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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: 1677

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1677

A second instruction manual was falsely ascribed to HW . This one was entitled The Compleat Servant-Maid.
Wolley, Hannah. The Compleat Servant-Maid. 1st ed., T. Passinger, 1677.
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1677: Samuel Lee published a directory of London...

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1677

Samuel Lee published a directory of London merchants: A Collection of the Names of the Merchants . . ..
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
185, 283n42

1677: At a boarding school in Oxford, a John Waver,...

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1677

At a boarding school in Oxford, a John Waver , Master in the art of dancing, offered instruction in dancing, singing, music, writing, and all manner of works.
Reynolds, Myra. The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760. Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
258

1677: Mary Beale had a good year as a practising...

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1677

Mary Beale had a good year as a practising painter, with 83 commissions and an earned income of £429. She had set up a studio in Pall Mall in 1670.
Thorpe, Vanessa. “Artist in residence?”. Guardian Weekly, 6 July 2007, p. 30.
30
Makin, Bathsua et al. Educating English Daughters. Editors Teague, Frances et al., Iter Academic Press; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016.
110-11

1677: Someone called A. L. translated François...

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1677

Someone called A. L. translated François Poulain de la Barre into English as The Woman as Good as the Man; Or, the Equality of Both Sexes.
Buchanan, Dave. Augustan Women’s Verse Satire. University of Alberta, 1998.
61
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.

1677: By this year the Society of Friends included...

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1677

By this year the Society of Friends included prosperous merchants and traders in all the major centres in England and Ireland. At least fourteen substantial London merchants were Quakers, which provided a new motive...

1677: Anton van Leeuwenhoek of Holland developed...

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1677

Anton van Leeuwenhoek of Holland developed the animalcule theory of semen.
Asbell, Bernard. The Pill: A Biography of the Drug that Changed the World. Random House, 1995.
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1677: Jean Racine's tragedy Phèdre (or Phèdre et...

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1677

Jean Racine 's tragedy Phèdre (or Phèdre et Hippolyte) was both produced and published; its protagonist, wife of Theseus, falls in love with her stepson, Hippolytus, and when he refuses to respond she arranges...

1677: Baruch or Benedictus de Spinoza's Ethics,...

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1677

Baruch or Benedictus de Spinoza 's Ethics, probably his most important text, was published shortly after his death at the age of forty-four.
Rée, Jonathan. “The Brothers Koerbagh”. London Review of Books, 24 Jan. 2002, pp. 21-4.
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Joan Whitrow: 5 March 1677

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5 March 1677

JW 's daughter Susannah , aged about fifteen, went down with the illness of which some days later she died.
Whitrow, Joan et al. The Work of God in a Dying Maid. 1677.
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17 March 1677: Nathaniel Lee's tragedy The Rival Queens...

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17 March 1677

Nathaniel Lee 's tragedy The Rival Queens opened on stage.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

Aphra Behn: 24 March 1677

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24 March 1677

AB 's greatest stage success, The Rover; or, The Banish't Cavaliers (adapted from Thomas Killigrew ), had its probable opening at Dorset Garden .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

Anne Conway: Perhaps by summer 1677

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Perhaps by summer 1677

AC became a Quaker . This at first compromised her friendship with More , but he did modify his attitude to the Society of Friends as a result of her action.
Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992.
434
Conway, Anne, and Henry More. “Introduction; Editorial Materials”. The Conway Letters, edited by Sarah Hutton et al., Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992, p. vii - xix; various pages.
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Anne Wentworth: Midsummer 1677

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Midsummer 1677

AW 's husband put her out of the house again, not allowing her to take any furniture, any bed, bedding, or stool to sit on; but a year later he allowed her back again.
Wentworth, Anne. The Revelation of Jesus Christ. 1679.
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Joan Whitrow: Later 1677

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Later 1677

JW was the lead author of The Work of God in a Dying Maid, a setting for the deathbed testimonies of her small son and particularly of her daughter.
This text is available online...

Anne Wentworth: 31 July 1677

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31 July 1677

AW addressed King Charles II and the Lord Mayor of London in two separate prophecies which deliver apocalyptic judgments on the state of the nation.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Marie-Catherine de Villedieu: 17 August 1677

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17 August 1677

The year after her royal pension came through, MCV secretly married the much older Claude-Nicholas de Chaste .
Cuénin, Micheline. Roman et société sous Louis XIV : Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins 1640-1683). Atelier Reproduction des Thèses & Librairie Honoré; Champion, 1979.
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Klein, Nancy Deighton. The Female Protagonist in the Nouvelles of Madame de Villedieu. Peter Lang, 1992.
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Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale, 2003.
389

Aphra Behn: September 1677

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September 1677

The Counterfeit Bridegroom; or, The Defeated Widow, a comedy which is attributed to either Thomas Betterton or AB , opened at Dorset Garden .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

28 September 1677: During another difficult season at Drury...

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28 September 1677

During another difficult season at Drury Lane Theatre , the manager extracted an agreement from the actors that they would not perform for any other company.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 261
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
2: 1669

Mary Caesar: Shortly before 3 October 1677

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Shortly before 3 October 1677

Mary Freeman or Freman (later MC ) was born at Aspenden Hall in Aspenden, Hertfordshire. She was baptised there on this date.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741)
Potter, Dorothy, and Mary Caesar. “Foreword, Acknowledgements”. The Journal of Mary Freman Caesar, 1724-1741, Edwin Mellen Press, 2002, p. viii - xii, xix-xxii.
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23 October 1677: The marriage of the future monarchs William...

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23 October 1677

The marriage of the future monarchs William and Marywas now declared.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
643

Elizabeth Delaval: November 1677

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November 1677

Lady Elizabeth Delaval , who as a girl had been an attendant on Catherine of Braganza , applied unsuccessfully to be appointed to wait on Mary, Princess of Orange , the recently-married daughter of the future James II.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anne Wentworth: After 9 December 1677

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After 9 December 1677

AW followed her first polemical sectarian pamphlet with a second in similar vein, A Vindication of Anne Wentworth.
The date is deduced from AW 's statements about when God communicated to her verses which...

12 December 1677: John Dryden's tragedy All for Love; or, The...

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12 December 1677

John Dryden 's tragedy All for Love; or, The World Well Lost (a blank-verse re-writing of Shakespeare 's Antony and Cleopatra) received its first known (perhaps not its first) performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane .
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
Dryden, John. Dryden, Poetry, Prose and Plays. Editor Grant, Douglas, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952.
586

Anne Bradstreet: 1678

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1678

Printer John Foster of Boston, Massachusetts, put out a posthumous second edition of AB 's Tenth Muse, dropping the muse trope from the title: Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and...