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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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29 October 1656: Sir William Davenant published his operatic...

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29 October 1656

Sir William Davenant published his operatic entertainment The Siege of Rhodes.
Sutherland, James. English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century. Clarendon Press, 1969.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

John Milton: 12 November 1656

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12 November 1656

After being a widower for four years, JM married as his second wife Katherine Woodcock, aged about twenty-eight, who died four months after bearing her first child, and whose death was followed by that of...

Hester Biddle: Late 1656

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Late 1656

HB travelled with the more famous Mary Fisher to preach in Newfoundland—the only Quakers of their period to go there.
Rickman, Lydia L. “Esther Biddle and Her Mission to Louis XIV”. Friends Historical Society Journal, Vol.
47
, 1955, pp. 38-45.
41-2
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Hester Biddle: 1657

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1657

HB went to preach in Barbados.
Rickman, Lydia L. “Esther Biddle and Her Mission to Louis XIV”. Friends Historical Society Journal, Vol.
47
, 1955, pp. 38-45.
42

Hester Biddle: Late 1650s

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Late 1650s

HB was in Holland for the purposes of preaching.
Rickman, Lydia L. “Esther Biddle and Her Mission to Louis XIV”. Friends Historical Society Journal, Vol.
47
, 1955, pp. 38-45.
42

Susan Du Verger: : 1657

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1657

Two years after Margaret Cavendish published The World's Olio, translator SDV issued a critique: Du Vergers Humble Reflections upon some Passages of the Right Honorable the Lady Marchionesse of Newcastles Olio.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Anna Trapnel: 1657

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1657

AT issued a tract entitled either A Voice for the King of Saints and Nations or A Lively Voice for the King of Saints and Nations.
The British Library 's copy, apparently a unique...

Katherine Philips: 1657

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1657

Jeremy Taylor (apparently taking a lead from Francis Finch , but a much better-known writer as well as a leading churchman) addressed his Discourse of the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship to KP in...

Catherine Holland: 1657

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1657

CH and her family moved back from Bruges to England; they stayed with an aunt till they got their own house in London.
Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1997.
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1657: At Helmsley in Yorkshire a Whitby woman was...

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1657

At Helmsley in Yorkshire a Whitby woman was sentenced to be ducked as a scold.
Gillis, John R. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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John Norris: 2 January 1657

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2 January 1657

JN , the future philosopher and clergyman, was born at Collingbourne near Kingston in Wiltshire.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Joan Whitrow: 17 January 1657

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17 January 1657

Joan Robinson was married at St Clement Danes in the Strand to Robert Whitrow , who seems to have been a drunkard and whom she came in time to think of as positively evil.
“People. Joan Whitrow”. The Twickenham Museum.
Whitrow, Joan et al. The Work of God in a Dying Maid. 1677.
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McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
159 n53, 189

Elizabeth White: 2 April 1657

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2 April 1657

The wedding of EW (then probably Elizabeth Bolton) to Thomas White of Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire took place one month after she was plunged into inner religious conflict when she received the sacrament unworthily
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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.

Mary Fisher: 9 April 1657

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9 April 1657

MF , newly returned to England from Barbados, wrote a letter of encouragement and exhortation to Barbados Friends .
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
169 and n14

Mary Fisher: Summer 1657

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Summer 1657

The year after her hostile reception in Boston, Massachusetts, MF left England again with a small group of other Quakers , apparently in the beginning headed for Jerusalem.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

6 August 1657: John Evelyn was shown a newly invented way-wiser...

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6 August 1657

John Evelyn was shown a newly invented way-wiser or odometer for a coach.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
380

15 September 1657: John Evelyn inspected a woman from Augsburg...

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15 September 1657

John Evelyn inspected a woman from Augsburg in Germany who made her living by displaying her abnormal facial hair (as thick on forehead, ears and nose as on most women's heads).
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
381

Anna Trapnel: October 1657-1658

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October 1657-1658

AT is said to have spoken a series of doggerel verses, many of them directed against the Quakers , which an amanuensis took down from her lips.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Christmas Day 1657: John Evelyn was at morning Communion service...

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Christmas Day 1657

John Evelyn was at morning Communion service in a private chapel in London's Covent Garden area, when the whole congregation was rounded up by Puritan soldiers angry at such Christmas observance.
Dane, Clemence. London Has a Garden. Michael Joseph, 1964.
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30 December 1657: Mystical writer Thomas Traherne was admitted...

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30 December 1657

Mystical writer Thomas Traherne was admitted as rector of the small, poor village of Credenhill in Herefordshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Carey: 31 December 1657-12 January 1658

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31 December 1657-12 January 1658

MC , who now had two children living, wrote a long poem Upon ye Sight of my abortive Birth.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
158-61

Hester Biddle: 1658

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1658

HB travelled to the Straits (that is the Mediterranean) on a preaching tour and reached Alexandria (now in Egypt).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Rickman, Lydia L. “Esther Biddle and Her Mission to Louis XIV”. Friends Historical Society Journal, Vol.
47
, 1955, pp. 38-45.
42

Marie-Catherine de Villedieu: 1658

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1658

Marie-Catherine Desjardins first met Antoine de Boësset, sieur de Villedieu , with whom she had a lengthy affair (and whose name she later took), although they never married.
Cuénin, Micheline. Roman et société sous Louis XIV : Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins 1640-1683). Atelier Reproduction des Thèses & Librairie Honoré; Champion, 1979.
35-9
Klein, Nancy Deighton. The Female Protagonist in the Nouvelles of Madame de Villedieu. Peter Lang, 1992.
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Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale, 2003.

Marie-Catherine de Villedieu: 1658

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1658

The sonnet Jouissance by Marie-Catherine Desjardins , said to be connected with her love for Antoine de Boësset, sieur de Villedieu , was written this year, according to Micheline Cuénin .
Cuénin, Micheline. Roman et société sous Louis XIV : Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins 1640-1683). Atelier Reproduction des Thèses & Librairie Honoré; Champion, 1979.
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Mary Penington: 1658

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1658

MP and her second husband , now publicly known to be Quakers, settled at The Grange near Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.