OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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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Melesina Trench: 1818
Women writers item
Author event in Melesina Trench
1818
issued another fighting work at Southampton: a single-sheet Circular sent to the
, previous to the Second Reading of the Bill for Ameliorating the Fate of Climbing Boys.
Catharine Parr Traill: 1818
Women writers item
Author event in Catharine Parr Traill
1818
Catharine Strickland, later
, published anonymously her first book for children, The Tell Tale: An Original Collection of Moral and Amusing Stories.
The British Library Catalogue (in 2007) attributes this text to
Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1771: 1818
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1771
1818
published her first volume of poetry, The Confession; or, The Novice of St. Clare, and Other Poems, as by the author of Purity of Heart.
Mary Martha Sherwood: 1818
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Martha Sherwood
1818
published volume one of her most famous children's books, The History of the Fairchild Family. In this early form, she uncompromisingly presents the doctrine of universal depravity.
Mary Shelley: January 1818
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Shelley
January 1818
published, anonymously, her first and best-known novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
Frances Arabella Rowden: 1818
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Arabella Rowden
1818
closed her
at 22 Hans Place, London, and moved to Paris, apparently to rejoin
, who had settled there with his
a couple of years before.
Ann Gomersall: 1818
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Gomersall
1818
Four years after she was widowed,
moved from Exeter to Newport in the Isle of Wight.
Ann Hatton: January 1818
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Hatton
January 1818
published with
, as Anne of Swansea, her four-volume novel Secrets in Every Mansion; or, The Surgeon's Memorandum-Book. A Scottish Record.
Geraldine Jewsbury: 1818
Women writers item
Author event in Geraldine Jewsbury
1818
The Jewsbury family moved to Manchester when
's father's business in Measham, Derbyshire, flagged.
Isabella Lickbarrow: 1818
Women writers item
Author event in Isabella Lickbarrow
1818
Four years after her former volume,
published at Liverpool a book containing two long poems: A Lament upon The Death of Her Royal Highness The
; and, Alfred, A Vision.
Harriet Martineau: 1818
Women writers item
Author event in Harriet Martineau
1818
By the time
was sixteen, her deafness was pronounced enough to cause her considerable social distress.
Eliza Meteyard: 1818-1829
Women writers item
Author event in Eliza Meteyard
1818-1829
lived with her family at Shrewsbury in Shropshire, having moved there because of her father's appointment to the Shropshire militia; he held a prominent local role.
Charlotte Montefiore: 1818
Women writers item
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: 1818
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1818
's letters to
and
were printed as Original Letters, at Greenock in Scotland.
1818: Judges in Britain began sentencing some juvenile...
1818
Judges in Britain began sentencing some juvenile delinquents to privately funded reformatories, instead of to jails.
1818: The Church Missionary Society sent five missionaries...
National or international item
1818
The
sent five missionaries from England to Egypt; the mission had completely failed by 1862.
1818: A surgeon pressed his ear against a woman's...
1818
A surgeon pressed his ear against a woman's corset and first heard a foetal heartbeat; the medical establishment soon began to monitor embryonic development.
1818: A Select Committee of the House of Commons...
Writing climate item
1818
A Select Committee of the
recommended that the eleven free copies of books which publishers were currently obliged to provide for the Copyright Libraries be limited to a single copy for the...
1818: A Parliamentary Select Committee debated...
1818
A Parliamentary Select Committee debated an alleged decline in public morals and growth in prostitution; the same topics were considered again in 1822.
1818: William Hazlitt published A View of the English...
Writing climate item
1818
published A View of the English Stage.
1818: Thomas Nelson established himself as a publisher...
Writing climate item
1818
established himself as a publisher in Edinburgh; he became known for his popular reprints of classics.
About 1818: Sir William Congreve (namesake of the dramatist)...
National or international item
About 1818
(namesake of the dramatist) invented a machine to produce coloured watermarking of paper.
Some sources give a date of 1819.
1818: The successful children's writer Elizabeth...
Women writers item
1818
The successful children's writer
published The School-Fellows, a Moral Tale, which devotes a chapter to commemoration of
(who had died on 6 November 1817).
1818: Baroness Oldenburg, visiting London, introduced...
1818
, visiting London, introduced the prim (and vision-obscuring) coal-scuttle bonnet that replaced feathered, flowered hats.
5 January 1818: The first packet-boat (a fast ship intended...
5 January 1818
The first packet-boat (a fast ship intended to keep to a timetable, carrying passengers and mail) sailed from New York, bound for Liverpool.