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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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Katharine Evans: Probably January 1662

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Probably January 1662

KE wrote from her Inquisition prison in Malta a personal, religious letter to her husband and children in England.
She calls it the eleventh month of 1661, which most probably means January 1662, counting from...

Mary Fisher: 1662

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Author event in Mary Fisher

1662

MF (who had once answered a magistrate enquiring her husband's name that she had no husband but Jesus Christ)
qtd. in
Peters, Kate. Print Culture and the Early Quakers. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
76
married another notable Quaker spokesman, a ship's captain by trade, William Bayly .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Dorothy White: 1662

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Author event in Dorothy White

1662

DW travelled to from Dorset to London to publicize her religious and political views.
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.

Dorothy White: 1662

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1662

DW published several notable tracts this year.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Marie-Catherine de Villedieu: 1662

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1662

By this year Marie-Catherine Desjardins had amassed enough poems (some circulating in manuscript, some in print) to issue Recueil de poésies de Mademoiselle Desjardins.
Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale, 2003.
386

Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette: 1662

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1662

MML anonymously published La princesse de Montpensier, the first piece of her fictional writing to appear in her lifetime.
Haig, Stirling. Madame de Lafayette. Twayne, 1970.
25
Green, Anne. Privileged Anonymity. Legenda, 1996.
41

1662: An Act of Settlement confirmed that poor...

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1662

An Act of Settlement confirmed that poor relief could be received only in one's parish of settlement (that is, in one's birthplace).
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
10: 140
Rose, Michael E. The English Poor Law 1780-1930. David and Charles, 1971.
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Staves, Susan, and Isobel Grundy. Letter about Act of Settlement and Poor Law to Isobel Grundy. 27 Mar. 1999.
Scull, Andrew. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. Yale University Press, 1993.
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1662: The Printing or Licensing Act restored the...

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1662

The Printing or Licensing Act restored the principles of government censorship which had been current before the Civil War: it limited the number of printers and required them to put their names on their works...

1662: An anonymous translation appeared of Jacques...

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1662

An anonymous translation appeared of Jacques Olivier 's formal attack on women written in French: the English version was entitled A Discourse of Women, Shewing their Imperfections Alphabetically.
Buchanan, Dave. Augustan Women’s Verse Satire. University of Alberta, 1998.
60
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

1662: People were brought to trial for witchcraft...

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1662

People were brought to trial for witchcraft at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk; this is one of the best-documented cases of which records remain.
Wootton, David. “Brutish Babies”. London Review of Books, 11 Nov. 1999, pp. 34-35.
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From 1662: The King's Library (now part of the British...

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From 1662

The King's Library (now part of the British Library ) and Cambridge University Library enjoyed the legal right to a copy of every book published in Britain (a right granted to the Bodleian on 11...

1662: William Winstanley launched Poor Robin's...

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1662

William Winstanley launched Poor Robin's Almanac, an annual publication whose satirical element made it almost more like a mock than a true almanac.
Miegon, Anna E. The Ladies Diary and the Emergence of the Almanac for Women, 1704-1753. Simon Fraser University, Sept. 2008.
6, 40

Marie-Catherine de Villedieu: April 1662

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April 1662

MCV 's Manlius Torquatus, a tragedy in verse and prose, made her the first woman to have a play professionally produced in France (in Paris of course).
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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Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale, 2003.
386
Morrissette, Bruce Archer. The Life and Works of Marie-Catherine Desjardins. 1947.
64-5

Katherine Philips: 3 May 1662

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3 May 1662

KP sent Sir Charles Cotterell or Cottrell her poem To her royal highnesse the Dutchesse of Yorke, asking him to revise it before showing it to the recipient.
Greer has shifted from spelling Cotterell to Cottrell.
Greer, Germaine. “Editorial Conundra in the Texts of Katherine Philips”. Editing Women, edited by Ann M. Hutchison, University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. 79-100.
81

Katherine Philips: 11 May 1662

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11 May 1662

KP was much upset when her friend Anne Owen , the Lucasia of her poetry and a key member of her Society of Friendship , married and went to live in Ireland.
Philips, Katherine. “Introduction and Textual Notes”. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, Volume I: The Poems, edited by Patrick Thomas, Stump Cross Books, 1990, pp. 1-68.
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Hester Biddle: Probably later 1662

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Probably later 1662

HB was arrested again at a Quaker meeting, probably following the Act of Uniformity.
Hobby, Elaine. Virtue of Necessity: English Women’s Writing 1646-1688. Virago, 1988.
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19 May 1662: The Act of Uniformity made use of the revised...

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19 May 1662

The Act of Uniformity made use of the revised Book of Common Prayer compulsory in England and Wales; it came into use within three months.
Collinson, Patrick. “Holy-Rowly-Powliness”. London Review of Books, 4 Jan. 2001, pp. 33-4.
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Elizabeth Delaval: After 21 May 1662

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After 21 May 1662

At not yet fourteen, Lady Elizabeth Livingston (later Delaval) , was appointed one of the maids of the privy chamber to Charles II 's newly-married wife, Catherine of Braganza .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

21 May 1662: Charles II married Catherine of Braganza...

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21 May 1662

Charles II married Catherine of Braganza (daughter of the king of Portugal) in two ceremonies: one secret and Catholic, one Anglican.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
144-52
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
141
Pagden, Anthony. “Oak in a Flowerpot”. London Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2002, pp. 9-10.
9

Katherine Philips: June 1662-July 1663

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Author event in Katherine Philips

June 1662-July 1663

KP visited Ireland, staying mostly in Dublin and seeing to business concerning property of her father's.
Philips, Katherine. Letters from Orinda to Poliarchus. 1st ed., Bernard Lintott, 1705.
172
Philips, Katherine. “Introduction and Textual Notes”. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, Volume I: The Poems, edited by Patrick Thomas, Stump Cross Books, 1990, pp. 1-68.
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Celia Fiennes: 7 June 1662

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7 June 1662

CF was born, either at Newton Tony (or Toney) or at Tytherley in Hampshire (her mother's home), which are both near Salisbury.
Fiennes, Celia. “Editorial Note and Introduction”. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, edited by Christopher Morris, Macdonald; Webb and Bower, 1982, pp. 8-31.
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“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Anne Conway: July 1662 to about July 1664

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July 1662 to about July 1664

AC visited Ireland, staying mostly at Portmore Castle near Lisburn.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992.
171-2, 176

15 July 1662: The Royal Society was chartered by the king...

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15 July 1662

The Royal Society was chartered by the king from the existing philosophic society centred on Gresham's College .
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon Press, 1955, 6 vols.
3: 266-7, 267n6
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
443

Jane Barker: By August 1662

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By August 1662

JB 's father held the lease to the manor-house and land at Wilsthorpe, Lincolnshire (which she calls Wiltsthorp).
King, Kathryn R., and Jeslyn Medoff. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
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, No. 3, Nov. 1997, pp. 16-38.
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Wilson, Carol Shiner, and Jane Barker. “Introduction”. The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. xv - xliv.
xxi, xxix

Katharine Evans: Later 1662

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Later 1662

KE 's and Sarah Chevers 's account of their imprisonment in Malta was published in London by their colleague Daniel Baker while the authors were still in prison, as This is a Short Relation of...