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Events Timeline
Orlando includes short event entries, freestanding and embedded in author profiles, about moments and processes relevant to literary history and organized into four categories: Women writers, Writing Climate, Political Climate, and Social Climate. Explore the timelines by searching for date(s) and/or words or phrases associated with them.
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Charlotte Smith: 1800
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Smith
1800
, in the preface to the second edition of his Poems, named
and
as having served the cause of poetry by reviving the sonnet.
Anna Seward: About 1800
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Seward
About 1800
transcribed a collection of autobiographical poems from 1769-90.
Regina Maria Roche: 1800
Women writers item
Author event in Regina Maria Roche
1800
published through the
another novel, Nocturnal Visit, A Tale;
is quoted on the title-page.
Mary Prince: About 1800
Writing climate item
Author event in Mary Prince
About 1800
The child
lost her mother (a slave working as a house-servant) when she and two sisters were sold at auction, each to different owners.
Anne Plumptre: 1800
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Plumptre
1800
translated
's autobiography as Sketch of the Life and Literary Career of Augustus von Kotzebue, with the Journal of his Tour to Paris at the Close of the Year 1790.
Annabella Plumptre: 1800
Women writers item
Author event in Annabella Plumptre
1800
published a collection for children, entitled Domestic Stories, translated from several different authors.
Sarah Pearson : 1800
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Pearson
1800
published a second and more varied volume of poetry, again by subscription and again giving her name as S. Pearson, but this time with no dedication): Poems on Various Subjects.
Eliza Parsons: 1800
Women writers item
Author event in Eliza Parsons
1800
published, again with
of Brentford, another four-volume novel, The Miser and His Family, reprinted at Dublin the following year.
Elizabeth Hervey, 1748 - 1820: : 1800
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Hervey, 1748 - 1820:
1800
's The Mourtray Family. A Novel appeared anonymously in print (again in four volumes). A second edition came out in January 1811, bearing the date 1810.
Elizabeth Heyrick: 1800
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Heyrick
1800
published with her birth initials (as E*** C****) Instructive Hints, in Easy Lessons for Children, with
.
She had been married for more than a decade and a...
Isabella Kelly: 1800
Women writers item
Author event in Isabella Kelly
1800
, as Catherine Harris, published with
an epistolary novel, Edwardina, dedicated to Mrs Souter Johnston .
told the
she was the author of this novel. Bibliographers...
Anna Maria Mackenzie: 1800
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Maria Mackenzie
1800
published, again with the
and using her full name, a historical novel entitled Feudal Events, or Days of Yore. An Ancient Story, which was advertised in 1802 at the end of...
Elizabeth Meeke: 1800
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Meeke
1800
As the author of The Sicilian,
published Anecdotes of the Altamont Family, a novel whose title-page quotes
.
By 1800: Madras and Calcutta, both British-ruled cities,...
National or international item
By 1800
Madras and Calcutta, both British-ruled cities, were the largest in India.
About 1800-1850: During this period, London's Bond Street...
About 1800-1850
During this period, London's Bond Street was lined with shops catering to gentlemen of fashion.
By about 1800: In a ballad entitled The London Heiress,...
By about 1800
In a ballad entitled The London Heiress, about a cross-dressed woman in battle, an earlier version was rewritten to play down the sexual element.
1800: The Court of King's Bench upheld a father's...
1800
The
upheld a father's custody rights in the case of a French emigré named De Manneville, whose English wife had left him, taking their only child.
1800-1832: The number of advertisements placed in newspapers...
1800-1832
The number of advertisements placed in newspapers between these years rose from 511,258 to 880,004.
About 1800: Typically, merchants tended to be experts...
About 1800
Typically, merchants tended to be experts in their fields, if not the very craftsmen producing the wares.
January 1800: The British Magazine, a leading conservative...
Writing climate item
January 1800
The British Magazine, a leading conservative periodical, began publication.
By 1800: An estimated 200,000 children in England...
By 1800
An estimated 200,000 children in England and Wales were regularly attending Sunday school.
1800-16: Beau Brummell, at the height of his social...
1800-16
, at the height of his social power as an arbiter of society and fashion, was largely responsible for establishing a style of male dress to parallel the Neoclassical style for women.
1800: The London book trade flourished at the turn...
Writing climate item
1800
The London book trade flourished at the turn of the century: England had about 390 circulating libraries; about 6,500 titles were issued annually, over 150 of them fiction.
By 1800: Some 4,000 voluntary hospital beds existed...
By 1800
Some 4,000 voluntary hospital beds existed in England and Wales at this time.
1800-1810: An unprecedented nine hundred and six parliamentary...
1800-1810
An unprecedented nine hundred and six parliamentary Enclosure Acts furthered the process of privatising of common land.