Women, Gender, and the Nation key dates

c. 1789 - c. 1833. Currently includes dates for all prescribed sources and monarchs

French Revolution

1789

Wollstonecraft, Original Stories From Real Life

1788

Burke, Reflections on the revolution in France, responded to by Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men

1790

Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

1792

More, The Cottage Cook: Or, Mrs. Jones’ Cheap Dishes; Shewing the way to do much good with little money

1792

Birkett Card, A Poem on the African Slave Trade

1792

Fox, An Address to the people of Great-Britain (respectfully offered to the people of Ireland) on the propriety of abstaining from West-India sugar and rum

1792

Philips, The necessity of a speedy and effectual reform in Parliament

1793

More, The Lancashire Collier Girl

1795

Caroline and Prince George marry, separating the following year

1795

Wolfe Tone, An Address to the People of Ireland on the present important crisis

1796

Wollstonecraft dies September, Godwin publishes Memoirs following January

1797

Irish rebellion through summer

1798

Polewhele, The Unsex’d Females

1798

Act of Union between Britain and Ireland

1800

Hamilton, Letters on Education

1801

Morgan, Patriotic sketches of Ireland, written in Connaught

1807

Edgeworth, Ennui

1809

Broadhurst, Advice to young ladies on the improvement of the mind

1810

Letters on suppressing working class radicalism in the North

1811

George takes final regency due to father’s mental incapacity

1811

Caroline goes into self-imposed exile in Italy

1814

Waterloo

1815

Cobbett, To the Journeymen and Labourers of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland

1816

Habeas Corpus Suspension Act

1817

Gagging Acts (Treason Act and Seditious Meetings Act)

1817

Austen, Persuasion

1817

An Address to the general body of mechanics

1818

Peterloo massacre in Manchester

1819

Printer Richard Carlisle arrested, beginning relay with wife Jane

1819

Leeds Reform Meeting

1819

Address of frame knitters to the Duke of Newcastle

1819

Six Acts to suppress revolutionary activity

1819

Death of George III, coronation of George IV

1820

Queen Caroline Affair

1820

Death of Queen Caroline

1821

Hansard records parliamentary debates on sati

1821

Ward, To the Ladies of Liverpool, and of the United Kingdom

1821

Heyrick, Immediate, not gradual abolition, or, an inquiry into the shortest, safest, and most effectual means of getting rid of West Indian slavery

1824

Wedderburn, The Horrors of Slavery; exemplified in the life and history of the life of Rev. Robert Wedderburn

1824

Barclay, A Practical View of the Present State of Slavery in the West Indies

1826

Lord Bentinck, governor general of India, bans sati

1829

Death of George IV, coronation of William IV

1830

Prince (sort of), The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave, related by herself

1831

Kilham, Memoir of the late Hannah Kilham

1837

Timpson, Memoirs of British Female Missionaries; with a survey of the condition of women in heathen countries

1841

Eliza Dawson publishes late mother, Mrs. Fletcher’s, memoirs

1878