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Textual Production Katherine Philips
He had entered the book in the Stationers' Register on 25 November 1663.
Textual Production Mary Barber
MB 's Poems on Several Occasions were entered to her name in the Stationers' Register ; the date of 1734 on title-pages in the first issue of the quarto edition for subscribers seems therefore to...
Textual Production Diana Primrose
The only known work by the unidentified DP , A Chaine of Pearle; or, a Memorial of . . . Queen Elizabeth (a sequence of ten poems) was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it...
Textual Production Rachel Speght
RS 's A Mouzell for Melastomus (a polemical reply to Joseph Swetnam 's Araignment of Lewde, idle, froward [sic], and unconstant Women, 1615) was listed in the Stationers' Register .
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, p. xi - xxxvi.
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Textual Production Rachel Speght
RS entered in the Stationers' RegisterMortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed, Imaginarie in Manner; Reall in Matter.
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, and Rachel Speght. “Introduction”. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, Oxford University Press, p. xi - xxxvi.
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2 October 1600: Another influential poetry anthology, entitled...

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2 October 1600

Another influential poetry anthology, entitled Englands Parnassus, was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it appeared this year.

26 July 1602: Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet was entered...

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26 July 1602

Shakespeare 's tragedy Hamlet was entered in the Stationers' Register , probably not long after its first performance.

1604: Christopher Marlowe's The Tragicall History...

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1604

Christopher Marlowe 's The Tragicall History of D. Faustus was posthumously published, though this edition may not have been the first.

14 June 1604: John Cawdrey entered in the Stationers' Register...

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14 June 1604

John Cawdrey entered in the Stationers' Register the first dictionary not involving Latin: A Table Alphabeticall . . . of Hard Unusual English Words, for the benefit & help of Ladies, gentlewomen or any...

9 November 1604: Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton entered...

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9 November 1604

Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton entered in the Stationers' CompanyThe Honest Whore (part one); it was published this year.

7 October 1607: The Revenger's Tragedy (formerly ascribed...

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7 October 1607

The Revenger's Tragedy (formerly ascribed to Cyril Tourneur but now seen by scholars as Thomas Middleton 's answer to Shakespeare 's Hamlet) was entered in the Stationers' Register .

26 November 1610: Thomas Coryate entered in the Stationers'...

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26 November 1610

Thomas Coryate entered in the Stationers' RegisterCoryats Crudities (his narrative of travels inEurope), which was published the next year.

29 March 1614: Sir Walter Ralegh, aged about seventy, published...

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29 March 1614

Sir Walter Ralegh , aged about seventy, published his History of the World, written as a prisoner in the Tower of London: it is a pessimistic work, without heroes and without the usual...

8 February 1615: Joseph Swetnam's The Araignment of Lewde,...

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8 February 1615

Joseph Swetnam 's The Araignment of Lewde, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it appeared as by Thomas Tel-troth.

28 April 1619: The Maid's Tragedy, written jointly in 1610-11...

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28 April 1619

The Maid's Tragedy, written jointly in 1610-11 by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont (who had since died), was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it was published this year.

22 March 1620: The first English translation of Boccaccio's...

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22 March 1620

The first English translation of Boccaccio 's cycle of tales generally known as the Decameron was entered in the Stationers' Register ; it was printed this year, possibly the work of John Florio .

30 March 1638: John Wilkins entered in the Stationers' Register...

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30 March 1638

John Wilkins entered in the Stationers' RegisterDiscovery of a World in the Moone, an early fictional response to features of the moon's surface newly made visible by telescopes; it was printed this year.

30 August 1667: Anne Maxwell of Thames Street in London (a...

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30 August 1667

Anne Maxwell of Thames Street in London (a master printer with about a hundred imprints between 1660 and 1684) entered as hers in the Stationers' RegisterThe life and death of Mother Shipton (a folk...

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.

19 April 1791: Wilberforce's motion to abolish the slave-trade...

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19 April 1791

Wilberforce 's motion to abolish the slave-trade (put on 18 April) was defeated in the House of Commons .

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