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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 Rich, Countess of Warwick: April 1659

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April 1659

When Mary Rich became Countess of Warwick on her husband 's inheritance of his late brother's earldom, she feared the spiritual effect of this elevation on them both.
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
84-5

Margaret Fell: 8 April 1659

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Author event in Margaret Fell

8 April 1659

MF published jointly with George Fox a leaflet of which her part was entitled A Paper Concerning Such as are made Ministers by the Will of Man.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
284n8
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

25 April 1659: John Evelyn reported a wonderfull and suddaine...

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25 April 1659

John Evelyn reported a wonderfull and suddaine change in the face of the publique: discontent with Cromwell 's son Richard , and canvassing of other candidates for power.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
397

Dorothy White: May 1659

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Author event in Dorothy White

May 1659

DW wrote A Diligent Search amongst Rulers, Priests, Professors, and People, a pamphlet printed the same year, which she apparently intended for distribution around Weymouth in Dorset.
She says she wrote it in...

Susanna Parr: 12 May 1659

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Author event in Susanna Parr

12 May 1659

SP defended herself in Susanna's Apologie against the Elders, when Lewis Stucley , minister of her former Independent congregation in Exeter, excommunicated her as climax of a prolonged mutual enmity.
The day and...

25 May 1659: Richard Cromwell (who had succeeded his father...

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25 May 1659

Richard Cromwell (who had succeeded his father as Lord Protector the previous year) resigned, leaving the way clear for negotiation with Charles II about restoration to the throne.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
425
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
187

Anna Maria van Schurman: June 1659

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Author event in Anna Maria van Schurman

June 1659

Clement Barksdale 's English translation of AMS 's De ingenii muliebris, 1641, was published in London as The Learned Maid; or, Whether a Maid may be a Scholar?
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Irwin, Joyce L. “Anna Maria van Schurman: The Star of Utrecht (Dutch, 1607-1678)”. Female Scholars: A Tradition of Learned Women Before 1800, edited by Jeanie R. Brink, Eden Press, 1980, pp. 68-85.
72, 84

Anne Bradstreet: 23 June 1659

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23 June 1659

AB wrote a poem In Reference to Her Children. She calls them eight birds hatched in one nest, traces their progress in the world, and imagines leaving them at her death.
Bradstreet, Anne, and Adrienne Rich. The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Editor Hensley, Jeannine, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.
232

July 1659: A women's petition to parliament was headed...

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July 1659

A women's petition to parliament was headed by the names of Margaret Fell and her daughters and signed with 7,000 names.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
xi

Anne Wharton: 20 July 1659

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20 July 1659

Anne Lee (later AW ) was born, to a mother who was mortally ill and a father who was dead.
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.
11

Aphra Behn: Before 11 August 1659

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Before 11 August 1659

A group known as the Sealed Knot attempted a Royalist plot; just possibly Aphra Johnson (later AB ) now had her first taste of spying by carrying messages to France.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
30-1

Margaret Fell: 31 August 1659

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31 August 1659

MF signed her full name to an epistle entitled To the General Councel and Officers of the Army.
Literary historian Bonnelyn Young Kunze interprets MF 's 13. of the eighth moneth, in the yeare...

Dorothy White: 22 October 1659

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22 October 1659

DW threatened England's rulers with God's wrath in her pamphlet Upon the 22 Day of the 8th Month, 1659.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Marie-Catherine de Villedieu: Probably after mid-November 1659

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Probably after mid-November 1659

Marie-Catherine Desjardins responded to the appearance of Molière 's Les Précieuses ridicules with a spirited, sometimes creative summary of it: Récit en prose et en vers de la farce des précieuses.
Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale, 2003.
385

18 November 1659: Molière's comedy Les Précieuses ridicules,...

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18 November 1659

Molière 's comedy Les Précieuses ridicules, a satire on learned women, was first staged in Paris. It was published in 1660.
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.
Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale, 2003.

Alice Thornton: 10 December 1659

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10 December 1659

AT 's mother died after nineteen years a widow, in excruciating pain but courageous and devout to the end, in a manner movingly described by her daughter.
Thornton, Alice. The Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton. Editor Jackson, Charles, 1809 - 1882, Published for the Society by Andrews, 1875.
100-22

Hester Biddle: 16 December 1659

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16 December 1659

HB dated her 22-page tract or prophecy entitled A Warning from the Lord God of Life and Power.
This text is available from Women Writers Online (www.wwp.northeastern.edu/wwo/). It and three other HB works (listed...

Winefrid Thimelby: From about 1660

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From about 1660

WT was likely the anonymous author of her convent's chronicle, a composite work which was then continued by later generations of nuns.
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.

During the 1660s: Alice Horwood endowed a school for twenty...

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During the 1660s

Alice Horwood endowed a school for twenty girls at Barnstaple in Devon.
Laurence, Anne. Women in England, 1500-1760: A Social History. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
168

1 January 1660-31 May 1669: Samuel Pepys kept the Diary which was published...

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1 January 1660-31 May 1669

Samuel Pepys kept the Diary which was published long after his death.
Pepys, Samuel. Diary. Editor Wheatley, Henry B., G. Bell and Sons, 1952, 8 vols.
passim

11 February 1660: General Monck, having marched on London from...

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11 February 1660

General Monck , having marched on London from Scotland, dissolved the Parliament by military threat and convened a new one.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
404

3 March 1660: Milton published The Readie and Easie Way...

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3 March 1660

Milton published The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, a pamphlet designed to sway public opinion against the restoration either of the monarchy or of rule by any single individual.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
The...

Lucy Hutchinson: Spring 1660

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Author event in Lucy Hutchinson

Spring 1660

By presence of mind and force of personality LH quelled a royalist mob which looked set to do serious damage in Nottingham.
This happened shortly before parliament was summoned for 25 April.
Henning, Basil Duke, editor. The House of Commons, 1660-1690. Secker and Warburg, 1983, 3 vols.
1: 85
Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press, 1973.
224-5

Anne Halkett: May 1660

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May 1660

AH composed an essay Upon the last Change of Publick Affairs and upon the Return of the King.
Halkett, Anne, and S. C. The Life of the Lady Halket. Andrew Symson and Henry Knox, 1701.

Anne Killigrew: Probably May 1660

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Probably May 1660

AK was born shortly before the Restoration, in St Martin's Lane, London, one of four children.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
299
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Henry Killigrew