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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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3 November 1640: The Long Parliament was reluctantly convened...

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3 November 1640

The Long Parliament was reluctantly convened in London by Charles I : it included a majority of Puritans, and set about reforms such as abolishing the Court of the Star Chamber , which, among other...

9 November 1640: In a season during which John Pym and the...

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9 November 1640

In a season during which John Pym and the Long Parliament created the laws and institutions which were to guide the early parliamentarian regime, a committee was set up to consider the issue of recusants.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
105-6

Lady Mary Wroth: By December 1640

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By December 1640

It seems that LMW 's illegitimate son had received from Charles Ia brave livinge in Ireland.
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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Aphra Behn: 14 December 1640

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14 December 1640

Eaffrey Johnson, born this day at Harbledown near Canterbury, was probably (not certainly) AB .
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
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18 December 1640: William Laud, Charles I's unpopular High...

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18 December 1640

William Laud , Charles I 's unpopular High Church Archbishop of Canterbury, was arrested and charged with high treason. He was sent to the Tower of London in spring 1641.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
99, 373-4

Anne Audland: 1641

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1641

Anne Newby (later AA ) was sent to school in London, where she lived with an aunt.
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.

Susan Du Verger: : 1641

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1641

SDV published a second translation: another novel from the same French writer, John Peter or Jean-Pierre Camus : Diotrephe, or, An Historie of Valentines.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Hosington, Brenda. “Susan du Verger’s English Translation of Camus’s Surprising Diotrephe: Histoire Valentine”. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, 10 Jan. 2014.

Madeleine de Scudéry: 1641

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Author event in Madeleine de Scudéry

1641

MS published at Paris, under her brother 's name, Ibrahim; ou, L'illustre Bassa.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
McDougall, Dorothy. Madeleine de Scudéry. Benjamin Blom, 1972.
40, 311

Anna Maria van Schurman: 1641

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1641

Johan van Beverwyck edited AMS 's treatise Dissertatio, de ingenii muliebris ad doctrinam and published it at Paris
Irwin, Joyce L. “Anna Maria van Schurman: The Star of Utrecht (Dutch, 1607-1678)”. Female Scholars: A Tradition of Learned Women Before 1800, edited by Jeanie R. Brink, Eden Press, 1980, pp. 68-85.
72
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

1641: Judicial torture, hitherto commonly exercised,...

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1641

Judicial torture, hitherto commonly exercised, as a Crown prerogative, in state trials in England, was virtually banned by statute.
Sedley, Stephen. “Wringing out the Fault”. London Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2002, pp. 27-31.
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1641: Pierre Corneille published his classical...

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1641

Pierre Corneille published his classical tragedy Horace, which had been first performed the previous year.
Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books, 1990–1993, 3 vols.
3: 119

1641: In a year of a raging bull market for popish...

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1641

In a year of a raging bull market for popish plots
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
108
several women were among those who took an oath (required by Parliament of all citizens) to support the true religion.
Crawford, Patricia. “Public Duty, Conscience, and Women in Early Modern England”. Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England, edited by John Morrill et al., Clarendon Press, 1993, pp. 57-76.
65-6

1641: The first pamphlet appeared on the subject...

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1641

The first pamphlet appeared on the subject of Mother Shipton, a Yorkshirewoman credited with magic powers including divination.
Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.
43-5 and n53

12 May 1641: Charles I's favourite, the Earl of Strafford,...

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12 May 1641

Charles I 's favourite, the Earl of Strafford , was executed on Tower Hill, London.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
17
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
100
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
89, 117

By 31 May 1641: Milton entered (anonymously) the ideological...

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By 31 May 1641

Milton entered (anonymously) the ideological battle surrounding episcopacy (government of the Church of England by bishops) with the first of his five anti-prelatical pamphlets, Of Reformation touching Church Discipline in England.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Milton

Margaret Cavendish: June 1641

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June 1641

For the first time an anti-royalist mob attacked St John's , just outside Colchester, childhood home of Margaret Lucas (later Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle) .
Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Bloomsbury, 1988.
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Katherine Chidley: After 6 June 1641

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After 6 June 1641

KC published her first attack on Thomas Edwards : The Justification of the Independant Churches of Christ.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
152
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

By 6 June 1641: Thomas Edwards inveighed against the women...

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By 6 June 1641

Thomas Edwards inveighed against the women preachers of the dissenting sects in Reasons against the Independent Government of Particular Congregations.
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.
17
, No. 2, 1998, pp. 213-33.
216

Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick: 21 July 1641

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21 July 1641

Mary Boyle (later Countess of Warwick) married the man of her choice, Charles Rich —privately, to avoid display.
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.

Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater: 22 July 1641

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22 July 1641

Lady Elizabeth Cavendish married, at St James's, Clerkenwell, John Egerton, styled Viscount Brackley , who in 1649 became second Earl of Bridgewater.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under John Egerton

Elizabeth Shirley: 1 September 1641

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1 September 1641

ES died in her convent of St Monica's at Louvain in what is now Belgium: she was said to be seventy-five (in the 76th year of her age)
qtd. in
Shirley, Evelyn Philip. Stemmata Shirleiana. 2nd ed., Nichols and Sons, 1873.
81
at her death.
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Lucy Hutchinson: October 1641

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October 1641

A month after one of their small sons died, LH and her husband moved from the Blue House at Enfield in Middlesex (where they had settled because she was ill) to his family estate at...

October 1641: London parish churches had their stained...

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October 1641

London parish churches had their stained glass destroyed as a wave of iconoclasm swept the country.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
203

23 October 1641: Many Protestants (but perhaps not so many...

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23 October 1641

Many Protestants (but perhaps not so many as reported) were killed in a Rebellion or massacre in Ulster.
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
99, 107
Morrill, John. “The Stuarts (1603-1688)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 286-51.
314
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
109, 114

Elizabeth Warren: 27 October 1641

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27 October 1641

A woman named EW , perhaps the religious writer of that name, was married at Woodbridge in Suffolk to John Mace .
“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/.