Knight, Ellis Cornelia. The Autobiography of Miss Knight. Editor Fulford, Roger, William Kimber & Co., 1960.
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Events Timeline
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November 1800: In the US election the Democratic-Republicans...
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November 1800
In the US election the
-
decisively defeated
and the
. According to the system of that time
was chosen for President (over
) not...
Ellis Cornelia Knight : 6 November 1800
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Author event in Ellis Cornelia Knight
6 November 1800
landed in Norfolk after an absence from England which had been planned as three years but had stretched to twenty-four.
Anne Francis: 7 November 1800
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Mary Robinson: 20 November 1800
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Robinson
20 November 1800
(in the month before her death) published through both
and the Bristol firm of
, Lyrical Tales.
Scholar
dates this publication 18 December, only eight days before the poet's death.
24 November 1800: The Morning Post printed Coleridge's love-lyric...
Writing climate item
24 November 1800
The Morning Post printed
's love-lyric Alcaeus to Sappho, which he had sent in about six weeks earlier and which was probably addressed to
.
28 November 1800: Ann Thomas (Welsh-language hymn-writer generally...
Women writers item
28 November 1800
(Welsh-language hymn-writer generally known by her married name of Ann Griffiths) wrote the first of her eight surviving letters. Like all except one, it was to
(1775-1854), whose memoir of her...
Anne Burke: Probably late 1800
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Author event in Anne Burke
Probably late 1800
identified herself only as a Lady on the title-page of the epistolary novel Elliott; or, Vicissitudes of Early Life, published by subscription.
Emily Frederick Clark : Probably later 1800
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Author event in Emily Frederick Clark
Probably later 1800
published her second novel, Ermina Montrose; Or, The Cottage in the Vale. With Characters from Life, again by subscription but this time printed for the author.
3 December 1800: At Hohenlinden in Bavaria the French imperial...
National or international item
3 December 1800
At Hohenlinden in Bavaria the French imperial army and its Bavarian allies inflicted defeat on the Austrians: a battle commemorated by the poet
and the novelist
.
Tabitha Tenney: 8 December 1800
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Author event in Tabitha Tenney
8 December 1800
's husband,
, took his seat in the
; by this date, therefore, the couple had moved to Washington, DC.
13 December 1800: William Godwin's five-act verse tragedy Antonio...
Writing climate item
13 December 1800
's five-act verse tragedy Antonio was performed for the first and last time at
. It was rejected by the audience, not with hissing but with coughing.
William Beckford: Christmas Eve 1800
Author event in William Beckford
Christmas Eve 1800
entertained
and
and
in fantastic splendour at Fonthill.
Mary Robinson: 26 December 1800
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Robinson
26 December 1800
died in her daughter's cottage at Englefield Green, of water on the lungs.
Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: Late 1800
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Late 1800
When her
died, though they had not been on good terms for some time,
was prostrated, and was seen as dangerously ill.
Lucy Aikin: 1801
Women writers item
Author event in Lucy Aikin
1801
In the year she turned twenty
published her first book, a pioneering, small-format anthology entitled Poetry for Children. Consisting of Short Pieces, to be Committed to Memory.
Henrietta Maria Bowdler: 1801
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Author event in Henrietta Maria Bowdler
1801
published her anonymous Sermons on the Doctrines and Duties of Christianity; their anonymity shaped their reception, for they were assumed to be by a man.
Jane Cave: Probably between 1801 and 1806
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Author event in Jane Cave
Probably between 1801 and 1806
published at Bristol, pseudonymously as Mrs Rueful, a new kind of volume for her, Prose and Poetry, on Religious, Moral and Entertaining Subjects, exposing painful secrets about her marriage.
Mary Charlton: 1801
Women writers item
Maria Edgeworth: 1801
Women writers item
Author event in Maria Edgeworth
1801
published a collection of fiction for older children entitled Moral Tales for Young People.
Maria Edgeworth: 1801
Women writers item
Author event in Maria Edgeworth
1801
In this very productive year
issued another collection in her earlier vein of tales for the very young: Early Lessons.
Catherine Fanshawe: 1801
Women writers item
Author event in Catherine Fanshawe
1801
composed what eventually became one of the best-known of her little-known poems; it was later entitled Epistle to
, on his wishing her to spell the name of Catherine with a K.
Eliza Fletcher: 1801
Women writers item
Author event in Eliza Fletcher
1801
On her first visit to London,
met
(with whom her friendship endured for years) and
.
Harriette Wilson: January 1801
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Author event in Harriette Wilson
January 1801
's presence with her first lover, Lord Craven , at his family's estate of Ashdown Park in the Berkshire Downs was recorded in a letter by
, who wrote that Craven had...
Mary Tighe: 1801
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Tighe
1801
began drafting her allegory in Spenserian stanzas, later titled Psyche, or the Legend of Love or simply Psyche.
Tabitha Tenney: Probably early 1801
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Author event in Tabitha Tenney
Probably early 1801
's single novel, Female Quixotism, Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon (dated at the end 8 July 1800), was published in Boston.