Dating
Upon Appleton House was published posthumously in 1681. It is dated by internal evidence to the early 1650s, but the dates are tentative. Worden says it was probably written in the second half of 1651, or in 1652. Its production was certainly connected to Marvell's period as tutor to Mary Fairfax; this is taken to start after the middle of 1650. Since Marvell was back in London in late 1652, his period of tutor at Appleton House had ended by then.
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