Stationers' Register

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Publishing Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Printer Henry Olney entered Philip Sidney 's The Defence of Poesie in the Stationers' Register , to rival the edition that year by William Ponsonby , printer for Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke .
Sidney, Sir Philip. “Editorial Materials”. Miscellaneous Prose of Sir Philip Sidney, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones and Jan Van Dorsten, Clarendon Press, p. various pages.
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Publishing Anne Bradstreet
AB 's brother-in-law the Rev. John Woodbridge , having travelled to London in 1647, entered her poems with the Stationers' Register . They appeared in print as The Tenth Muse on (according to George Thomason ) 5 July.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Bradstreet, Anne. “The Introduction”. The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet, edited by Joseph R. McElrath and Allan P. Robb, Twayne, p. xi - xlii.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Material Conditions of Writing Anne Locke
Someone entered in the Stationers' RegisterAL 's English versions of four sermons by John Calvin on the 38th chapter of Isaiah, printed that year with her initials, dedication, and sonnets expanding a psalm.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Material Conditions of Writing Anne Locke
While in exile in Geneva, AL had worked on this rendering of modern and revolutionary material. She had only recently returned to London when her work was recorded in the Stationers' Register . Chapter...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Hodgson Burnett
The American reviews were highly flattering. The reviewer for the Boston Transcript could think of no more powerful work from a woman's hand in the English language, not even George Eliot at her best.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus.
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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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