Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
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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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1821: Mary Anne Carlile, sister of Richard Carlile...
National or international item
1821
, sister of
(who had published
), was charged twice with blasphemous libel.
1821: Pierre Bretonneau described symptoms of a...
1821
described symptoms of a disease he named diphtheria.
1821: Elizabeth Fry founded the British Society...
1821
founded the British Society of Ladies for Promoting the Reformation of Female Prisoners .
1821: Another national census was taken in Britain....
National or international item
1821
Another national census was taken in Britain. It extended separately to Ireland, where it was resisted by the majority Catholic populace because the magistrate enumerators were mostly Protestants.
1821: John Watts and his sons opened The Bazaar...
1821
and his sons opened The Bazaar in Manchester; on the model of the Soho Bazaar in London, it featured individual stalls let to merchants, housed in one large building.
January 1821: Jane Carlile, wife of publisher Richard Carlile...
National or international item
January 1821
, wife of publisher
(whose sister-in-law
had been prosecuted the previous year), was imprisoned for libel.
By January 1821: Ballantyne's Novelists Library began publication;...
Writing climate item
By January 1821
Ballantyne's Novelists Library began publication; it was completed in 1824.
About 1821: Charles Dudley undertook the rationalization...
About 1821
undertook the rationalization and organization of children's auxiliaries of charitable organizations, attesting both to the number and importance of such associations.
1821: A visitor to Southern Africa, where white...
National or international item
1821
A visitor to Southern Africa, where white settlers were engaged in seizing land, wrote that they talk of shooting Bushmen with the same feelings as if the poor creatures were wild beasts.
1821: The outstanding business woman Eleanor Coade...
1821
The outstanding business woman
died, leaving a substantial self-made fortune to charities (including the
) and to individuals, two-thirds of them women.
1 January 1821: The first issue of the revised New Monthly...
Writing climate item
1 January 1821
The first issue of the revised New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal was published by
.
1821: In the Australian convict colony at Parramatta,...
1821
In the Australian convict colony at Parramatta, a Factory was opened to house unemployed transported women.
1821: John Power published Essays on the Female...
1821
published Essays on the Female Economy.
By January 1821: James Mill published Elements of Political...
Writing climate item
By January 1821
published Elements of Political Economy.
1821: The Rob Roy, the first steamer to run to...
1821
The Rob Roy, the first steamer to run to a regular schedule across the English Channel, began service.
Anne Hunter: 7 January 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Hunter
7 January 1821
died after some time bedridden. Her health had been declining for several years; she had badly swollen legs, a symptom which suggests heart trouble.
Frances Notley: 13 January 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Frances Notley
13 January 1821
Frances Eliza Millett Thomas (later
) was born at Landager near Liskeard in Cornwall.
A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors and the Feminist Companion both...
Mary Stockdale: Soon after 15 January 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Stockdale
Soon after 15 January 1821
published at her own press her elegy The Wedding Ring, A Funereal Offering, to the memory of
, wife of
, who died this day, on her forty-seventh wedding anniversary.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan: 17 January 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
17 January 1821
The Morning Chronicle announced that
's Italy was Preparing for the Press.
Fanny Aikin Kortright: 28 January 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Fanny Aikin Kortright
28 January 1821
was born in a modest house in Harper Street, Kent Road, South London, the seventeenth and youngest child in her family.
Lady Mary Walker: About February 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Mary Walker
About February 1821
Lady Mary Hamilton (formerly
) died at Exeter. Her will was proved in July 1822.
Flora Tristan: 3 February 1821
Writing climate item
Author event in Flora Tristan
3 February 1821
Two months before her eighteenth birthday,
married her employer,
, at a civil ceremony in Paris.
Eleanor Anne Porden: Early 1821
Women writers item
Author event in Eleanor Anne Porden
Early 1821
Having recently returned from one of her visits to France,
was at work on the poem In Rouen Cathedral.
Percy Bysshe Shelley: After 16 February 1821
Writing climate item
John Keats: 23 February 1821
Writing climate item
Author event in John Keats
23 February 1821
, poet, died of tuberculosis at twenty-five years old, in Rome (where it had been hoped that the climate might improve his health).