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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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Mary Carey: 12 May 1652

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12 May 1652

MC wrote a short poem on the death of her fifth child, Peregrine.
The baby was buried two days afterwards.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
157-8

Jane Barker: Before 17 May 1652

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Before 17 May 1652

JB was born in Northamptonshire.
Wilson, Carol Shiner, and Jane Barker. “Introduction”. The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. xv - xliv.
xvii

Lady Eleanor Douglas: June 1652

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June 1652

LED wrote and published her last surviving tract or prophecy, Bethlehem Signifying the House of Bread: or War.
Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press, 1995.
369ff

Margaret Fell: Mid-1652

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Mid-1652

MF and her family were converted to Quakerism by George Fox .
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
x

Elizabeth Hooton: June 1652

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June 1652

EH , having already been imprisoned in Derby the previous year for preaching, was thrown into prison again at York for the same cause; this time she remained in jail until 1653.
Peters, Kate. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
37
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
127-8

25 June 1652: Eliza's Babes, or The Virgins-Offering, a...

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25 June 1652

Eliza's Babes, or The Virgins-Offering, a book of poetry, was published now (according to George Thomason ): the work of an anonymous Lady, who onely desires to advance the glory of God, and not...

Lady Eleanor Douglas: 5 July 1652

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5 July 1652

LED died in London.
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
162

Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland: 8 July 1652

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8 July 1652

DSCS married her second husband, Sir Robert Smythe , at her family home of Penshurst. According to custom, she continued to be known by the title that went with her first marriage.
Ady, Julia Cartwright. Sacharissa. 3rd ed., Seeley, 1901.
133

Anne Bradstreet: 22 July 1652

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22 July 1652

AB bore the last of her eight children.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
120

27 July 1652: Sir Ralph Verney wrote to advise, kindly...

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27 July 1652

Sir Ralph Verney wrote to advise, kindly but repressively, on the education of his god-daughter Anne Denton .
Wharton, Anne. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton. Editors Greer, Germaine and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, http://BLC.
21

Mary Fisher: August 1652

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August 1652

Soon after joining the Society of Friends , MF was sentenced to sixteen months of imprisonment in York Castle for her obstreperous activism.
Peters, Kate. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
37
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Alice Thornton: 27 August 1652

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27 August 1652

AT bore her first child, a daughter, who died half an hour later; she had conceived, she said, about seven weeks after her wedding.
Thornton, Alice. The Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton. Editor Jackson, Charles, 1809 - 1882, Published for the Society by Andrews, 1875.
84, 87

Agnes Beaumont: 1 September 1652

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1 September 1652

AB was born at Edworth in Bedfordshire (three miles from Biggleswade). She was the youngest of her family.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Beaumont, Agnes. “Introduction”. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont, edited by Vera J. Camden, Colleagues Press, 1992, pp. 1-33.
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Beaumont, Agnes. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont. Editor Camden, Vera J., Colleagues Press, 1992.
84

Katherine Philips: 25 September 1652

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25 September 1652

KP wrote one of a number of poems responding to the discovery that Rosania (Mary Aubrey, now Mary Montagu ) had been secretly married.
Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books, 1990–1993, 3 vols.
1: 127-8

15 October 1652: For the first time in the new world a book,...

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15 October 1652

For the first time in the new world a book, William Pynchon 's The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, Justification, Etc., was condemned (by the General Court of Massachusetts , forerunner of the state...

Anne Conway: Late 1652

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Late 1652

Henry More dedicated his philosophical An Antidote against Atheism to AC : he had sent her two copies by 6 January 1653.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992.
69 and n1

Dorothy Osborne: 24 December 1652-2 October 1654

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24 December 1652-2 October 1654

DO wrote her courtship letters to the suitor whom she loved and whom her family disapproved, Sir William Temple .
Osborne, Dorothy. The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple. Editor Smith, G. C. Moore, Clarendon Press, 1928.
3, 181

Mary Cary: After 1653

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After 1653

The date of MC 's death (some time after her last publication) is not known.
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.

An Collins: After 1653

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After 1653

It is not known when or where AC died, but she seems to have been living when her book appeared.
Collins, An. Divine Songs and Meditacions. Editor Stewart, Stanley N., William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1961.

An Collins: 1653

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1653

AC 's Divine Songs and Meditacions were published.
Stewart, Stanley N., and An Collins. “Introduction”. Divine Songs and Meditacions, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1961, p. i - iii.
i

Margaret Fell: 1653

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1653

MF set to work to establish the Kendal Fund to help support travelling Quaker ministers and their families; she enlisted the help of locals George Taylor or Tayler and Thomas Willan .
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
xi, 153

Hannah Wolley: About 1653

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About 1653

HW moved with her first husband to Hackney, then near London, where he became head of another school.
Hobby, Elaine. “A woman’s best setting out is silence: the writings of Hannah Wolley”. Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration: Literature, Drama, History, edited by Gerald Maclean, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 179-00.
182

Anne Wentworth: 1652 or 1653

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1652 or 1653

AW probably acquired that name at this date, when she married William Wentworth , a Londoner who may have been (like Shakespeare 's father) in the glove trade.
In 1676 she implied that she had...

Hester Shaw: 1653

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1653

HS published the first of the two pamphlets that bear her name, concerning her personal losses of goods and money in the fire and explosion in her London street a few years before: A Plaine...

1653: Cromwell's Civil Marriage Act was passed,...

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1653

Cromwell 's Civil Marriage Act was passed, which legislated the requirement of wedding banns.
“English Wedding Traditions”. WeddingDetails.com.