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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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Sarah Davy, 1639 - 1670: About 1639

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About 1639

SD was born, according to her title-page, which says she died in about the 32 Year of her Age, i.e. while she was still thirty-one.
Davy, Sarah, 1639 - 1670. Heaven Realiz’d. A. P., 1670.
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Susan Du Verger: : 1639

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A version by Susan Du Verger , translator and literary critic, from the French fiction of Jean-Pierre, or John Peter, Camus was published as Admirable Events, Together with Morall Relations, dedicated to Queen Henrietta Maria

Lucy Hutchinson: 1639-1653

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1639-1653

LH translated into English verse all six books of Lucretius , De rerum natura.
Editor David Norbrook believes that the translation dates from the 1650s.
Hutchinson, Lucy. “Introduction, Chronology”. Order and Disorder, edited by David Norbrook, Blackwell, 2001, p. i - lviii.
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Lucretius,. Lucy Hutchinson’s Translation of Lucretius, "De rerum natura". Editor De Quehen, Hugh, Translator Hutchinson, Lucy, University of Michigan Press, 1996.

27 March-June 1639: Charles I made war on the Scottish Covenanters,...

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27 March-June 1639

Charles I made war on the ScottishCovenanters , or adherents of Presbyterianism .
Fissel, Mark Charles. The Bishops’ Wars: Charles I’s campaigns against Scotland, 1638-1640. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Hibbard, Caroline. Charles I and the Popish Plot. University of North Carolina Press, 1983.
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Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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Mary Ward: Later May 1639

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Later May 1639

After spending some time in Paris and then Liège, MW sailed to England, where she intended only a visit: she stayed three years in London.
Biographer Jennifer Cameron says that she had been...

Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland: 20 July 1639

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20 July 1639

Dorothy Sidney married Henry Spencer, first Earl of Sunderland , at Penshurst; she thus became DSCS . The marriage lasted only four years before her husband's death.
Ady, Julia Cartwright. Sacharissa. 3rd ed., Seeley, 1901.
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Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick: 12 August 1639

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12 August 1639

Mary Boyle (later Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick) caused a family row by refusing to marry the immensely rich young man her father had picked out four years earlier.
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Gertrude Thimelby: After 13 August 1639

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After 13 August 1639

Gertrude Aston (later GT ) wrote a hyperbolical elegy on her father 's death.
Thimelby, Gertrude. Tixall Poetry. Editor Clifford, Arthur, J. Ballantyne, 1813.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick: Autumn 1639

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Autumn 1639

The father of Mary Boyle (later Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick) moved his unmarried children from Stalbridge in Dorset to London.
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Lucy Hutchinson: 3 September 1639

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3 September 1639

LH , living with her husband at Enfield in Middlesex and having already, in her first pregnancy, suffered a double miscarriage, bore twin sons, Thomas and Edward, whom she carried successfully to term.
Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press, 1973.
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Hutchinson, Lucy. “Introduction, Chronology”. Order and Disorder, edited by David Norbrook, Blackwell, 2001, p. i - lviii.
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Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: October 1639

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October 1639

Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland , died of tuberculosis, in the Catholic religion, and in her daughter's words without any agony quietly as a child, being wholly spent by her disease.
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 Isham: November 1639

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November 1639

EI , aged about thirty, completed her confessions, apparently the fair copy of My Booke of Rememberance, a memoir with generous admixture of religious meditation and prayer, which she had been writing since the previous year.
Clarke, Elizabeth. “Constructing Elizabeth Isham”. Warwick: Arts: Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, 5 Apr. 2011.

Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick: 1640

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1640

Mary Boyle (later Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick) fell in love with an unacceptable suitor: Charles Rich , second son of the Earl of Warwick .
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Marie-Catherine de Villedieu: Probably 1640

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Probably 1640

Marie-Catherine Desjardins (who later called herself MCV ) was born, perhaps in Paris, the middle one of three children in her family.
Her exact birthdate is unknown. A document giving her age as forty-five...

Jane Sharp: By about 1640 to at least 1671

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By about 1640 to at least 1671

JS practised as a midwife; she had been in practice for above thirty years when she published her book.
Sharp, Jane. The Midwives Book. Editor Hobby, Elaine, Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Judith Man: 1640

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1640

JM , probably not yet twenty, published as A Yong GentlewomanAn Epitome of the History of Faire Argenis and Polyarchus, that is an abridgement of John Barclay 's Latin novel Argenis, 1621.
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.

Elizabeth Melvill: In or after 1640

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In or after 1640

EM 's date of death seems to be unrecorded, but it must have been after 1639, and is assigned to this year by the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Elizabeth Melville
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1640: Wenceslaus Hollar published a book of prints...

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1640

Wenceslaus Hollar published a book of prints surveying women's dress: Ornatus muliebris Anglicanus, or the severall habits of English women, from the nobilitie to the contry [sic] woman, as they are in these times.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2025, Numbered catalogues.
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By 1640: About 300 editions of Sternhold and Hopkins's...

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By 1640

About 300 editions of Sternhold and Hopkins 's English verse psalms had been published.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

19 February 1640: LXXX Sermons by John Donne was posthumously...

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19 February 1640

LXXX Sermons by John Donne was posthumously published; it included the earliest printed text of Izaak Walton 's biography of him.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

13 April 1640: The Short Parliament began sitting; it lasted...

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13 April 1640

The Short Parliament began sitting; it lasted less than a month.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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5 May 1640: The Short Parliament was unhappily disso...

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5 May 1640

The Short Parliament was unhappily dissolved.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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Lady Mary Wroth: 31 May 1640

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31 May 1640

The Earl of Rutland , reading Urania, wrote to ask LMW for a key to names of the characters, to increase his enjoyment.
Wroth, Lady Mary. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth. Editor Roberts, Josephine A., Louisiana State University Press, 1983, http://BLC.
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20 August 1640: The Scots (provoked by Charles I's imposition...

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20 August 1640

The Scots (provoked by Charles I 's imposition of the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer on the Scottish Presbyterian Church in 1637) invaded England, and for the second time in eighteen months their monarch marched...

Bathsua Makin: For probably ten years from late 1640

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For probably ten years from late 1640

BM was tutress (that is, a female tutor, not a mere governess) to Princess Elizabeth , youngest daughter of Charles I .
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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