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1840 |
Leigh Hunt, A Legend of Old Florence. |
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1840 |
Charles James Lever, Charles O'Malley. |
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1840 |
Henry Hart Milman, History of Christianity to the Abolition of Paganism. |
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1840 |
Catherine Napier, Woman's Rights and Duties Considered with Relation to their Influence on Society and on her Own Condition. |
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1840 |
Schlegel, A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, a trans. by John Black. |
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1840 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments and A Defence of Poetry. |
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1840 |
Philip Meadows Taylor, Tippoo Sultaun. |
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1840 |
Frances Trollope, One Fault: a Novel, The Widow Married. |
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1840 |
William Whewell, Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences. |
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1840 |
Thomas Hood, Up the Rhine, The Loves of Sally Brown and Ben the Carpenter, Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg in the
New Monthly Magazine. |
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1840 |
Joanna Baillie, Fugitive Verses (includes Scottish songs). |
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1840 |
Death of Frances Burney. |
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1840 |
John Stuart Mill, "Coleridge." |
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1840 |
Penny post started by Rowland Hill. |
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1840 |
Anexation of New Zealand. |
*Colonialsim |
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1840 |
Birth of Thomas Hardy. |
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1840 - 1852 |
Pugin and Barry build the new Palace of Westminster. |
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Jan 10, 1840 |
Introduction of full penny postage. |
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Dec 8, 1840 |
Edward Bulwer Lytton's Money is performed by William Macready. |
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1841 |
Charles Dickens, Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge. |
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1841 |
Punch is founded. |
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1841 |
Browning, Pippa Passes. |
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1841 |
Boucicault, London Assurance. |
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1841 |
Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History. |
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1841 |
Macaulay, Warren Hastings. |
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