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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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1804: The first long-lasting English-language newspaper...
1804
The first long-lasting English-language newspaper in South Wales began publication.
1804: The Chester Chronicle reported that drawers...
1804
The Chester Chronicle reported that drawers (knickers or underpants) were now the fashion for English ladies.
1804: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller produced...
Writing climate item
1804
produced and published Wilhelm Tell, his last completed play.
1804: The Prince of Wales (later George IV) was...
National or international item
1804
The
(later George IV) was given full custody of his daughter
;
(her grandfather) became her guardian.
1804: The membership of the Society for the Suppression...
1804
The membership of the
stood at 1200; from this date it shrank steadily.
1804: The Church Missionary Society sent out its...
1804
The
sent out its first two missionaries to Africa.
1 January 1804: Haiti became an independent black republic...
National or international item
1 January 1804
Haiti became an independent black republic after the capitulation (the previous November) of a large force sent by
to quell the rebellion there.
1804: The publisher George, George, and John Robinson,...
Writing climate item
1804
The publisher
, whose list of women writers had been distinguished, went bankrupt.
Anne Hart Gilbert: 2 January 1804
Writing climate item
Author event in Anne Hart Gilbert
2 January 1804
and her
moved from St John's (the capital of Antigua, close to her childhood home) to English Harbour.
Charlotte Lennox: 2 January 1804
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Lennox
2 January 1804
died in Dean's Yard, Westminster. She was buried in a pauper's grave, which is still (2018) unmarked.
Sarah Harriet Burney: Early in the New Year 1804
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Harriet Burney
Early in the New Year 1804
was established in her first position as a governess in the Wilbraham family; she found them charming at first, but less so on closer acquaintance.
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: By 25 January 1804
Women writers item
Author event in Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
By 25 January 1804
, composed for the
a poem in praise of
to be displayed in a temple of Whiggish friendship at Bedford's Woburn estate.
Joanna Baillie: By mid-February 1804
Women writers item
Author event in Joanna Baillie
By mid-February 1804
had agreed to write for anthologist
(the successor to
in this work) about twenty original or adapted poems to go to Scottish, Irish, or Welsh tunes.
Lucy Aikin: After 1 March 1804
Women writers item
Author event in Lucy Aikin
After 1 March 1804
's translation from French of
's The Travels of Rolando was published by
: a children's geography book, carried particularly by
.
Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny : March 1804
Women writers item
Author event in Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny
March 1804
The conservative Lady's Monthly Museum carried an adaptation by the miscellaneous writer
: Emma: or, A Tale of Woe. Abridged from
's Letters to her Son, and Founded on Fact...
After 7 March 1804: The Sheffield Juvenile Bible Society was...
After 7 March 1804
The
was founded by
, aged fifteen.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington: 7 March 1804
Women writers item
Author event in Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
7 March 1804
Fourteen-year-old
, was forced by her impecunious
to marry Captain
in an Anglican ceremony.
7 March 1804: The Bible Society (also known as the British...
National or international item
7 March 1804
The
(also known as the
) was founded by Evangelicals to spread the scriptures; it became the cornerstone society of the Evangelical movement.
Anna Seward: By April 1804
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Seward
By April 1804
published through Memoirs of the Life of Dr.
, chiefly during his residence at Lichfield, with Anecdotes of his Friends, and Criticisms on his Writings.
Rachel Hunter: By April 1804
Women writers item
Author event in Rachel Hunter
By April 1804
published her third novel, The Unexpected Legacy, at both London and Norwich.
Sophia Lee: About April 1804
Women writers item
Author event in Sophia Lee
About April 1804
's epistolary novel The Life of a Lover, written early in her career, finally reached print.
Joanna Southcott: About 25 May 1804
Women writers item
Author event in Joanna Southcott
About 25 May 1804
Another tract by
appeared, this time in London: On the Prayers for the Fast Day, May, 1804.
Alethea Lewis: By May 1804
Women writers item
Author event in Alethea Lewis
By May 1804
, as Eugenia de Acton, published with the
a novel she called A Tale Without a Title: give it what you please.
Elizabeth Meeke: By 1 May 1804
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Meeke
By 1 May 1804
issued a translation, Lobenstein Village, said to be from the French of , but actually from
's loose French rendering of Lafontaine's original German.
Elizabeth Meeke: By May 1804
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Meeke
By May 1804
seems to have published three novels dated this year: both Amazement and The Old Wife and Young Husband under her own name and Something Odd! anonymously, but identified as hers by an advertisement.