Ferguson, Moira. Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834. Routledge, 1992.
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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 Prince: February 1833
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Author event in Mary Prince
February 1833
The Rev.
, the missionary who had baptised
, testified to a
committee that cruelty to slaves was almost unknown in Antigua.
February 1833: William Ullathorne began Roman Catholic missionary...
February 1833
began Roman Catholic missionary work among prisoners in New South Wales.
Isabel Hill: By February 1833
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Author event in Isabel Hill
By February 1833
Her need for money having induced
to accept
's offer to translate
's Corinne into English for his series Bentley's Standard Novels, her version appeared in print.
L. E. L.: By February 1833
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Author event in L. E. L.
By February 1833
contributed metrical versions of the heroine's improvisations to
's influential (though unwilling) translation of
's Corinne.
Adelaide O'Keeffe: 4 February 1833
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Author event in Adelaide O'Keeffe
4 February 1833
The retired dramatist
,
's father, died at Southampton. Apart from his blindness he remained in robust health until just before his death.
Adelaide O'Keeffe: After 4 February 1833
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Author event in Adelaide O'Keeffe
After 4 February 1833
On her
's death
applied to the
, which granted her £25. For the Fund she estimated her lifetime literary earnings for herself as not more than £200.
This estimate...
Julia Wedgwood: 6 February 1833
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Author event in Julia Wedgwood
6 February 1833
was born during a snowstorm at Clapham, a suburb of London.
Robert Browning: March 1833
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Author event in Robert Browning
March 1833
's first publication, Pauline, an autobiographical poem, appeared anonymously.
Catherine Fanshawe: March 1833
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Author event in Catherine Fanshawe
March 1833
wrote two political verse satires which appeared anonymously in the Morning Post: Provision for a Family and Speech of the Member for Odium.
Provision for a Family had already appeared alone...
Maria Jane Jewsbury: Earlier March 1833
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Author event in Maria Jane Jewsbury
Earlier March 1833
and her
arrived at Bombay from England, after a voyage of six months.
Sarah Stickney Ellis: From March 1833 to 1837
Women writers item
Author event in Sarah Stickney Ellis
From March 1833 to 1837
Sarah Stickney (later
) published collections of her stories and non-fiction in a series entitled Pictures of Private Life.
Catherine Gore : By mid-March 1833
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Author event in Catherine Gore
By mid-March 1833
, as the authoress of Hungarian Tales, published Polish Tales.
Henrietta Camilla Jenkin: 25 March 1833
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Author event in Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
25 March 1833
bore her only child,
(who later became distinguished as an electrical and civil engineer), in a government building near Dungeness in Kent.
Maria Jane Jewsbury: 27 March 1833
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Author event in Maria Jane Jewsbury
27 March 1833
On their way to do missionary work elsewhere in India,
and her
departed from Bombay aboard the Pattamar.
Anna Wheeler: 28 March 1833
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Author event in Anna Wheeler
28 March 1833
's friend and colleague
died, leaving her an annuity of £100.
Barbara Hofland: 3 April 1833
Women writers item
Author event in Barbara Hofland
3 April 1833
dated the dedication of her Rich Boys and Poor Boys, a collection of her stories, all reprinted from annuals.
Flora Tristan: 7 April 1833
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Author event in Flora Tristan
7 April 1833
In an attempt to acquire her rightful inheritance from her father's estate,
embarked on a journey to her uncle's residence in Arequipa, Peru.
Catherine Fanshawe: April 1833
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Author event in Catherine Fanshawe
April 1833
's sister Delia died in an influenza epidemic; Joanna Baillie's comment suggests that this was the sister to whom Catherine was closest.
24 April 1833: The Wife by James Sheridan Knowles opened...
Writing climate item
24 April 1833
The Wife by
opened on stage in London; it was published this year with a Prologue and Epilogue by
.
May 1833: Drury Lane Theatre and Covent Garden Theatre...
May 1833
and
came under the same management, with bizarre results for the acting companies.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: May 1833
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Author event in Elizabeth Barrett Browning
May 1833
's first volume produced independently of family help, Prometheus Bound, Translated from the Greek of Æschylus; and Miscellaneous Poems, by the Translator, was published anonymously. It consisted largely of her translation of
' tragedy.
13 May 1833: At an illegal meeting held in London, a policeman...
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13 May 1833
At an illegal meeting held in London, a policeman was stabbed to death following police efforts to close the meeting by force; the event became known as the Calthorpe Street Affair.
Elizabeth Inchbald: By mid-May 1833
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Author event in Elizabeth Inchbald
By mid-May 1833
published Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald; the Athenæum review noted that
wrote her own memoirs, but unfortunately, for some scruple of conscience or delicacy of feeling . . . destroyed them.
Sarah Pearson : 21 May 1833
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Author event in Sarah Pearson
21 May 1833
died at the age of sixty-five. She was buried three days later at Attercliffe (which is now part of Sheffield), in the family gravesite.
has been wrongly said to have died in...
Sarah Austin: By 25 May 1833
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Author event in Sarah Austin
By 25 May 1833
One of
's most important translations, Characteristics of (from several German authors), appeared in three volumes.