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Mar 1816 |
Byron writes "Fare Thee Well" to Annabella Millbank, who left him in January with their daughter Ada. |
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Apr 1816 |
Amidst dark rumors about Byron's character centering around an alleged affair with his half-sister Augusta, a deed of separation is drawn up and signed; he meets and begins an affair with Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley's stepsister. |
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Apr 23, 1816 |
Cut by London society over the separation scandal, and with financial difficulties worsening, Byron leaves England forever. |
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May 2, 1816 |
Persuaded by Claire Clairmont that Byron would be delighted to have their company, Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley leave for Geneva to meet Byron. |
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June 1816 |
Byron (with his travelling physician John Polidori) and the Shelleys (with Claire Clairmont) rent neighboring houses on the shore of Lake Geneva at Cologny; they meet regularly at Byron's Villa Diodati, telling ghost stories for which Mary Shelley invented Frankenstein; Byron writes Canto III of Childe Harold; after touring the Alps and visiting the Chateau de Chillon with Percy Shelley, Byron leaves for Italy at the end of the year. |
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Oct 9, 1816 |
Suicide of Fanny Godwin (Mary Shelley's half-sister). |
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Dec 2, 1816 |
Mass meeting at Spa fields (the "Spa fields riot"); march on the Tower of London. |
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Dec 7, 1816 |
Suicide of Harriet Shelley (P. B. Shelley's wife). |
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Dec 30, 1816 |
P. B. Shelley and Mary Godwin (Shelley) marry. |
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1817 |
James Mill, The History of British India |
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1817 |
Coleridge, Biographia Literaria and Sibylline Leaves. |
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1817 |
John Keats, Poems. |
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1817 |
William Hazlitt, The Characters of Shakespeare's Plays and The Roundtable. |
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1817 |
Sir Walter Scott's Harold the Dauntless. |
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1817 |
Maria Edgeworth, Ormond and Harrington. |
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1817 |
Mary Hays, Family Annals, or The Sisters. |
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1817 |
Mary Shelley, History of a Six Weeks Tour. |
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1817 |
Felicia Hemans, Modern Greece (anonymous), a poem opposing Byron on the Elgin Marbles. |
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1817 |
Byron, Manfred. |
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1817 |
Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh. |
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1817 |
Robert Southey, Wat Tyler. |
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1817 |
Blake's watercolor, The Judgment of Paris
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1817 |
David Ricardo, The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. |
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1817 |
Robert Southey, History of Brazil, Vol. 2. |
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1817 |
Joanna Baillie paid 1000 pounds by Longmans for Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters. Her The Election is converted into a musical and performed at London's English Opera House (Lyceum). |
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