Emma (In Our Time)
1815 · Resource
"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." So begins Emma by Jane Austen, describing her leading character who, she said, was "a heroine whom no-one but myself w
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Around 1815
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)