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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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Hannah Wolley: 1670

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1670

HW published The Queen-Like Closet, or Rich Cabinet: her title probably refers to The Queens Closet Opened, another cookery book published in 1655.
Wolley, Hannah. The Queen-Like Closet, or Rich Cabinet. 1st ed., Printed for J. Lowndes, 1670.
title-page
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Sarah Stone: 1670s

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Author event in Sarah Stone

1670s

From her very general remarks about the age at which she began to practise, SS must have been born some time during this decade.
Grundy, Isobel. “Sarah Stone: Enlightenment Midwife”. Clio Medica: Medicine in the Enlightenment, edited by Roy Porter, Rodopi, 1995, pp. 128-44.
130

Elizabeth Polwhele: About 1670

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Author event in Elizabeth Polwhele

About 1670

EP wrote her first surviving play, The Faithful Virgins, a rhyming tragedy, which was apparently performed by the Duke's Company at Lincoln's Inn Fields .
It has been dated June 1663, but editors Milhous

Lucy Hutchinson: Probably in the years around 1670

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Author event in Lucy Hutchinson

Probably in the years around 1670

LH wrote an autobiographical sketch to accompany her life of her husband.
Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press, 1973.
Hutchinson, Lucy. “Introduction, Chronology”. Order and Disorder, edited by David Norbrook, Blackwell, 2001, p. i - lviii.
xi

Julian of Norwich: 1670

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1670

Julian of Norwich 's work reached print as Revelations of Divine Love.
Julian of Norwich. “Introduction”. A Book of Showings, edited by Edmund Colledge and James Walsh, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1978, pp. 1-198.
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Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette: 1670-1

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1670-1

MML , using the name Monsieur de Segrais, published Zayde: histoire espagnole, a novel whose first volume includes an important critical preface by Bishop Pierre-Daniel Huet , Traité de l'origine des romans, which discusses female authorship.
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.

Delarivier Manley: About 1670

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About 1670

DM was probably born this year in the island of Jersey, if not at sea between there and Guernsey.
This account is from Ros Ballaster in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...

1670: The Hôtel Dieu in Paris was given letters...

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1670

The Hôtel Dieu in Paris was given letters patent to operate as a sanctuary for abandoned babies; it also operated as a centre for training nurses, run by nuns.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
10: 746-7
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
19: 914-5

1670: Members of a London jury headed by Edward...

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1670

Members of a London jury headed by Edward Bushel (called by a recent commentator disinterested . . . property-owners) professed themselves willing to go to jail rather than to convict against their consciences.
Sedley, Stephen. “From Victim to Suspect”. London Review of Books, 21 July 2005, pp. 15-17.
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1670: Les Pensées de M. Pascal sur la réligion,...

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1670

Les Pensées de M. Pascal sur la réligion, et sur quelques autres sujets was posthumously published: it takes the form of a collection of aphorisms and very brief essays.
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.

From 1670: Mrs Bellpine (nee La Marre) ran a fashionable...

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From 1670

Mrs Bellpine (nee La Marre) ran a fashionable boarding school for girls at Marylebone, London, which flourished until the mid 1700s.
Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972.
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1670: Henry Care translated von Nettesheim's De...

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1670

Henry Care translated von Nettesheim 's De Nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus, 1529, as Female Pre-eminence; or, The Dignity and Excellency of that Sex, above the Male; this was the third English translation.
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
Catalogue No. 2

William Congreve: Probably 24 January 1670

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Probably 24 January 1670

WC , poet and playwright, was born at Bardsley near Leeds in Yorkshire.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives his birth as either this date or 30 January.
Congreve, William. “Chronology”. The Way of the World, edited by Kathleen M. Lynch, University of Nebraska Press, 1965, pp. 126-36.
128

March-June 1670: The Sacred Historie, a verse paraphrase of...

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March-June 1670

The Sacred Historie, a verse paraphrase of the book of Genesis probably written by Mary Roper , dedicated to Queen Catherine of Braganza , was beautifully transcribed for presentation.
Millman, Jill Seal. “’The Sacred Historie’: Brotherton Library MS Lt q 2, A Royalist Verse Paraphrase of Genesis by a Woman, c. 1670”. Leviathan to Licensing Act (1650-1737): Theatre, Print and their Contexts Conference, Loughborough, 15 Sept. 2004.

16 March 1670: The borough council of Aberdeen, finding...

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16 March 1670

The borough council of Aberdeen, finding that its suppression of Catholic and Quaker meetings on 15 February was being flouted, moved to arrest all male Quakers at the next meeting.
Walker, William. The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860. Edmond and Spark, 1887.
92

24 March 1670: The divorce of Lord Ros or Roos, on grounds...

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24 March 1670

The divorce of Lord Ros or Roos, on grounds of his wife's adultery, passed the House of Lords : the first such occasion since Henry VIII , said John Evelyn .
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
538
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon Press, 1955, 6 vols.
3: 545-6 and n1
Stone, Lawrence. Road to Divorce: England 1530-1987. Oxford University Press, 1990.
309

Anne Wharton: March 1670

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Author event in Anne Wharton

March 1670

Anne Lee (later AW ) fell ill: this is the earliest mention of her persistent ill-health.
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.
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Margaret Fell: April 1670

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Author event in Margaret Fell

April 1670

MF was a second time imprisoned at Lancaster for her Quaker work.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
xiii
Fox, George, 1624 - 1691 et al. The Journal of George Fox. Editor Nickalls, John L., Cambridge University Press, 1952.
557

Jane Lead: April 1670

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Author event in Jane Lead

April 1670

Soon after her husband 's death on February the fifth, JL had her formative vision.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
168-9
Sperle, Joanne Magnani. God’s Healing Angel: A Biography of Jane Lead. Kent State University, 1985.
76, 103

Jane Lead: 1670-1686

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Author event in Jane Lead

1670-1686

From the time of her first vision in the year of her husband 's death, JL kept a private spiritual diary.
Sperle, Joanne Magnani. God’s Healing Angel: A Biography of Jane Lead. Kent State University, 1985.
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Anne Whitehead: Probably later 1670

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Author event in Anne Whitehead

Probably later 1670

The year after her second marriage, AW (with thirty-six other women, including Rebecca Travers and Mary Elson ) signed For the King and both Houses of Parliament, a petition against the imprisonment of Friends

Mary Penington: Later 1670

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Author event in Mary Penington

Later 1670

MP and her imprisoned husband learned that their second son, Isaac, had drowned at sea on his way back from Barbados.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Isaac Penington
Penington, Mary. Some Account of Circumstances in the Life of Mary Pennington. Harvey and Darton, 1821.
iii-iv

May 1670: The Second Conventicle Act (following the...

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May 1670

The Second Conventicle Act (following the First Conventicle Act of July 1664) extended government powers against anyone meeting for worship other than in an Anglican Church.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
xiii, 140

2 May 1670: Charles II signed the charter for the Hudson,...

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2 May 1670

Charles II signed the charter for the Hudson, or Hudson's, Bay Company , giving it trading rights in Rupert's Land.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
618
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
307

Anne Whitehead: 13 May 1670

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13 May 1670

Anne Greenwell made her second marriage, to George Whitehead , a grocer, legal expert, and veteran of prison, about twelve years her junior, who was known for his defences of Friends both in court and...