Machado de Assis (In Our Time)
1839 · Resource
Misha Glenny and guests discuss one of the towering figures of Brazilian and world literature, Machado de Assis (1839 - 1908). He was the descendant of slaves and built his career while slavery was still in place in Brazil (abolished 1888) and many of his characters were from the slave-owning class who were also the readers of his books.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1839
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- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)