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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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After 11 February 1815: Following her death, the Memoirs of Mrs....
After 11 February 1815
Following her death, the Memoirs of Mrs.
, Who Had Been the Wife of Major Asa Bailey were published, edited by her minister.
Eliza Fay: February 1815
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Author event in Eliza Fay
February 1815
was at Blackheath on the outskirts of London, on a final visit from India to England.
Eliza Fay: February-March 1815
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Author event in Eliza Fay
February-March 1815
, at Blackheath near London, wrote up her later travel experiences for publication.
13 February 1815: Caius Gracchus, a tragedy by James Sheridan...
Writing climate item
13 February 1815
Caius Gracchus, a tragedy by
, was first performed at the .
Elizabeth Sewell: 19 February 1815
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Mary Shelley: 22 February 1815
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Author event in Mary Shelley
22 February 1815
(better known as Mary Shelley) gave birth prematurely (after only about seven months) to her first child, a daughter, who died during the night of March 5th-6th.
Alicia Tyndal Palmer: After 24 February 1815
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Author event in Alicia Tyndal Palmer
After 24 February 1815
With a preface dated this day,
published Authentic Memoirs of the Life of
, King of Poland.
Ann Radcliffe: 27 February 1815
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Author event in Ann Radcliffe
27 February 1815
The publisher
wrote requesting
that they might be favd with the perusal of the whole of a book-length poem for which they were willing to offer her a thousand pounds.
Lydia Howard Sigourney: March 1815
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Author event in Lydia Howard Sigourney
March 1815
published at Hartford, Connecticut, her first book, Moral Pieces, in Prose and Verse, with her own name, a practice which she discontinued on her marriage.
March 1815: William Wordsworth published his Miscellaneous...
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March 1815
published his Miscellaneous Poems in two volumes; a third volume was added in 1820.
March 1815: Napoleon escaped from the island of Elba,...
National or international item
March 1815
escaped from the island of Elba, and marched northwards through France, gathering an army for a further military showdown with the nations of Europe.
Jane Harvey: March 1815
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Author event in Jane Harvey
March 1815
In Lines on the Corn Bill, in all probability expressly written to be a broadside ballad,
laments that government policy is forcing the poor to emigrate or rot in workhouses (while...
15 March 1815: The Corn Laws came into effect....
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15 March 1815
The Corn Laws came into effect.
Frances Burney: 19 March 1815
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Author event in Frances Burney
19 March 1815
bade farewell to her
, as he left to ride out with the French
's army against
, who was almost at the gates of Paris.
Frances Burney: 23 March 1815
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Author event in Frances Burney
23 March 1815
, a fugitive travelling by night and accepting such help as offered along the way, reached and safely crossed the frontier between France and Belgium.
Marion Reid: 25 March 1815
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Author event in Marion Reid
25 March 1815
Marion Kirkland (later
) was born in Glasgow, the eldest daughter in her family.
Little is known about
. The original Dictionary of National Biography gave her the speculative birthdate of some...
Elizabeth Beverley: Probably 1815
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Author event in Elizabeth Beverley
Probably 1815
published what may be her earliest work: The Indefatigable, Bound on a Voyage to the Island of Liberality. Though extant editions date from 1830 and 1831, the early-dated contents suggest these are actually reprints.
Maria Callcott: By April 1815
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Author event in Maria Callcott
By April 1815
(then Maria Graham) published an anonymous translation of
's Memoirs of the War of the French in Spain.
Anna Jane Vardill: April 1815
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Author event in Anna Jane Vardill
April 1815
The European Magazine printed
's Christobell, A Gothic Tale, a sequel to
's Christabel. Vardill's poem was for years an unsolved conundrum for scholars, since it appeared in print before Coleridge's.
Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1771: By April 1815
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Author event in Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1771
By April 1815
With The Baron of Falconberg; or, Childe Harolde in Prose,
entered the controversy swirling around
, again calling herself Mrs. Bridget Bluemantle and mentioning a long list of previous works.
Elizabeth Hamilton: By April 1815
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Author event in Elizabeth Hamilton
By April 1815
published a work on education: Hints Addressed to the Patrons and Directors of Schools.
Christian Isobel Johnstone: By April 1815
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Author event in Christian Isobel Johnstone
By April 1815
published, through a conger of publishers in Edinburgh, London, and Dublin, her ground-breaking Clan-Albin: A National Tale.
Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847: 1 April 1815
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Author event in Mary Lamb, 1764 - 1847
1 April 1815
's essay entitled On Needle-Work appeared in print in the British Lady's Magazine under the name of Sempronia (which was probably borrowed from the feminist
).
By April 1815: August Wilhelm von Schlegel's Lectures on...
Writing climate item
By April 1815
's Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, published in German in 1809-11, were translated into English.
10 April 1815: The largest volcanic eruption in modern times,...
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10 April 1815
The largest volcanic eruption in modern times, that of Mount Tambora in what is now Indonesia, buried an entire civilization. It had twice the magnitude of the later Krakatoa eruption.