Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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Hannah More: 1820
Women writers item
Author event in Hannah More
1820
was selected for membership of the
, but declined on the grounds that this would be improper for a woman.
Caroline Norton: 1820
Women writers item
Author event in Caroline Norton
1820
Publisher
issued The Dandies' Rout, a 16-page booklet by A Young Lady of Distinction, aged eleven years: that is, Caroline Sheridan (later
).
1820: By this date, there were over five thousand...
National or international item
1820
By this date, there were over five thousand Sunday Schools established by Evangelicals, with a total of approximately five hundred thousand pupils.
1820: William Buckland's excavation of Goat Hole...
National or international item
1820
's excavation of Goat Hole cave near Paviland on the Welsh coast uncovered both animal bones and a human skeleton, dubbed the Red Lady of Paviland because of the red ochre stains on...
1820: American writer Washington Irving published...
Writing climate item
1820
American writer
published The Sketch Book under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, Gent..
1820: The construction of Regent Circus, London...
1820
The construction of Regent Circus, London (now Regent Street), a fashionable shopping thoroughfare, was completed.
1820s: Bazaars (specially arranged sales, largely...
1820s
Bazaars (specially arranged sales, largely of fancy goods) were beginning to become a popular way to raise funds for charity.
1820: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel published Philosophy...
Writing climate item
1820
published Philosophy of Right.
By 1820: Great Britain had over 300 newspapers in...
By 1820
Great Britain had over 300 newspapers in circulation, more than 25 of them in Scotland.
1820: Benjamin Disraeli's first publication, A...
Writing climate item
1820
's first publication, A True Story, appeared in The Indicator.
1820: In Washington, DC, the first boarding school...
1820
In Washington, DC, the first boarding school for black girls opened under the direction of a fifteen-year-old female teacher.
1820: David Jones of the Methodist London Missionary...
National or international item
1820
of the Methodist
travelled to Antananarivo in Madagascar, to spread the word of Christianity.
1820: The Stealing from Shops Act abolished the...
National or international item
1820
The Stealing from Shops Act abolished the death penalty for thefts of less than five shillings.
1820: Printers David Simms and George L. M'Intyre...
Writing climate item
1820
Printers
and
established themselves in Belfast as the publishing firm of
.
1820: Street lighting was first installed in Pall...
1820
Street lighting was first installed in Pall Mall, London.
From about 1820: Various changes occurred in bookbinding practice,...
Writing climate item
From about 1820
Various changes occurred in bookbinding practice, taking a step in radically reducing prices: both mechanization and ready-made cloth-over-board bindings came in, and the uniform binding, before sale, of an entire edition became usual.
1820: Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind...
Writing climate item
1820
Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by
, Professor of Moral Philosophy at
, appeared in four volumes in the year of his death.
1820: William Dugdale established himself as a...
Writing climate item
1820
established himself as a radical pressman; he later specialized in pornography.
January 1820: John Keats published in Annals of the Fine...
Writing climate item
January 1820
published in Annals of the Fine Arts his Ode on a Grecian Urn, written the previous year.
1820: John Philip travelled to South Africa to...
National or international item
1820
travelled to South Africa to oversee the activities of the
.
About 1820: The Society for the Suppression of Vice began...
Writing climate item
About 1820
The
began to concentrate its efforts on the eradication of obscene printed materials.
1820: Book collector Frances Mary Richardson Currer,...
1820
Book collector
, of Eshton Hall, Craven, Yorkshire, had her library catalogue privately printed in 40 copies; she had an extended catalogue printed in 100 copies in 1833.
1820: William Cecil, an English cleric, built a...
1820
, an English cleric, built a hydrogen-using internal combustion engine and demonstrated it to the
.
1820: On the death of her husband, Margaret White...
1820
On the death of her husband,
took over the management of his prominent London advertising agency; she ran it successfully for two years.
After January 1820: On ascending to the throne George IV abolished...
After January 1820
On ascending to the throne
abolished the hoop and wide skirt in court dress.