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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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Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater: By 18 April 1651

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By 18 April 1651

The Earl of Bridgewater , husband of ECECB , was arrested and imprisoned by the parliamentary government.
Travitsky, Betty, and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. “Subordination and Authorship: Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton”. Subordination and Authorship: the case of Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton and her &quot:loose papers", Tempe, Ariz., 1999, pp. 1-172.
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Katherine Philips: 23 June 1651

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23 June 1651

KP first appeared in print, with commendatory verses in the Cavalier poet William Cartwright 's posthumous Comedies,Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Philips, Katherine. “Introduction and Textual Notes”. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, Volume I: The Poems, edited by Patrick Thomas, Stump Cross Books, 1990, pp. 1-68.
6-7
Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books, 1990–1993, 3 vols.
1: 357

Anne Conway: By 1 July 1651

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By 1 July 1651

Within a few months of her marriage AC had begun corresponding with her father-in-law about matters of science and philosophy, as is clear from his earliest extant letter to her.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992.
29-30

Elizabeth Walker : 12 July 1651

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12 July 1651

As EW later wrote, God mercifully Deliver'd me of my first Child,—on her twenty-eighth birthday.
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.
62

Katherine Philips: 17 July 1651

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17 July 1651

KP wrote her first dated poem among those to Anne Owen as Lucasia: To my excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship.
Philips, Katherine. “Introduction and Textual Notes”. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, Volume I: The Poems, edited by Patrick Thomas, Stump Cross Books, 1990, pp. 1-68.
10
Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books, 1990–1993, 3 vols.
1: 121-2

August 1651: Christopher Love, a clergyman, was executed...

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August 1651

Christopher Love , a clergyman, was executed by order of Parliament for disobeying its dictates, in spite of the campaign of petitions organized by his wife, Mary .
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.

Ann, Lady Fanshawe: Between September and November 1651

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Between September and November 1651

While her husband was imprisoned in Whitehall, Ann, Lady Fanshawe , visited every day at 4 a.m. by the light of a lantern in all weathers, and succeeded in securing his release by means...

3 September 1651: Royalist hopes of a military victory were...

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3 September 1651

Royalist hopes of a military victory were finally crushed by defeat at the battle of Worcester; the future Charles II became a fugitive.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 25th ed., Akademische Druck, 1966.
476
Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books, 1990–1993, 3 vols.
1: 82

October 1651: A Navigation Act passed by the English parliament...

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October 1651

A Navigation Act passed by the English parliament challenged Dutch shipping trade, and helped cause a war (the First Dutch War) which lasted from early 1652 until April 1654.
Pincus, Steven. Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of an English Foreign Policy 1650-1668. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
12-14, 44, 86, 181-2
Worden, Blair. “Conviction on the High Seas”. London Review of Books, 6 Feb. 1997, pp. 12-13.
12-13

Dorothy Osborne: 15 October 1651

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15 October 1651

DO 's mother died, and she was, as she puts it, left at liberty to mourne her losse a while.
Osborne, Dorothy. “Introduction”. The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple, edited by G. C. Moore Smith, Clarendon Press, 1928, p. ix - li.
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Osborne, Dorothy. The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple. Editor Smith, G. C. Moore, Clarendon Press, 1928.
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28 October 1651: N. Highmore in The History of Generation...

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28 October 1651

N. Highmore in The History of Generation argued that men's seed (sperm) was spiritualized & subtile, while women's was cruder and less digested, from a cruder matter, by lesse perfect Organs.
Mendelson, Sara Heller, and Patricia Crawford. Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720. Clarendon Press, 1998.
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Margaret Cavendish: November 1651

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November 1651

Margaret Cavendish (as Marchioness of Newcastle) began a spell of more than a year in London with her brother-in-law Sir Charles Cavendish , trying to negotiate the partial return of her husband 's confiscated estates.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cavendish, Margaret. “Introduction”. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader, edited by Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview, 2000, pp. 9-37.
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By November 1651: Anna Weamys, aged about twenty, published...

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By November 1651

Anna Weamys , aged about twenty, published as a young gentle-woman, Mrs. A.W., A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney 's Arcadia.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
“Early English Books Online”. ProQuest Databases.

Anne Conway: 2 November 1651

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2 November 1651

Henry More agreed to continue to correspond with AC (especially about matters of religion) after her brother Sir John Finch (More's pupil) had gone abroad in the diplomatic service.
Hutton, Sarah. Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
61, 38

Katherine Philips: December 1651

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December 1651

KP 's friend Mary Aubrey or Rosania, whom she had known almost all her life, one of the Society of Friendship , was married, becoming Mary Montagu; after this Philips saw her only occasionally...

Alice Thornton: 15 December 1651

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15 December 1651

Alice Wandesford was married at Hipswell near Richmond in Yorkshire, at her widowed mother's house, to William Thornton .
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
152

Anne Audland: 1652

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1652

AA and her first husband, John Audland , were converted to Quakerism by George Fox .
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.

Gertrude Thimelby: New Year's Day 1652

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New Year's Day 1652

GT wrote a love-poem to her husband .
Thimelby, Gertrude. Tixall Poetry. Editor Clifford, Arthur, J. Ballantyne, 1813.
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Anne Halkett: 1 January 1652

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1 January 1652

AH finished her meditation on two of the psalms, at Fyvie, north of Aberdeen: one of her few surviving works to which a date can be assigned.
Halkett, Anne. Meditations on the Twentieth and Fifth Psalm. Andrew Symson and Henry Knox, 1701.
prelims

1652: A new translation of von Nettesheim's De...

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1652

A new translation of von Nettesheim 's De Nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus, 1529, appeared: The Glory of Women.
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
Catalogue No. 2

1652: The Græcian Coffee-House, probably the first...

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1652

The Græcian Coffee-House, probably the first coffee-house in London though not in England, opened in the Strand near the Temple Bar.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison. Selections from the Tatler and Spectator. Editor Ross, Angus, Penguin, 1982.
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Thomas Otway: 3 March 1652

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3 March 1652

TO , actor and playwright, was born at Milland in Sussex.
Some sources report his place of birth as at Woolbeding, a few miles away.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
390
Warner, Kerstin P. Thomas Otway. Twayne, 1982.
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Lady Eleanor Douglas: Before 29 March 1652

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Before 29 March 1652

LED published Tobits Book, A Lesson Appointed for Lent.
This text is available from Women Writers Online at http://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/wwo/ (as are many more ED texts) under the name of Davies.
Douglas, Lady Eleanor. “Tobits Book, A Lesson Appointed for Lent, 1652”. Women Writers Online.
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29 March 1652: An eclipse of the sun, in John Evelyn's words,...

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29 March 1652

An eclipse of the sun, in John Evelyn 's words, so exceedingly alarm'd the whole Nation, so as hardly any would worke, none stir out of their houses; so ridiculously were they abused by knavish...

10 May 1652: John Evelyn the diarist, who happened to...

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10 May 1652

John Evelyn the diarist, who happened to be passing by, saw a woman burned to death at Smithfield, London, for murdering her husband.
Brett, Simon, b. 1945, editor. The Faber Book of Diaries. Faber, 1987.
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Murder of a husband by a wife was petty treason, for...