Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
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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25 September 1667: Thomas Willis, in the Latin work translated...
25 September 1667
, in the Latin work translated in 1681 as An Essay of the Pathology of the Brain and Nervous Stock, first suggested that a range of ailments, notably hysteria, originated in the...
October 1667: John Milton published his epic poem Paradise...
Writing climate item
October 1667
published his epic poem Paradise Lost, which he had begun dictating before the Restoration and entered in the Stationers' Register in August.
Alice Thornton: 11 November 1667
Women writers item
Author event in Alice Thornton
11 November 1667
's ninth child was born and (like her first) died the same day.
Jonathan Swift: 30 November 1667
Writing climate item
Author event in Jonathan Swift
30 November 1667
, satirist, pamphleteer, poet, and churchman, was born in Dublin.
Margaret Cavendish: December 1667
Women writers item
Alicia D'Anvers: December 1667
Women writers item
Author event in Alicia D'Anvers
December 1667
Alice Clarke (later
) was most probably born this month in Oxford.
Margaret Cavendish: 1668
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Author event in Margaret Cavendish
1668
, published Grounds of Natural Philosophy: not a new work but a radical revision.
Margaret Cavendish: 1668
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Margaret Fell: Probably 1668
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Author event in Margaret Fell
Probably 1668
published with her initials, undated, the last of her works addressed to the Jews: A Call unto the Seed of Israel, that they may come out of Egypts Darkness.
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu: 1668
Writing climate item
Author event in Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
1668
published Lettres et Billets Galants by
, against her will but anonymously and in a smaller print run than he had originally planned.
Winefrid Thimelby: 1668
Women writers item
Author event in Winefrid Thimelby
1668
became prioress of her convent,
at Louvain, where she became the most loved of all the Mothers.
Mary Penington: 1668
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Penington
1668
, who had written her first partial autobiography a considerable time before, thought of taking steps to preserve it, but in the end did nothing.
1668: Josiah Child, member of a famous banking...
1668
, member of a famous banking family, expressed his admiration in Brief Observations Concerning Trade and Interest of Money for the Dutch habit of educating girls as well as boys in penmanship and accounting.
1668: Jean Racine's tragedy Andromaque, first staged...
Writing climate item
1668
's tragedy Andromaque, first staged the previous year, was published; it features a powerful and admirable heroine.
1668: From this year dates the first record of...
1668
From this year dates the first record of a coffee house collecting a library of books for the use of patrons. Coffee-house libraries became common by about 1740, giving patrons a very low-cost read.
1668: The East India Company acquired Bombay, the...
National or international item
1668
The
acquired Bombay, the present-day Mumbai (which had come to the British crown in 1662 as part of the dowry of
).
1668: Jean de La Fontaine published his first collection...
Writing climate item
1668
published his first collection of animal Fables.
1668: Martha Taylor attracted attention for fasting:...
1668
attracted attention for fasting: the first published account, largely in her own words, presented her abstinence as holy; an account for the
attacked both this text and Taylor herself.
Aphra Behn: 13 January 1668
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Author event in Aphra Behn
13 January 1668
An amateur performance at Court of
's The Indian Emperor used a prologue which
included in her Covent Garden Drolery, but probably did not write.
Katherine Philips: 4 February 1668
Women writers item
Author event in Katherine Philips
4 February 1668
's tragedy Horace, translated from the French of
and completed after her death by
, was posthumously performed at the English Court.
Hannah Allen: Probably spring 1668
Women writers item
Author event in Hannah Allen
Probably spring 1668
, now recovered from the religious despair that followed the death of her first
, married a widower named
.
After 7 April 1668: On the death of Sir William Davenant, his...
After 7 April 1668
On the death of
, his
took over the running of
Theatre; she managed it until the 1670s, and therefore presided over the debut of
.
13 April 1668: Six days after the death of Sir William Davenant,...
Writing climate item
13 April 1668
Six days after the death of
, the Poet Laureate,
was appointed to fill the position.
Gertrude Thimelby: 24 July 1668
Women writers item
Author event in Gertrude Thimelby
24 July 1668
died in
convent at Louvain, aged forty-seven, after ten years as a widowed nun.
Alice Thornton: 17 September 1668
Women writers item
Author event in Alice Thornton
17 September 1668
's husband,
, died of what she describes as paralytic illness, while he was away from home on a visit he designed to combat the rumours already being circulated against his wife...