Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995.
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Events Timeline
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1811: Publisher John Murray in London began working...
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1811
Publisher
in London began working with
in Edinburgh.
1811: This year the war against Napoleon cost the...
National or international item
1811
This year the war against
cost the British government 56 million pounds (nearly three times the 20 million it had cost in the year 1794).
1811-53: The French Biographie Universelle appeared...
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1811-53
The French Biographie Universelle appeared in 53 volumes, covering an international range of subjects: on this
first modelled, in 1882, his plan for an English Dictionary of National Biography.
1811: A twelve-year-old working-class girl, Mary...
1811
A twelve-year-old working-class girl,
(with her brother), discovered near Lyme in Dorset the earliest known complete ichthyosaurus skeleton—or else her brother found part of it this year and she the rest in 1812...
1811: The first state-subsidized county lunatic...
1811
The first state-subsidized county lunatic asylum for paupers was opened in Nottingham.
Elizabeth Heyrick: 21 January 1811
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Author event in Elizabeth Heyrick
21 January 1811
's
(who in her youth had been a poet, publisher's editor, and book reviewer) died at Bow Bridge House; Heyrick recorded her feelings in her diary.
Jane Austen: February 1811-July 1813
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Author event in Jane Austen
February 1811-July 1813
According to
's sister
the planning and writing of Mansfield Park, her longest novel, took Austen about twenty-nine months.
Anna Letitia Barbauld: February 1811
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Author event in Anna Letitia Barbauld
February 1811
collected and edited an anthology entitled The Female Speaker: she acknowledged the example of the popular The Speaker, edited by her friend
(which dated from 1774 and had quoted her...
Sarah Trimmer: February 1811
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Author event in Sarah Trimmer
February 1811
's Sermons for Family Reading, Abridged from the Work of Eminent Divines, was posthumously published.
By February 1811: The craze for sentiment was extended (not...
By February 1811
The craze for sentiment was extended (not without irony) to writing for children, in Felissa, or the Life and Opinions of a Kitten of Sentiment written by
.
Eliza Parsons: 5 February 1811
Women writers item
5 February 1811: The Prince of Wales (later George IV) became...
National or international item
5 February 1811
The
(later George IV) became Regent in view of his
's renewed (and, as it turned out, final) lapse into madness.
Mary Brunton: 20 February 1811
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Author event in Mary Brunton
20 February 1811
wrote that her authorship of Self-Control had become known, the evil spirit knows how.
Jane Austen: March-May 1811
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Marianne Chambers: 2 March 1811
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Author event in Marianne Chambers
2 March 1811
's second five-act play, Ourselves, A Comedy, opened at the
in London with actors from the
.
Mary Russell Mitford: By March 1811
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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford
By March 1811
's
had again seriously overspent: attempts at retrenchment had failed, and he was actually in debtors' prison.
Percy Bysshe Shelley: By 9 March 1811
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Author event in Percy Bysshe Shelley
By 9 March 1811
The young
, helped by his sister
, expressed anger in a political poem, Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, about the treatment of Irish journalist
.
Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 9 March 1811
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847
9 March 1811
One of
's bouts of madness seems to have been brought on by agitation about the break between
and
.
Percy Bysshe Shelley: By 25 March 1811
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Author event in Percy Bysshe Shelley
By 25 March 1811
published his pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism, for which on this date he was sent down (i.e. expelled) from
.
Emily Frederick Clark : 27 March 1811
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Author event in Emily Frederick Clark
27 March 1811
asked the
for fifteen pounds with which to pay her baker's bill; the Fund recorded a payment of fifteen guineas to her this year.
Hannah More: By late March 1811
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Author event in Hannah More
By late March 1811
published Practical Piety; or, The Influence of the Religion of the Heart on the Conduct of Life.
Mary Russell Mitford: Late March 1811
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Author event in Mary Russell Mitford
Late March 1811
published a long poem, Christina, the Maid of the South Seas.
Marianne Chambers: 31 March 1811
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Author event in Marianne Chambers
31 March 1811
was buried in the church of her baptism, Saint Augustine the Less in Bristol. She must have died just before this date, less than a month after her second play opened in London.
Eleanor Tatlock: April 1811
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Author event in Eleanor Tatlock
April 1811
printed for the author her Poems in two volumes, many reprinted from magazines.
Mary Leadbeater: April 1811
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Author event in Mary Leadbeater
April 1811
published by subscription Cottage Dialogues among the Irish Peasantry, first and best-known of a series of works devoted to social (and incidentally moral) improvement.