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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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1812-1816: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel published ...
Writing climate item
1812-1816
published Logik.
1812: The Ladies' Royal Benevolent Society was...
1812
The
was founded, to provide charity to London's poor.
1812-29: A series of Parliamentary Select Committees...
1812-29
A series of Parliamentary Select Committees considered the judicial system, the prisons, and the policing of London, and published its findings in various reports; this year the first one debated the organisation of London's...
January 1812: The Theatre Royal first opened in Bridgetown,...
January 1812
The
first opened in Bridgetown, Barbados.
By 1812: The British Navy comprised more than 140,000...
National or international item
By 1812
The British Navy comprised more than 140,000 men: nine times as many as before 1789.
1812: Lord Selkirk sponsored massive Scottish immigration...
National or international item
1812
sponsored massive Scottish immigration to Assiniboia in Canada.
1812: The first factory to sell tinned provisions...
1812
The first factory to sell tinned provisions was established at Bermondsey by
.
1812: The Wesleyan Conference split from the Church...
National or international item
1812
The Wesleyan Conference split from the
to form the
.
1812-1816: Millbank Prison was built at a cost of nearly...
1812-1816
Millbank Prison was built at a cost of nearly £500,000.
Ann Jebb: 20 January 1812
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Jebb
20 January 1812
died at her house in Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, London, after twenty years as an invalid.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: 20 January 1812
Women writers item
Author event in Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
20 January 1812
married
, at the
's mansion of Baron's Court, County Tyrone, Ireland.
Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger: By February 1812
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
By February 1812
published, anonymously, her first novel, Marian; it has also been attributed to someone called
.
February 1812: The Prince of Wales's Regency was made permanent,...
National or international item
February 1812
The
's Regency was made permanent, in recognition that
was not expected to recover.
February 1812: The first Luddite riots in the West Riding...
February 1812
The first Luddite riots in the West Riding of Yorkshire occurred.
Charles Dickens: 7 February 1812
Writing climate item
Author event in Charles Dickens
7 February 1812
Future novelist
was born at 13 Mile End Terrace, Portsea, .
Anna Letitia Barbauld: 12 February 1812
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Letitia Barbauld
12 February 1812
published her longest poem, a controversial and important analysis of the current state of the nation, of recent history, politics, and war: Eighteen Hundred and Eleven.
As precedent for titling a poem about...
Amelia Beauclerc: By March 1812
Women writers item
Author event in Amelia Beauclerc
By March 1812
Perhaps because of the mixup caused by
,
chose
to publish her next novel, The Castle of Tariffa; or, The Self-Banished Man—they published as well her next, Alinda; or, The Child...
Jane West: March 1812
Women writers item
Author event in Jane West
March 1812
Setting her fictional narrator Prudentia Homespun behind her,
published a new kind of work in The Loyalists. An Historical Novel, as by the author of Letters to a Young Man, and A Tale...
Henrietta Sykes: March 1812
Women writers item
Author event in Henrietta Sykes
March 1812
Having previously published a historical novel,
used a modern setting for her second, Sir William Dorien, A Domestic Story, writing as the author of Margiana; or, Widdrington Tower.
Elizabeth Strutt: By March 1812
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Strutt
By March 1812
published with the The Borderers, An Historical Romance. Illustrative of the Manners of the Fourteenth Century.
Amelia Opie: March 1812
Women writers item
Author event in Amelia Opie
March 1812
published the heavily didactic Temper; or, Domestic Scenes: A Tale (inspired by
's poem The Triumph of Temper, 1781); it was seven years since her previous novel.
Jane Harvey: By March 1812
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Harvey
By March 1812
published with her name (through
of Gainsborough, but to be sold by
of London) Memoirs of an Author.
A
re-issue of this book in 1814 titles it...
1 March 1812: Architect and writer Augustus Pugin was born...
Writing climate item
1 March 1812
Architect and writer
was born at 34 Store Street, near Bedford Square, London.
6 March 1812: Daniel Isaac Eaton was tried in the Court...
National or international item
6 March 1812
was tried in the
for publishing the final part of
's Age of Reason.
Lady Caroline Lamb: Early March 1812
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Caroline Lamb
Early March 1812
read an advance copy of the early cantos of
's Childe Harold, and wrote a poem expressing her wish to emulate him.