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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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Probably March 1671: William Wycherley's first comedy, Love in...
Writing climate item
Probably March 1671
's first comedy, Love in a Wood, opened on stage; it was published the next year.
Jane Sharp: May 1671
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Sharp
May 1671
's textbook The Midwives Book; or, The Whole Art of Midwifery Discovered . . . was entered in the Term Catalogues. It was published that year, dedicated to the Celebrated Midwives of Great...
May 1671: John Milton published, together, Paradise...
Writing climate item
May 1671
published, together, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes: a small-scale religious epic and a blank-verse tragedy.
Bathsheba Bowers: Before June 1671
Writing climate item
Author event in Bathsheba Bowers
Before June 1671
was born, probably at Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of a family of twelve. She was baptised in Cambridge on June 4th.
Margaret Cavendish: 14 July 1671
Women writers item
Author event in Margaret Cavendish
14 July 1671
A squalid attempt to blacken
's character ended when one John Booth swore before a Justice of the Peace to the genuineness of his letter of recantation.
18 July 1671: The Quaker women's meeting, begun by Ann...
18 July 1671
The
women's meeting, begun by
and
, was held at Priestwood near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire: it has been called the first documented women's meeting.
Elizabeth Hooton: 11 August 1671
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Hooton
11 August 1671
left on her third and final missionary visit across the Atlantic, to Barbados and Jamaica with
and others.
Mary Penington: September 1671
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Penington
September 1671
travelled through Kent, past Gravesend to The Downs, with her
, her daughter
or Gully, and
, to see
off on a preaching voyage.
Fox...
Sarah Dixon: 28 September 1671
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Dixon
28 September 1671
was baptised in Rochester, Kent, the eldest of a family of three.
October 1671: The Swarthmoor Women's Monthly Meeting was...
October 1671
The Swarthmoor Women's Monthly Meeting was instituted (perhaps the first women's meeting of
outside London to become permanent, though the Great Missenden meeting had first met by July).
By October 1671: Protests were raised against Lady Davenant...
By October 1671
Protests were raised against
for building a new theatre in Barbican, London.
November 1671: The Quaker Thomas Milne of Aberdeen, who...
November 1671
The
of Aberdeen, who had buried his dead child in a kail-yard in preference to the Presbyterian grave-yard, was punished by a sentence of exile, closing his shop, and removing the body.
9 November 1671: The Duke's Company (now managed by Lady Davenant)...
9 November 1671
The
(now managed by
) opened a splendid new theatre in Dorset Garden, London.
Elizabeth Freke: 14 November 1671
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Freke
14 November 1671
, Governed . . . wholly by My affections, married her Irish cousin
, who had been courting her for years.
December 1671: The Rehearsal, containing Buckingham's merciless...
Writing climate item
December 1671
The Rehearsal, containing
's merciless satirical portrait of
, finally reached the stage.
Aphra Behn: 1672
Women writers item
Hannah Wolley: 1672
Women writers item
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu: 1672
Writing climate item
Author event in Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
1672
began with four parts the anonymous publication of her pseudo-autobiographical fiction Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière (which she completed with two more parts in 1674).
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu: 1672
Writing climate item
Author event in Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
1672
returned to fictionalising Roman history, or literary history, with the opening of a group of tales (each one described as a novel) entitled Les Exiléz de la Cour d'.
Mary Penington: About 1672
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Penington
About 1672
wrote a Postscript to explain the history of her autobiographical Brief Account.
Lucy Hutchinson: 1671
Women writers item
Author event in Lucy Hutchinson
1671
was forced by financial need to sell her late
's estate of Owthorpe in Nottinghamshire to his half-brother.
Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale: 1672
Women writers item
Author event in Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale
1672
was born, the last of a family of six children, all girls except one.
1672: Puritan Nonconformist James Janeway published,...
1672
Puritan Nonconformist
published, for children, A Token for Children: Being an Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives, and Joyful Deaths of Several Young Children (of both sexes).
20 January 1672: Dorothy Calthorpe began the remarkable manuscript...
Women writers item
20 January 1672
began the remarkable manuscript book of poetry and prose which was acquired by
in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
25 January 1672: The theatre in Bridges Street, Drury Lane,...
25 January 1672
The theatre in Bridges Street, Drury Lane, home of the
(managed by
), was destroyed by fire.