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RecID: 1248 |
1823 |
Clarkson and Wilberforce found The Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions and its influential Monthly Reporter. Parliament debates emancipation. Slave uprising in Demerara polarizes the factions. |
*Abolition |
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RecID: 1249 |
1823 |
Ireland: Foundation of Catholic Association (dissolved and then reconstituted, 1825). |
*Ireland |
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RecID: 1250 |
1823 |
France and Spain are at War. |
*France
*Spain |
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RecID: 1251 |
1823 |
Felicia Hemans, The Vespers of Palermo, The Siege of Valencia . . . : Other Poems, Tales and Historic Scenes (2nd ed.) |
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RecID: 1252 |
1823 |
Robert Southey, The History of the Penninsular War. |
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RecID: 1253 |
1823 |
Mary Shelley, Valperga (revised by Godwin) and 2nd ed. of Frankenstein(unaltered). |
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RecID: 1254 |
1823 |
Byron leaves Murray for John Hunt to publish Don Juan VI-XIV., The Liberal publishes Byron's "Heaven and Earth" and "The Blues." |
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RecID: 1255 |
1823 |
Byron, The Age of Bronze, The Island. |
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RecID: 1256 |
1823 |
Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia. |
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RecID: 1257 |
1823 |
Sir Walter Scott, Quentin Durward. |
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RecID: 1258 |
1823 |
Mary and William Howitt's The Forest Minstrel and Other Poems. |
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RecID: 1259 |
1823 |
A translation of Goethe's Faust published by J. Murray with Schiller's "Song of the Bell." |
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RecID: 1260 |
1823 |
Caroline Lamb, Ada Reis, a Tale. |
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RecID: 1261 |
1823 |
Winthrop Praed, Australasia. |
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RecID: 1262 |
1823 |
Translation of Jacob Grimm, Grimms' Fairy Tales (illus. by Cruikshank). |
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RecID: 1263 |
1823 |
Mitford's Julian is produced with Macready in the title role. |
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RecID: 1880 |
1823 |
Joanna Baillie edits A Collections of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors, featuring the contributions of Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Barbauld, Hemans, and Southey, with many others. |
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RecID: 1968 |
1823 |
Franz Schubert, Die schone Mullerin, Op. 25. |
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RecID: 1976 |
1823 |
Carl Maria von Weber, Euryanthe. |
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RecID: 2336 |
1823 |
The "virtual repeal" of the Black Act, which allowed capital punishment for deer- and wood-stealing from a Lord's property, took place a full century after its original enactment, "after prolonged resistance" to its repeal, including support of the Act expressed in the Quarterly Review 24 (1821): 199. |
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RecID: 1838 |
Mar 1823 |
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland meets for the first time. |
*Colonialism |
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RecID: 1264 |
July 1823 |
Byron sails to Greece to participate in the Greek Revolution; he helps to finance the revolutionary army. |
*Greece |
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RecID: 1881 |
Sept 23, 1823 |
Death of Matthew Baillie. |
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RecID: 1882 |
Sept 23, 1823 |
Death of Matthew Baillie. |
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RecID: 1246 |
Oct 1823 |
Murray publishes Byron's Werner (t.p. 1823). |
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