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1828 |
Sir John Malcolm, Sketches of Persia. |
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1828 |
Victor Hugo, Les Orientales. |
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1828 |
Honoré de Balzac, Les Chouans. |
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1828 |
Thomas Hood, The Dream of Eugene Aram. |
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1828 |
John Constable, Dedham Vale. |
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1828 |
Rise of the Discipline of English: Rev. Thomas Dale first to be appointed to the first professorship of English Language and Literature (University College, London). |
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1828 |
Mary Mitford's Rienzi appears at Drury Lane and is admired by Felicia Hemans. |
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1828 |
W. Wordsworth and Coleridge take trip up Rhine. |
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1828 |
Athenaeum founded. |
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1828 |
Thomas Hood becomes editor of The Gem. |
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1828 |
Publication of The Bijou, one among the many gift books and annuals flooding the market from 1820 to 1850 in Britain. |
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Apr 28, 1828 |
Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts that kept non-Anglicans (Catholics and Dissenters) from holding public office, and deprived them of other rights. |
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1829 |
India: Lord William Cavendish Bentinck officially prohibits the practice of suttee [sati]. |
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1829 |
Galignani Press of Paris publishes The Poetical Works of Coleridge, P. B. Shelley, and Keats. |
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1829 |
Felicia Hemans, The Forest Sanctuary republished with new lyrics. |
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1829 |
Maria Jane Jewsbury, Lays of Leisure Hours (dedicated to Felicia Hemans). |
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1829 |
Kenelm Henry Digby, Orlandus, the Broad Stone of Honour Part IV. |
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1829 |
Hugh Clapperton, Journal of a Second Expedition to the Interior of Africa. |
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1829 |
Catherine Grace Godwin, The Wanderer's Legacy (dedicated to William Wordsworth). |
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1829 |
Sir William Hamilton, Philosophy of the Unconditioned. |
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1829 |
G. P. R. James, Richelieu. |
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1829 |
Douglas Jerrold, Black-Ey'd Susan. |
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1829 |
Frederick Marryat, The Naval Officer. |
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1829 |
James Stuart Mill, Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind. |
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1829 |
Edward Moxon, "Christmas, A Poem." |
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