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Events Timeline
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Charlotte Dacre: August-October 1802
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Author event in Charlotte Dacre
August-October 1802
, father of
and
, visited Paris: he was escaping creditors, but also making political observations.
Amelia Opie: August-October 1802
Women writers item
Author event in Amelia Opie
August-October 1802
During the brief interval of peace
travelled to Paris with her
, hoping to see
, whom she then admired.
Elizabeth Gunning: By August 1802
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Gunning
By August 1802
published with
(whose publishing firm and shop, the
, dated from 1801) Family Stories; or, Evenings at my Grandmother's, Intended for Young Persons, of Eight Years Old.
Susannah Gunning: By August 1802
Women writers item
Author event in Susannah Gunning
By August 1802
's final work, The Heir Apparent, A Novel, was posthumously published with her
's revision and additions.
Frances O'Neill: Later 1802
Women writers item
Author event in Frances O'Neill
Later 1802
published her Poetical Essays, Being a Collection of Satirical Poems, Songs and Acrostics, her only work which has been traced.
By August 1802: An English translation appeared: Interesting...
By August 1802
An English translation appeared: Interesting Anecdotes of the heroic Conduct of Women, during the French Revolution, from the French of a
.
Joanna Southcott: Later 1802
Women writers item
Author event in Joanna Southcott
Later 1802
Some months after moving to London,
published a pamphlet entitled A Dispute between the Woman and the Powers of Darkness, which has been reprinted by
, 1995.
Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 10 August 1802
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Author event in Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847
10 August 1802
and
set out for a jaunt northwards to the Lake District, where they stayed with the families of
at Keswick and the abolitionist
at Ambleside.
L. E. L.: 14 August 1802
Women writers item
Author event in L. E. L.
14 August 1802
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, who later wrote as
, was born at 25 Hans Place, Chelsea, near London, the first of three children.
Susanna Watts: 1802-03
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Author event in Susanna Watts
1802-03
worked hard for three months at translating
's Jerusalem and
's Roman Nights; she had already done some translation from Tasso in about 1786.
, too, had translated from Tasso's Jerusalem.
Isabella Kelly: By September 1802
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Author event in Isabella Kelly
By September 1802
used a different publisher,
, for her new novel, The Baron's Daughter: A Gothic Romance.
Autumn 1802: A Miss Shepherd closed her boarding school...
Autumn 1802
A Miss Shepherd closed her boarding school in Percy Street, London, and opened one in the Chateau de Taillis, 24 kilometres from Rouen in France.
Susanna Watts: 2 September 1802
Women writers item
Author event in Susanna Watts
2 September 1802
wrote of
on meeting her: This poor girl sold a novel in four volumes for ten guineas to of the
.
3 September 1802: William Wordsworth composed his well-known...
Writing climate item
3 September 1802
composed his well-known sonnet Upon Westminster Bridge, responding to the power of the city, as well as countryside or wilderness, to arouse transcendent feelings.
Mary Matilda Betham: 9 September 1802
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Author event in Mary Matilda Betham
9 September 1802
wrote To
from a Stranger (later published privately), wishing that she might be as impassioned as
—but holier and happier.
Susanna Watts: Before mid-September 1802
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Author event in Susanna Watts
Before mid-September 1802
published with her initials Original Poems, and Translations, Particularly Ambra, from
.
Maria Edgeworth: Late September 1802
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Author event in Maria Edgeworth
Late September 1802
set out, with her
,
, and two eldest unmarried sisters, to visit France and Belgium.
Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: October 1802
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
October 1802
travelled with two of her children to Paris, now newly accessible again to English people after the Treaty of Amiens in March.
Elizabeth Gunning: By October 1802
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Gunning
By October 1802
published with her name, through
, The Village Library, Intended for the Use of Young Persons, a collection of eleven tales.
Rachel Hunter: October 1802
Women writers item
Author event in Rachel Hunter
October 1802
published at both Norwich and London, with her name, her second novel, The History of the Grubthorpe Family; or, The Old Batchelor and his Sister Penelope.
Dorothy Wordsworth: 4 October 1802
Women writers item
Author event in Dorothy Wordsworth
4 October 1802
's life was radically changed when her brother
married
.
4 October 1802: The Morning Post carried Samuel Taylor Coleridge's...
Writing climate item
4 October 1802
The Morning Post carried
's Dejection: An Ode, a lamentation over his sense of lost poetic power.
6 October 1802: Isaac Cruikshank depicted, in a print entitled...
6 October 1802
depicted, in a print entitled British Vessels, Described for the use of Country Gentlemen, seven different types of prostitute named after different types of vessel.
10 October 1802: The Edinburgh Review (founded by Henry Brougham...
Writing climate item
10 October 1802
The Edinburgh Review (founded by
as a quarterly magazine of liberal views) published its first issue; it became a leading voice under editors like
and
, and lasted until...
Anne Bannerman: Late 1802
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Bannerman
Late 1802
published, anonymously, Tales of Superstition and Chivalry, this time in London with
.
One of its engravings is dated 12 October 1802.