McDougall, Dorothy. Madeleine de Scudéry. Benjamin Blom, 1972.
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Madeleine de Scudéry: January 1649-1653
Writing climate item
Author event in Madeleine de Scudéry
January 1649-1653
published at Paris (under her
's name and in successive volumes) her most famous romance, Artamène; ou, Le grand Cyrus.
Mary Penington: 1649
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Penington
1649
As M. P., a Member of the Body, a woman published The Mystery of the Deity in the Humanity; or, The Mystery of God in Man, Shewing the Threefold State: a manuscript note...
By the late 1640s: Caribbean sugar production became established...
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By the late 1640s
Caribbean sugar production became established among the colonists on the island of Barbados. An upper-class luxury hitherto imported from Palestine and Syria now became a popular commodity in Britain, and an engine driving...
5 January 1649: An English widow named Johanna Cartwright,...
Women writers item
5 January 1649
An English widow named
, resident in Amsterdam with her son
, presented to General
a pamphlet whose lengthy title begins The Petition of the Jewes.
Lady Eleanor Douglas: From January 1649
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Eleanor Douglas
From January 1649
seems to have marked
's trial by a series of tracts.
27 January 1649: Ann or Anne Fairfax (wife of the former parliamentary...
National or international item
27 January 1649
(wife of the former parliamentary commander
) made her second verbal intervention in the trial of
.
Lucy Hutchinson: January 1649- February 1651
National or international item
Author event in Lucy Hutchinson
January 1649- February 1651
As a member of the Council of State (instituted after the
's death as chief executive body)
found himself with power over his old opposites and enemies of . . . the...
30 January 1649: Charles I, called to trial on 19 January...
National or international item
30 January 1649
, called to trial on 19 January and sentenced on 27 January, was executed. A Commonwealth was declared; but to many the king became a martyr.
Anne Halkett: Some time in 1649
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Halkett
Some time in 1649
Editor
believes that Anne Murray (later
) actually married Col.
, most probably in the Netherlands.
13 February 1649: Following the king's execution, Milton published...
Writing climate item
13 February 1649
Following the
's execution,
published The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, a pamphlet designed to enforce the general point that a tyrant may be lawfully got rid of.
The pamphlet collector
14 February 1649-29 April 1653: The Rump Parliament, the remaining fragment...
National or international item
14 February 1649-29 April 1653
The Rump Parliament, the remaining fragment of the purged Long Parliament, governed Britain.
John Milton: 15 March 1649
Writing climate item
Author event in John Milton
15 March 1649
was appointed Latin secretary to the Protectorate. From now until the Restoration he was a government servant.
16 March 1649: Jean de Brebeuf was captured by Iroquois...
National or international item
16 March 1649
was captured by Iroquois and murdered at St-Ignace, Huronia (in what would become Ontario, Canada).
Mary Cary: 13 April 1649
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Cary
13 April 1649
A tract entitled The Account Audited attacked
for lack of learning, and alleged flaws in her Resurrection of the Witnesses.
Katherine Chidley: 23 April 1649
Women writers item
Author event in Katherine Chidley
23 April 1649
may have been one of the
women who petitioned
for the release of
; she may also have been the chief writer of the petition.
23 April 1649: London women brought the Petition of divers...
23 April 1649
London women brought the Petition of divers wel-affected women before the
demanding the release of
and other
.
This has been called one of...
1 May 1649: Following the imprisonment of John Lilburne...
National or international item
1 May 1649
Following the imprisonment of
and others, the
issued An Agreement of the Free People of England, which
later judged their most important text.
5 May 1649: Women calling themselves female Leveller...
Women writers item
5 May 1649
Women calling themselves female
petitioners protested to
about the continued imprisonment of their husbands: this action had been well prepared for.
May 1649: Alexander Ross anonymously produced the earliest...
Writing climate item
May 1649
anonymously produced the earliest English version of the Koran, from the French translation which had appeared the same year.
17 May 1649: John Evelyn went up the Thames to Putney...
Writing climate item
17 May 1649
went up the Thames to Putney with a mostly female party to see the Schooles or Colledges of the young gentlewomen.
A suspected connection with
has not been demonstrated.
Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater: June 1649
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater
June 1649
, composed a prose prayer for her
's twenty-seventh birthday.
Katherine Philips: By June 1649
Women writers item
Author event in Katherine Philips
By June 1649
settled with her
at his house, the Priory, in Cardigan.
21 June 1649: Richard Lovelace published Lucasta; Epodes,...
Writing climate item
21 June 1649
published Lucasta; Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c.
Lady Eleanor Douglas: After 24 June 1649
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Eleanor Douglas
After 24 June 1649
marked the death from smallpox of her elder grandson with Sions Lamentation,
, His Funerals Blessing.
This was the young man whose death
lamented with extravagant hyperbole in his...
Lady Anne Clifford: 11 July 1649
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Anne Clifford
11 July 1649
ceremonially left London and travelled north to live in her castles in the Yorkshire and Westmorland hills.