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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 Howitt: 1823
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Howitt
1823
and her husband,
, produced their first collaborative work in volume form: a book of poems entitled The Forest Minstrel, and Other Poems.
A different book of this title, published in...
Isabella Kelly: 1823
Women writers item
Author event in Isabella Kelly
1823
published, anonymously, Memoir of the late Mrs.
, relict of
D.D..
Hannah Kilham: 1823
Women writers item
Author event in Hannah Kilham
1823
published anonymously, at London, a work of instruction entitled African Lessons: Wolof and English, written bilingually.
Mary Leadbeater: 1823
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Leadbeater
1823
continued her life-writing project with Biographical Notices of Members of the
, who were Resident in Ireland.
L. E. L.: 1822 or 1823
Women writers item
Author event in L. E. L.
1822 or 1823
It seems that LEL may have given birth in secret to
, the first of three illegitmate children with
.
Harriet Martineau: 1823
Women writers item
Author event in Harriet Martineau
1823
published as a LadyDevotional Exercises, Consisting of Reflections and Prayers, for the Use of Young Persons, To Which is Added a Treatise on the Lord's Supper.
Elizabeth Meeke: 1823
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Meeke
1823
Probably the last full-length fiction to appear by
was published in her name: What Shall Be, Shall Be. A Novel; again a character name was borrowed from
.
Caroline Norton: 1823
Women writers item
Author event in Caroline Norton
1823
Caroline Sheridan (later
) was sent to a boarding school at Shalford in Surrey (near Guildford) with her younger sister Georgy: presumably this had something to do with her being difficult.
Some sources give...
1823: The British Catholic Association was founded;...
National or international item
1823
The
was founded; its mandate was to conscript the middle and working classes into the Catholic Emancipation movement.
1823: The first experimental vasectomy was performed,...
1823
The first experimental vasectomy was performed, on a dog, in England by Sir
.
1823: The Society of British Artists was founded...
1823
The
was founded with the aim of increasing opportunities for the exhibition of works of art.
1823: The Society for the Mitigation and Gradual...
1823
The
was formed in London, with the non-confrontational agenda that its name implies.
1823: John Jarrold founded a press, with his wife...
Writing climate item
1823
founded a press, with his wife and four sons, at 3 Cockney Lane, Norwich.
Cockney Lane was later renamed London Street.
1823: The Catholic Association was founded in Ireland;...
National or international item
1823
The
was founded in Ireland; its leader was
.
1823: Stage costuming underwent a radical change...
1823
Stage costuming underwent a radical change after
was commissioned by
to design new dresses for the production of King John at the
.
1823: John Mitford published A Description of the...
1823
published A Description of the Crimes and Horrors in the Interior of
's Private Mad-House at Hoxton, Commonly Called Whitmore House: in one of these the writer
had been confined.
1823: English scientist William Sturgeon made the...
1823
English scientist
made the first electromagnet.
1823: Working with the Society for the Improvement...
National or international item
1823
Working with the
,
aided the passage of the Gaol Act.
1823: Thomas Wakely founded the medical journal...
1823
founded the medical journal The Lancet, in an effort to give the general practitioner a voice.
1823: The patent expired on John Heathcoat's net-making...
National or international item
1823
The patent expired on
's net-making machine; the machine-made lace industry boomed.
As early as 1823: Christmas annuals gained ascendency in England;...
Writing climate item
As early as 1823
Christmas annuals gained ascendency in England; these gift books became strongly associated with female authors and readers.
January 1823: Charles Lamb published the first volume of...
Writing climate item
January 1823
published the first volume of his Essays of Elia, which had been appearing regularly since August 1820 in the London Magazine.
1823: Charles Macintosh of Glasgow patented a process...
1823
of Glasgow patented a process of waterproofing textiles (by dissolving rubber in naphtha); in time his name became attached to the product.
1823: The new Spanish liberal regime was overthrown...
National or international item
1823
The new Spanish liberal regime was overthrown by a French invasion supported by reactionary European forces; this restored
to the Spanish throne.
1823: Francis Place distributed in London the pamphlet...
1823
distributed in London the pamphlet To the Married of Both Sexes; it contained contraceptive information, and is now considered to be the earliest work on birth control.