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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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27 March 1680: According to an early advertisement, the...

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27 March 1680

According to an early advertisement, the London offices of the Penny Post were opened by upholsterer Robert Murray and metals merchant William Dockwra . This challenged the government monopoly , and advertisements were thought to...

Elizabeth Cellier: April 1680

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April 1680

In this month and again in June, EC was acquitted on two charges of plotting to kill the king and overthrow the monarchy and church.
Cellier, Elizabeth. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue. Editor Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1988.
33, 41-2

Anne Wharton: April-May 1680

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April-May 1680

AW suffered from convulsion fitts, probably spasmodic cramps and muscle pain.
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.
60

Mary Penington: June 1680-November 1681

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June 1680-November 1681

MP wrote a further Addition to her autobiographical brief account, which is probably her latest surviving piece of writing.
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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Aphra Behn: After July 1680

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After July 1680

AB marked Rochester 's early death with an elegy warmly praising his poetry and his charisma.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
260-1

Elizabeth Walker : 5-8 July 1680

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5-8 July 1680

EW travelled with her husband and maidservant via London to Tunbridge Wells in Kent to take the waters there, because she was not well.
Walker, Anthony, and Elizabeth Walker. The Vertuous Wife: or, the Holy Life of Mrs. Elizabth Walker. J. Robinson, A. and J. Churchill, J. Taylor, and J. Wyat, 1694.
139

Mary Penington: 18 July 1680

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18 July 1680

MP , again a widow and lying ill with a fever, made her will. She left her own family estates to her eldest surviving son , and various generous bequests to her other children and...

Anne Wharton: After 26 July 1680

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After 26 July 1680

AW wrote an elegy on the death of her uncle Rochester .
Wharton, Anne. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton. Editors Greer, Germaine and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, http://BLC.
140-2
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.
61

John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester : 26 July 1680

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26 July 1680

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester , poet and libertine, died worn out at not much past thirty, after a death-bed conversion orchestrated and subsequently publicised by Gilbert Burnet (later Bishop of Salisbury).
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
448

After 26 July 1680: Following Lord Rochester's death, his Poems...

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After 26 July 1680

Following Lord Rochester 's death, his Poems on Several Occasions were anonymously published.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Catharine Colace Ross: August 1680

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August 1680

CCR wrote some further notes on the religious and political state of Scotland.
Ross, Catharine Colace. Memoirs, or Spiritual Exercises. David Duncan, 1735.
71-9

Elizabeth Cellier: 16 August 1680

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16 August 1680

The printing of EC 's famous pamphlet, Malice Defeated, her account of the false accusation laid against her in the Meal Tub Plot, was halted by the Privy Council .
Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, and Elizabeth Cellier. “Introduction”. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1988, p. iii - xiv.
vii-viii

Probably September 1680: Nathaniel Lee's tragedy The Princess of Cleve...

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Probably September 1680

Nathaniel Lee 's tragedy The Princess of Cleve was first performed.
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: 10 September 1680

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10 September 1680

EC was imprisoned in Newgate to await trial at the Old Bailey criminal court for her publication (which Jacob Tonson , reporting this, called a Libell upon the whole Government. At the same time, by...

12 September 1680: A marriage took place between two women,...

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12 September 1680

A marriage took place between two women, Arabella Hunt and Amy Poulter .
Mendelson, Sara Heller, and Patricia Crawford. Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720. Clarendon Press, 1998.
248

Anne Wharton: 25 November 1680

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25 November 1680

AW was reported to have recovered from her most severe seizures to date.
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.
66

Mary Carey: After December 1680

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After December 1680

MC died, probably in her seventies. She had outlived every one of her children, even the two who reached adulthood.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
156

Aphra Behn: January 1681

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January 1681

AB 's The Second Part of the Rover (which, unlike part I, is an original play) opened at Dorset Garden .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

Anne Docwra: From about 1681

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From about 1681

The widowed AD lived in Cambridge, where she followed local politics and religious issues closely.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
146 n33

Mary Penington: 1681

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1681

MP contributed some pages of self-defence to a polemic by her eldest son: John Penington 's Complaint against William Rogers relating to the Memory of his Worthy Father Isaac Penington.
Penington, Mary, and John Penington. “My Mother’s Account”. John Penington’s Complaint against William Rogers, Benjamin Clark, 1681, pp. 10-13.

Jane Lead: 1681

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1681

In the year of John Pordage 's death, JL published, with her name, her first tract: The Heavenly Cloud Now Breaking, The Lord Christ's Ascension-Ladder sent down.
Sperle, Joanne Magnani. God’s Healing Angel: A Biography of Jane Lead. Kent State University, 1985.
266
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1681: Andrew Marvell's Miscellaneous Poems were...

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1681

Andrew Marvell 's Miscellaneous Poems were posthumously published by his widow (whose legal right to this designation was doubted by scholars for a long time).
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.

1681: Richard Baxter, Puritan clergyman, published...

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1681

Richard Baxter , Puritan clergyman, published his Breviate of the life of his wife Margaret Baxter .
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.
Feminist Companion Archive.

1681-5: Of 217 Catholic estates sequestered during...

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1681-5

Of 217 Catholic estates sequestered during the last four years of Charles II 's reign, over half were worth less than £100.
Rowlands, Marie B. English Catholics of Parish and Town, 1558-1778. Catholic Record Society, 1999.
68

1681: Joseph Glanvill's Sadducismus Triumphatus:...

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1681

Joseph Glanvill 's Sadducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain Evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions was posthumously published: it contains many stories of women and men persecuted as witches, many sentenced to death.
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.