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1838 |
Robert Smith Surtees, Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities. (First published in New Sporting Magazine in 1831) |
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1838 |
Chartism, a working-class movement for the extension of the franchise, comes into existence. The Chartists' six-point charter demands universal suffrage, secret ballot, annual elections, payment of Members, no property qualification for MPs, equal electoral districts. |
*Chartism |
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1838 |
Anti-Corn League formed |
*Corn Laws |
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1838 |
Industrial Revolution: the first railway train enters London. Ocean Steamers to the U.S. |
*United States
*Industrial Revolution |
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1838 |
Letitia Landon, "Felicia Hemans," in Fisher's Drawing-Room Scrapbook. |
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1838 |
Thomas Arnold, Early History of Rome (completed 1843). |
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1838 |
Elizabeth Barrett (Browning), The Seraphim. |
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1838 |
Charles Armitage Brown, Shakespeare's Autobiographical Poems. |
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1838 |
Thomas Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (Boston only). |
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1838 |
Chorley, Authors of England. |
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1838 |
Finden, Tableaux of the Affections: a Series of Picturesque Illustrations of the Womanly Virtues. |
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1838 |
William Gladstone, The Church and Its Relation with the State. |
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1838 |
Lady Charlotte Guest, Mabinogion. |
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1838 |
John Kenyon, Poems, for the Most Part Occasional. |
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1838 |
Charles Lyell, Elements of Geology. |
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1838 |
Harriet Martineau, Retrospect of Western Travel. |
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1838 |
Richard Monckton Milnes, Memorials of a Resident on the Continent and Historical Poems. |
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1838 |
John Edmund Reade, Italy. |
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1838 |
William Mackpiece Thackeray, Yellowplush. |
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1838 |
Richard Townsend, Vision of the Western Railways. |
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1838 |
Frances Trollope, The Widow Barnaby and Romance of Vienna. |
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1838 |
Martin Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy. |
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1838 |
Charles Waterton, Essays on Natural History . . . with an Autobiography. |
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1838 |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson spends summer at Torquay and writes "Audley Court." |
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1838 |
Letitia Landon marries George Maclean. |
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