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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 ...
Portrait of William Harrison Ainsworth by Daniel Maclise.Ainsworth wrote notable Newgate novels such as Rookwood (1834) and Jack Sheppard (1839). Among the earliest Newgate novels were Thomas Gaspey's Richmond (1827) and The History of George Godfrey (1828), Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Paul Clifford (1830) and Eugene Aram (1832), and William Harrison Ainsworth's Rookwood (1834), which featured Dick ...
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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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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September 8 - Frédéric Mistral, French poet who led the 19th century revival of Occitan (Provençal) language and literature, a key figure in the literary félibrige movement, and one of two winners of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature for his contributions in literature and philology. October 18 - Helen Hunt Jackson (died 1885) American ...