Grant, Douglas. Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957.
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Events Timeline
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Margaret Cavendish: 1666
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Cavendish
1666
, Duchess of Newcastle, published Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. To which is added, The Description of a New Blazing World; the second title is that of her part-autobiographical, scientific (science-fiction?) adventure-fantasy.
Anne Conway: January-February 1666
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Conway
January-February 1666
was visited for a month at Ragley by the Irish Protestant healer
. He cured many others while he stayed there, but not Lady Conway.
Anne Wentworth: By 1666
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Wentworth
By 1666
was back, she said, in the marital home which her husband,
, had turned her out of. They each lived somewhere else for a time, while William sublet the house in Kingshead...
Mary Pix: 1666
Women writers item
1666: John Bunyan published his spiritual autobiography,...
Writing climate item
1666
published his spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners.
1666: Joanna Nye, an Essex parson's daughter, was...
1666
, an Essex parson's daughter, was bound apprentice to
, engraver: the first woman so bound, under the Act for the Encouragement of Learning, to the
.
1 February 1666: From this date survives the earliest known...
Writing climate item
1 February 1666
From this date survives the earliest known number of The London Gazette, the first official government newspaper.
Anne-Thérèse de Lambert: 21 February 1666
Writing climate item
Author event in Anne-Thérèse de Lambert
21 February 1666
, aged eighteen, was married to
, a brilliant captain in the Royal Cavalry Regiment, aged thirty-five.
Hannah Allen: Between April and Autumn 1666
Women writers item
Author event in Hannah Allen
Between April and Autumn 1666
gradually recovered from her bouts of religious mania while staying at the house of her old friends John Shorthose and his wife.
She says she left their house two weeks after Michaelmas, which is...
Hannah Wolley: April 1666
Women writers item
Author event in Hannah Wolley
April 1666
, as a widow living in Westminster, married
, a gentleman, as his second wife.
Ann, Lady Fanshawe: 16 June 1666
Women writers item
Author event in Ann, Lady Fanshawe
16 June 1666
's
died in Madrid at the age of fifty-eight; he had been recalled to England but had not yet acted on the summons.
This was 26 June in the New Style already...
Margaret Fell: By late June 1666
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Fell
By late June 1666
printed her Letter sent to the (together with a Paper written unto the Magistrates in 1664, which was then printed, and should have been Dispersed but was Prevented by Wicked Hands).
Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick: July 1666
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick
July 1666
, began, for religious reasons, to keep a diary, which she continued till the year before she died.
Anne Bradstreet: 10 July 1666
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Bradstreet
10 July 1666
's house caught fire during the night, and burned to the ground: among the possessions lost was a remarkable library of more than eight hundred books.
Anne Bradstreet: After July 1666
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Bradstreet
After July 1666
wrote An Apology to accompany her Monarchies, relating how she had revised and added to it since publication, but that her efforts were lost when her house burned down.
Aphra Behn: Late July 1666
Women writers item
Author event in Aphra Behn
Late July 1666
was sent as a government spy to Antwerp to liaise with
(who may have been her lover in Surinam). A document (no doubt supplementing oral instructions) was provided her by the...
Margaret Fell: Later 1666
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Fell
Later 1666
published with her initials her most famous work, Womens Speaking Justified . . . by the Scriptures, one of a number of works she wrote while imprisoned in Lancaster Castle.
8-9 August 1666: In a major English coup of the Second Dutch...
National or international item
8-9 August 1666
In a major English coup of the Second Dutch War,
and
burned a hundred and fifty Dutch merchant ships off the island of Schelling.
2-17 September 1666: The Great Fire of London almost entirely...
National or international item
2-17 September 1666
The Great Fire of London almost entirely destroyed the medieval city.
Aphra Behn: By late October 1666
Women writers item
Author event in Aphra Behn
By late October 1666
, working as a spy, was already in dire straits for money.
Mary Astell: 12 November 1666
Women writers item
14 November 1666: Samuel Pepys recorded a pretty experiment,6:...
14 November 1666
recorded a pretty experiment, apparently the first-ever blood transfusion and first-ever vivisection: a dog had its own blood pumped out while the blood of another dog was pumped into it.
December 1666: Wenceslaus Hollar published a map of London...
December 1666
published a map of London to show how it had changed since the Great Fire.
In the text the date is given wrongly as 1665, but it is clear on the print.
7 December 1666: More than a hundred Covenanters were found...
National or international item
7 December 1666
More than a hundred
were found guilty of rebellion and sentenced to be hanged with particular brutality from the Mercat Cross in Edinburgh.
7 December 1666: This was probably the first day a public...
7 December 1666
This was probably the first day a public theatre opened in London after a seventeen-month closure owing to the plague.