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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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Henrietta Rouviere Mosse: By November 1805
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Author event in Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
By November 1805
Still under her birth name,
published her second novel, The Heirs of Villeroy, A Romance, this time in three volumes and bearing the date of 1806.
By November 1805: Richard Payne Knight published his influential...
By November 1805
published his influential Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste; that month it had the lead review in the Critical.
20 November 1805: Ludwig van Beethoven conducted the first...
20 November 1805
conducted the first performance of his opera, Fidelio, in Vienna.
Anna Letitia Barbauld: December 1805
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Author event in Anna Letitia Barbauld
December 1805
met the Unitarian diarist
, who became a lifelong friend.
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: December 1805
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Author event in Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
December 1805
Mary Anne Galton (later
) worked at a pamphlet on the education of the poor, and told her disapproving
that she wished to publish it.
Elizabeth Helme: Perhaps late 1805
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Author event in Elizabeth Helme
Perhaps late 1805
published another four-volume novel with a crusader setting: The Pilgrim of the Cross; or, The Chronicles of Christabelle de Mowbray. An Ancient Legend, the first of her works to be issued at Brentford.
Ellis Cornelia Knight : By December 1805
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Author event in Ellis Cornelia Knight
By December 1805
, in her new position as lady of the bedchamber to
, became a resident of Windsor Castle.
Sarah Trimmer: By early December 1805
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Author event in Sarah Trimmer
By early December 1805
published her Comparative View of the New Plan of Education promulgated by Mr. (reviewed by the Critical Review two years after it appeared).
Marianne Chambers: 10 December 1805
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Author event in Marianne Chambers
10 December 1805
's five-act comedy The School for Friends opened at London's
.
published a comedy of the same title in the second volume of his Literary Miscellanies, 1809.
Ellis Cornelia Knight : By 10 December 1805
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By 10 December 1805
published Description of Latium: or, La Campagnia di Roma, a tourist guide to Rome and the area around it, illustrated with twenty etchings done by herself.
Judith Sargent Murray: 14 December 1805
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Author event in Judith Sargent Murray
14 December 1805
's final creative publication, a poem, appeared in the Boston Magazine, which ran for just this year and the next.
Margaret Bryan: 1806
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Author event in Margaret Bryan
1806
published her Lectures on Natural Philosophy: that is, on science.
Eliza Fenwick: January 1806
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January 1806
's
, many times threatened with arrest for debt, went bankrupt and was confined in the
.
Eliza Fenwick: 1806
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Author event in Eliza Fenwick
1806
, as the Rev. David Blair, published The Class Book: or, Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Reading Lessons, adapted to the Use of Schools; for every day in the year . . . .
Frances Wright: 1806-1813
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Author event in Frances Wright
1806-1813
lived with her aunt
at The Cottage, a twenty-room mansion at Dawlish in Devon, near Lyme Bay.
Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: Probably early 1806
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Probably early 1806
published in two volumes her first full-length book, The Thatched Cottage; or, Sorrows of Eugenia. A Novel, dedicated to
(daughter of
), with a list of about 150 subscribers.
Mary Stockdale: 1806
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Author event in Mary Stockdale
1806
's brother
, son and nephew of publishers, set up his own publishing firm in the West End of London, at 41 Pall Mall.
Charlotte Smith: 1806
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1806
The History of England, from the earliest records, to the Peace of Amiens, designed for children, appeared in the year of
's death: she wrote the first two of its three volumes, covering...
Mrs Showes: By January 1806
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Author event in Mrs Showes
By January 1806
published what seems to be her final work, a German translation, Domestic Scenes. Again she identifies herself by earlier titles, as the author of Agnes de Lilien, Statira, Restless Matron.
Anna Seward: 1806
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Author event in Anna Seward
1806
published with her name, at Sheffield through the poet
, Blindness. A Poem, Written at the request of an artist, who lost his sight.
A manuscript note in the
Susanna Haswell Rowson: 1806
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Author event in Susanna Haswell Rowson
1806
issued with her name at BostonAn Abridgement of Universal Geography, Together with Sketches of History. Designed for the Use of Schools and Academies in the United States.
Mary Robinson: 1806
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Author event in Mary Robinson
1806
's Poetical Works were posthumously published, edited by her daughter
.
Mary Prince: About 1806
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Author event in Mary Prince
About 1806
Sold once again,
began on labour which was exceptionally gruelling even for a slave: in the salt-pans on Turk Island in the West Indies.
Phebe Gibbes: 1806
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Author event in Phebe Gibbes
1806
was one of those whose applications this year to the
were rejected as questionable.
Ann Taylor Gilbert: 1806
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1806
published City Scenes; or, A Peep into London, for Children, also written by
and revised by
and
.
It is often ascribed to the Taylors alone.