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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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Elizabeth Hooton: February 1672

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Author event in Elizabeth Hooton

February 1672

EH died during her last missionary visit to Jamaica, of an illness which rendered her weak and unable to speak.
Various sources including the Feminist Companion mistakenly date her death two years earlier.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
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Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick: 8-9 February 1672

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8-9 February 1672

Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick , wrote a 39-page autobiography, calling it some spesialetyes [sic] of my one [sic] life.
qtd. in
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
109

Elizabeth Polwhele: By 25 March 1672

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Author event in Elizabeth Polwhele

By 25 March 1672

EP wrote her only play to have reached print (centuries after its composition), the comedy The Frolicks; or, the Lawyer Cheated.
She dated it 1671, which in old-style terms ran until this date in March.
Polwhele, Elizabeth. “Introduction: A ’Lost’ Play and its Context”. The Frolicks, edited by Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume, Cornell University Press, 1977, pp. 13-49.
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Polwhele, Elizabeth. “Introduction: A ’Lost’ Play and its Context”. The Frolicks, edited by Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume, Cornell University Press, 1977, pp. 13-49.
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Sir Richard Steele: Shortly before 12 March 1672

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Author event in Sir Richard Steele

Shortly before 12 March 1672

Richard Steele , the future playwright, theatre manager, and originator of The Tatler, was born in Bull Alley, Dublin.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
497
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1993.
63
Dammers, Richard H. Richard Steele. Twayne, 1982.

15 March 1672: Charles II promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence,...

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15 March 1672

Charles II promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence, repealing all penal laws in force against nonconformist s or recusants in England. This was, however, withdrawn after a year.
“The Declaration of Indulgence, 1672”. Humanities Web: History.

Joseph Addison: 1 May 1672

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Author event in Joseph Addison

1 May 1672

JA , poet, dramatist, periodical essayist, and civil servant, was born at Milston near Amesbury in Wiltshire, one of six children and the eldest one to survive.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Lancelot Addison

John Bunyan: May 1672

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Author event in John Bunyan

May 1672

JB was freed under the Declaration of Indulgence of 12 March after twelve years spent largely in prison for seditious preaching. It was less than a year, however, before the Declaration was rescinded.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Rachel Russell: 16 May 1672

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Author event in Lady Rachel Russell

16 May 1672

LRR wrote the first of the thirty letters to her husband that survived for Mary Berry to publish in 1819.
Berry, Mary, and Lady Rachel Russell. Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819.
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1672: A Quaker committee set up by the first Yearly...

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1672

A Quakercommittee set up by the first Yearly Meeting began the work which resulted in decisions about members' publications: to vet them for acceptability, to finance, edit and distribute them, and to archive them.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
157

Anne Wharton: August-November 1672

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Author event in Anne Wharton

August-November 1672

Anne Lee (later AW ) was at Bath for her health, having been very ill of a sore throate.
qtd. in
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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Anne Bradstreet: 16 September 1672

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Author event in Anne Bradstreet

16 September 1672

AB died, probably of tuberculosis, at Andover, Massachusetts, where she also was buried.
Bradstreet, Anne. “The Introduction”. The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet, edited by Joseph R., Jr McElrath and Allan P. Robb, Twayne, 1981, p. xi - xlii.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Agnes Beaumont: 31 October 1672

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Author event in Agnes Beaumont

31 October 1672

AB was received into the Gamlingay congregation of John Bunyan 's Independent Church centred at Bedford.
Beaumont, Agnes. “Introduction”. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont, edited by Vera J. Camden, Colleagues Press, 1992, pp. 1-33.
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December 1672: The comedy Epsom-Wells, by Thomas Shadwell,...

