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Mar 20, 1832 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dies. |
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May 7, 1832 |
Reform Bill defeated in Lords; Grey asks for new Peers and the King balks; Grey resigns as Prime Minister. |
*Parlimentary Reform |
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May 15, 1832 |
Grey recalled. |
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June 6, 1832 |
Jeremy Bentham dies, London. |
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June 7, 1832 |
Reform Bill, now known as the First Reform Act of 1832, receives royal assent: while the Bill had dramatic effects for grossly underrepresented places like Scotland (the number of Scottish people allowed to vote increased from only 4,000 to 65,000 out of 2.5 million people), and although the bill changed voting from an aristocratic privilege to a middle class right, by comtemporary Western standards not much was accomplished in over 50 years of sometimes bloody battle for universal suffrage: because of the Bill, the electorate approximately doubled to about 800,000 voters, but 800,000 people is nowhere near "all" of the people--the population in Great Britain (Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales) was 24 million in an 1831 census, and increasing 1 million a year. |
*Parliamentary Reform |
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July 1832 |
Conversations of Lord Bryon with the Countess of Blessington begins publication in New Monthly Magazine (installments from July 1832 to December 1833). |
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Sept 21, 1832 |
Sir Walter Scott dies, Abbotsford, Roxburgh, Scotland. |
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1833 |
Industrial Revolution: Factory Act restricts ages and hours one can employ children and adults in textile factories. |
*Industrial Revolution
*Child Labor |
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1833 |
William Gladstone elected MP for Newark (Tory). |
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1833 |
Huge working-class demonstration at Cold Bath Fields in London. |
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1833 |
Probable date of a new translation of Madame de Stael's novel as Corinne; or, Italy, prose by Isabel Hill, odes by Letitia Landon. |
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1833 |
Felicia Hemans, Hymns on the Works of Nature for the Use of Children, published; "Woman and Fame" written. |
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1833 |
Robert Browning, Pauline. |
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1833 |
Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (in Fraser's). |
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1833 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, translation of Prometheus Bound. |
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1833 |
Caroline Bowles, Tales of the Factories. |
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1833 |
Henry Alford, Poems and Poetical Fragments. |
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1833 |
Sarah Austen, translator, Characteristics of Goethe (3 vols.). |
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1833 |
Benjamin Disraeli, Alroy, "Rise of Iskander." |
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1833 |
Alfred Domett, Poems. |
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1833 |
P. Gaskell, The Manufacturing Population of England, its Moral, Social, and Physical Conditions, . . . with an Examination of Infant Labour. |
*Child Labor |
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1833 |
G. P. R. James, Mary of Burgundy, Darnley. |
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1833 |
Charles Lamb, The Last Essays of Elia. |
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1833 |
Harriet Martineau, Poor Laws and Paupers Illustrated. |
*Poor Law
*Economics |
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1833 |
John Henry, Cardinal Newman, Tracts for the Times begin. |
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