“A Picture of Britain”. Tate Britain, 2005.
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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1801: Philip James de Loutherbourg painted Coalbrookdale...
1801
painted Coalbrookdale by Night, a theatrically romantic picture of a famous industrial village: houses perched on the valley cliffs, with a clouded sky glaring red from furnaces.
1801: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller's...
Writing climate item
1801
's tragedy Maria Stuart, first produced the previous year, was printed in
's English translation as .
1801: The Monthly Magazine estimated the number...
Writing climate item
1801
The Monthly Magazine estimated the number of circulating libraries in Britain as a thousand or more. Twenty years later it reckoned that that number was up by a half.
1801: The Theological Magazine, a Dissenting journal,...
Writing climate item
1801
The Theological Magazine, a Dissenting journal, began publishing; it ran till about 1814.
1 January 1801: The first asteroid ever sighted (and thought...
1 January 1801
The first asteroid ever sighted (and thought at first to be a planet) was observed by an astronomer at Palermo,
, who named it Ceres.
1801: The first British census was conducted; it...
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1801
The first British census was conducted; it numbered the population at about nine million, estimated to be up by a startling 50% since mid-century.
1801: Thomas Spence, a radical bookseller, published...
1801
, a radical bookseller, published a pamphlet to advocate easy divorce, which he thought one of the first issues that would be tackled in the case of political revolution.
1801: Thomas Bruce, Seventh Earl of Elgin, received...
1801
, Seventh Earl of Elgin, received permission to draw and make casts from statues at the Parthenon in Athens.
1801: The Quaker Joseph Lancaster opened his non-sectarian...
1801
The
opened his non-sectarian Free School in Borough Road in south-east London; he soon had a thousand pupils.
Hester Lynch Piozzi: January 1801
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Author event in Hester Lynch Piozzi
January 1801
published Retrospection, a chronologically-based overview of world history since the time of Christ.
About 25 January 1801: The second edition of Lyrical Ballads appeared,...
Writing climate item
About 25 January 1801
The second edition of Lyrical Ballads appeared, in two volumes, including along with its poems by
and
the former's famous Preface, written in 1800.
Anna Maria Porter: 27 January 1801
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Author event in Anna Maria Porter
27 January 1801
of
visited
to compliment her on a play, The Runaways, which she had apparently submitted to him.
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: February 1801
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Author event in Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
February 1801
This seems to have been the earliest date that Barbarina Wilmot (later
) attached to a poem in her printed collection. She gives this date to a sonnet inspired by a dream.
Helen Maria Williams: By February 1801
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Author event in Helen Maria Williams
By February 1801
published Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic, Towards the Close of the Eighteenth Century.
Elizabeth Sarah Gooch: February 1801
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Author event in Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
February 1801
's Memoir or Biographical Particulars of
probably appeared this month, written for his novel The Beggar Boy, which she completed after his death and published under this year's date.
5 February 1801: William Pitt resigned as Prime Minister after...
National or international item
5 February 1801
resigned as Prime Minister after failing to persuade the
that Catholic Emancipation was a necessity for the political health of Ireland.
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: From early February 1801
Women writers item
Author event in Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
From early February 1801
, again began keeping a political diary.
13 February 1801: George III's third attack of porphyria b...
National or international item
13 February 1801
's third attack of porphyria began.
Mary Leadbeater: 15 February 1801
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John Henry Newman: 21 February 1801
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Author event in John Henry Newman
21 February 1801
, future religious leader and theologian, was born in London, at 80 Old Broad Street.
Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson: 23 February 1801
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Author event in Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson
23 February 1801
died at a friend's home not far from Graeme Park, her own family estate near Philadelphia.
Young, Mary Julia : After 1 March 1801
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Author event in Young, Mary Julia
After 1 March 1801
re-issued what must have been unsold copies of her Poems of three years earlier, with the title The Metrical Museum. Part I. No second part appeared.
3 March 1801: Stockbrokers operating from a house in Sweeting's...
3 March 1801
Stockbrokers operating from a house in Sweeting's Alley, London, known as the Stock Exchange, instituted a system of formal membership by subscription.
Mary Whateley Darwall: 14 March 1801
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Author event in Mary Whateley Darwall
14 March 1801
composed Lines in praise of her daughter
's travel journal: printed in the Monthly Magazine in June.
Janet Schaw: Early 1801
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Author event in Janet Schaw
Early 1801
must have died early in this year, since her will was proved at London on 14 March.