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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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Catherine Holland: 7 September 1664

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7 September 1664

CH was professed as a nun, one of the English Augustinian Canonesses , at Nazareth Monastery (the English Convent) at Bruges (founded from St Monica's , Louvain).
CH writes this date, in a...

Lucy Hutchinson: 11 September 1664

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11 September 1664

LH 's husband died at Sandown Castle near Deal in Kent, his latest prison.
Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press, 1973.
272
Greer, Germaine. “Horror like Thunder”. London Review of Books, 21 June 2001, pp. 22-4.
22

Margaret Fell: Mid-September 1664

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Mid-September 1664

MF , in prison in Lancaster Castle, dated A Call to the Universall Seed of God, which she anonymously published the next year.
Fell, Margaret. A Brief Collection of Remarkable Passages. J. Sowle, 1710.
304

Catherine Holland: 20 September 1664

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20 September 1664

CH , as a nun of hardly two weeks' standing, began writing the story of her conversion, by the order of her confessor.
Durrant, Catherine S. A Link between Flemish Mystics and English Martyrs. Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 1925.
271
CH writes the date thus, in a Protestant country which, like...

December 1664: The Second Dutch War broke out, following...

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December 1664

The Second Dutch War broke out, following Puritan antimonarchical conspiracies of the previous year.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
78
Seaward, Paul. “The Restoration 1660-1688”. Stuart England, edited by Blair Worden, Phaidon, 1986, pp. 147-75.
158-9

Hester Biddle: 1665

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1665

HB was imprisoned in Newgate Prison for speaking publicly in the street.
Hobby, Elaine. Virtue of Necessity: English Women’s Writing 1646-1688. Virago, 1988.
46

Anna Hume: : Perhaps about 1665

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Perhaps about 1665

AH addressed a brief surviving letter to the Earl (later Duke) of Lauderdale , asking to be allowed to present a petition, which is not itself known.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lucy Hutchinson: Between 1665 and July 1671

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Between 1665 and July 1671

LH wrote her finished version of her Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson during these years soon after his death, completing it while his associate Colonel John Wright was still in prison.
Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press, 1973.
244n3

Mary More: Late 1660s

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Late 1660s

MM wrote for her little daughterElizabeth her proto-feminist treatise, The Womans Right.
qtd. in
Ezell, Margaret J. M. The Patriarch’s Wife. University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
191-203

1665: François de La Rochefoucauld published Réflexions,...

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1665

François de La Rochefoucauld published Réflexions, Sentences, et Maximes Morales.
“François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)”. Pegasos: A Literature Resource Site: Authors’ Calendar: Books and Writers: Alphabetical listing of authors in this calendar.

1665: The Royal Society, founded the previous year,...

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1665

The Royal Society , founded the previous year, published its first number of Philosophical Transactions, the earliest scientific journal.
Cook, Chris, and John Wroughton. English Historical Facts, 1603-1688. Macmillan, 1980.
224
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.

1665: Lillias Skene (born Lillias Gillespie in...

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1665

Lillias Skene (born Lillias Gillespie in 1626), wife of a leading Aberdeen citizen and a recent convert to the Quakerism , penned the first poem in a volume which she went on using till her...

1665: Robert Hooke offered in Micrographia, as...

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1665

Robert Hooke offered in Micrographia, as its title explains, both physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses and also observations and inquiries, that is, scientific speculations and hypotheses.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

Joan Whitrow: Early 1665

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Early 1665

About three months before the great plague hit London (JW wrote later) she left her one-year-old child, who was not yet weaned, to go on foot to Bristol and preach there at God's command.
Whitrow, Joan. The Humble Address of the Widow Whitrowe to King William. 1689.
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Margaret Cavendish: 18 March 1665

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18 March 1665

Margaret Cavendish 's husband was created Duke of Newcastle in recognition of his services to the crown.
Cavendish, Margaret. “Introduction”. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader, edited by Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Heller Mendelson, Broadview, 2000, pp. 9-37.
37
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
9: 524

: John Dryden's The Indian Emperour (sequel...

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Spring 1665

John Dryden 's The Indian Emperour (sequel to The Indian Queen) was first performed in London.
Dryden, John. “Biographical Table”. Dryden: Poetry, Prose and Plays, edited by Douglas Grant, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952.
15

Spring to autumn 1665: The Great Plague (probably bubonic plague...

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Spring to autumn 1665

The Great Plague (probably bubonic plague or pasteurella pestis) raged in London. Londoners' experience is well-known from the accounts of Samuel Pepys and Daniel Defoe ; in some other parts of Britain 1666 was...

3 June 1665: The English fleet defeated the Dutch in a...

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3 June 1665

The English fleet defeated the Dutch in a sea-battle fought close enough to shore for the cannonade to be heard in London; John Dryden set the dialogue of An Essay of Dramatick Poesie (1667...

5 June 1665: The Lord Chamberlain closed the London theatres...

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5 June 1665

The Lord Chamberlain closed the London theatres for fear of the plague.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 81

7 June 1665: Pepys, on the hottest day that I have ever...

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7 June 1665

Pepys , on the hottest day that I have ever felt in my life, had his first sight of a red cross painted on the doors of several houses to say they were plague-stricken.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
73-4

Marie-Catherine de Villedieu: 13 June 1665

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13 June 1665

MCV 's Le Favory became the first play by a woman to be given at a command performance before the French monarch (with newly-composed music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a prologue, now lost, by Molière ).
Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale, 2003.
386-7

2 July 1665: Astronomer Johann Helvelius first recorded...

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2 July 1665

Astronomer Johann Helvelius first recorded observations of the stars made at home in Danzig (now Gdansk) in Poland by his wife Elizabeth Helvelius , his assistant and later his collaborator.
Cook, Alan. “Johann and Elizabeth Helvelius, astronomers of Danzig”. Endeavour, Vol.
24
, No. 1, Mar. 2000, pp. 8-12.
8-12

Anne Bradstreet: August 1665

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August 1665

AB wrote a brief epitaph on an infant grand-daughter.
Bradstreet, Anne, and Adrienne Rich. The Works of Anne Bradstreet. Editor Hensley, Jeannine, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.
235

14 August 1665: At Devizes in Wiltshire Joan Meriwether was...

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14 August 1665

At Devizes in Wiltshire Joan Meriwether was accused of witchcraft: of causing harm to a child by caressing it.
Purkiss, Diane. The Witch in History: early modern and twentieth-century representations. Routledge, 1996.
109, 117n91

Anne Audland: 1666

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1666

Two years after her first husband 's death, AA married Thomas Camm .
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.