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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Harriet Downing: 1821
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Author event in Harriet Downing
1821
published her second volume, The Child of the Tempest, and Other Poems, again bearing her name and again by subscription.
Charlotte Elliott: 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Elliott
1821
suffered from a severe, unspecified illness, which left her with much mental and physical pain.
Frances Wright: 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Wright
1821
(as an Englishwoman) published with
of LondonViews of Society and Manners in America, In a Series of Letters from that Country to a Friend in England, during the...
Ellen Wood: 1821
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Author event in Ellen Wood
1821
It was only after the death of her grandfather, when Ellen Price (later
) was seven, that she was sent to live with her parents, also in Worcester.
Harriette Wilson: Early 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Harriette Wilson
Early 1821
moved back from Paris to London, where she settled in Lisson Grove and lived a very retired life, partly for cheapness.
Lady Louisa Stuart: 1821
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Author event in Lady Louisa Stuart
1821
collaborated with
on his spoof, Private Letters of the Seventeenth Century. Printed in part in this year, it did not appear complete until the twentieth century, long after both Scott's...
Robert Southey: 1821
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Author event in Robert Southey
1821
, in his capacity as Poet Laureate, published a poetic tribute to
(who had died in January 1820), entitled A Vision of Judgement.
Mary Martha Sherwood: 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Martha Sherwood
1821
published The Infant's Progress, another work based on
's classic.
Mary Martha Sherwood: 1821
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Author event in Mary Martha Sherwood
1821
published The Re-Captured Negro (now reprinted in
's eight-volume set Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: Writings in the British Romantic Period 1999).
This series unfortunately includes nothing by
or
Sir Walter Scot : By January 1821
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Author event in Sir Walter Scot
By January 1821
, as the author of Waverley, published his English historical novel Kenilworth; it inaugurated the reign of the three-volume (or triple-decker) novel at the price of one and a half...
Anna Maria Porter: By January 1821
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Author event in Anna Maria Porter
By January 1821
published another historical romance, The Village of Mariendorpt. A Tale, dedicated (the month before publication) to her neighbours, the residents of Thames Ditton and Long Ditton.
Mary Penington: 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Penington
1821
's first-person autobiography (written piecemeal) and her letter to her
were published together as Some Account of Circumstances in the Life of Mary Pennington, from her Manuscript, Left for her Family.
Amelia Opie: 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Amelia Opie
1821
During a few years of great creativity
published anonymously The Only Child; or, Portia Bellenden. A Tale.
Anne Hart Gilbert: 1821
Writing climate item
Author event in Anne Hart Gilbert
1821
wrote a slavery narrative entitled A Short Account of Peregrine Pickle . . . a Negro.
Christian Gray: 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Christian Gray
1821
A second volume of
's poetry appeared, this time at Perth and entitled A New Selection of Miscellaneous Pieces, in Verse: again her title-page quotes from the third book of Paradise Lost...
Anna Brownell Jameson: 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Brownell Jameson
1821
While employed by the Rowles family, Anna Murphy (later
) went on her first trip to the Continent, visiting Florence, Naples, Rome and Mount Vesuvius in Italy.
Maria Jane Jewsbury: 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Maria Jane Jewsbury
1821
began submitting poetry to the Manchester Gazette, to which she became a regular contributor.
Fanny Kemble: 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Fanny Kemble
1821
was sent back to Paris (where she had already attended a school she hated) to spend four years studying with
, who was a published author as well as a teacher.
Eliza Kirkham Mathews: 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Eliza Kirkham Mathews
1821
's didactic children's book The West-Indian; or, Anecdotes of the Somerville Family was published at Derby, as by Mrs C. Mathews, with a title-page quotation from
.
Elizabeth Meeke: 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Meeke
1821
's completion of
's translation of
(The Messiah) appeared, bearing her name.
Mary Russell Mitford: 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Russell Mitford
1821
published four of
's earliest sketches in the New Monthly Magazine.
Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne: 1821-4
Writing climate item
Author event in Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne
1821-4
, as Mrs. Bogan of Bogan, contributed to The Scotish Minstrel, an anthology containing the national airs, with words suited for refined circles, which was published by
1821: The British government bought two steamships—Royal...
1821
The British government bought two steamships—Royal Sovereign and Meteor—to improve mail service across the Irish Channel.
1821: Charles Bell of Scotland first described...
1821
of Scotland first described the facial paralysis now known as Bell's palsy.
By 1821: The number of circulating libraries in Britain...
Writing climate item
By 1821
The number of circulating libraries in Britain stood at one thousand five hundred: up by half as much again in the previous twenty years.