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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 Carleton: 19 April 1663

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19 April 1663

On Easter Day the future MC , the German princess, went through a form of marriage with John Carleton at Great St Bartholomew's Church in Smithfield, London; another ceremony with a licence followed two days later.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
140

Anne Conway: 29 April 1663

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29 April 1663

AC wrote the second of two letters from Lisburn in Ireland to Joseph Glanvill .
Glanvill, Joseph et al. Saducismus triumphatus. F. Collins and S. Lownds, 1681.
2: 288-9
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992.
214

Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater: May 1663

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May 1663

Lord Bridgewater was taken into the custody of Black Rod, the disciplinary officer of the royal household, to prevent his fighting a duel with Lord Middlesex . His wife, Lady Bridgewater , hurried to join...

Elizabeth Delaval: Later 1663

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Later 1663

Lady Elizabeth Livingston (later Delaval), in her mid teens and in the second year of a Court post, began to record her personal life in passages both of narrative and of pious meditation or analysis...

Mary Carleton: 5 or 6 May 1663

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5 or 6 May 1663

People with a warrant for MC 's arrest dragged her out of the marital lodgings in Durham Yard; she was stripped of her clothes and jewels.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
141-2

Elizabeth Stirredge: 6 May 1663

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6 May 1663

Elizabeth Tayler married James Stirredge , a Somerset man, and a Quaker like herself.
He belonged to the Somerset branch of a long-lasting Quaker family whose members elsewhere called themselves Sturge. Joseph Sturge was a...

7 May 1663: The King's Company (managed by Thomas Killigrew...

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7 May 1663

The King's Company (managed by Thomas Killigrew and formerly of Vere Street) opened at a new theatre in Bridges Street, Drury Lane.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 54

Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater: At some time after June 1663

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At some time after June 1663

After Lady Bridgewater died, a servant transcribed True Coppies of certaine Loose Papers left by ye Right Honorable Elizabeth, Countess of Bridgewater. Collected and Transcribed together here since Her Death, anno Dni 1663.
Bridgewater, Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of. Subordination and Authorship in Early Modern England: the case of Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton and her "loose papers". Editor Travitsky, Betty, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999.
155

Mary Carleton: 4 June 1663

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4 June 1663

MC stood trial for bigamy at the Old Bailey criminal court in London; she was acquitted.
Carleton, Mary. The Arraignment, Tryal and Examination of Mary Moders, otherwise Stedman, now Carleton. N. Brook, 1663.
title-page

12 June 1663: Samuel Pepys noted that it was now the fashion...

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12 June 1663

Samuel Pepys noted that it was now the fashion for ladies to hide their whole face with a vizard or mask throughout an evening at the theatre.
Pepys, Samuel. Diary. Editor Wheatley, Henry B., G. Bell and Sons, 1952, 8 vols.
3: 155-6 and n3

Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater: 14 June 1663

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14 June 1663

Elizabeth, Countess of Bridgewater , died in bearing a dead son in premature labour, in a Strange [that is unfamiliar] place,
Travitsky, Betty, and Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater. “Subordination and Authorship: Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton”. Subordination and Authorship: the case of Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton and her &quot:loose papers", Tempe, Ariz., 1999, pp. 1-172.
153
Black Rod's House in London. She was visiting her husband , who...

Lady Jane Cavendish: After mid-June 1663

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After mid-June 1663

Lady Jane Cheyne , formerly Cavendish, composed an elegy, On the Death of my Dear Sister the Countess of Bridgewater, probably quite soon after the event.
qtd. in
Cerasano, S. P., and Marion Wynne-Davies, editors. Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents. Routledge, 1996.
130

Mary Carleton: Probably June 1663

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Probably June 1663

MC signed the preface to a self-defensive pamphlet against the printed attacks on her: An Historical Narrative of the German Princess was apparently written by herself and aimed at a genteel audience.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Aphra Behn: Summer 1663

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Summer 1663

If AB was writing factually in Oroonoko, it may have been now that she sailed to Surinam in the Caribbean, an English colony.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
44, 37ff

Mary Carleton: Perhaps July 1663

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Perhaps July 1663

Among the flood of pamphlets addressing MC 's identity and her marriage, The Case of Madam Mary Carleton appears to be her own work, though that has been doubted by some readers from the beginning.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Suzuki, Mihoko. “The Case of Madam Mary Carleton: Representing the Female Subject, 1663-73”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 1 Mar.–31 May 1993, pp. 61-83.
63-4

August 1663: The Kaber Rigg Plot in the North of England...

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August 1663

The Kaber Rigg Plot in the North of England caused renewed persecution of Quakers .
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
ix, xii

29-30 August 1663: The Lord Chamberlain ordered the arrest of...

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29-30 August 1663

The Lord Chamberlain ordered the arrest of all actors performing without affiliation with the two patent houses (the King's Company , managed by Thomas Killigrew , and the Duke's Company , managed by Sir William Davenant ).
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 53

Mary More: 7 October 1663

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7 October 1663

After about a year of widowhood, Mary Waller married as her second husband Francis More .
Makin, Bathsua et al. Educating English Daughters. Editors Teague, Frances et al., Iter Academic Press; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016.
100

Lucy Hutchinson: 11 October 1663

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11 October 1663

LH 's husband was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London, on suspicion of playing a part in the Derwentdale Plot.
Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press, 1973.
243
Lucretius, and Lucretius. “Introduction”. Lucy Hutchinson’s Translation of Lucretius, "De rerum natura", edited by Hugh De Quehen, translated by. Lucy Hutchinson, University of Michigan Press, 1996, pp. 1-20.
3

14 October 1663: Samuel Pepys recorded (unsympathetically)...

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14 October 1663

Samuel Pepys recorded (unsympathetically) his impressions of a service at the LondonSynagogue ; women were out of sight behind a lattice.
Pepys, Samuel. Diary. Editor Wheatley, Henry B., G. Bell and Sons, 1952, 8 vols.
3: 283

John Dryden: 1 December 1663

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1 December 1663

JD married Lady Elizabeth Howard , the sister of his friend and patron Sir Robert Howard .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Just before 26 December 1663: Samuel Butler published Hudibras, a mock-heroic...

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Just before 26 December 1663

Samuel Butler published Hudibras, a mock-heroic verse satire on the Puritans.
Pepys, Samuel. Diary. Editor Wheatley, Henry B., G. Bell and Sons, 1952, 8 vols.
2: 399and n

Anne Audland: 1664

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1664

AA 's first husband, John Audland , died, very shortly before Anne gave birth to their son.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
229

Margaret Cavendish: 1664

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1664

Margaret Cavendish , Marchioness of Newcastle, issued a second edition of her first work, Poems, and Phancies; much Altered and Corrected, as the title-page promises.
Moore, Judith. “The Duchess of Newcastle as Seventeenth-Century Writer and Twentieth-Century Feminist”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford, 5 Jan. 1998.

Margaret Cavendish: 1664

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1664

Margaret Cavendish , Marchioness of Newcastle, published Philosophical Letters: or, Modest Reflections upon some Opinions in Natural Philosophy . . . expressed by way of Letters.
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.