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Books: Frankenstein (1818) - Mary Shelley
Parent category: 1800s
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Births: Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857) - Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872) - Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) - Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) - J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 - 1873) - Karl Marx (1818 - 1883) - Gustave Courbet (1819 - 1877) - John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) - Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) - Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880)
La grande odalisque (1814) Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
The great Odalisque (1814) Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Saturn Devouring His Son (1819) - Francisco de Goya
Countercultural events
from A Biased Timeline of the Counter-Culture
1810?- ROMANTICISM (Scott, Woodsworth, Byron, Shelley,
Coleridge, Jane Austen, Keats, Hugo, Goethe?, Whitman)
1811 Luddite movement destroys industrial machines in N. England
1812 Grimms Brothers Fairy Tales (they were 26 & 27)
1812 Byron (24): Childe Harold's Pilgrimage tells of a hero
who spent days similar to his own of 1808, when he
had a skull found by his gardener on the grounds
of Newstead Abbey polished and mounted as a drinking cup
and gave a farewell party of drinking, masquerading as monks,
romping with his tame bear, and entertaining his "Paphian girls"
1813 Robert Owen: A New View {?Outlook} of Society (UK)
1793- 1814 Napoleon defeated and sent to Elba
1814 George Stephenson invents & constructs first practical
steam engine, near Newcastle, England
1815 On returning from Elba, Napoleon sends press-gangs
into the student quarter in Paris, trying to round up
an army; most escape and the tradition of anti-monarchy,
anti-enlistment is established among Parisian students
1815 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
Economic postwar crisis in England
when? Byron, xx, Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822, Mary visit to xx
1816 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley writes Frankenstein
1817 First gaslight introduced in London
1817 South American independence: Simon Bolivar in Venezuela,
1818 Chile independence
1819 recession
Maximum 12-hour work day for juveniles, England
Freedom of the press in France
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