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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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18 April 1815: The Christian Observer, urging the need for...
18 April 1815
The Christian Observer, urging the need for fresh military efforts to re-restore the Bourbon monarchy in France, ended with a list of ancien-regime institutions which must not be resumed.
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: 22 April 1815
Women writers item
Author event in Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
22 April 1815
A five-act tragedy by
, Ina, set in Anglo-Saxon England, ran for a single night at
in London.
Anthony Trolllope: 24 April 1815
Writing climate item
Author event in Anthony Trolllope
24 April 1815
, novelist, was born at 16 Keppel Street, Russell Square, London.
Lucy Aikin: May 1815
Women writers item
Author event in Lucy Aikin
May 1815
, dining with
, was pleased that though she herself went unnoticed, Scott devoted considerable attention to her aunt
.
Anne Lister: May 1815
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Lister
May 1815
's childless uncle and aunt, James Lister and his wife, took her to live with them at Shibden Hall, Halifax, to groom her as its future owner.
Anna Eliza Bray: 27 May 1815
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Eliza Bray
27 May 1815
Anna Eliza Kempe (later
) was advertised as making her acting debut in the role of Belvidera (in
's Venice Preserv'd) at the Bath
.
June 1815: Scottish artisans and textile workers demonstrating...
June 1815
Scottish artisans and textile workers demonstrating against exploitation rallied at the site of the battle of Drumclog (near Kilmarnock in Western Scotland), a
victory of 1679.
Charlotte Nooth: 3 June 1815
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Nooth
3 June 1815
, living at 47 Gloucester Street, Queen Square, London, dated the preface to her Original Poems, which appeared in print within a couple of months.
Ellen Weeton: Biography: 9 June 1815
Women writers item
Author event in Ellen Weeton: Biography
9 June 1815
's daughter,
, was born, just nine months and nine days after her wedding.
Lady Mary Walker: 15 June 1815
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Mary Walker
15 June 1815
Lady Mary Hamilton (formerly
, now again alone) sailed back to Portsmouth from Jamaica, where she had been to receive for herself the rents of her estate, Success.
Elizabeth Cobbold: After 18 June 1815
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Cobbold
After 18 June 1815
published at Ipswich, for the Author, her Ode on the Victory of Waterloo.
18 June 1815: Napoleon's power was decisively crushed at...
National or international item
18 June 1815
's power was decisively crushed at the battle of Waterloo, not far from Brussels.
Christian Isobel Johnstone: 24 June 1815
Women writers item
Author event in Christian Isobel Johnstone
24 June 1815
Seven months after her divorce,
married
, then a schoolmaster at Dunfermline in Fife, who later ran a printing business.
26 June 1815: Elizabeth Fenning, an Irish servant in London,...
26 June 1815
, an Irish servant in London, aged just twenty-two, was hanged for attempted murder, by poisoned dumplings, of her male employer and his son and daughter-in-law.
Elizabeth Hands: Shortly before 28 June 1815
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Hands
Shortly before 28 June 1815
died at Bourton-on-Dunsmore in Warwickshire.
Mary Brunton: Summer 1815
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Brunton
Summer 1815
and her husband visited London and toured south-west England.
Charlotte Dacre: July 1815
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Dacre
July 1815
married
, editor of the Morning Post; despite their three children and her writing name, she called herself Charlotte King, spinster, in the register.
Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire: By July 1815
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
By July 1815
The twice-widowed
, settled in Rome.
By July 1815: Byron published Hebrew Melodies....
Writing climate item
By July 1815
published Hebrew Melodies.
From later 1815: The largest-yet wave of British emigration...
From later 1815
The largest-yet wave of British emigration to the USA began gathering numbers, partly because of soldiers discharged from the army at the peace.
Helen Maria Williams: Later 1815
Women writers item
Author event in Helen Maria Williams
Later 1815
published A Narrative of the Events which have taken place in France, from the landing of
, on the 1st of March, 1815, till the Restoration of .
8 July 1815: Under terms set by the Congress of Vienna,...
National or international item
8 July 1815
Under terms set by the Congress of Vienna,
was restored for the second time to the throne of France, from which he had been driven by
.
11 July 1815: The Stamp Act extended the coverage of Stamp...
National or international item
11 July 1815
The Stamp Act extended the coverage of Stamp Duty to include periodicals (previously distinguished from newspapers), and raised the tax by a halfpenny to fourpence a sheet.
Frances Burney: 19 July 1815
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Burney
19 July 1815
heard that her
lay wounded (by a kick from a horse) at Trèves (now Trier) in Germany, and at once set out alone from Brussels, across war-ravaged Europe to help him.
20 July 1815: Madame Vestris made her operatic debut as...
20 July 1815
made her operatic debut as the leading lady of the
, aged only eighteen.