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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 ...
The History of Little Henry and his Bearer, Mary Martha Sherwood (1814) The History of the Fairchild Family, Mary Martha Sherwood (3 volumes, 1818, 1842, 1847) The Moss-House: In Which Many of the Works of Nature Are Rendered a Source of Amusement to Children, Agnes Strickland (1822) The History of Henry Milner, Mary Martha Sherwood (1822-1837)
View history; General What links here ... Fiction set in the 1830s. ... This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total. 1830 novels (3 C) 1831 ...
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In 1830, William IV succeeded his brother George IV as King of the United Kingdom. Upon his death in 1837, his 18-year-old niece, Princess Victoria . [ 11 ] Under Salic law , the Kingdom of Hanover passed to William's brother, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland , ending the personal union of Britain and Hanover which had existed since 1714 .
His Henri III et sa cour (1829) was the first of the great Romantic historical dramas produced on the Paris stage, preceding Victor Hugo's more famous Hernani (1830). Produced at the Comédie-Française and starring the famous Mademoiselle Mars, Dumas's play was an enormous success and launched him on his career. It had 50 performances over the ...
It was the history of the Navy ship USS Constitution and, after European and American Scenery Compared, 1852, was one of several posthumous publications of his writings. [50] In 1856, five years after Cooper's death, his History of the Navy of the United States of America was re-published in an expanded edition. The work was an account of the U ...
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