Skidmore, Gil, and Mary Penington. “Preface”. Experiences in the Life of Mary Penington, edited by Norman Penney and Norman Penney, Friends Historical Society, 1992, p. vii - xvii.
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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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Mary Penington: About 1658-1665
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Penington
About 1658-1665
, already securely a
, wrote her first autobiographical text: A Brief Account of Some of My Exercises from My Childhood . . ..
1658: Sarah Jinner, Student in Astrology, published...
Women writers item
1658
, Student in Astrology, published An Almanack or Prognostication for the Year of our Lord 1658 being the second after bissextile or leap year: calculated for the meridian of London, and may...
1658: Aurangzeb seized the Mughal (or Mogul) throne,...
National or international item
1658
seized the Mughal (or Mogul) throne, becoming Emperor of a territory including most of present-day India and parts of what are now other countries. His near fifty-year rule was less than half over at...
1658: L. Lemnius in The Secret Miracles of Nature...
Women writers item
1658
in The Secret Miracles of Nature in Four Books wrote of the respective roles of both sexes in creating new life, and of the offensive odour and effects of menstrual blood.
Mary Carey: 12 January 1658
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Carey
12 January 1658
closed her manuscript collection of writings with a letter to her
.
She dates it 12 January 1657, in conformity with the Old Style which continued the old year up to 25 March.
Damaris Masham: 18 January 1658
Women writers item
Author event in Damaris Masham
18 January 1658
Damaris Cudworth (later
) was born in Cambridge, into a large family.
26 March 1658: Jane Brooks was executed for witchcraft:...
26 March 1658
Jane Brooks was executed for witchcraft: a small boy had fallen ill after she had given him an apple.
1 June 1658: Lord Mordaunt, whose wife was a diarist,...
National or international item
1 June 1658
, whose
was a diarist, was tried for his life by the
in London.
10 June 1658: The Quaker Sarah Blackborow published the...
Women writers item
10 June 1658
The
published the earliest of her several signed pamphlets, A Visit to the Spirit in Prison.
25 July 1658: Sir William Davenant's masque The Cruelty...
25 July 1658
's masque The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru, Exprest by instrumentall and vocall musick, and by the art of perspective in scenes, etc., was published; it had been performed...
Mary Fisher: Spring or summer 1658
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Fisher
Spring or summer 1658
delivered orally her most famous text, never written down: her preaching of the word of the Lord before the
, ruler of the Islamic Ottoman Empire, at his military encampment near Adrianople.
3 September 1658: Oliver Cromwell died and Richard Cromwell...
National or international item
3 September 1658
died and
became Lord Protector of Great Britain and Ireland.
Gertrude Thimelby: 29 September 1658
Women writers item
Author event in Gertrude Thimelby
29 September 1658
After more than a decade of widowhood,
entered the convent of her sister-in-law
:
at Louvain (now in Belgium).
October 1658: The Whole Duty of Man appeared: a hugely...
Writing climate item
October 1658
The Whole Duty of Man appeared: a hugely influential guide to religious living, ascribed generally to
but sometimes to others, notably
.
31 October 1658 : Thirty-six-year-old Londoner Thomas Austen...
Women writers item
31 October 1658
Thirty-six-year-old Londoner
died. His widow,
, kept a series of manuscript books containing religious meditations, notes about her life, family records, and poems (mostly religious).
22 November 1658: Cromwell the Protector had a funeral procession...
National or international item
22 November 1658
the Protector had a funeral procession across London, lying in effigie in royal robes . . . like a king.
Hester Biddle: 1659
Women writers item
Author event in Hester Biddle
1659
's Something in Short was published in London as part of
's A Brief Relation of the State of Man before Transgression.
Dorothy White: 1659
Women writers item
Rebecca Travers: 1659
Women writers item
Author event in Rebecca Travers
1659
published two tracts this year: the title of one begins Of That Eternal Breath and that of the other For Those That Meet to Worship at the Steeplehouse, called John Evangelist, in London.
Catherine Holland: 1659
Women writers item
Author event in Catherine Holland
1659
After only two years in London,
returned to the Low Countries.
1659-60: Quakers accounted for 10% of all titles printed...
Writing climate item
1659-60
accounted for 10% of all titles printed in England, though they were only 1% of the population.
1659: T. Chamberlayne, in The Complete Midwifes...
1659
, in The Complete Midwifes Practice Enlarg'd, provided careful instruction to couples as how to conceive male children only.
Probably 1659: Margaret Abbott, a convert from the Church...
Women writers item
Probably 1659
, a convert from the
to the
, published with her name her only text, A Testimony against the False Teachers of this Generation.
1659: John Hill of York published A Penny Post:...
Writing climate item
1659
of York published A Penny Post: or, A Vindication of the Liberty and Birthright of every Englishman.
Katharine Evans: Late 1658 or early 1659
Women writers item
Author event in Katharine Evans
Late 1658 or early 1659
With her friend
,
left her husband and children to travel to the East as a Quaker missionary; the two women were following in the footsteps of
by heading for...