Chudleigh, Mary, Lady. “Introduction”. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh, edited by Margaret J. M. Ezell, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xvii - xxxvi.
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Mary, Lady Chudleigh: 25 March 1674
Women writers item
Author event in Mary, Lady Chudleigh
25 March 1674
married George Chudleigh of Ashton in Devon. When he later became a baronet she became Lady Chudleigh.
26 March 1674: The King's Company opened at its new Drury...
26 March 1674
The
opened at its new
, in Drury Lane, still under the management of
.
Frances, Lady Norton: 4 August 1674
Women writers item
Author event in Frances, Lady Norton
4 August 1674
, bore her daughter and only surviving child, who was christened
; the godmothers were Norton's sister
and her mother-in-law, who had re-married after her husband's death and was...
Catharine Trotter: Probably 16 August 1674
Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Trotter
Probably 16 August 1674
was born in London, one of two daughters. The record of her baptism thirteen days after this looks reliable, though both her names are mis-spelled.
Anne Dacier: After 26 August 1674
Writing climate item
Author event in Anne Dacier
After 26 August 1674
The future
(still married to her shadowy first husband) published her edition of the minor Latin historian
, one of the series of translations designed for teaching the
to the French throne:...
Elizabeth Singer Rowe: 11 September 1674
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Singer Rowe
11 September 1674
Elizabeth Singer (later
) was born at Ilchester in Somerset.
John Milton: Probably 8 November 1674
Writing climate item
Author event in John Milton
Probably 8 November 1674
, poet and antimonarchist theorist, died after years of blindness and political defeat, at his home in Artillery Walk (now Bunhill Row) in London, probably of kidney failure caused by gout.
Anne Audland: 1675
Women writers item
Hannah Wolley: Probably by 1675
Women writers item
Hannah Wolley: 1675
Women writers item
Author event in Hannah Wolley
1675
's Ladies Delight was reprinted without her involvement, much revised, as The Accomplish'd Ladies Delight.
's failure to protest against this plagiarism leads scholar
to conclude that she was probably...
Mary Oxlie: : 1675
Writing climate item
Author event in Mary Oxlie:
1675
(who almost twenty years before had printed
's only identified poem) mentioned her with great respect, but with a good deal of erroneous information, in his Theatrum Poetarum.
Elinor James: 1675
Women writers item
Author event in Elinor James
1675
's husband,
, master printer, set up his shop in Mincing Lane, London.
1675: Mary Trye, who like her father, Thomas O'Dowde,...
Women writers item
1675
, who like her father,
, was a medical practitioner, published Medicatrix; or, The Woman-Physician, which is primarily a defence of him in his dispute with a rival,
.
About 1675: A women's outer garment was introduced called...
About 1675
A women's outer garment was introduced called the mantua from the fine silks of Mantua in Italy (as milliner came from Milan); this was the first big item of women's wear to be made...
1675: For the second time slaves brought from Fort...
National or international item
1675
For the second time slaves brought from Fort Cormantine in the Gold Coast to a British colony (this time Barbados) planned a serious slave revolt.
1675: Jean Racine's heroic tragedy Iphigénie, first...
Writing climate item
1675
's heroic tragedy Iphigénie, first produced on stage the previous year, was published.
12 January 1675: William Wycherley's comedy The Country Wife...
Writing climate item
12 January 1675
's comedy The Country Wife probably had its first performance.
Elizabeth Walker : 1 February 1675
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Walker
1 February 1675
Margaret, the only child of
to live to adulthood, was married to
, a young barrister, at St Dunstan's in the East in London;
was among those who attended.
15 February 1675: John Crowne's Calisto; or, The Chaste Nimph...
15 February 1675
's Calisto; or, The Chaste Nimph was performed at Court.
Anne Dacier: By early March 1675
Writing climate item
Author event in Anne Dacier
By early March 1675
The future
published her Latin translation of the poems of
(who wrote in Greek). She dedicated the volume to the distinguished
, who admired it so much that he departed from...
24 May 1675: Anthony Wood, passionate collector of historical...
24 May 1675
, passionate collector of historical ephemera, carried off for his collection a petition to parliament which he found provided as toilet paper in a London privy.
Elizabeth Freke: 2 June 1675
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Freke
2 June 1675
At 3 p.m. at her father's estate at Hannington,
bore her son
, the only child she ever delivered alive.
Lucy Hutchinson: 11 June 1675
Women writers item
Author event in Lucy Hutchinson
11 June 1675
sent a copy of her version of
' De rerum natura to the dedicatee,
, to dispose of as he thought best.
12 August 1675: Clement Barksdale published A Letter Touching...
12 August 1675
published A Letter Touching a Colledge of Maids; or, A Virgin Society.
Elizabeth Thomas: 31 August 1675
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Thomas
31 August 1675
The full date has been only recently discovered.