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Period: 1521 to Jun 16, 1546
Anne Askew
25 -
Period: 1537 to Jul 27, 1578
Jane Lumley
English noble who was the first person to translate Euripides into English. -
Period: 1546 to
Veronica Franco
1546–1591 -
Period: Jan 22, 1552 to
Walter Raleigh
65 -
Period: 1553 to
John Lyly
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Period: Jul 11, 1558 to
Robert Greene
34 -
Period: Nov 6, 1558 to
Thomas Kyd
36 -
Period: Nov 17, 1558 to
**Elizabeth 1st
44 years, 128 days -
Period: 1559 to
George Chapman
75 -
Period: 1560 to
Jane Anger
40
the first woman to publish a full-length defense of her sex in English. The title of her defense, Jane Anger Her Protection For Women was published in 1589. -
Period: Feb 26, 1564 to
Christopher Marlowe
29 -
Period: Apr 26, 1564 to
William Shakepeare
52 -
Period: 1567 to
Thomas Nashe
37 -
Period: 1571 to
Esther Inglis
skilled member of the artisan class, as well as a miniaturist, who possessed several skills in areas such as calligraphy, writing, and embroidering. -
Period: 1572 to
Thomas Dekker
60 -
Period: Jun 11, 1572 to
Ben Jonson
65 -
Period: 1575 to
Cyril Tourneur
51 -
Period: Oct 7, 1576 to
John Marston
58 -
Period: 1578 to
John Webster
53 or 54 -
Period: 1579 to
John Fletcher
45 -
Period: Apr 18, 1580 to
Thomas Middleton
47 -
Period: to
Philip Massinger
57 -
Period: to
Francis Beaumont
31 -
Period: to
Thomas Hobbes
91 -
Period: to
René Descartes
53 -
Period: to
**James 1st
22 years, 4 days -
Period: to
Thomas Browne (Sir)
(77)
10/19/1682 -
Period: to
John Milton
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Anne Bradstreet
March 20, 1612 – September 16, 1672 -
Period: to
Molière
(1622-1673) -
Period: to
**Charles 1st
23 years, 310 days -
Period: to
Katherine Sutton
https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/69336
Womans Experiences of the Glorious Working of Gods Free Grace -
Period: to
Katherine Philips
Also known as "The Matchless Orinda", was an Anglo-Welsh royalist poet, translator, and woman of letters. She achieved renown as a translator of Pierre Corneille's Pompée and Horace, and for her editions of poetry after her death. She was highly regarded by many writers of 17th century literature, including John Dryden and John Keats, as being influential. -
Period: to
John Dryden
68 -
Period: to
Samuel Pepys
70 -
Period: to
Mary Beale
Amongst the most prolific & commercially successful British portrait painters of the late 17th century and, along with Joan Carlile and Susan Penelope Rosse was part of a small band of female professional artists working in London. Also a writer. Discourse on Friendship of 1666 presents scholarly, uniquely female take on the subject. Observations on the materials and techniques employed "in her painting of Apricots": the earliest known instructional text in English written by a female painter. -
Period: to
Madame de La Fayette
59 -
Period: to
Anna Trapnell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Trapnell - timeline? -
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George Etheridge
1636, Maidenhead, Berkshire – c. 10 May 1692, -
Period: to
Aphra Behn
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Period: to
William Wycherly
baptised 8 April 1641 – 1 January 1716 -
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Mary Carleton
born Mary Moders; 11 January 1642 – 22 January 1673
was an Englishwoman who used false identities, such as a German princess, to marry and defraud a number of men. -
Period: to
2nd Earl of Rochester (John Wilmot)
July 26 1680 -
Period: to
Thomas Otway
33 -
Period: to
**Oliver Cromwell
4 years, 262 days -
Period: to
**Richard Cromwell
247 days -
Period: to
Daniel Defoe
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Period: to
Henry Purcell
10 September 1659[Note 1] – 21 November 1695[ -
Period: to
Thomas Southerne
1660 – 26 May 1746 -
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**Charles II
24 years, 254 days -
Period: to
Delarivier Manley
61 -
Period: to
Mary Pix
1666 – 17 May 1709 -
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Suzanna Centilivre
also known professionally as Susanna Carroll, was an English poet, actress, and "the most successful female playwright of the eighteenth century" -
Period: to
Jonathan Swift
77 -
Period: to
Catherine Trotter Cockburn
English novelist, dramatist, and philosopher. She wrote on moral philosophy, theological tracts, and had a voluminous correspondence.
Topics: necessity, the infinitude of space, and the substance, but she focuses on moral issues. She thought that moral principles are not innate, but discoverable by each individual through the use of the faculty of reason endowed by God. -
Period: to
**James II
Overthrown after 3 years, 321 days -
Period: to
Alexander Pope
56 -
Period: to
Montesquieu
66
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu -
Period: to
**Mary & William
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Period: to
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
73 -
Period: to
Eliza Haywood
63 -
Period: to
**Anne
12 years, 147 days -
Period: to
Henry Fielding
22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754 -
Period: to
Con Phillips
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Period: to
Samuel Johnson
75 -
Period: to
David Hume
65 -
Period: to
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
66 -
Period: to
Lawrence Stern
54 -
Period: to
**George I
12 years, 315 days -
Period: to
Tobias Smolette
50 -
Period: to
Anna Louisa Karsch
69 -
Period: to
Adam Smith (b)
67 - actual death year is 1790 shortened for timeline -
Period: to
Sarah Scott
English novelist, translator, social reformer, and member of the Bluestockings. Her most famous work was her utopian novel A Description of Millenium Hall and the Country Adjacent, followed closely by the sequel The History of Sir George Ellison. -
Period: to
Immanuel Kant
79 -
Period: to
Casanova
73 -
Period: to
John Wilkes
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Period: to
**George II
33 years, 126 days -
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Charlotte Lennox
1730 – 4 January 1804 -
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Sophie von La Roche
76
German novelist. She is considered the first financially independent professional writer in Germany. -
Period: to
Marquis de Sade
82 -
Period: to
Olaudah Equiano
52 -
Period: to
Charlotte Smith
57 -
Period: to
Goethe
82 -
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Phillis Wheatley
31 -
Period: to
Jean de la Motte
22 July 1756[1] – 23 August 1791
The affair of the diamond necklace -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791 -
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Mary Wollstonecraft
27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797 -
Period: to
Helena Maria Williams
68 -
Period: to
**George III
59 years, 97 days -
Period: to
Germaine de Staël
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Period: to
Maria Edgeworth
81 -
Period: to
William Wordsworth
80 -
Period: to
Sir Walter Scott
15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832 -
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834 -
Period: to
Harriette Wilson
2 February 1786 – 10 March 1845 -
Period: to
Lord Byron
36 -
Period: to
Percy Bysshe Shelley
4 August 1792, Horsham, United Kingdom
Died: 8 July 1822, -
Period: to
Mary Shelly
30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851 -
Period: to
**George IV
George Augustus Frederick
10 years, 149 days -
Period: to
**William IV
William Henry
6 years, 360 days -
Period: to
**Victoria
Alexandrina Victoria
63 years, 217 days -
Period: to
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**Edward VII
Albert Edward
9 years, 105 days