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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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Elizabeth Stirredge: 1683

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1683

ES was jailed at Ilchester in Somerset for preaching at Chew Magna (where she lived).
Stirredge, Elizabeth. Strength in Weakness Manifest. J. Sowle, 1711.
109ff

Anne Halkett: From 1683

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From 1683

The widowed AH began teaching for a living (not girls, but boys of good family) until James II granted her a pension in recognition of her former services.
Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Note on the Text; A Chronology of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 3-7.
7

Jane Lead: 1683

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Author event in Jane Lead

1683

JL published both an edited, posthumous volume of John Pordage 's writings (Theologia Mystica, with her preface) and her own The Revelation of Revelations.
Ariel Hessayon , writing of Pordage in the...

M. Marsin: 1683

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Author event in M. Marsin

1683

The second edition appeared of a tract wrongly ascribed by bibliographer Donald Wing to MM : The Womens Advocate; or, Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Burns, William E. “’By Him the Women will be delivered from that Bondage, which some has found intolerable’: M. Marsin, English Millenarian Feminist”. Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, 2001, pp. 19-38.
20n3

Damaris Masham: Perhaps January 1683

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Perhaps January 1683

Damaris Cudworth (later DM ) sent John Locke a pastoral narrative poem entitled On Damons Loveing of Clora: nearly two pages in octosyllabic couplets.
Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon, 1976–1989, 8 vols.
2: 571-3

1683: John Bunyan published a tract examining the...

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1683

John Bunyan published a tract examining the relation of women to the church: A Case of Conscience Resolved.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Beaumont, Agnes. “Introduction”. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont, edited by Vera J. Camden, Colleagues Press, 1992, pp. 1-33.
7

1683: William Dockwra, a merchant in metals, received...

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1683

William Dockwra , a merchant in metals, received a patent for establishing a penny post within the confines of London (an idea first mooted three years earlier).
Defoe, Daniel. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe. Editor Shugrue, Michael F., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
321
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Dockwra

1683: No less than twenty-three original works...

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1683

No less than twenty-three original works of fiction were published in England.
Downie, James Alan. “Mary Davys’s ’Probable Feign’d Stories’ and Critical Shibboleths about ’The Rise of the Novel’”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
12
, No. 2-3, Jan.–Apr. 2000, pp. 309-26.
311

Elizabeth Stirredge: 2 January 1683

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2 January 1683

ES dated her tract entitled A Salutation of my Endeared Love . . . unto you of that city of Bristol.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Aphra Behn: 25 January 1683

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25 January 1683

AB dated her commendatory poem for the second edition of Thomas Creech 's translation of Lucretius , De rerum natura.
O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland, 1986.
259-60
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
291-4

7 February 1683: John Locke wrote to Mary Clarke about the...

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7 February 1683

John Locke wrote to Mary Clarke about the education of her daughter, saying that since I acknowledge no difference of sex in your mind relating . . . to truth, virtue and obedience,
Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon, 1976–1989, 8 vols.
2: 686

Mary Astell: 18 March 1683

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Author event in Mary Astell

18 March 1683

The sixteen-year-old MA , still living at home in Newcastle, wrote the earliest-dated of her Pindaric odes, entitled Enemies.
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986.
403-4

22 March 1683: A fire at the racing centre of Newmarket...

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22 March 1683

A fire at the racing centre of Newmarket preserved the lives of Charles II and his brother ; by leaving early for London they avoided a planned assassination.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
300-1

Aphra Behn: Spring 1683

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Spring 1683

AB made a visit to Paris.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
294ff

21 May 1683: The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, built to...

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21 May 1683

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, built to house the collection of rarities of Elias Ashmole (and thus the first purpose-built museum in the world), was dedicated.
Kiessling, Nicolas K. “The Library of Anthony Wood from 1681 to 1999”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
xvi
, No. 6, Oct. 1999, pp. 470-98.
478

Lady Rachel Russell: 26 June 1683

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Author event in Lady Rachel Russell

26 June 1683

LRR 's husband was accused of High Treason before the Privy Council and sent to the Tower of London.
Schwoerer, Lois. Lady Rachel Russell: "One of the Best of Women". Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
103

Lady Rachel Russell: 13 July 1683

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13 July 1683

LRR attended her husband 's trial at the Old Bailey. She was there in two capacities: so that she could make notes of the proceedings, as she later did, and in the hope of arousing...

13 July 1683: William, Lord Russell (husband of the letter-writer...

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13 July 1683

William, Lord Russell (husband of the letter-writer Lady Rachel ), stood trial for High Treason, accused of planning to assassinate the king in an alleged Protestant Plot.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
747-8

Edmund Curll: 14 July 1683

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14 July 1683

According to his own statement, EC , future publisher, was born on this day. He seems to have come from the west of England.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
10-11

21 July 1683: William, Lord Russell, husband of the letter-writer...

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21 July 1683

William, Lord Russell , husband of the letter-writer Lady Rachel Russell , was beheaded in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
750, 761

Margaret Fell: 28 July 1683

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28 July 1683

MF , writing at Swarthmoor, dated an encouraging epistle To Thomas Lower and his Fellow-Sufferers, which was later included in the Brief Collection of her works.
Fell, Margaret. A Brief Collection of Remarkable Passages. J. Sowle, 1710.
530

28 July 1683: Prince George of Denmark, brother of the...

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28 July 1683

Prince George of Denmark , brother of the Danish king, married Princess Anne (the future queen) at the Palace of Whitehall, London.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
751

Margaret Fell: September 1683

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September 1683

MF was arrested again, with her youngest daughter, Rachel , and her son-in-law of six months, Daniel Abraham .
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
xv
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

September 1683: The Turks (that is, the forces of the Ottoman...

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September 1683

The Turks (that is, the forces of the Ottoman Empire) got far enough into Christian Europe to besiege the imperial city of Vienna; this remained a traumatic memory for generations.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
under Turkey

Elizabeth Elstob: 29 September 1683

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Author event in Elizabeth Elstob

29 September 1683

EE was born at Newcastle, the youngest of eight children born in her family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.