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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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22 November 1641: Late at night John Pym's demand, the Grand...

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22 November 1641

Late at night John Pym 's demand, the Grand Remonstrance, passed through Parliament .
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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Anne Bradstreet: 1642

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1642

In response to the looming English Civil War, AB wrote A Dialogue between Old England and New; concerning their present troubles.
Bradstreet, Anne, and Adrienne Rich. The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Editor Hensley, Jeannine, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.
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Ann, Lady Fanshawe: 1642

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1642

The family of Ann Harrison (later ALF ) fell into comparative poverty, owing to her father's having lent the immense sum of £50,000 to the king in November 1640.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Preface, Introduction, Select Bibliography”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, p. v - xxi.
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Fanshawe, Ann, Lady et al. “The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis and John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 101-92.
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Elizabeth Freke: 1 January 1642

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1 January 1642

EF was born at Westminster, eldest of five surviving daughters and reputedly her father's favourite.
Historian Margaret George numbers the surviving daughters as four, but five outlived the mother, according to her memorial stone.
Freke, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke, 1671-1714, edited by Raymond A. Anselment, Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2001, pp. 1-36.
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Freke, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke, 1671-1714, edited by Raymond A. Anselment, Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2001, pp. 1-36.
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George, Margaret. Women in the First Capitalist Society. University of Illinois Press, 1988.
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Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick: Between 1642 and September 1643

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Between 1642 and September 1643

Mary Rich (later Countess of Warwick) had two children; coming from a huge family herself, she felt two was enough.
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Madeleine de Scudéry: 1642

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1642

MS published at Paris, under her brother 's name, Les femmes illustres; ou, Les harangues héroïques, a collection of speeches ascribed to heroines of the past.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
McDougall, Dorothy. Madeleine de Scudéry. Benjamin Blom, 1972.
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Mary Penington: January 1642

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January 1642

Drawn together by their common religious quest, Mary Proude (later MP ) and Sir William Springett , a young parliamentarian and nephew to her guardian, were married.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

January 1642: A tract entitled No Pamphlet, but a Detestation...

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January 1642

A tract entitled No Pamphlet, but a Detestation against all such Pamphlets as are printed, concerning the Irish Rebellion alleged that the atrocity stories electrifying the press were untrue.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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1642: Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici (A Physician's...

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1642

Sir Thomas Browne 's Religio Medici (A Physician's Faith) was most imperfectly and surreptitiously printed (in the words of the title-page of next year's authorised edition).
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

4 January 1642: Charles I entered the House of Commons with...

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4 January 1642

Charles I entered the House of Commons with the intention of arresting the five men he regarded as opposition ringleaders, including Pym and Hampden ; the result was a public-relations defeat for the monarchy.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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8 January 1642: The scientist Galileo died, blind and still...

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8 January 1642

The scientist Galileo died, blind and still under the ban of the Inquisition ; Isaac Newton , who inherited his mantle as leading light in the field of science, was born on Christmas Day of...

Mary Carleton: 11 January 1642

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11 January 1642

The Newgate Calendar categorically assigned MC 's birth to this date and to Canterbury in Kent; she herself equivocated about the date and gave the place as a different cathedral city: Cologne in Germany.
“The Complete Newgate Calendar”. University of Texas at Austin: Tarlton Law Library: Law in Popular Culture Collection: E-texts.
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Suzuki, Mihoko. “The Case of Madam Mary Carleton: Representing the Female Subject, 1663-73”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 1 Mar.–31 May 1993, pp. 61-83.
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Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
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24 January 1642: The earliest dated of the weekly newsbooks...

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24 January 1642

The earliest dated of the weekly newsbooks listed in the English Short Title Catalogue is the issue for the twentyfourth of January to the last, 1641 [sic], of A Perfect Diurnall of the Passages in...

1 February 1642: London women petitioned the House of Commons...

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1 February 1642

London women petitioned the House of Commons for peace; a second petition followed three days later.
McArthur, Ellen A. “Women, Petitions and the Long Parliament”. English Historical Review, Vol.
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, 1909, p. 698.
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Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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Macaulay's biographer Bridget Hill mistakenly dates this petition 1641.

23 February 1642: Queen Henrietta Maria parted from her husband,...

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23 February 1642

Queen Henrietta Maria parted from her husband, Charles I , and sailed from England to Holland, probably because her unpopularity was one of the problems he faced at home.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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Mary Ward: 1 May 1642

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1 May 1642

The prospect of English civil war caused MW , Winefrid Wigmore , and Mary Poyntz to drop their plans for setting up schools in London, and set out to travel to Yorkshire.
Yorkshire was...

John Milton: June 1642

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June 1642

JM married seventeen-year-old Mary Powell , after visiting her father at Forest Hill, Oxfordshire, in pursuit of a debt owed to his own father.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Brilliana, Lady Harley: 4 June 1642

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4 June 1642

Brilliana, Lady Harley , for the first time reported political unrest close to home: a maypole (seen by Puritans as idolatrous) was set up at Ludlow with a thinge like a head upon it, which...

Brilliana, Lady Harley: 20 June 1642

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20 June 1642

Brilliana, Lady Harley , used to her son Ned the image (current from classical times, and for generations to come) of letter-writing as conversation: how glad I am to have this paper discours with you.
Harley, Brilliana, Lady. Letters of the Lady Brilliana Harley. Editor Lewis, Thomas Taylor, Camden Society, 1854.
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Brilliana, Lady Harley: Early August 1642

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Early August 1642

Brilliana, Lady Harley , was visited by Sir William Croft , a local royalist leader, who addressed her almost as an opposing commander on account of her father, brother, and husband, and as a woman...

Catherine Holland: Later 1642-1657

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Later 1642-1657

CH grew up in the Low Countries, where her father had sent his family because of the English Civil War.
Durrant, Catherine S. A Link between Flemish Mystics and English Martyrs. Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 1925.
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Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1997.
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5 August 1642: Sir John Denham published his topographical...

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5 August 1642

Sir John Denham published his topographical poem Cooper's Hill.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Brilliana, Lady Harley: 18 August 1642

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18 August 1642

BLH , in straits with a bill for repairing the roof of her castle and with royalist tenants withholding their rent for ideological reasons, wrote to her friend Mrs Ann Walcot to ask for a...

20 August 1642: Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham...

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20 August 1642

Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham with the intention of reducing his rebellious people to subjection: thus began the English Civil War.
Marriott, Sir John A. R. Oxford, Its Place in National History. Clarendon, 1933.
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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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Margaret Cavendish: 21 August 1642

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21 August 1642

An anti-royalist mob comprehensively looted and vandalised St John's , just outside Colchester, home of the Lucas family (including the future 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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