Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Sir Richard Fanshawe and Ann, Lady Fanshawe”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 91-9.
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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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Ann, Lady Fanshawe: August 1662
Women writers item
Author event in Ann, Lady Fanshawe
August 1662
sailed with her
for Lisbon in Portugal, where he was appointed British Ambassador.
Catherine Holland: August 1662
Women writers item
Author event in Catherine Holland
August 1662
(quite ignorant, she said, of what she was going to) was first welcomed to the religious life by the
, at Nazareth Monastery (the English Convent) at Bruges.
17 August 1662: The Anglican Book of Common Prayer, revised...
Writing climate item
17 August 1662
The Anglican Book of Common Prayer, revised this year, was appointed for use and first used in churches throughout the land.
Alice Thornton: 19 September 1662
Women writers item
Author event in Alice Thornton
19 September 1662
(with two daughters living) was overjoyed when she gave birth to a healthy son, Robert.
15 October 1662: John Evelyn made a presentation to the Royal...
15 October 1662
made a presentation to the
on the deforestation of England and the need to plant trees; this was the germ of his Sylva, Or A Discourse Of Forest Trees, which...
Elizabeth Hooton: Autumn 1662
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Hooton
Autumn 1662
went to Whitehall Palace in London and argued with the
.
Elinor James: 27 October 1662
Women writers item
Author event in Elinor James
27 October 1662
, aged about seventeen, married
, journeyman printer, at St Olave's Church, Silver Street, London.
Margaret Fell: Winter 1662-1663
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Fell
Winter 1662-1663
travelled almost the length of England (from London to Headlam in Durham) to be with her daughter
, for a childbirth which Bridget did not survive.
1 December 1662: John Evelyn first saw Scheets (skates) used...
1 December 1662
first saw Scheets (skates) used in St James's Park in London, after the manner of the Hollanders.
Anne Audland: 1663
Author event in Anne Audland
1663
The peripatetic
again visited the Audlands' house:
and her
wanted him to stay for a meeting next day, but he refused—rightly, as it turned out.
Katharine Evans: 1663
Women writers item
Author event in Katharine Evans
1663
An expanded version of
's and
's text This is a Short Relation of some of the Cruel Sufferings appeared after their release as A True Account of the Great Tryals and Cruel Sufferings.
Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick: From about 1663
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick
From about 1663
, had the habit of writing down from time to time Occasional Meditations on moral and spiritual topics, often described by means of domestic imagery.
Rebecca Travers: 1663
Women writers item
Mary Mollineux: 1663
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Mollineux
1663
This year is the earliest date that
gave to any of her surviving poems, which means she wrote poetry at about the age of twelve. The poem in question, On the Fall of Man...
January 1663: Despite the Act of Uniformity, Charles II...
National or international item
January 1663
Despite the Act of Uniformity,
ordered the release of many Dissenters (Quakers and others) from prison.
1663: Sir Roger L'Estrange was appointed the first...
1663
was appointed the first national Surveyor of the Press, an office designed to facilitate censorship.
1663: The first Turnpike Act was passed for the...
1663
The first Turnpike Act was passed for the maintenance and improvement of roads in Britain
Dorothy White: 24 January 1663
Women writers item
Author event in Dorothy White
24 January 1663
dated her broadside To all those that Worship in Temples made with Hands, written in the Counter Prison in Wood Street, London, and printed this year.
5 February 1663: John Dryden's first play, The Wild Gallant,...
Writing climate item
5 February 1663
's first play, The Wild Gallant, a comedy, opened on stage.
Katherine Philips: 10 February 1663
Women writers item
Author event in Katherine Philips
10 February 1663
's Pompey, a tragedy translated from
, was performed at the
(also known as the Theatre Royal, Dublin).
This purpose-built theatre, finer than London could offer at...
John Milton: 24 February 1663
Writing climate item
Author event in John Milton
24 February 1663
, aged fifty-four and blind, married as his third wife a woman thirty years younger,
. She outlived him, surviving through the first quarter of the eighteenth century.
March 1663: The American colony of Carolina was granted...
National or international item
March 1663
The American colony of Carolina was granted a Charter.
Anne Whitehead: 24 March 1663
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Whitehead
24 March 1663
Anne Downer (later
) made her first, brief marriage, when already a
and in her late thirties, to
.
Katherine Philips: Early April 1663
Women writers item
Author event in Katherine Philips
Early April 1663
's Pompey. A Tragœdy was published at Dublin by
.
Katherine Philips: By 8 April 1663
Women writers item
Author event in Katherine Philips
By 8 April 1663
An anonymous Irishwoman calling herself sent
her To the Excellent Orinda, a remarkable poem in her praise. The text was later included in the authorized, posthumous edition of Philips's Poems and its re-issues.