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The political backdrop to the story is the 1876 presidential election, a close contest between Tilden and the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes. Tilden won the popular vote, but there was a dispute over the results in Louisiana, Oregon, South Carolina, and Florida.
Forster has been fictionalised in several recent neo-Victorian novels which centre on Charles Dickens.This includes The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl (2009), Wanting by Richard Flanagan (2008), Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold (2008, renamed Michael O'Rourke), Drood by Dan Simmons (2009) and the forensic examination of the genesis of Pickwick Papers, Death and Mr Pickwick by Stephen ...
February 24 – The stage première of the verse-play Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (published 1867) with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, takes place in Christiania, Norway. [1]
Henry Martyn Robert (May 2, 1837 – May 11, 1923) was an American soldier officer and general, engineer, and author. In 1876, Robert published the first edition of his reference manual of parliamentary procedure, Robert's Rules of Order, which remains today 150 years later, as the most common parliamentary authority on democratic parliamentary procedure in the United States.
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1876 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1876th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 876th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1876, the ...
The Imperial Dictionary was edited by John Francis Waller from 1857 to 1866; [2] Patrick Edward Dove was general editor for the first 20 numbers, [4] John Service was on the editorial staff 1858 to 1862, acting as sub-editor under Dove. [5]
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