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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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1653: Andrew Sowle finished his apprenticeship...

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1653

Andrew Sowle finished his apprenticeship (to the Nonconformist printer Ruth Raworth ), and began printing Quaker texts from an unknown address.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
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Anna Trapnel: February-April 1653

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February-April 1653

AT was, she said, buffetted by Satan (by permission of God) with bodily suffering and violent temptations to suicide; she recovered only after a stay with a relation outside London.
Trapnel, Anna. The Cry of a Stone. 1654.
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Margaret Fell: 18 February 1653

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18 February 1653

MF wrote to ask her first husband to arrange the publication of tracts by George Fox and others.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Elizabeth Avery: After March 1653

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After March 1653

EA 's autobiographical testimony appeared in Ohel or Beth-Shemesh, edited by John Rogers , along with those of other women and men.
Rogers put the date of 25 March 1653 on an address to...

Margaret Cavendish: March 1653

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March 1653

Margaret Cavendish , Marchioness of Newcastle, in London on her exiled husband 's business, published her first book: Poems, and Fancies.
Grant, Douglas. Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.
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Elizabeth Hooton: Late 1652 or early 1653

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Late 1652 or early 1653

False Prophets and False Teachers Described was printed at London, bearing the authorial names of six Quakers including EH , Mary Fisher , and Thomas Aldam , all imprisoned in York Castle.
Hooton's...

Mary Cary: Probably after April 1653

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Probably after April 1653

MC published Twelve Humble Proposals, a tract dedicated to the Barebones Parliament ; it was apparently her last new publication.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

29 April-16 December 1653: England and Wales were governed by the Nominated...

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29 April-16 December 1653

England and Wales were governed by the Nominated or Barebones Parliament (140 saints picked by Cromwell to replace the Rump Parliament, which he dissolved).
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
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Margaret Cavendish: Early May 1653

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Early May 1653

Margaret Cavendish , Marchioness of Newcastle, issued a second book, Philosophicall Fancies, whose title implies unverified notions about matters of what we should call science.
Grant, Douglas. Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.
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20 May 1653: Izaak Walton published The Compleat Angler;...

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20 May 1653

Izaak Walton published The Compleat Angler; there was a second, enlarged edition in 1655.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Katherine Chidley: June 1653

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June 1653

KC probably led the deputation of twelve who presented to parliament a petition signed by 6,000 women calling for an end to Lilburne 's trial.
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.

Anne Bradstreet: After 31 July 1653

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After 31 July 1653

AB wrote an epitaph on her father , who died on that day, aged seventy-seven.
Bradstreet, Anne, and Adrienne Rich. The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Editor Hensley, Jeannine, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.
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Anna Trapnel: 3 September 1653

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3 September 1653

AT (now becoming known for her visions) had one at Hackney (which closely followed another person's vision that came true, of parliament being dissolved).
Trapnel, Anna. The Cry of a Stone. 1654.
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Before 20 September 1653: Humphrey Chetham planned the organisation...

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Before 20 September 1653

Humphrey Chetham planned the organisation which, after his death on this date, opened as the first public library in the modern world: Chetham's Library in Manchester (sometimes known as Cheetham's ).
“Chetham’s Library: a brief history and illustrated tour”. Chetham’s Library.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.

: An influential law case, Norton v. Jason,...

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Autumn 1653

An influential law case, Norton v. Jason, set the pattern for eighteen-century trials for seduction of daughters, seen as a violation of the father's rights.
Schwarz, Joan I. “Eighteenth-Century Abduction Law and Clarissa”. Clarissa and Her Readers, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 269-08.
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2 October 1653: According to George Thomason, William Harvey...

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2 October 1653

According to George Thomason , William Harvey published this day the first English version of his pioneering work on the circulation of the blood.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Ann, Lady Fanshawe: 8 October 1653

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8 October 1653

Ann, Lady Fanshawe , bore her daughter Margaret in Yorkshire, during an interval of family peace, while her husband worked at his well-known translation of Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads), the Portuguese national...

Mary Carey: 17 October 1653

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17 October 1653

MC wrote the dedication, To my Most loving, and dearly beloved Husband George Payler ,
qtd. in
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
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of her collection of poems, prayers, and meditations.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
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1 November 1653: A neighbour reported that Joan Carlile (c....

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1 November 1653

A neighbour reported that Joan Carlile (c. 1606-79), one of the earliest identified female professional painters in Britain, was moving with her husband and family from Petersham in Surrey to London, where she meanes...

Mary Cary: 14 November 1653

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14 November 1653

MC published a second, amended and expanded, edition of her tract The Resurrection of the Witnesses.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Mary Fisher: December 1653

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December 1653

MF and Elizabeth Williams , both north-country Quakers, arrived at Cambridge, where they spoke publicly of Sidney Sussex College (an Anglican institution) as an assembly of Antichrists and a Synagogue of Satan.
qtd. in
Peters, Kate. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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4 December 1653: John Evelyn heard a working-class mechanic...

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4 December 1653

John Evelyn heard a working-class mechanic preach at his parish church; he was surprised but not impressed.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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16 December 1653: Oliver Cromwell became the Lord Protector...

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16 December 1653

Oliver Cromwell became the Lord Protector of Great Britain and Ireland.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Anne Audland: 1654

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1654

Under the Commonwealth, AA was imprisoned at Bishop Auckland in County Durham for her Quaker preaching.
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.

Anna Trapnel: 1654

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1654

Four tracts by AT were published, probably by her Fifth Monarchist co-religionists; together they provide a detailed account of a year crammed with politico-religious activism.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
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