Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
215 results for smallpox
Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
In addition to writing enormously,
worked at running more than one school. She reported in 1819 (the year following her first application for help from the Royal Literary Fund) that she had started a day-school which failed, and was now appointed to the Free School at Braywick near Maidenhead. For this job, which was to lift her out of the evils of poverty and the precarious misery of authorship, she urgently needed to supply herself with decent clothes. She quickly lost the position, however, when her thirteen-year-old daughter got smallpox (presumably because
needed to stay at home to nurse her). Very soon afterwards she was offered the job of mistress of a school at Bray in Berkshire (with a reference from the current headmistress at Whitechapel). This appointment again brought an urgent need for respectable clothes, which this time had to be redeemed from pawn. But
had to resign the position after nine months because she had developed cancer.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Though only about twenty percent of its extracts are written by women (the same proportion as from the Bible), this book is feminist in its emphasis on the virtue of independent judgement as well as the conventional virtue of the conduct books. The last paragraph of its preface begins, As we are created accountable creatures we must run the race ourselves.
includes work by herself and eight other women (
—much used—
,
,
,
,
,
—represented by excerpts from almost everything she had ever published—and
), as well as passages on
and
. She includes
's two Rambler essays about Victoria, who is roused from despair after losing her beauty to smallpox when another woman tells her she is born to know, to reason, and to act.
Mehetabel Wright
The Wesley family suffered from smallpox.
Ann Yearsley
More seriously, the same period saw her small daughter Jane suffering from the smallpox. With the rash covering the child's body and temporarily blinding her,
wrote, if she survives this night, I hope to possess her a little longer. She later said her assiduous care had enabled Jane to survive with her looks very little impaired.
February 1721
Smallpox seemed to go forth like a Destroying...
Smallpox seemed to go forth like a Destroying Angel in England.
21 April 1722
The first alleged death from smallpox inoculation...
The first alleged death from smallpox inoculation followed by only four days the inoculation of two royal princesses (daughters of
).
1837-1840
Epidemics of smallpox ran through the United...
Epidemics of smallpox ran through the United Kingdom, killing over 42,000 people, mostly babies and young children.
1752
A severe epidemic of smallpox resulted in...
A severe epidemic of smallpox resulted in 3,500 deaths in London, more than seventeen per cent of all recorded deaths this year.
Summer1774
: At Yetminster in Dorset during a smallpox...
At Yetminster in Dorset during a smallpox epidemic, a farmer named Benjamin Jesty transferred cowpox matter from cattle into scratches in the arms of his wife and two small sons.
By 1802
The smallpox vaccination method established...
The smallpox vaccination method established by
was coming into use around the world; in England about 100,000 people had been vaccinated, and the annual smallpox death rate (which had averaged about 3,000 per million inhabitants) sank to about 1,173 in 1802 and 622 in 1804.
1871-72
An epidemic of smallpox resulted in 42,000...
An epidemic of smallpox resulted in 42,000 deaths in England and Wales.
28 December 1694
Queen Mary died of smallpox during a severe...
died of smallpox during a severe epidemic, leaving her husband,
, to reign alone.
1819
An epidemic of smallpox in Norwich led doctors...
An epidemic of smallpox in Norwich led doctors to strengthen their demand for compulsory vaccination.
1870s
Resistance to mandatory smallpox vaccination...
Resistance to mandatory smallpox vaccination increased, particularly in the North of England, notwithstanding an epidemic in 1871-72.
9 August 1721
Charles Maitland, under the patronage of...
, under the patronage of
, experimentally inoculated six
prisoners (three of each sex) against smallpox.
14 May 1796
After some years of investigating the protection...
After some years of investigating the protection given by cowpox against smallpox,
carried out his first, experimental cowpox injection of a healthy young boy. His subject showed no reaction when later inoculated with smallpox.
8 May 1980
The World Health Organization's Resolution...
The
's Resolution 33.3 recorded the global eradication of smallpox (announced the previous December).
17 June 1721
Newspapers reported the royal plan for an...
Newspapers reported the royal plan for an experiment as to the safety of inoculation against smallpox, to be conducted on inmates of
in London.
8 July 1722
The Rev. Edmund Massey preached at St Andrew's...
Massey argued that smallpox, like other troubles, was sent by God either to test or to punish. Therefore, inoculation would be trespassing on God's prerogative; the first inoculator was Satan when he struck Job with boils.
1723
James Jurin, Secretary of the Royal Society,...
1784
Henry Fearon, surgeon, published A Treatise...
23 July 1840
The Vaccination Act or (Act to Extend the...
The Vaccination Act or (Act to Extend the Practice of Vaccination) was the first of a series of such acts passed in response to an epidemic of smallpox among the poor between 1837 and 1840.
25 March 1741
The Foundling Hospital achieved in London...
Spring 1885
Isla Stewart assumed the post of matron at...
assumed the post of matron at the smallpox camps in Darenth near Dartford, Kent.
20 November 1803
The Royal Philanthropic Expedition set sail...
The Royal Philanthropic Expedition set sail in three ships from La Coruna, to carry the practice of vaccination against smallpox to Spanish possessions in South America and Spanish outposts in China (Canton) and Macao).