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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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About 9 February 1682: Thomas Otway's she-tragedy Venice Preserved...

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About 9 February 1682

Thomas Otway 's she-tragedyVenice Preserved had its first performance.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1.1: 306

1682: Bunyan published an allegory of salvation...

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1682

Bunyan published an allegory of salvation entitled The Holy War, probably written in the first quarter of this year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Anne Docwra: 18 March 1682

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18 March 1682

AD signed, dated, and published, all at Cambridge, her first known polemical tract: A Looking-Glass for . . . the Town and County of Cambridge, in prose and verse.
Docwra, Anne. A Looking-Glass for Cambridge. 1682.
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McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
305
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Aphra Behn: After 21 April 1682

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After 21 April 1682

The last of AB 's political comedies, The City-Heiress; or, Sir Timothy Treat-All, opened at Dorset Garden Theatre in London.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
282, 486n32
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

27 May 1682: Mary of Modena, wife of the future James...

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27 May 1682

Mary of Modena , wife of the future James II , arrived in England.
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
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Anne Finch: Probably late May 1682

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Probably late May 1682

Anne Kingsmill (later AF ) became a maid of honour to Mary of Modena , wife of the future James II .
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
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Anne Finch: From about 1682

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From about 1682

While she was still a maid of honour to Mary of Modena , Anne Kingsmill (later AF ) began circulating her poems in manuscript: some political and religious pieces appeared in miscellanies in this decade...

Anne Wharton: 14 July 1682

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14 July 1682

Gilbert Burnet wrote to AW for the first time; she had consulted him over her religious doubts.
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.
77-8

Elizabeth Delaval: 1 August 1682

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1 August 1682

Sir Robert Delaval , first husband of Lady ED , died, perhaps as a consequence of his recurrent asthma.
Greene, Douglas G., and Elizabeth Delaval. “Introduction”. The Meditations of Lady Elizabeth Delaval: Written Between 1662 and 1671, edited by Douglas G. Greene and Douglas G. Greene, Northumberland Press, 1978, pp. 1-25.
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Ezell, Margaret J. M. “Elizabeth Delaval’s Spiritual Heroine: Thoughts on Redefining Manuscript Texts by Early Women Writers”. English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, edited by Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths, Vol.
3
, British Library; University of Toronto Press, 1992, pp. 216-37.
220

Celia Fiennes: By summer 1682

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By summer 1682

CF set out on the first of her journeys, for her health, through Wiltshire into Dorset, beginning and ending at Newton Tony.
Fiennes, Celia. “Editorial Note and Introduction”. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, edited by Christopher Morris, Macdonald; Webb and Bower, 1982, pp. 8-31.
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Aphra Behn: 8 August 1682

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8 August 1682

AB 's prologue and epilogue to the anonymous Romulus and Hersilia; or, The Sabine War (some of her most outspoken anti-Whig rhetoric) was spoken on stage and published in broadside form.
O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland, 1986.
258-9
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

4 September 1682: John Flamsteed observed from Greenwich the...

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4 September 1682

John Flamsteed observed from Greenwich the perihelion of the comet which now bears the name of Edmond Halley .
The name is sometimes spelled Edmund.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
28: 257; 29: 154

Mary Penington: 18 September 1682

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18 September 1682

MP died at Worminghurst Hall in Sussex.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

October 1682: John Dryden anonymously published his mock-heroic...

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October 1682

John Dryden anonymously published his mock-heroic satire Mac Flecknoe (probably written in 1676).
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.

Lucy Hutchinson: 8 October 1682

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8 October 1682

A year after LH 's death, her friend Lord Anglesey wrote that he was reading her diary. He found that it much delighted him.
qtd. in
Lucretius, and Lucretius. “Introduction”. Lucy Hutchinson’s Translation of Lucretius, "De rerum natura", edited by Hugh De Quehen, translated by. Lucy Hutchinson, University of Michigan Press, 1996, pp. 1-20.
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Lady Rachel Russell: 23 October 1682

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23 October 1682

LRR wrote the last of her thirty surviving letters to her husband .
Berry, Mary, and Lady Rachel Russell. Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819.
66

Aphra Behn: November 1682

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November 1682

AB wrote a verse epistle, Ovid to Julia, designed to defend or excuse the Earl of Mulgrave (later Duke of Buckingham) for aspiring to the hand of the young Princess Anne .
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
289-90

16 November 1682: The recently-formed United Company gave its...

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16 November 1682

The recently-formed United Company gave its first stage performance at Drury Lane Theatre .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 299, 316

Anne Wharton: December 1682

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December 1682

AW voiced, in To Mrs. A. Behn, On what she Writ of the Earl of Rochester, delight at Behn 's fame and the honour it conferred on women.
Wharton, Anne. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton. Editors Greer, Germaine and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, http://BLC.
143
Wharton, Anne. “Introduction”. The Surviving Works of Anne Wharton, edited by Germaine Greer and Selina Hastings, Stump Cross Books, 1997, pp. 1-124.
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Anne Wharton: 10 December 1682

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10 December 1682

AW wrote angrily to Burnet , who had sent her counsel and reproof on hearing (falsely) that she was parting from 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.
79-80

Hannah Allen: 1683

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1683

HA 's single printed text, the autobiographical Satan his Methods and Malice Baffled (based on her diary) appeared in print.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Elizabeth Bathurst : 1683

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1683

EB published with her name, through Andrew Sowle , The Sayings of Women, a collection of scriptural excerpts designed to demonstrate that women receive an Office in the Truth as well as Men,
Bathurst, Elizabeth. The Sayings of Women. Andrew Sowle, 1683.
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Anne Dacier: 1683

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1683

AD turned her attention both towards the theatre and towards literary, or dramatic, criticism with Comédie de Plaute , traduit en français avec des remarques et un examen selon les régles du Théâtre, dedicated...

Anne Docwra: 1683

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1683

AD published at Cambridge a pamphlet entitled An Epistle of Love and Good Advice.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
305

Anne Docwra: 1683

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1683

AD published at CambridgeA Brief Discovery of the Work of the Enemy of Sion's Peace.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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