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1827 |
Alaric Watts, editor of The Literary Souvenir, develops a gallery of famous living writers, including in it three portraits of
Felicia Hemans done by William West. |
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1827 |
John Murray loses at least 26,000 pounds on a bad investment in a new newspaper; backing off from poetry, he decides to publish only sure-fire
best sellers. |
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1827 |
Felicia Hemans negotiates with Blackwood's to be paid over 1 pound per sheet of poetry, more than was being paid to Thomas Hood and Walter Scott. |
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1827 |
Scott acknowledges authorship of the Waverley novels. |
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1827 |
Charles Babbage constructs "difference engine" to calculate logarithms. |
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1827 |
Mary Ann Browne Gray, Mont Blanc and Other Poems. |
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1827 |
Beethoven's Missa solemnis, Op. 123 published. |
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1827 |
Publication of Beethoven's String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132, String Quartet in F major, Op. 135, and String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 130. |
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Mar 26, 1827 |
Beethoven dies in Vienna. |
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Aug 12, 1827 |
William Blake dies in London. |
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1828 |
Duke of Wellington becomes Prime Minister. |
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1828 |
Turks agree to withdraw from Greece. |
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1828 |
Ireland: Daniel O'Connell elected MP for Clare. |
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1828 |
Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman with Other Poems. |
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1828 |
Amelia Opie, Detraction Displayed. |
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1828 |
Maria Jane Jewsbury, Letters to the Young. |
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1828 |
Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries. |
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1828 |
Samuel Barker, Parriana; or Notices of the Reverend Samuel Parr. |
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1828 |
Thomas Carlyle, Essay on Burns (in Edinburgh Review), |
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1828 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poetical Works. |
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1828 |
Hartley Coleridge, "Shakespeare, a Tory and a Gentleman." |
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1828 |
Dixon Denham and Hugh Clapperton, Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Southern Africa (3rd. ed). |
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1828 |
John Flaxman, Lectures. |
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1828 |
William Hazlitt, The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Vol. 1 and 2. |
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1828 |
John Gibson Lockheart, Life of Robert Burns. |
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