Walker, Anthony, and Elizabeth Walker. The Vertuous Wife: or, the Holy Life of Mrs. Elizabth Walker. J. Robinson, A. and J. Churchill, J. Taylor, and J. Wyat, 1694.
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Events Timeline
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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Elizabeth Walker : 23 July 1650
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Author event in Elizabeth Walker
23 July 1650
was married to the Rev.
at Hammersmith, on a day which threatened rain but on which the sun eventually broke through.
Lady Eleanor Douglas: By September 1650
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Author event in Lady Eleanor Douglas
By September 1650
was again in prison for debt, in what she calls the .
This, called the King's Bench during
's adult lifetime (though it was the Queen's Bench under Elizabeth I), had...
Lucy Cary: Some time before she died
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Author event in Lucy Cary
Some time before she died
In her Benedictine convent at Cambrai in Flanders,
(if not her sister
or her sister
) wrote an account of her mother, entitled The
: Her Life by One of Her Daughters.
Lady Eleanor Douglas: October 1650
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Author event in Lady Eleanor Douglas
October 1650
In Elijah the Tishbites Supplication,
associated herself with Elijah's crying for a sign from God.
Lucy Cary: 1 November 1650
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Lady Eleanor Douglas: From December 1650
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Author event in Lady Eleanor Douglas
From December 1650
crossed swords with
, leader of the
: she had dismissed him from her employ after a dispute about pay for his men.
Mary Carey: 8 December 1650
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8 December 1650
wrote, at Covent Garden, London, a poem on the death of my 4th, & only Child, Robert Payler.
14 December 1650: Anne Greene was hanged for felony. Once taken...
14 December 1650
Anne Greene was hanged for felony. Once taken down, her body (destined for the Anatomie lecture) was revived by
, a self-made Oxford physician and scientist.
Lady Eleanor Douglas: Midwinter 1650-51
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Author event in Lady Eleanor Douglas
Midwinter 1650-51
spent her last period of imprisonment—this time in the
—writing as usual.
Lady Eleanor Douglas: 25 Decembehr 1650-2 February 1651
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Author event in Lady Eleanor Douglas
25 Decembehr 1650-2 February 1651
Between Christmas and Candlemas (the dates which celebrated the Virgin Mary's giving birth and her purification),
composed The Restitution of Prophecy; That Buried Talent to be Revived.
Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy: 1651
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Author event in Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy
1651
Marie-Catherine Lejumel de Barneville (later
) was born at the Norman manor of Barneville in the canton of Honfleur in France.
Mary Cary: By 1651
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Lady Mary Wroth: 1651 or 1653
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Elizabeth Polwhele: In or after 1651
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Author event in Elizabeth Polwhele
In or after 1651
the future dramatist was born—if she was indeed the EP with whom her editors,
and
, identify her.
Mary Mollineux: Probably 1651
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Author event in Mary Mollineux
Probably 1651
Mary Southworth, later
, was born an only child, most probably in a part of Lancashire which has now been redesignated as Cheshire.
1651: Jeremy Taylor published The Rule and Exercises...
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1651
published The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying.
1651: Physician William Harvey wrote in De Generatione...
1651
Physician
wrote in De Generatione Animalium (published in London) that the female egg contained the substance and means to develop into an animal.
1651: Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan, a political...
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1651
published Leviathan, a political treatise which was also foundational for British philosophical and social thinking.
1651: Manasseh ben Israel wrote from Amsterdam...
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1651
wrote from Amsterdam to
to request legal admission for the Jews to England: he argued that this would help to bring about the birth of the Messiah.
2 January 1651: Charles Gerbier published a formal defence...
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2 January 1651
published a formal defence of women: Elogium Heroinum: Or, The Praise of Worthy Women.
2 February 1651: The second of Izaak Walton's biographies...
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2 February 1651
The second of
's biographies appeared, that of
, as preface to a volume entitled Reliquiae Wottonianae.
Marie de Sévigné: 6 February 1651
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Author event in Marie de Sévigné
6 February 1651
The
of
died following a duel over a woman, seven years after their marriage. He left her with a young daughter and son, and very little money for one of her rank.
Elizabeth Richardson: 3 April 1651
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3 April 1651
, died after sixteen years of second widowhood, at Covent Garden in London.
Lady Eleanor Douglas: Early April 1651
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Early April 1651
At Easter 1651, in Hells Destruction,
unleashed a flood of biblical rhetoric against
the printer, who had had her imprisoned for debt.
Paine the printer is not to be confused with...
Mary Cary: 17 April 1651
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Author event in Mary Cary
17 April 1651
published two separate tracts making up a single volume: The Little Horns Doom and Downfall and A New and More Exact Mappe; or, Description of New Jerusalems Glory.