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The birth of Thomas Hardy
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"Master Humphrey's Clock" - Charles Dickens
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"Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty" - Charles Dickens
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London Library founded in Pall Mall, London
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"The Old Curiosity Shop" - Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens sets sail to America
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Fanny Burney's diary and letters are posthumously published
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Alfred Tennyson – Poems including "Locksley Hall", "Morte d'Arthur", "Ulysses", "The Lady of Shalott" (2nd version), "Godiva", "Lady Clara Vere de Vere" and "The Two Voices"
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Robert Browning – Dramatic Lyrics including "My Last Duchess" and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
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"American Notes" - Charles Dickens
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"The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit" - Charles Dickens
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The death of Robert Southey
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William Wordsworth accepts the office of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
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The Theatres Act is passed in the United Kingdom
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"A Christmas Carol" - Charles Dickens
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"The Chimes" - Charled Dickens
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"Poems" - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Birth of Mrs. Lovett Cameron (Caroline "Emily" Sharp)
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"A Death-Scene" - Emily Bronte
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Robert Browning begins his correspondence with his future wife, fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett
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"The Cricket on the Hearth" - Charles Dickens
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"P.'s Correspondence" - Nathaniel Hawthorne (American)
A pioneering example of alternate history in which real-life writers and political figures who have died (such as Keats, Shelley and Byron) are described as still living, and vice versa. -
Edward Lear "A Book of Nonsense"
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Charles Dickens' novel "Dombey and Son"
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Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre"
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Anne Brontë's novel "Agnes Grey"
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Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights"
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The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
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Anne Brontë's novel "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"
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Charles Dickens' Christmas novella "The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain".
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Charlotte Brontë's novel "Shirley"
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Charles Dickens' novel "David Copperfield"
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William Wordsworth's poem "The Prelude"
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Death of William Wordsworth
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Birth of Robert Louis Stevenson