Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott, 2008.
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Events Timeline
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Elizabeth Heyrick: Before December 1824
Author event in Elizabeth Heyrick
Before December 1824
published anonymously at Leicester the first edition of her most famous pamphlet, Immediate, Not Gradual, Abolition.
Elizabeth B. Lester: December 1824
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth B. Lester
December 1824
published, as by the author of The Bachelor and the Married Man, with 1825 on the title-page, Fire-Side Scenes, in three volumes.
10 December 1824: Novelist George MacDonald was born at Upper...
Writing climate item
10 December 1824
Novelist
was born at Upper Pirriesmill, Huntly, Aberdeenshire.
Mary Catherine Hume: 14 December 1824
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Catherine Hume
14 December 1824
was born in Bryanston Square, London, the youngest child but one in a family of seven.
Henrietta Rouviere Mosse: 22 December 1824
Women writers item
Author event in Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
22 December 1824
first applied for help to the
, not as an author but as an author's wife. Six days later she wrote again humbly mentioning her own little works.
December 1824: The actress Maria Foote was awarded £3,000...
December 1824
The actress
was awarded £3,000 in damages in her suit against
for breach of promise: an indication that a man's solemn undertaking to a woman, even of a lower rank and...
Cecil Frances Alexander : 1825-1833
Women writers item
Author event in Cecil Frances Alexander
1825-1833
Major
, father of
, was employed by
as a land agent in County Wicklow.
Cecil Frances Alexander : 1825
Women writers item
Author event in Cecil Frances Alexander
1825
While living as a child at Ballykeane House, near the town of Redcross, Wicklow,
(later
) became friends with the future
; they shared literary, religious, and...
Sarah Austin: 1825
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Austin
1825
's second notable literary effort, the same year as her first, was adapting French, Provençal, and German medieval lyrics for
's Lays of the Minnesingers.
Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger: About January 1825
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
About January 1825
pursued the topic of lives of female monarchs in Memoirs of
, Daughter of .
This book was listed as preparing for publication in the...
Elizabeth Beverley: 1825
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Beverley
1825
published another collection: Odd Thoughts, on a Variety of Odd Subjects, by that Odd Little Woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Beverley.
Jane Welsh Carlyle: 1825
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Welsh Carlyle
1825
Jane Welsh (later
) transferred to her mother the estate she had inherited from her father.
Sara Coleridge: 1825
Women writers item
Author event in Sara Coleridge
1825
published a two-volume translation from
's French: The Right Joyous and Pleasant History of the Feats, Gests, and Prowesses of the
, etc. appeared.
Mary Maria Colling: About 1825
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Maria Colling
About 1825
was inspired to pen her first poem—On Creation—after hearing the Rev.
preach a sermon on the power of God manifested in the creation of the world.
Camilla Crosland: Around 1825
Women writers item
Author event in Camilla Crosland
Around 1825
Camilla Toulmin (later
) stopped attending school in her early teens, in order to help support her
and
.
Anna Wheeler: 1825
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Wheeler
1825
and
published an Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, under his name alone.
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: Probably 1825
Women writers item
Author event in Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
Probably 1825
(later Tonna) published a long poem, Osric, A Missionary Tale; other poems in the volume included The Garden.
Jane Taylor: 1825
Women writers item
Author event in Jane Taylor
1825
's Memoirs and Poetical Remains was posthumously published with a memoir by her brother
.
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: 1825
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
1825
published "Psalms" according to the Authorized Version, with scholarly apparatus taken from
authors, and An Essay upon the Psalms, and their spiritual application.
Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis: 1825
Writing climate item
Author event in Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
1825
The nearly eighty-year-old
published her memoirs: Mémoires inédits . . . sur le dix-huitième siècle.
William Godwin: 1825
Writing climate item
Author event in William Godwin
1825
The publishing firm and shop called the
, run by
and his second wife,
, which had traded at 195 The Strand since 1817, was bankrupted by the crash...
Anne Grant: 1825
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Grant
1825
began writing a brief sketch of the earlier part of her own life. It covers her achievement of success as a writer in 1806, but ends with the death of her daughter Charlotte in...
Anne Grant: 1825
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Grant
1825
was offered an annual pension of £100 from
, in recognition of her literary efforts.
Felicia Hemans: 1825
Women writers item
Author event in Felicia Hemans
1825
's The Forest Sanctuary, And Other Poems was published; her famous poem Casabianca first appeared as one of the Additions included with the second edition of 1829.
Anna Brownell Jameson: 1825
Women writers item
Author event in Anna Brownell Jameson
1825
married barrister
, who later became Upper Canada's first Vice-Chancellor.