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The famous opening line of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's (anonymous) novel, Paul Clifford, published this year, begins: "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the ...
This page provides a list of novelists who have written historical novels. Countries named are where they worked for longer periods. Alternative names appear before the dates.
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Benjamin Constant (1767–1830), French writer, philosopher and politician; Ethel Cooper (1871–1961), Australian musician and First World War German detainee; Eleanor Coppola (b. 1936), American filmmaker and writer; Rachel Corrie (1979–2003), American activist; William Johnson Cory (1823–1892), English schoolmaster and scholar
February 3, 1830 – Greece is liberated from the Ottoman forces as the final result of the Greek War of Independence. July 20, 1830 – Greece grants citizenship to Jews. May 7, 1832 – The Treaty of London creates an independent Kingdom of Greece. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria, is chosen King. Thus begins the history of modern Greece.
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List of years in poetry; List of years in literature; 19th century in poetry; 19th century in literature; Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850) Weimar Classicism period in Germany, commonly considered to have begun in 1788 and to have ended either in 1805, with the death of Friedrich Schiller, or 1832, with the death of Goethe; Lists of poets