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1839 |
William Harrison Ainsworth, Jack Sheppard: A Romance. |
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1839 |
Philip James Bailey, Festus. |
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1839 |
Mary Louisa Boyle, The Forester: A Tale of 1688. |
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1839 |
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Cardinal Richilieu. |
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1839 |
Eliza Cook, Illustrations of Poems by Eliza Cook. |
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1839 |
William Fullerton Cumming, Notes of a Wanderer in Search of Health, Through Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey; Up the Danube and Down the Rhine. |
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1839 |
Alfred Domett, Venice. |
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1839 |
Letitia Landon, The Zenana and Minor Poems of L.E.L. |
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1839 |
Walter Savage Landor, Andrea of Hungary and Giovanna of Naples. |
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1839 |
Harriet Martineau, Deerbrook. |
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1839 |
Samuel Naylor, Ceracchi, a Drama and Other Poems. |
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1839 |
John Edmund Reade, The Deluge. |
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1839 |
George Sand, Spiridion. |
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1839 |
George Scharf, Recollections of the Scenic Effects of Covent Garden Theatre. |
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1839 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poetical Works edited by Mary Shelley. |
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1839 |
Stendhal, La Chartreuse de Parme. |
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1839 |
Philip Meadows Taylor, Confessions of a Thug. |
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1839 |
Daguerrotype photographic process announced in France. W. H. Fox Talbot announces negative-positive "photogenic" process in England. |
*France |
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1839 |
W. Wordsworth receives honorary degree from Oxford. |
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1839 |
Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby dramatized before its publication is completed in 1839. |
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1839 |
Seven theaters simultaneously perform versions of John Buckstone's Jack Sheppard. |
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1839 |
Wordsworth's first revision of The Prelude. |
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1839 |
War with China; Hong Kong captured. |
*China
*Colonialism |
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1839 |
Annexation of Aden by Britain. |
*Colonialism |
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1839 |
Royal Commission on Police meets. |
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