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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Ann Taylor Gilbert: 1822

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Author event in Ann Taylor Gilbert

1822

ATG , her sister Jane , and perhaps their brother Isaac , anonymously provided the twelve poems making up a children's book called The Linnet's Life, illustrated by their father .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins : 1822

Women writers item

1822

LMH published her first book of reminiscences: Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches, and Memoirs.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Isabel Hill: 1822

Women writers item
Author event in Isabel Hill

1822

The publisher Warren issued IH 's anonymous single-volume novel or novella, Constance, A Tale.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Peace, Mary et al., editors. “Corvey Women Writers on the Web: an Electronic Guide to Literature 1796-1834 (CW3)”. Sheffield Hallam Corvey: The Corvey Project at Sheffield Hallam University.

Mary Leadbeater: 1822

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Author event in Mary Leadbeater

1822

ML published Cottage Biography, Being a Collection of Lives of the Irish Peasantry.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mary Leadbeater: 1822

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Author event in Mary Leadbeater

1822

ML published Memoirs and Letters of Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton, which prints her parents' letters (and some, as the title-page points out, of her grandfather Abraham ) and her mother's own Memoirs.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Deborah Norris Logan: 1822

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Author event in Deborah Norris Logan

1822

DNL completed a memoir of her deceased husband, published as Memoir of Dr. George Logan of Stenton in 1899.
Premo, Terri L. “’Like A Being Who Does Not Belong’: The Old Age of Deborah Norris Logan”. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol.
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, No. 1, Jan. 1983, pp. 85-112.
87, 90
James, Edward T. et al., editors. Notable American Women, 1607-1950. Harvard University Press, 1971, 3 vols.

Susanna Moodie: 1822

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Author event in Susanna Moodie

1822

Susanna Strickland, later SM , published her first book at the age of nineteen with the London firm A. K. Newman : Spartacus, A Roman Story, a historical fiction set in the ancient world.
New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research, 1990.
247
Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press, 1999.
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Grisell Murray: 1822

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Author event in Grisell Murray

1822

GM 's writings about her father and her mother were published in complete form without any reserve at Edinburgh, as a volume in their own right.
Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie. 1822.
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1822: The Aaron Manby, the first iron steamship,...

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1822

The Aaron Manby, the first iron steamship, was built at Stafford.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
78
Kemp, Peter, editor. Encyclopedia of Ships and Seafaring. Stanford Maritime, 1980.
81

23 July 1999: A judge defended the right to public speech (even 'irritating, contentious, provocative public speech') of a woman who was arrested for evangelical preaching.

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23 July 1999

A judge defended the right to public speech (even irritating, contentious, provocative public speech) of a woman who was arrested for evangelical preaching.
Guardian Weekly.
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1822: Drury Lane Theatre was closed for a complete...

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1822

Drury Lane Theatre was closed for a complete internal overhaul.
Roose-Evans, James. London Theatre from the Globe to the National. Phaidon, 1977.
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Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
67, 282
Dobbs, Brian. Drury Lane: Three Centuries of the Theatre Royal, 1663-1971. Cassell, 1972.
143

1822: A Jesuit periodical began publication in...

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1822

A Jesuit periodical began publication in English, bearing the title Annals of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
337

1822: Mary Ann Mantell discovered the first dinosaur...

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1822

Mary Ann Mantell discovered the first dinosaur fossil, named iguanodon by her husband.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
283

1536: Under King Henry VIII's government, the formal unification took place of England and Wales, which, west of Offa's Dyke, was then almost entirely Welsh-speaking.

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1536

Under King Henry VIII 's government, the formal unification took place of England and Wales, which, west of Offa's Dyke, was then almost entirely Welsh-speaking. This marked the first significant political union between...

1822: The reactionary Constitutional Association...

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1822

The reactionary Constitutional Association was dissolved.
Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
169

1822: Victor Hugo published Odes, his first collection...

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1822

Victor Hugo published Odes, his first collection of poetry.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
481

1822: Using silver chloride, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce...

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1822

Using silver chloride, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce of France produced the first fixed positive image that could be called a photograph.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
283

1822: A new Vagrancy Act was the first to use the...

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1822

A new Vagrancy Act was the first to use the word Prostitute in the modern sense; before that, the most commonly used legal term had been disorderly woman.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
97-8

1822: William Church of Vermont received first...

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1822

William Church of Vermont received first British patent for a type-composing machine.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
105

1822: The Merrimack Manufacturing Corporation opened...

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1822

The Merrimack Manufacturing Corporation opened the first of nineteen cotton mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Lowell mills were the first planned industrial community in the United States,
Eisler, Benita, editor. The Lowell Offering. J. B. Lippincott, 1977.
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employing a workforce of unmarried young women.
Eisler, Benita, editor. The Lowell Offering. J. B. Lippincott, 1977.

1822: St David's Theological College, Lampeter,...

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1822

St David's Theological College , Lampeter, Wales, was founded.
Dent, Harold Collett. 1870-1970: Century of Growth in English Education. Longmans, 1970.
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Davies, William Cadwaladr, and William Lewis, 1866 - 1922 Jones. The University of Wales and its Constituent Colleges. F. E. Robinson, 1905.
63-8, 84-6, 187

1822: English interest in New World civilizations...

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1822

English interest in New World civilizations was piqued when antiquarian William Bullock returned from Mexico with Aztec relics and casts.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
282

1822: The Caledonian Canal across Scotland ope...

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1822

The Caledonian Canal across Scotland opened.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
79

1822: Charles Babbage developed his Difference...

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1822

Charles Babbage developed his Difference Engine, a machine for calculating values of logarithms and trigonometric functions.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
283
Stein, Dorothy. Ada: A Life and a Legacy. MIT Press, 1985.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
London Science Museum. Babbage’s Calculating Engines 1832-71. http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/collections/treasures/babb2.asp.

1822: The Academy of Music in London was founded...

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1822

The Academy of Music in London was founded by John Fane, Lord Burghersh .
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.
Sadie, Stanley, and Alison Latham, editors. The Norton/Grove Concise Encyclopedia of Music. W. W. Norton, 1988.
Arnold, Denis, editor. The New Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford University Press, 1983.