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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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15 August 1649: English troops under Oliver Cromwell landed...

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15 August 1649

English troops under Oliver Cromwell landed at Ringsend outside Dublin with the aim of putting down the rebellion which had lasted in Ireland from October 1641.
Bennett, Ronan. “Warts and all”. Guardian Weekly, 10 Oct. 2008, p. 38.
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Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
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Elizabeth Warren: 18 August 1649

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Author event in Elizabeth Warren

18 August 1649

EW received the state imprimatur for A Warning-Peece from Heaven, Against the Sins of the Times, a handsome pamphlet with a decorative, architectural title-page, prophesying divine vengeance for executing Charles I .
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Warren, Elizabeth. A Warning-Peece. Henry Shepheard, 1649.
title-page, 54

Anne Halkett: September 1649-early 1650

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Author event in Anne Halkett

September 1649-early 1650

Anne Murray (later AH ) spent a strained visit with Sir Charles Howard and his wife Anne at Naworth Castle at Brampton in Cumberland, close to the Scottish border.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 3-7.
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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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11 September 1649: Irish Catholics were massacred by Cromwell's...

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11 September 1649

Irish Catholics were massacred by Cromwell 's army after they captured the town of Drogheda in Ireland from royalist Sir Arthur Aston.
Morrill, John. “The Stuarts (1603-1688)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 286-51.
314, 326
Worden, Blair. “Cromwellian England 1649-1660”. Stuart England, edited by Blair Worden, Phaidon, 1986, pp. 123-47.
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Bennett, Ronan. “Warts and all”. Guardian Weekly, 10 Oct. 2008, p. 38.
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Lady Eleanor Douglas: December 1649

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Author event in Lady Eleanor Douglas

December 1649

In The Everlasting Gospel, LED looked back at the period of Charles I 's reign and her own prophetic career.
Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press, 1995.
285ff

Anne Audland: 1650

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Author event in Anne Audland

1650

Anne Newby married John Audland , a shopkeeper and later a fellow-Quaker.
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.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
145n45

Lady Anne Clifford: 1650-1676

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Author event in Lady Anne Clifford

1650-1676

In her ancestral north-country castles LAC busied herself with life-writing.
Clifford, Lady Anne. “Introduction / Annotations / Bibliography”. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619, edited by Katherine O. Acheson, Garland, 1995, pp. 1 - 37, 133.
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Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997.
160-80

Anna Trapnel: 1650

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1650

AT joined the Fifth Monarchist congregation at Allhallows the Great in Thames Street, London.
Trapnel, Anna. “Introduction”. The Cry of a Stone, edited by Hilary Hinds, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000, p. xiii - xlvii.
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Madeleine de Scudéry: From about 1650

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Author event in Madeleine de Scudéry

From about 1650

MS , a former habituée of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, initiated her own salon; she became known as one of the leading salonnières in the heyday of the institution.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.

Susanna Parr: 1650

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1650

Now or soon afterwards SP and her Independent congregation (among which she remained the only woman until a little after this) made overtures to Lewis Stucley to become their minister.
Parr, Susanna. Susanna’s Apologie against the Elders. 1659.
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By about 1650: Slave-holding plantations were established...

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By about 1650

Slave-holding plantations were established in the north as well as the south of the future USA: at Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island, New York.
Wilford, John Noble. “Digging Up Secrets of Northern Slaves”. Edmonton Journal, 12 Sept. 1999, p. B4.
B4

By about 1650: Italic handwriting had become popular in...

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By about 1650

Italic handwriting had become popular in England, especially with women, displacing the more upright roman script. Secretary hand , derived from gothic or blackletter and used in business and legal documents, was becoming old-fashioned.
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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1650: Henry Vaughan published his poetry volume...

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1650

Henry Vaughan published his poetry volume Silex Scintillans.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1650: The Polish astronomer Maria Cunitz, sometimes...

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1650

The Polish astronomer Maria Cunitz , sometimes called the second Hypatia, published her Urania Propitia, which builds on the work of Johannes Kepler .
Mulvihill, Margaret E. “Old Books / New Editions. Part III of III. New Work on Margaret Cavendish’s ‘The Blazing World’ (1666; 2016)”. Rare Book Hub, Dec. 2016.

1650: Parliament passed an Adultery Act, which...

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1650

Parliament passed an Adultery Act, which reflected Puritan views of the sanctity of marriage by making adultery a punishable offence.
Gillis, John R. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
84-5

1650: A coffee-house opened in Oxford at the sign...

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1650

A coffee-house opened in Oxford at the sign of the Angel, which was said to be the first in Europe; it was run by a Syrian.
Jakeman, Jane. “Cups that cheer”. Oxford Today, Vol.
13
, No. 2, 2001, p. 54.
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Hester Shaw: 4 January 1650

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4 January 1650

A fire caused a catastrophic explosion at a house in Tower Street, London, where gunpowder was illicitly stored. HS 's son and three grandchildren were among the sixty-seven who lost their lives.
Shaw, Hester. Death’s Master-peece. Francis Grove, 1650.

Hester Shaw: 18 January 1650

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18 January 1650

An anonymous pamphlet about the recent fire and explosion in Tower Street, London, on 4 January, Death's Master-peece, is attributed to HS by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Eleanor Douglas: 30 January 1650

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30 January 1650

LED commemorated the fatal anniversary of Charles I 's execution in The Bill of Excommunication.
Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press, 1995.
293ff

Catharine Colace Ross: 31 January 1650

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31 January 1650

Catharine Colace , still apparently very young, married a man named John Ross.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anne Conway: 11 February 1650

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11 February 1650

Anne Finch married Colonel Edward Conway , who in 1655 became third Viscount Conway.
The date was previously given, wrongly, as 1651.
Hutton, Sarah. Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992.
5-6, 14
Conway, Anne, and Henry More. “Introduction; Editorial Materials”. The Conway Letters, edited by Sarah Hutton et al., Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992, p. vii - xix; various pages.
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Anne Conway: By February 1650

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By February 1650

Anne Finch (later AC ) had begun her correspondence with Henry More : before this date he had sent her works by Descartes and by himself for her to read.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992.
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7 March 1650: Jeremy Taylor published The Rule and Exercises...

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7 March 1650

Jeremy Taylor published The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Anne Halkett: June 1650

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June 1650

Anne Murray (later AH ) arrived in Edinburgh to try to reclaim some of her mother's estates.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 3-7.
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Anne Bradstreet: 1 July 1650

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1 July 1650

AB 's brother-in-law the Rev. John Woodbridge , having travelled to London in 1647, entered her poems with the Stationers' Register . They appeared in print as The Tenth Muse on (according to George Thomason ) 5 July.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Bradstreet, Anne. “The Introduction”. The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet, edited by Joseph R., Jr McElrath and Allan P. Robb, Twayne, 1981, p. xi - xlii.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.