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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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1681: The baroque composer Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)...

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1681

The baroque composer Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) published his first twelve Church Sonatas, dedicated to Queen Christina of Sweden (who had abdicated and was living in Rome).
Baroque Composers and Musicians: Arcangelo Corelli. http://www.baroquemusic.org/bqxcorelli.html.

Elinor James: 6 January 1681

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6 January 1681

The earliest known work by EJ appeared: a broadside entitled A New Answer To A Speech said to be lately made by a Noble Peer of this Realm. The tract which drew her ire...

Anne Wharton: March-July 1681

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March-July 1681

AW was in Paris for her health, writing every post to her husband.
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.
66ff

About March 1681: Nahum Tate's re-written version of Shakespeare's...

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About March 1681

Nahum Tate 's re-written version of Shakespeare 's tragedy King Lear was staged in London; it was printed the same year.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Anne Wharton: 22 March-2 April 1681

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22 March-2 April 1681

AW composed, in Paris, her paraphrase of the five chapters of the Lamentations of Jeremiah.
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.
68

28 March 1681: Charles II dissolved a very short-lived parliament...

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28 March 1681

Charles II dissolved a very short-lived parliament (the second that year), which was, for the third time, about to pass an Exclusion Bill barring his brother James from the succession.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
287
Henning, Basil Duke, editor. The House of Commons, 1660-1690. Secker and Warburg, 1983, 3 vols.
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Joan Vokins: June 1681

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June 1681

JV and her companions landed at Dover on their return from a missionary journey of more than a year which had taken in the English colonies on the east coast of America and a number...

Joan Vokins: 5 June 1681

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5 June 1681

JV , newly returned to England, visited a steeple-house or church at Sandwich in Kent, to beard its priest on his own territory.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
222-3
Vokins, Joan. God’s Mighty Power Magnified. Editor Sansom, Oliver, Thomas Northcott, 1691.
44

Anne Dacier: After 6 June 1681

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After 6 June 1681

The future AD issued a translation unconnected with the Delphin project and through a different publisher: Les Poésies d'Anacréon et de Sapho , traduites de grec en français.
Grosperrin, Jean-Philippe, and Christine Dousset-Seiden, editors. “Les époux Dacier: une bibliographie”. Littératures classiques: les époux Dacier, Honoré Champion, 2010, pp. 259-86.
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Ephelia: 6 June 1681

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6 June 1681

Elias Ashmole thus dated his copy of a versebroadside, Advice to His Grace (that is, to the Duke of Monmouth , would-be heir to the throne), by Ephelia .
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Ephelia: 9 August 1681

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9 August 1681

The court poet Ephelia lamented in unpublished elegySir Thomas Isham (son of a prominent Tory public figure), who had died at Stoneleigh in Warwickshire on 27 July, and was buried in Nottinghamshire.
Ephelia. A Funerall Elegie on Sr Thomas Isham Barronet.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Mary Penington: 3 September 1681

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3 September 1681

MP was still bedridden with the eight-month illness and fever which had followed her husband's death.
Penington, Mary. Experiences in the Life of Mary Penington. Editor Penney, Norman, Friends Historical Society, 1992.
67
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Jane Barker: 27 September 1681

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27 September 1681

JB 's father wrote his will at Shingay in Cambridgeshire, leaving the manor at Wilsthorpe to his widow and his daughter Jane; he was buried four days later.
King, Kathryn R., and Jeslyn Medoff. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
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, No. 3, Nov. 1997, pp. 16-38.
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Lucy Hutchinson: October 1681

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October 1681

LH died at past sixty.
Greer, Germaine. “Horror like Thunder”. London Review of Books, 21 June 2001, pp. 22-4.
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Aphra Behn: After November 1681

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After November 1681

AB 's adapted political satire The Roundheads; or, The Good Old Cause opened on stage in London.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

November 1681: John Dryden published his political satire...

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November 1681

John Dryden published his political satire Absalom and Achitophel, at Charles II 's personal suggestion, just a week before the first Earl of Shaftesbury 's trial for treason.
Sherburn, George, and Donald F. Bond. The Restoration and Eighteenth Century. 2nd ed., Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
725-6

December 1681: The Privy Council moved against Quakers and...

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December 1681

The Privy Council moved against Quakers and Dissenters by enforcing past orders against them, like the Clarendon Code, which dated 1661 and the few years thereafter.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
153

Jane Lead: Shortly before 11 December 1681

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Shortly before 11 December 1681

John Pordage died; after this JL took on the leadership of his congregation.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Pordage
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
169-70

Anne Audland: 1682

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1682

AA 's daughter from her second marriage, Sarah Camm, died of smallpox, at eleven days short of her ninth birthday.
Mack, Phyllis. Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1992.
397, 401
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Barbara Blaugdone: 1682

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1682

BB was fined the huge sum of £280 for non-attendance at the Church of England services in her parish.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Mary Fisher: 1682

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1682

MF moved with her second husband, John Cross , to settle at Charles Towne (now Charleston), South Carolina, a city founded a dozen years before.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Elinor James: 1682

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1682

EJ 's The Case Between a Father and his Children, one of the earliest of her known broadsides, appeared with her husband 's name in the imprint: the relation discussed is monarchical, not familial.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
131

1682: Robert Gould published a misogynist satire,...

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1682

Robert Gould published a misogynist satire, Love Given O're: Against the Pride, Lust, and Inconstancy of Woman.
Buchanan, Dave. Augustan Women’s Verse Satire. University of Alberta, 1998.
64n10, 67
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.

1682: The colony of Pennsylvania was founded by...

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1682

The colony of Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn .
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
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Damaris Masham: 6 January 1682

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6 January 1682

Damaris Cudworth (later DM ) wrote the first of her extant, sparkling letters to John Locke . She used the name Philoclea, and occasionally called him Philander.
Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon, 1976–1989, 8 vols.
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