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1811 |
Sir Walter Scott, The Vision of Don Roderick. |
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1811 |
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility ("By a Lady"--i.e., published anonymously; first version written in 1796). |
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1811 |
Mary Tighe, Psyche, or the Legend of Love (previously, in 1805, printed privately). |
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1811 |
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, The Female Speaker. |
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1811 |
Eliza Fenwick, Lessons for Children. |
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1811 |
Elizabeth Inchbald, ed., Modern Theatre. |
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1811 |
Blake's largest surviving painting: An Allegory of the Spiritual Condition of Man. |
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1811 |
Birth of Thomas Watts. |
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1811 |
Janetta Philipps, Poems. |
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1811 |
Germaine de Stael flees France (from her estate Coppet) after the destruction of De L'Allegmagne by Napoleon. De Stael goes to England and Russia. |
*French Revolution
*Russia |
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1811 |
Philadelphia productions of Joanna Baillie's Basil: A Tragedy and The Election. Baillie's De Monfort is produced at the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, while The Family Legend is produced at both Bath and Newcastle's Theatre Royal. |
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1811 |
Publication of Beethoven's Christus am Olberge, Op. 85 and Firth Piano Concerto in E flat major, Op. 73. |
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1811 |
Ludwig van Beethoven, Trio in B flat major, Op. 97. |
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Feb 1811 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley, perhaps abbetted by Thomas Jefferson Hogg, published The Necessity of Atheism; after sending it to all officials and professors at Oxford, he was expelled. |
*Religious Controversy |
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Feb 5, 1811 |
Prince of Wales (future George IV) made Regent after George III deemed insane. |
*House of Hanover |
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Apr 20, 1811 |
First Table Talk recorded by John Taylor Coleridge. |
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Nov 1811 - 1815 |
Luddite uprisings (machine breaking) in the Midlands against the weaving frames: groups of workmen who rebelled against the increased mechanization of textile production by destroying the new machinery. The government fears a revolutionary conspiracy and makes damaging property or taking Luddite oaths capital offences. |
*Radicalism |
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1812 |
Abolition: A registry of slaves is begun in Trinidad. Sugar prices begin to rise. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
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1812 |
Reform: A bill against the Luddites prescribes capital punishment for frame-breaking; Byron's
first speech in the House of Lords opposes the bill. |
*Parlimentary Reform
*Radicalism |
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1812 |
George Crabbe, Tales in Verse. |
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1812 |
Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos I and II. |
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1812 |
Joanna Baillie, Plays on the Passions Vol. III. New York publication of The Beacon (from Plays on the Passion, Vol. III). |
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1812 |
Amelia Opie, Temper. |
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1812 |
Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee (the last volume in the series Tales of Fashionable Life, 1809). |
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1812 |
Coleridge, Remorse, published and performed. |
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