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Pickwick Papers
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Pickwick Papers. These serial papers relating the humorous adventures of Mr. Pickwick and his body servant Sam Weller, when brought in conflict with the English laws governing breach of marital promise and debt, had an immense success in England and all English-speaking countries. Already Dickens had published a series of
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Sketches of London, under the pseudonym of Boz, while working as a Parliamentary reporter for the
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Morning Chronicle. The success of the
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Pickwick Papers was such that he felt encouraged to emerge from his pseudonym and to devote himself entirely to literature. Other literary events of the year in England were the publication of the initial volumes of Lockhart's
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, of Captain Marryat's
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Mr. Midshipman Easy, and
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The Pirate and the Three Cutters, and of Landor's
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Pericles and Aspasia. The first Shakespeare jubilee was celebrated at Stratford-on-Avon in the spring. A loss to English letters was the death of James Mill, the great political economist, in his sixty-third year. About this time Wheatstone constructed his electro-magnetic apparatus by which he could send signals over nearly four miles of wire. The Irish composer Balfe began his brilliant career as a composer of English operas with the
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Siege of Rochelle, produced at Drury Lane in London. About the same time Mendelssohn brought out his
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St. Paul
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Barbiere di Seville at London. The success of her first appearance was so great that she was at once engaged for the season. Next she appeared in New York, where she was a popular favorite for two years, singing in Mozart's
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Don Giovanni, in
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Tancred,
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Romeo and Juliet,