Image this page: Design of Ceiling and Balustrade, 18th century, Anonymous, Italian, Bolognese, [Met Museum](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/389609);xNLx;Background image: Fragment of an Architectural Design, 18th century, Anonymous, French, [Met Museum](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/356254);xNLx;;xNLx;This timeline benefits from a number of sources, including the invaluable [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page). Images are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license unless otherwise stated. All errors are my own.;xNLx;;xNLx;Compiled by Miriam Jones, Humanities and Languages, [University of New Brunswick Saint John](https://unb.ca), in Menahkwesk on the unceded land of the Wabanaki Confederacy.
James I, House of Stuart, reigned from 24 March 1603 to 27 March 1625.
Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 15 December 1673) was a philosopher, poet, and playwright.
Charles I, House of Stuart, was King from 27 March 1625 to his execution 30 January 1649.
John Dryden (19 August 1631 – 12 May 1700) was the first Poet Laureate (1668).
Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703), naval administrator, is best known for the diary he kept between 1659 and 1669.
"Aphra Behn, the 17th-century poet, playwright and fiction writer, was
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1 April 1647 – 26 July 1680) was an English poet and courtier.
The period "between kings."
Margaret Cavendish published this collection in 1653.
The diaries of Samuel Pepys present an eyewitness account to a crucial historical period.
