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[4] August 15 – The Scott Monument to Sir Walter Scott in Edinburgh (Scotland) is inaugurated. [5] September 12 – The poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry privately in St Marylebone Parish Church, London, and depart for the continent a week later. [6] October 1 – Serial publication of Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son begins. [7]
William John Thoms (16 November 1803 – 15 August 1885) was a British writer credited with coining the term "folklore" in 1846. [1] Thoms' investigation of folklore and myth led to a later career of debunking longevity myths , and he was a pioneer demographer .
A meeting of the Anti–Corn Law League in Exeter Hall in 1846. The Anti–Corn Law League was a successful political movement in Great Britain aimed at the abolition of the unpopular Corn Laws, which protected landowners’ interests by levying taxes on imported wheat, thus raising the price of bread at a time when factory-owners were trying to cut wages.
Nathaniel Currier 1846. The Drunkard's Progress: From the First Glass to the Grave is an 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier. It is a nine-step lebenstreppe on a stone arch depicting a man's journey through alcoholism. Through a series of vignettes it shows how a single drink starts an arc that ends in suicide. Below the structure, the ...
In 1846, he resigned the editorship and assumed that of the Daily News of London, but contributed a series of notable articles to the Athenaeum. The poet and critic Thomas Kibble Hervey succeeded Dilke as editor and served from 1846 until his resignation due to ill health in 1853.
15 languages. العربية ... Book series introduced in 1846 (1 P) 1846 books (3 C, ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
[1] Generally, most contemporary critics praised the collection and considered it better than Hawthorne's earlier collection, Twice-Told Tales. [ 6 ] Regarding the second edition, published in 1854, Hawthorne wrote to publisher James T. Fields that he no longer understood the messages he was sending in these stories.
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