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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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5 July 1687: Sir Isaac Newton published Philosophiæ naturalis...

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5 July 1687

Sir Isaac Newton published Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica; it was the first work on the movements of the planets to back its statements with detailed mathematical calculations.
Schaffer, Simon. “Somewhat Divine”. London Review of Books, 16 Nov. 2000, pp. 30-1.
30-1
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
5 July 2012

Elizabeth Cellier: September 1687

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September 1687

The king promised EC , she said, what she had asked for in print: a Corporation of Midwives and a Cradle Hospital .
Cellier, Elizabeth. A Scheme for a Corporation of Midwives. 1687.
7

Jane Barker: Late 1687

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Late 1687

A good many of JB 's poems were published in Poetical Recreations: Consisting of Original Poems, Songs, Odes . . . Translations, with her name but without her authorization, and with the date of 1688.
King, Kathryn R. “Jane Barker, Poetical Recreations, and the Sociable Text”. English Literary History, Vol.
61
, No. 3, 1994, pp. 551-70.
552
Wilson, Carol Shiner, and Jane Barker. “Introduction”. The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. xv - xliv.
xxii, xxiv

Aphra Behn: Late 1687

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Late 1687

AB wrote:I am very ill and have been dying this twelve month.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
384
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Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
385

Sarah Savage: 25 October 1687

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25 October 1687

SS , suspecting that God might delay or totally deny ye mercy of children to me, admitted that she could scarce quiet my spirit as I would. Yet the resolution to love him not one...

Elinor James: Just before 11 November 1687

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Just before 11 November 1687

EJ disrupted a meeting at Grocers' Hall, where a Dissenting minister was preaching before the Lord Mayor of London.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
137

22 November 1687: For this day's celebrations Dryden wrote...

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22 November 1687

For this day's celebrations Dryden wrote his Song for St. Cecilia's Day.
Dryden, John. Selected Poetry and Prose of John Dryden. Editor Miner, Earl, Modern Library College Editions, The Modern Library, 1985.
503

Mary Astell: About 1688

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About 1688

MA , an orphan in her early twenties with no-one remaining in the preceding generation of her family, took the unusual step of moving from her home in Newcastle to live in London on her own.
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986.
62

Jane Barker: Between 1685 and 1688

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Between 1685 and 1688

JB converted to Catholicism (as her poems relate), and to its attendant difficulties and discrimination.
King, Kathryn R., and Jeslyn Medoff. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
21
, No. 3, Nov. 1997, pp. 16-38.
21-2
Myers, Joanne. “Jane Barker’s Conversion and the Forms of Religious Experience”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
30
, No. 3, 1 Mar.–31 May 2018, pp. 369-93.
369

Aphra Behn: 1688

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1688

In this staggeringly productive last year AB published at least ten titles.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
512-13

Elizabeth Burnet : 1688

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1688

During her first marriage and her theological debates with her mother-in-law ,EB wrote a dialogue between a Protestant and a Catholic about their respective faiths.
Burnet, Elizabeth. “journals and papers”. Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. D. 1092, folios 111–203.
141

Elizabeth Stirredge: 1688

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1688

ES moved with her family from Somerset to Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire.
Stirredge, Elizabeth. Strength in Weakness Manifest. J. Sowle, 1711.
prelims

Mary Pix: 1688

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1688

MP first appeared in print, with commendatory lines she had written to preface Richard Ames 's pseudonymous Sylvia's Revenge; or, A Satyr against Man.
Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang, 1986.
185
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.

1688: The population figure for the British Isles...

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1688

The population figure for the British Isles this year has been estimated at five million.
Stanton, Judith Phillips. “Statistical Profile of Women Writing in English from 1660 to 1800”. Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts, edited by Frederick M. Keener and Susan E. Lorsch, Greenwood Press, 1988, pp. 247-54.
248

January 1688: Lord Halifax published The Lady's New-Year's...

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January 1688

Lord Halifax published The Lady's New-Year's Gift; or, Advice to a Daughter (generally known by its subtitle), which long remained popular as advice-literature.
Halifax, George Savile, Marquess of. Complete Works. Editor Kenyon, John Philipps, Penguin, 1969.
270

1688: The Occasional Conformity Act axed the recently-granted...

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1688

The Occasional Conformity Act axed the recently-granted rights of Dissenters; this process was continued by the Schism Act, 1714.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
123

1688: Mary Holden, following in the footsteps of...

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1688

Mary Holden , following in the footsteps of Sarah Jinner , published The Womans Almanack; it appeared the following year as well.
Sharp, Jane. “Introduction”. The Midwives Book, edited by Elaine Hobby, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. xi - xxxi.
xx and n27

Elizabeth Cellier: 16 January 1688

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16 January 1688

EC dated her final and most feminist work: To Dr — An Answer to his Queries, Concerning the College of Midwives.
Cellier, Elizabeth. A Letter To Dr ----. 1688.
1, 8
Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, and Elizabeth Cellier. “Introduction”. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1988, p. iii - xiv.
x

Aphra Behn: 17 February 1688

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17 February 1688

On the pregnancy of Mary of Modena , the Stationers' Company licensed AB 's A Congratulatory Poem to Her Most Sacred Majesty on the Universal Hopes of all Loyal Persons for a Prince of Wales.
O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland, 1986.
129

March 1688: Renewed persecution of Protestants or Huguenots...

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March 1688

Renewed persecution of Protestants or Huguenots in France caused many to come as refugees to England.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
876

Damaris Masham: 26 March 1688

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26 March 1688

John Norris wrote a dedication to DM of The Theory and Regulation of Love, which he published the same year.
Locke, John. The Correspondence of John Locke. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon, 1976–1989, 8 vols.
2: 471

Alicia D'Anvers: 31 March 1688

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31 March 1688

Alice Clarke , aged twenty, was married to Knightley Danvers or D'Anvers at Old Church, St Pancras, London.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Aphra Behn: 17 April 1688

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17 April 1688

AB 's The Fair Jilt: or, The History of Prince Tarquin and Miranda, her first short fiction or novel, was licensed with the Stationers' Company .
O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland, 1986.
133

April 1688: The first public anti-slavery protest took...

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April 1688

The first public anti-slavery protest took place, at Germanstown, Pennsylvania.
Jorns, Auguste. The Quakers as Pioneers in Social Work. Translator Brown, Thomas Kite, Patterson Smith, 1969.
202-3

Alexander Pope: 21 May 1688

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21 May 1688

AP , poet, satirist, and translator, was born in Plough Court, off Lombard Street, in the City of London, where his father was a merchant; both his parents were elderly.
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1993.
448