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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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1673: Richard Allestree (probably) published with...

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1673

Richard Allestree (probably) published with Oxford University PressThe Ladies Calling, a religious conduct book which became well-known and influential.
This is not among the several works attributed to Allestree which according to Elizabeth Eyre

Mary Carleton: 22 January 1673

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22 January 1673

MC was publicly hanged at Tyburn after conviction either for further crimes of theft or else for the crime of returning from transportation.
“The Complete Newgate Calendar”. University of Texas at Austin: Tarlton Law Library: Law in Popular Culture Collection: E-texts.
1: 265-6
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
134

February 1673: The Third Dutch War broke out; it lasted...

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February 1673

The Third Dutch War broke out; it lasted until the following year, to be ended partly by the unwillingness of the parliament to provide Charles II with further funds.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
165

Aphra Behn: 6 February 1673

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6 February 1673

The Dutch Lover, AB 's third play to be staged, had its probably sole performance at Dorset Garden .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

March 1673: Charles II withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence...

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March 1673

Charles II withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence promulgated one year earlier, which had offered a limited degree of freedom of worship to both Dissenters and Roman Catholics .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under John Bunyan

Jane Wiseman: 8 March 1673

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8 March 1673

A baby named Jane Wiseman was christened at St Andrew's Church, Holborn, who may well have been the future writer.
This is the only known person of these names born during the appropriate period...

Late March 1673: The Test Act barred from office (even local...

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Late March 1673

The Test Act barred from office (even local office) anyone who declined to take the sacrament of the Church of England and an oath against the Catholic doctrine of Transubstantiation.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
226-7
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
326

Bathsua Makin: After 19 May 1673

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After 19 May 1673

BM published the work on which her fame is based, An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen.
Makin, Bathsua. An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen. Thomas Parkhurst, 1673.
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Brink, Jeanie R. “Bathsua Reginald Makin: ’Most Learned Matron’”. Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
54
, 1991, pp. 313-26.
321

3 July 1673: Elkanah Settle's verse tragedy The Empress...

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3 July 1673

Elkanah Settle 's verse tragedy The Empress of Morocco, written in rhyming couplets and spectacularly staged, had its first public performance, following several at court with high-profile amateur actors.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
12 February 2008

15 July 1673: The Publishing Committee of the Society of...

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15 July 1673

The Publishing Committee of the Society of Friends made the decision to archive two copies of every book published by a Quaker.
Friends House Staff Member. Telephone conversation about the library at Friends House, London, with Isobel Grundy. 1998.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
145ff

Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick: 24 August 1673

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24 August 1673

The husband of Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick , died. For more than a month she could not eat, sleep, or pray—judging from his recent behaviour, she may have feared he was damned.
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
110-11

From September 1673: The Quakers set up a weekly Morning Meeting,...

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From September 1673

The Quakers set up a weekly Morning Meeting, in London changed with vetting texts submitted for publication.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
252

Anne Wharton: 16 September 1673

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16 September 1673

Anne Lee married Thomas Wharton at St Mary Aldermanbury in London.
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 Cavendish: 15 December 1673

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15 December 1673

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle , died suddenly at Welbeck, probably from the chronic stomach ailments which her purging and avoidance of exercise may have hastened.
Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Bloomsbury, 1988.
173-4

Jane Barker: By about 1674

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By about 1674

JB began writing poetry that survives in manuscript.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Agnes Beaumont: Probably 1674

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Probably 1674

AB wrote out the story of her father's persecution of her for forming her own religious belief and allegiance, now in print as The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont.
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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Mary Davys: About 1674

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About 1674

MD was born, probably though not certainly in Ireland.
Her date and place of birth have to be calculated from her somewhat conflicting and sometimes fictional statements.
Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlix.
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Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlix.
ix-x

Hannah Wolley: 1674

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1674

HW was living with one of her sons near the Old Bailey in London.
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.
182

Hannah Wolley: 1674

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1674

HW published A Supplement to the Queen-Like Closet, which includes (along with recipes for cooking and medicine and other household tips) a brief autobiography.
Wolley, Hannah. A Supplement to the Queen-Like Closet. 1st ed., Printed by T. R. for Richard Lowndes, 1764.
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Marie-Catherine de Villedieu: 1674

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1674

MCV 's stature as a writer was confirmed by the re-issue of an expanded version of her Oeuvres mêlées (1664). Here her short fictions Le Portefeuille and Les Désordres de l'amour first appeared.
Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale, 2003.
389
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Jane Lead: 1674

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1674

JL joined the religious household of John Pordage (who was now a widower) and became its joint leader; they lived the life of a commune, holding property in common.
Sperle, Joanne Magnani. God’s Healing Angel: A Biography of Jane Lead. Kent State University, 1985.
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Mary More: After 1674

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After 1674

MM wrote, but did not publish, a poem To the most Ingenious Mr. Robert Whitehall , Fellow of Merton College in Oxon.
Ezell, Margaret J. M. The Patriarch’s Wife. University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
149

1674: A Widow Page was reported to be renting out...

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1674

A Widow Page was reported to be renting out as well as selling books from her shop near London Bridge: this sounds like the germ of the circulating library.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

5 January 1674: Italian opera was performed for the first...

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5 January 1674

Italian opera was performed for the first time in London (with John Evelyn among the audience). It gained popularity quickly.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
596
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 209

Anne Wentworth: 13 February 1674

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13 February 1674

AW 's congregation excommunicated her, or as she wrote: Four eminent Professors of the people called Baptists, did in a most rough and severe manner come to deal with me, to accuse me falsly, and...