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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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Jane Squire: By 6 May 1686

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By 6 May 1686

JS was born in York; this was the date of her baptism.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Sarah Fyge: 2 June 1686

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2 June 1686

SF was still in her teens when her first, fighting poem, The Female Advocate, was licensed in London; it was published the same year, with her initials on the prefatory To the Reader...

Anne Whitehead: 1686

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1686

AW 's husband, George , marked her death with Piety Promoted by Faithfulness, manifested by several testimonies concerning that true servant of God Ann Whitehead, a volume of writings by about twenty-five people.
The...

Anne-Thérèse de Lambert: July 1686

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July 1686

ATL 's husband Henri de Lambert died unexpectedly after twenty years of marriage, leaving her with two children and innumerable lawsuits concerning his estate.
Cahoon, Ben. “Luxembourg”. World Statesmen.org, 2001.
World Statesmen.org
Fassiotto, Marie-José. Madame de Lambert. Peter Lang, 1984.
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Joan Vokins: 27 July 1686

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27 July 1686

Only four years before her death JV was planning another missionary journey, this time to Ireland.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Vokins, Joan. God’s Mighty Power Magnified. Editor Sansom, Oliver, Thomas Northcott, 1691.
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Anne Whitehead: 28 July 1686

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28 July 1686

AW died in her mid sixties; her second husband survived her by thirty-seven years.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Sarah Savage: August 1686

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August 1686

Some months before her marriage, Sarah Henry (later Savage) began writing that part of her Spiritual Diary which has survived. The extant sections run from now to 1 December 1688 and from 1714 to 1723.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Crawford, Patricia. “Attitudes to Pregnancy from a Woman’s Spiritual Diary, 1687-8”. Local Population Studies, Vol.
21
, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1978, pp. 43-5.
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5 November 1686: Mother Frances Bedingfield (using, for safety,...

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5 November 1686

Mother Frances Bedingfield (using, for safety, the alias Frances Long) signed the contract for the purchase of property on the site of the present Bar Convent in York, to use as a girls' school .
Gregory, M., and Isobel Grundy. Email about Mother Mary Davies to Isobel Grundy. 19 Apr. 2002.
Lerner, Gerda. The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy. Oxford University Press, 1993.
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William Law: Probably late 1686

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Probably late 1686

WL , writer of treatises on religion and practical morality, was born at King's Cliffe in Northamptonshire (near Stamford in Lincolnshire).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

December 1686: A case brought by one London married couple...

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December 1686

A case brought by one London married couple against another (with one wife accusing the other of business cheating) illuminates the conditions of women's work.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
125-7, 266n5

Aphra Behn: 1687

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1687

AB anonymously published The Amours of Philander and Silvia (also known as Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister Part III), probably written the year before; this completed her longest novel.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
339, 512
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Mary Chandler: 1687

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1687

MC was born at Malmesbury in Wiltshire, the eldest of three children, and the only girl.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Sarah Fyge: 1687

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1687

A second edition of SF 's poem The Female Advocate appeared: it was technically improved and just as forceful.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1687: Fénelon (a liberal in his views on the French...

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1687

Fénelon (a liberal in his views on the French monarchy and class system, but not on gender) published in Paris his treatise Sur l'éducation des filles, written in 1681.
Olsen, Kirstin. Chronology of Women’s History. Greenwood, 1994.
81
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
5: 244
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
Catalogue No. 8
Bosley, Vivien. “A Pre-Wave Ripple: The Sound of Other Voices”. Not Drowning but Waving: Women, Feminism, and the Liberal Arts, 14 Oct. 2006.

16 March 1687: John Evelyn witnessed a demonstration on...

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16 March 1687

John Evelyn witnessed a demonstration on Blackheath near London of those devilish murdering mischiefe-doing engines, bombs.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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Sarah Savage: 28 March 1687

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28 March 1687

Sarah Henry married, at Whitewell Chapel in Wrexham, John Savage , a relation of her family, a widower with one child, who farmed at Wrenburywood or Wrenbury Wood near Nantwich in Cheshire.
The...

4 April 1687: James II's Abolition of the Test Act (a change...

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4 April 1687

James II 's Abolition of the Test Act (a change which was also called the Declaration of Indulgence) extended freedom of worship without penalty to Catholics and Dissenting sects; but it remained in force only...

Aphra Behn: 6 April 1687

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6 April 1687

The last of AB 's plays produced in her lifetime, The Emperour of the Moon, was licensed by the Stationers' Company ; it had probably opened in March.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

Elinor James: Spring 1687

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Spring 1687

EJ responded to published comment on James II 's Declaration of Indulgence with Mrs. James's Vindication of the Church of England.
The English Short Title Catalogue records two versions of this, only one of...

11 April 1687: John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther, A...

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11 April 1687

John Dryden 's The Hind and the Panther, A Poem, In Three Parts, was licensed for print: a vindication of the Catholic Church against the Church of England which, unusually, takes the form of...

3 May 1687: The Stationers' Register licensed John Hill's...

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3 May 1687

The Stationers' Register licensed John Hill 's The Young Secretary's Guide: or, A Speedy Help to Learning, a manual of letter-writing and drafting business documents: published this year, it had ten editions by 1699.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

Joan Vokins: 14 May 1687

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14 May 1687

JV thus dated (fourteenth of the third month) a pamphlet entitled A Tender Invitation unto all that want Peace with God, written at West Challow near Wantage (which she spells Chawlow).
Vokins, Joan. God’s Mighty Power Magnified. Editor Sansom, Oliver, Thomas Northcott, 1691.
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Elizabeth Cellier: June 1687

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June 1687

EC published A Scheme for the Foundation of a Royal Hospital . . . and . . . a Corporation of Skilled Midwives . . ..
Cellier, Elizabeth. A Scheme for a Corporation of Midwives. 1687.
title-page

2 July 1687: James II dissolved the parliament which was...

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2 July 1687

James II dissolved the parliament which was to be his last.
Henning, Basil Duke, editor. The House of Commons, 1660-1690. Secker and Warburg, 1983, 3 vols.
1: 86

13 July 1687: A woman named Eliza Neale was murdered when...

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13 July 1687

A woman named Eliza Neale was murdered when she tried to make peace between wife and violent husband.
Mendelson, Sara Heller, and Patricia Crawford. Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720. Clarendon Press, 1998.
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