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1813 |
Robert Southey, Life of Nelson. |
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1813 |
Mary Russell Mitford, Narrative Poems on the Female Character, and her "Our Village" sketches appear in Lady's Magazine with great success. |
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1813 |
Germaine de Stael arrives in London to be lionized. |
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1813 |
Newcastle's Theatre Royal produces Joanna Baillie's The Family Legend. |
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1813 |
Germaine de Stael and Joanna Baillie meet at the house of Mary Berry. |
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1813 |
Gioacchino Rossini, Trancredi and L'Italiana in Algeri. |
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1813 - 1815 |
Leigh Hunt imprisoned for libel. |
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Jan 23, 1813 |
Drury Lane reopens with Coleridge's Remorse. |
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Apr 1813 |
W. Wordsworth receives a government patronage position (Distributor of Stamps for Westmorland County). |
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May 1813 |
P. B. Shelley, Queen Mab. (E. P. Thompson says that the notes to this poem communicated the early Godwin's philosophical anarchism to the Chartists.) |
*Chartism |
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July 12, 1813 |
Ireland: First recorded "12th of July"; sectarian riots in Belfast. |
*Ireland |
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Sept 1813 |
Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate after Sir Walter Scott declines the honor. |
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Oct 1813 |
Murray publishes de Stael's De L'Allemagne in French and English. |
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1814 |
Inquisition re-established in Spain. |
*Spain
*Catholicism |
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1814 |
Abolitionists prepare to lobby the Congress of Vienna. The treaty of Paris restores the French slave trade for five years. A mass petition ensues in Britain. Britain begins a strong diplomatic effort for total international abolition. The Dutch accept abolition before their colonies are restored. The French agree to a restriction of the slave-trade coast. Guadeloupe and Martinique are returned to France. Sugar prices reach record heights. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism
*France |
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1814 |
Leigh Hunt, The Feast of Poets. |
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1814 |
Sir Walter Scott, Waverley. |
*Scotland |
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1814 |
Frances Burney, The Wanderer. |
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1814 |
Maria Edgeworth, Patronage. |
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1814 |
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, published anonymously. |
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1814 |
Robert Southey, Roderick, the Last of the Goths. |
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1814 |
Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), O'Donnel. |
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1814 |
Byron, The Corsair (ten thousand copies sell immediately), "Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte,"
Lara appears later in the year. |
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1814 |
Cary's trans. of Dante's Divine Comedy. |
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1814 |
New Monthly Magazine begins publication. |
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