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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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Margaret Cavendish: 1664

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1664

Margaret Cavendish , Marchioness of Newcastle, included a dedicatory preface to her husband in CCXI Sociable 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.

Ann, Lady Fanshawe: January 1664

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January 1664

Ann Fanshawe sailed with her husband on the journey to Madrid, where he was appointed British Ambassador to Spain.
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.
98

Margaret Fell: Early in 1664

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Early in 1664

A Colonel Richard Kirkby delivered a warning through George Fox to MF that she must cease holding great meetings at her house for they met contrary to the Act.
Fox, George, 1624 - 1691 et al. The Journal of George Fox. Editor Nickalls, John L., Cambridge University Press, 1952.
456

Hannah Wolley: 1664

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1664

HW published, with her name on the title-page, The Cook's Guide: or, Rare Receipts for Cookery.
Wolley, Hannah. The Cook’s Guide: or, Rare Receipts for Cookery. 1st ed., Printed for Peter Dring, 1664.
title-page

Rebecca Travers: 1664

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1664

RT published a tract entitled This is For All or Any of Those (by what name or title soever they be distinguished) that resist the Spirit; she signed it R. T.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Jane Lead: About 1664

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About 1664

JL braved family disapproval to join the sect run by John and Mary Pordage .
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
168

1664: Charles II granted land in America to the...

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1664

Charles II granted land in America to the Duke of York , which in 1681 was sold to the Quaker William Penn , and eventually became the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
940

Katherine Philips: 14 January 1664

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14 January 1664

Poems by the Incomparable, Mrs K. P. was advertised for sale by Richard Marriott of Fleet Street, London.
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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16 January 1664: The Indian Queen, the first heroic tragedy...

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16 January 1664

The Indian Queen, the first heroic tragedy on the English stage, by John Dryden and Sir Robert Howard , opened in London.
Dryden, John. “Biographical Table”. Dryden: Poetry, Prose and Plays, edited by Douglas Grant, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952.
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Katherine Philips: 18 January 1664

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18 January 1664

Marriott (acting before KP could personally seek to compel him) announced that he would withdraw his edition of her Poems by the Incomparable, Mrs K. P..
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.
19-20

Margaret Fell: February 1664-June 1668

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February 1664-June 1668

Arrested in her turn at Holker, MF was imprisoned in Lancaster Castle for her Quaker activism.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
xii, xiii

Katherine Philips: March 1664

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March 1664

KP , who had been looking forward to a visit to London since soon after her return home from Dublin, left Cardigan for the capital in the aftermath of the pirated edition of her poems...

March 1664: George Etherege's first play, The Comical...

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March 1664

George Etherege 's first play, The Comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub, opened on stage.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

10 March 1664: Amy Duny was accused of trying to harm a...

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10 March 1664

Amy Duny was accused of trying to harm a child by witchcraft when a toad was found in its blanket.
Purkiss, Diane. The Witch in History: early modern and twentieth-century representations. Routledge, 1996.
122, 140n13

Sarah, Lady Cowper: 11 April 1664

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11 April 1664

Two months after her mother died, Sarah Holled married the rising lawyer William Cowper (1639‐1706) at St Peter's Church on St Paul's Wharf in London.
Kugler, Anne. Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720. Stanford University Press, 2002.
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Mary Carleton: 15 April 1664

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15 April 1664

MC acted the role of herself on stage, in the perhaps single performance of a play by either Thomas Parker or John Holden entitled The German Princess; in the audience was Samuel Pepys ...

Bathsua Makin: 2 May 1664

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2 May 1664

BM composed Upon the much lamented death of the Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Langham, which appeared in Simon Ford 's A Christian's Acquiescence, 1665, a miscellany of poems on this subject.
Brink, Jeanie R. “Bathsua Reginald Makin: ’Most Learned Matron’”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
54
, 1991, pp. 313-26.
319-20, 325n32
Teague, Frances. Bathsua Makin, Woman of Learning. Bucknell University Press, 1998.
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Hannah Allen: 12 May 1664

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12 May 1664

HA recorded that she was waiting to see whether God would deliver her from her troubles; the devil tempted her to believe that God would not.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
202

Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick: 16 May 1664

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16 May 1664

The twenty-year-old son of Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick , died of smallpox, leaving her crushed by sorrow and guilt.
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
88

Katherine Philips: After 16 May 1664

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After 16 May 1664

KP wrote an elegy On the Death of My Lord Rich, a victim of the smallpox epidemic which was soon to claim her as well.
Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books, 1990–1993, 3 vols.
1: 206-7, 379

Katherine Philips: 10 June 1664

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10 June 1664

KP wrote her last poem: to Gilbert Sheldon , Archbishop of Canterbury.
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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Philips, Katherine. Collected Works. Editors Thomas, Patrick et al., Stump Cross Books, 1990–1993, 3 vols.
1: 391-2

Marie-Catherine de Villedieu: 21 June 1664

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21 June 1664

Antoine de Villedieu made his second promise of marriage to Marie-Catherine Desjardins , before a notary, after she had borrowed money to pursue him to Provence.
Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale, 2003.
386

Katherine Philips: 22 June 1664

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22 June 1664

KP died of smallpox in Fleet Street, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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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July 1664: The Conventicle Act prohibited assembling...

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July 1664

The Conventicle Act prohibited assembling for worship anywhere other than in an Anglican church.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
315
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
302
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
xii

Sarah Savage: 7 August 1664

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7 August 1664

Sarah Henry (later SS ) was born at Broad Oak in Flintshire, the eldest daughter in her parents' family of six.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.