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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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Maria Elizabetha Jacson: 1816
Women writers item
Author event in Maria Elizabetha Jacson
1816
issued with The Florist's Manual; or, Hints for the Construction of a Gay Flower Garden, the only one of her books to go into a third edition. Again she published with...
Mary Anne Jevons, the elder: 1816
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Anne Jevons, the elder
1816
In the face of bankruptcy,
(father of
) sold the family's beloved home, Allerton Hall.
Fanny Kemble: 1816
Women writers item
Author event in Fanny Kemble
1816
began her two unhappy years at
's boarding school at Boulogne in France.
Hannah Kilham: 1816
Women writers item
Author event in Hannah Kilham
1816
began publishing at Sheffield a series of trite little penny tracts entitled Family Maxims.
Biographer
dates them to 1817.
Ellis Cornelia Knight : Spring 1816
Women writers item
Author event in Ellis Cornelia Knight
Spring 1816
left for a holiday in Paris. She returned to England in July.
L. E. L.: 1816
Women writers item
Author event in L. E. L.
1816
and the rest of the Landon family moved from Fulham to Old Brompton Road in London.
Jane Marcet: 1816
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Marcet
1816
, as the author of Conversations on Chemistry, published Conversations on Political Economy.
Harriett Mozley: 1816
Women writers item
Author event in Harriett Mozley
1816
The bank where
was a partner collapsed when his daughter Harriett (later
) was barely in her teens; though he found other work, the family fortunes never recovered and he was declared...
Judith Sargent Murray: 1816
Writing climate item
Author event in Judith Sargent Murray
1816
The year after her husband's death,
completed, edited, and published, as Records of the Life of the Rev. , the autobiography which he had left unfinished. It was her final literary work.
Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale: 1816
Women writers item
Author event in Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale
1816
's famous letter reached print at Durham a century after the events it relates, as Genuine Account of the Escape of
: printed from the original letter.
1816: The French physician René Laënnec invented...
1816
The French physician
invented the prototype of the modern stethoscope.
1816: Gioacchino Rossini's opera Il Barbiere di...
1816
's opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) had its first performance in Rome; its libretto, by
, is a prequel to The Marriage of Figaro, set by
.
1816: John Reeves, a tea inspector with the East...
1816
, a tea inspector with the
, sent the first wisteria plant from China to England.
1816: Special vessels reserved for emigrant traffic...
National or international item
1816
Special vessels reserved for emigrant traffic began to carry waves of Irish to North America and Australia.
1816: Leigh Hunt published his narrative poem The...
Writing climate item
1816
published his narrative poem The Story of Rimini.
1816: The Peace Society was founded by Quakers;...
National or international item
1816
The
was founded by Quakers; the society wished to replace war with diplomacy in international relations.
1816: The Church Missionary Society or CMS began...
1816
The
or CMS began publishing its periodical The Missionary Papers, which ran with several changes of title until 1917.
1816: A Parliamentary Select Committee heard evidence...
1816
A Parliamentary Select Committee heard evidence about the comparative efficiency of different kinds of police force.
1816: The Select Committee on Police heard from...
1816
The Select Committee on Police heard from
that prostitutes derive a considerable proportion of their subsistence by the robbery of those who come into contact with them.
1816: The menopause, as a set of medical symptoms,...
1816
The menopause, as a set of medical symptoms, was first delineated, by the Frenchman
.
After 1816: A court ruled against a widowed father (a...
After 1816
A court ruled against a widowed father (a Unitarian minister) in his suit to get his daughters back from his wife's family, who had brought them up as Baptists.
1816: Thomas Love Peacock published his anonymous...
Writing climate item
1816
published his anonymous satirical novel Headlong Hall.
1816: After the uncovering of abuses through the...
1816
After the uncovering of abuses through the Parliamentary Select Committee's inquiry into madhouses, separate areas began to be built for lunatics who were also criminals.
Frances Browne: 16 January 1816
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Browne
16 January 1816
was born at Stranorlar in County Donegal, Ireland, the seventh in a family of twelve children.