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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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Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland: 2 September 1679

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2 September 1679

DSCS 's first surviving letter to her much younger brother Henry Sidney (later Earl of Romney) reported on a serious illness of the king 's. She followed this with political news, including details on the...

Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland: 9 June 1680

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9 June 1680

DSCS 's first surviving letter to Lord Halifax (the husband, later the widower, of her daughter) was supposedly written on behalf of her son Lord Sunderland.
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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By about September 1679: Thomas Shadwell's comedy The Woman Captain...

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By about September 1679

Thomas Shadwell 's comedy The Woman Captain was first performed 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.

Elizabeth Cellier: October 1679

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October 1679

EC was arrested during the course of events which became known (misleadingly) as the Meal Tub Plot: a planted incriminating document was found in a meal-tub in her kitchen.
Cellier, Elizabeth. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue. Editor Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1988.
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Mary Penington: 8 October 1679

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8 October 1679

MP 's husband Isaac died after a week's illness at her birthplace, Goodnestone Court in Kent.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Isaac Penington

Anne Wentworth: November 1679

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November 1679

Englands Spiritual Pill, a polemical sectarian pamphlet which AW had been writing for some time, was apparently her final appearance in print.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Lady Lucy Herbert : 4 November 1679 to 12 February 1680

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4 November 1679 to 12 February 1680

Lady Powis , mother of two future writers (Lucy and Winifred , then about ten and seven), joined her husband in the Tower of London, on a charge of Roman Catholic plotting against...

Mary Astell: Shortly before 5 December 1679

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Shortly before 5 December 1679

MA 's uncle Ralph Astell died; this was the date he was buried.
Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

John Dryden: 18 December 1679

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18 December 1679

JD was beaten up in a Covent Garden alley, near the London theatres, probably to punish him for a verse lampoon on people in high places, An Essay upon Satire, which was very likely...

Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy: 1680

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1680

MCA made what seems to be her first appearance in English, with The Novels of Elizabeth Queen of England , Containing the history of Queen Ann of Bullen (which represented a part of her Nouvelles...

Elizabeth Bathurst : 1680

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1680

This date is generally given to EB 's An Expostulatory Appeal to the Professors of Christianity, which appeared some time after Bathurst made a proclamation on 20 August 1678. It stands first in the...

Anne Whitehead: 1680

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1680

AW and Mary Elson , describing themselves as two servants of the Church, according to our measures, together published An Epistle for True Love, Unity, and Order in the Church of Christ.
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English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Mary Penington: About 1680

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About 1680

MP wrote a letter to her grandson Springet Penn , Left to be delivered to him after her decease,
Penington, Mary. Experiences in the Life of Mary Penington. Editor Penney, Norman, Friends Historical Society, 1992.
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which amounts to a biography of her first husband, Sir William Springett .
Skidmore, Gil, and Mary Penington. “Preface”. Experiences in the Life of Mary Penington, edited by Norman Penney and Norman Penney, Friends Historical Society, 1992, p. vii - xvii.
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1680: Josiah Priest and his wife moved their girls'...

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1680

Josiah Priest and his wife moved their girls' boarding school from Leicester Fields in London to Chelsea, where they took over an existing school in Gorges House.
Campbell, Margaret. Henry Purcell, Glory of His Age. Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Evelyn, John. Diary and Correspondence. Editor Bray, William, Routledge, 1906.
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1680: Mrs Frankland founded a school in Manchester...

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1680

Mrs Frankland founded a school in Manchester for the daughters of Dissenters.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
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1680: Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, or The Natural...

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1680

Sir Robert Filmer 's Patriarcha, or The Natural Power of Kings was posthumously published.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.

About 1680: The oldest public lending library in Scotland,...

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About 1680

The oldest public lending library in Scotland, Innerpeffray Library, was founded near Crieff in Perthshire.
“Scotland’s first free Public Lending Library”. Innerpeffray Library.

1680: John Dryden, with others, published a collaborative...

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1680

John Dryden , with others, published a collaborative verse translation of Ovid 's Epistles (or Heroides).
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.

1680: The first of the London squares, Bloomsbury...

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1680

The first of the London squares, Bloomsbury Square, was developed, setting a style for the houses of the upper classes and urban middle ranks for over a century.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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Ann, Lady Fanshawe: Earlier January 1680

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Earlier January 1680

Ann, Lady Fanshawe , died after thirteen years of widowhood, at the age of only fifty-four.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Sir Richard Fanshawe and Ann, Lady Fanshawe”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 91-9.
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Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland: By February 1680

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By February 1680

During the long-running Exclusion Crisis, The History of Edward II, now established as by Elizabeth Cary Falkland , was published in two versions, one in folio and one in octavo, the former as by...

Joan Vokins: February 1680

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February 1680

JV left her family and set out with woman friends on a missionary voyage to America; they arrived in New York in May.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Vokins, Joan. God’s Mighty Power Magnified. Editor Sansom, Oliver, Thomas Northcott, 1691.
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Delarivier Manley: February 1680

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February 1680

The young DM moved to Landguard Fort in Suffolk with her family when her father was appointed governor of the fort.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. The Adventures of Rivella, edited by Katherine Zelinsky, Broadview, 1999, pp. 9-38.
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Mary Penington: 27 February 1680

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27 February 1680

Some months after Isaac Penington 's death, while she was at Woodside sitting up past midnight with my sick child,MP wrote a Testimony Concerning Her Dear Husband.
Penington, Mary, and Isaac Penington. “Testimony Concerning Her Dear Husband”. The Works of the Long-Mournful and Sorely-Distressed Isaac Penington, Benjamin Clark, 1681.
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Lady Rachel Russell: 6 March 1680

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6 March 1680

LRR wrote the first of the letters that were published in 1773: to Dr Fitzwilliam (who had been chaplain to her father ). The latest letter in this collection was written on 13 February 1719.
Russell, Lady Rachel, and William, Lord Russell. Letters of Lady Rachel Russell. Editor Sellwood, Thomas, 5th ed., J. Mawman, 1801.
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