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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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Mary Shelley: 7 June 1819
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Shelley
7 June 1819
's toddler son, William, died in Rome, of an infectious disease not certainly identified.
Of writers on
,
says his illness was probably cholera or typhoid;
says it was malaria.
Maria Theresa Kemble: 9 June 1819
Women writers item
Author event in Maria Theresa Kemble
9 June 1819
retired after a farewell appearance as Lady Julia in her own Personation.
9 June 1819: The library of the late Queen Charlotte was...
9 June 1819
The library of the late
was auctioned by
; it included
's works, plus titles by
,
,
,
Sir Walter Scot : 10 June 1819
Writing climate item
Author event in Sir Walter Scot
10 June 1819
published another short novel, The Bride of Lammermoor, pseudonymously (as Jedediah Cleishbotham), with The Legend of in the third series of Tales of My Landlord.
12 June 1819: Charles Kingsley, novelist, was born at Holne...
Writing climate item
12 June 1819
, novelist, was born at Holne Vicarage, Holne, Devon.
Mary Sewell: 15 June 1819
Women writers item
Queen Victoria: 24 June 1819
Women writers item
Author event in Queen Victoria
24 June 1819
The Duke and Duchess of Kent's daughter was christened
, after heated arguments during the ceremony.
Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson: By July 1819
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
By July 1819
A Mrs. Wilkinson, who was probably
, published New Tales, in three volumes, with
, dedicated to the
.
The attribution is the more likely because this...
Ann Hatton: By July 1819
Women writers item
Author event in Ann Hatton
By July 1819
published, this time as Ann of Swansea, her five-volume novel Cesario Rosalba; or, The Oath of Vengeance. A Romance.
She inscribed a presentation copy on this date to a
, in gratitude.
Barbara Hofland: Later 1819
Women writers item
Author event in Barbara Hofland
Later 1819
and her
published, after many delays, their ambitious A Descriptive Account of the Mansion and Gardens of White-Knights, with text by her and engravings from paintings by him.
July 1819: John Keats's Ode to a Nightingale, written...
Writing climate item
July 1819
's Ode to a Nightingale, written in May, appeared in a journal called Annals of the Fine Arts.
15 July 1819: Byron began to publish in instalments (opening...
Writing climate item
15 July 1819
began to publish in instalments (opening with cantos one and two) his satirical mock-epic poem Don Juan; he left it unfinished at his death.
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre: By late July 1819
Women writers item
Author event in Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
By late July 1819
, estranged husband of the future
, died. On 24 July trustees for his estate advertised for sale his farms and woods on the Hampshire-Surrey border.
Hannah More: 24 July 1819
Women writers item
Author event in Hannah More
24 July 1819
, at Barley Wood, dated her preface to the first edition of Moral Sketches of Prevailing Opinions and Manners, Foreign and Domestic.With Reflections on Prayer, published that year.
Mary Berry: By August 1819
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Berry
By August 1819
published a biography of
, wife of a Whig political martyr, which brought before the public a rich selection of Russell's unpublished letters, both trenchantly political and intimately personal.
Percy Bysshe Shelley: By August 1819
Writing climate item
Author event in Percy Bysshe Shelley
By August 1819
published his verse tragedy The Cenci, in which Beatrice Cenci murders the father who raped her.
Mary Shelley: August 1819-February 1820
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Shelley
August 1819-February 1820
drafted her second, short novel, Mathilda, about a troubled father-daughter relationship, which has often been traced to her own relations with her
.
Elizabeth Grant: August 1819
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Grant
August 1819
and her family set out on a two-month tour of the Continent.
Herman Melville: 1 August 1819
Writing climate item
16 August 1819: Several people were killed and more wounded...
National or international item
16 August 1819
Several people were killed and more wounded by cavalry, in a crowd gathered peacefully in St Peter's Fields at Manchester to hear the radical
speak in favour of electoral reform: this became known...
Sarah Austin: 24 August 1819
Women writers item
Felicia Hemans: September 1819
Women writers item
Author event in Felicia Hemans
September 1819
's poem The Meeting of
and
on the Banks of the Carron, which won a prize of £50, appeared in Blackwood's. It was later printed separately as Wallace's Invocation to Bruce, A Poem.
By September 1819: Facing debts of £90,000, Drury Lane Theatre...
By September 1819
Facing debts of £90,000,
was forced to close.
7 September 1819: In the aftermath of the Peterloo Massacre,...
7 September 1819
In the aftermath of the Peterloo Massacre, a bitter cartoon was printed by
, entitled A Strong Proof of the Flourishing State of the Country.
13 September 1819: Henry Hunt (organiser of the meeting at Manchester...
13 September 1819
(organiser of the meeting at Manchester which became the Peterloo Massacre) was welcomed by huge crowds on his arrival in London to stand trial.