Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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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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1802: The Female Friendly Society, for the aid...
1802
The
, for the aid of the infirm and aged, was founded in London under the patronage of the Princess of Wales .
1802: The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act...
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1802
The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act was passed, regulating the work of children in industrial mills and working conditions more generally.
Around 1802: Gas lighting was first employed in British...
Around 1802
Gas lighting was first employed in British factories.
1802: The Rosetta stone, whose three-fold inscription...
1802
The Rosetta stone, whose three-fold inscription offered the opportunity of learning to decode ancient Egyptian, was presented to the
after being captured in the Egyptian campaign the previous year.
1802: George Bodley, a British iron founder, patented...
1802
, a British iron founder, patented a cast-iron even-heating range with a closed top, powered by coal and with a modern flue.
By 1802: The smallpox vaccination method established...
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By 1802
The smallpox vaccination method established by
was coming into use around the world; in England about 100,000 people had been vaccinated, and the annual smallpox death rate (which had averaged about 3,000 per...
1802: Numbers of women workers in spinning in the...
1802
Numbers of women workers in spinning in the West Country dropped to only eighteen percent of their number in 1780.
Mary Martha Sherwood: 6 January 1802
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Author event in Mary Martha Sherwood
6 January 1802
finished writing The History of Susan Gray, which was published at Bath that year.
Catharine Parr Traill: 9 January 1802
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Author event in Catharine Parr Traill
9 January 1802
Catharine Parr Strickland, later
, was born in Rotherhithe, near London, into a large family, shortly before they all moved to Suffolk.
Fanny Holcroft: Later January 1802
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Author event in Fanny Holcroft
Later January 1802
, in Paris, was briefly engaged by
as her daughters' governess, at a salary of sixty pounds a year. But she was dismissed within three weeks for reasons that remain disputable.
Margaret Catchpole: 21 January 1802
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Author event in Margaret Catchpole
21 January 1802
A month after landing in Australia,
wrote her first letter from Sydney to
.
Ann Candler: February 1802
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Author event in Ann Candler
February 1802
composed a personal poem, Reflections on My Own Situation, Written in T—tt—ngst—ne House of Industry (that is the workhouse). Presumably, the hope of leaving was first dawning for her.
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: By February 1802
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Author event in Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
By February 1802
, and her sister the
had almost finished a tragedy they had adapted from
's Kruitzner, the German's Tale.
Jane Harvey: Early 1802
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Author event in Jane Harvey
Early 1802
seems to have published two castle novels with the
: Minerva Castle, A Tale and Warkfield Castle, A Tale; but no copy of the former has been found, so it may...
February 1802: The English Chronicle or Universal Evening...
Writing climate item
February 1802
The English Chronicle or Universal Evening Post merged to produce the English Chronicle and Whitehall Evening Post.
Anne Plumptre: 3 February 1802
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Plumptre
3 February 1802
set out for France to visit
; she stayed in France for nearly three years.
Lydia Maria Child: 11 February 1802
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Author event in Lydia Maria Child
11 February 1802
Lydia Maria Francis (later
) was born in Medford, Massachusetts, USA (a shipbuilding village), the youngest of six children.
Sir Walter Scot : 24 February 1802-November 1803
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Author event in Sir Walter Scot
24 February 1802-November 1803
edited and published Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, a collection of historical, traditional and romantic ballads, with imitations.
Anna Gordon: 24 February 1802
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Gordon
24 February 1802
included a selection of
's songs in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (of which the first two volumes appeared on this day).
26 February 1802: Novelist and poet Victor Hugo was born in...
Writing climate item
26 February 1802
Novelist and poet
was born in Besançon, France.
Anne Bannerman: March 1802
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Author event in Anne Bannerman
March 1802
The Edinburgh Magazine printed
's poem The Dark Ladie, signed B.
Grace Elliott: Probably 1802
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Author event in Grace Elliott
Probably 1802
's posthumous editor says that Elliott was moved to begin writing down her memories of the French Revolution, at Twickenham in Middlesex, after returning from France on the signing of the Treaty of...
Mariana Starke: After March 1802
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Author event in Mariana Starke
After March 1802
issued a revised and expanded edition of
's Letters from Italy as Travels in Italy. The significant addition was material on France (now accessible again after the peace of Amiens).
Amelia Opie: 10 March 1802
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Author event in Amelia Opie
10 March 1802
commemorated the untimely death of a leading Whig politician, composing Elegy to the Memory of the late
: written on the Evening of his Interment.
27 March 1802: The Peace of Amiens ended the war which had...
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27 March 1802
The Peace of Amiens ended the war which had raged between England and France for nine years.