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December 1672

The comedy Epsom-Wells, by Thomas Shadwell , pushed back the boundaries of what was acceptable on stage, by presenting minor characters fresh from having sex.
Hughes, Derek. “The Masked Woman Revealed; or, the prostitute and the playwright in Aphra Behn criticism”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, 2000, pp. 149-64.
158

26 December 1672: John Banister placed his first newspaper...

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26 December 1672

John Banister placed his first newspaper advertisement for a public concert at his house in Whitefriars, London.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Sarah, Lady Cowper: 1673

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Author event in Sarah, Lady Cowper

1673

SLC began compiling another commonplace-book which she apparently entitled The Medley.
Kugler, Anne. Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720. Stanford University Press, 2002.
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Cowper, Sarah, Countess. “Sarah Cowper’s Commonplace Book, 1673”. Defining Gender, 1450-1910, 2007.
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Hannah Wolley: 1673

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Author event in Hannah Wolley

1673

A hack writer hired by Dorman Newman issued a conduct-book in HW 's manner, The Gentlewoman's Companion, falsely ascribed to her by name.
Hobby, Elaine. “A woman’s best setting out is silence: the writings of Hannah Wolley”. Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration: Literature, Drama, History, edited by Gerald Maclean, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 179-00.
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Anna Maria van Schurman: 1673

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Author event in Anna Maria van Schurman

1673

AMS published at Altona her autobiographical Eukleria seu melioris partis electio (in English, Choice of the Better Part).
Her title comes from the Bible. When Christ visited the sisters Martha and Mary, Martha...

Susanna Hopton : 25 September 1673

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Author event in Susanna Hopton

25 September 1673

SH 's compilation Daily Devotions, Consisting of Thanksgivings, Confessions, and Prayers . . . For the Benefit of the more devout, and the assistance of weaker Christians was entered with the Stationers' Company .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Traherne
Hopton, Susanna. “Introductory Note”. Susanna Hopton, edited by Julia J. Smith, Ashgate, 2010, p. ix - xxiii.
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Hopton, Susanna. Daily Devotions. Jonathan Edwin, 1673.
title-page

Lucy Hutchinson: 1673

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Author event in Lucy Hutchinson

1673

LH wrote, or finished writing, a treatise On Theology, based on Theologoumena Pantodapa by John Owen .
Greer, Germaine. “Horror like Thunder”. London Review of Books, 21 June 2001, pp. 22-4.
22-3
Hutchinson, Lucy. “Introduction, Chronology”. Order and Disorder, edited by David Norbrook, Blackwell, 2001, p. i - lviii.
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Bathsua Makin: By 1673

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Author event in Bathsua Makin

By 1673

When her Essay appeared, BM had lately opened a girls' school at Tottenham, then four miles from London, with herself as Governess or headmistress.
qtd. in
Brink, Jeanie R. “Bathsua Reginald Makin: ’Most Learned Matron’”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
54
, 1991, pp. 313-26.
321

1673: The first recorded slave revolt on a serious...

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1673

The first recorded slave revolt on a serious scale took place, in Jamaica; the instigators were said to be Coromantines, that is people shipped from Fort Cormantine in what is now Ghana.
Behn, Aphra. “Editorial Materials”. Oroonoko, edited by Joanna Lipking, W. W. Norton, 1997, p. Various pages.
84

1673: The Physick Garden or botanical garden was...

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1673

The Physick Garden or botanical garden was established at Chelsea near London.
Mackay, David. In the Wake of Cook: Exploration, Science and Empire, 1780-1801. Croom Helm, 1985.
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1673: Puritan theologian Richard Baxter maintained...

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1673

Puritan theologian Richard Baxter maintained in print that capturing and selling slaves is robbery, and those who do it are fitter to be called incarnate Devils than Christians.
Chernaik, Warren. “Captains and Slaves: Aphra Behn and the Rhetoric of Republicanism”. The Seventeenth Century, Vol.
xvii
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2002, pp. 97-107.
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1673: Molière's comedy Les Femmes savantes, first...

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1673

Molière 's comedy Les Femmes savantes, first staged the previous year, was published.
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.
Kennedy, Deborah. Poetic Sisters. Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Bucknell University Press, 2013.
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1673: François Poulain (or Poullain) de la Barre...

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1673

François Poulain (or Poullain) de la Barre published at Paris his Cartesian treatise on gender equality, De l'égalité des deux sexes, which was translated into English four years later.
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
Buchanan, Dave. Augustan Women’s Verse Satire. University of Alberta, 1998.
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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.
Bosley, Vivien. “A Pre-Wave Ripple: The Sound of Other Voices”. Not Drowning but Waving: Women, Feminism, and the Liberal Arts, 14 Oct. 2006.