roman Catholic...

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8 December 1635

Queen Henrietta Maria 's personal Roman Catholic chapel, designed by Inigo Jones , opened on the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary .
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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Lady Eleanor Douglas: 1636

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1636

LED wrote a verse tract which she did not publish: Bathe Daughter of BabyLondon.
Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Lady Eleanor Douglas: January 1636

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January 1636

LED wrote a Spirituall Antheme, now in the Public Record Office (State Papers Domestic).
Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press, 1995.
73-4

1636: England experienced another outbreak of the...

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1636

England experienced another outbreak of the bubonic plague: this time 10,500 died in London and 5,500 in the northern area of Tyneside.
Hill, Christopher. The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714. Sphere Books, 1969.
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1636: Charles I set up the New Incorporation of...

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1636

Charles I set up the New Incorporation of Westminster, giving autonomy and status to the court suburb of Westminster to balance that of the City Corporation (of London).
Saint, Andrew. “Aldermanic Depression”. London Review of Books, 4 Feb. 1999, pp. 19-21.
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1636: Santorio Santorio, inventor of a device for...

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1636

Santorio Santorio , inventor of a device for measuring temperature of humans, died in Poland.
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: April 1636

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April 1636

Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland , arranged the abduction her two youngest sons, Henry and Patrick , at their own wish, from Great Tew to travel to Europe and be educated as Catholics .
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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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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Lady Eleanor Douglas: Late in 1636

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Late in 1636

LED sat on the bishop's throne in Lichfield Cathedral, and defiled the high altar.
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
83-4, 92

October 1636: The Scottish Privy Council was ordered to...

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October 1636

The Scottish Privy Council was ordered to issue a proclamation compelling the Scottish Kirk to use the new (Anglican ) Scottish Prayer Book designed by Laud .
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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Anne, Lady Southwell : 2 October 1636

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2 October 1636

ALS died at her home in Acton, aged sixty-two, leaving her second husband to mourn her.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

28 October 1636: Harvard College was founded in Cambridge,...

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28 October 1636

Harvard College was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
Channing, Edward. A History of the United States. Macmillan, 1905–1932, 6 vols.
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Elizabeth Isham: 1 November 1636

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1 November 1636

EI 's sister Judith, who had been subject to ill-health for years, often on the brink of death, died on All Saints' Day: a heavy blow to Elizabeth.
Isham, Elizabeth. “Diary”. Constructing Elizabeth Isham, 5 Apr. 2011.
1636

Mary Fage: 1637

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1637

MF published, with her own name, Fames Roule, an extraordinary work providing anagrams and acrostics on the names of all the leading people in England, beginning with the king and queen , set into...

Catherine Holland: 1637

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1637

CH was born, one of eleven children.
Durrant, Catherine S. A Link between Flemish Mystics and English Martyrs. Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 1925.
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