Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
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Aphra Behn: 20 October 1683
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20 October 1683
's epistolary novel Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (a secret history or fiction à clef) was licensed by the
; it was published anonymously the following year.
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu: 20 October 1683
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Author event in Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
20 October 1683
died at her family's manor of Clinchemore, Saint-Rémy-du-Val.
Anne Dacier: 4 November 1683
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4 November 1683
, was married in Paris to
, whom her father had judged to be one of his ablest pupils. It seems that she had been both a widow...
Anne Finch: 13 November 1683
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13 November 1683
The brother of Anne Kingsmill (later
) killed his cousin (and almost foster-brother) in a duel.
7 December 1683: Months after the execution of William, Lord...
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7 December 1683
Months after the execution of
(husband of
),
met the same fate (after a search of his private papers), charged with Protestant extremism and plotting against the crown.
15 December 1683-5 February 1684: Unbroken freezing temperatures reigned in...
15 December 1683-5 February 1684
Unbroken freezing temperatures reigned in London; when the Thames froze, by 23 December 1683, a frost fair was held, which featured booths, a puppet theatre, and a printing press.
Anne Audland: 1684
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1684
(now Anne Camm) and her second husband,
, jointly issued a tract entitled The Admirable and Glorious Appearance of the Eternal God, on their almost-nine-year-old daughter's death.
Jane Barker: By 1684
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By 1684
and her mother were living in London, where Jane's married brother and two nieces lived.
Elizabeth Burnet : About 1683 or 1684
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About 1683 or 1684
put together when I was but 2 or 3 & twenty, and then altered & inlarged over time, some rules for devotion (presumably a draft of A Method of Devotion).
Dorothy White: 1684
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Author event in Dorothy White
1684
broke a twenty-year silence with several appeals to
not to tone down their radicalism, including A Salutation of Love to all the Tender-Hearted, Universal Love to the Lost, and The Day...
1684-5: During these years (called the Killing Times)...
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1684-5
During these years (called the Killing Times) seventy-eight Scots
were executed on the spot for refusing to deny their religious allegiance; others were executed after trial.
1684: The first edition appeared of the sex and...
1684
The first edition appeared of the sex and fertility manual Aristotle's Masterpiece.
1684: John Banks's tragedy The Island Queens (which...
Writing climate item
1684
's tragedy The Island Queens (which featured
as heroine and
as villain) was defiantly published after having been banned from the stage.
Probably 1684-5: Henry Purcell composed his Dido and Aeneas,...
Probably 1684-5
composed his Dido and Aeneas, a landmark in the development of opera in England.
1684: The first volume appeared of Miscellany Poems,...
Writing climate item
1684
The first volume appeared of Miscellany Poems, an influential poetry anthology connected with the names of
the elder, publisher, and
; the final part came out in 1709.
1684: John Bunyan published his sequel The Second...
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1684
published his sequel The Second Part of the Pilgrim's Progress, in which the protagonist is female.
28 January 1684: The Dublin Philosophical Society, recently...
28 January 1684
The Dublin
, recently founded on the model of the
of London, met to formulate rules and draw up its first list of members.
Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland: February 1684
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February 1684
died three months after her brother
's execution. The exact date and cause of her death are not known.
Anne Finch: About 1683
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About 1683
Anne Kingsmill (later
) is now suspected to have written the libretto for
's masque Venus and Adonis, composed during the reign of
and now sometimes called the first...
Aphra Behn: Probably Spring 1684
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Probably Spring 1684
published through
her Poems upon Several Occasions.
Though one of the commendatory poems dates from November 1683, the book was not registered with the
till Easter Term 1684.
April 1684: Mr and Mrs Priest's school at Gorges House,...
April 1684
and Mrs Priest's school at Gorges House, Chelsea, put on a private revival of the court masque Venus and Adonis, by
(to a libretto perhaps by the future
).
1 April 1684: George Hickes (later a patron of Elizabeth...
1 April 1684
(later a patron of
) preached at St Bridget's Church in London a sermon on almsgiving which made particular mention of charities to benefit women, including schools and colleges along the...
Anne Finch: 15 May 1684
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15 May 1684
married
, a younger son of the Earl of Winchilsea. She had met him at court.
Mary Pix: 24 or 25 July 1684
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24 or 25 July 1684
Mary Griffith married, in the London parish of St Savior's Benetfink, a London merchant tailor named George Pix.
Mary Mollineux: 31 July 1684
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31 July 1684
, now in her early thirties, wrote the news to her cousin Frances that she was imprisoned with many others in Lancaster Castle for attending a
meeting and refusing to swear the...