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| 1845 |
| | Friedrich Engels, after running a textile factory in Manchester, publishes The Condition of the Working Class in England | |
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| 1846 |
| | Edward Lear publishes his Book of Nonsense, consisting of limericks illustrated with his own cartoons | |
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| 1846 |
| | Mary Anne Evans' translation from the German of David Friedrich Strauss's controversial Life of Jesus is published anonymously | |
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| 1846 |
| | After marrying secretly, the English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett go abroad to live in Florence | |
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| 1846 |
| | The three Brontë sisters jointly publish a volume of their poems and sell just two copies | |
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| 1847 |
| | English author William Makepeace Thackeray begins publication of his novel Vanity Fair in monthly parts (book form 1848) | |
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| 1847 |
| | Charlotte becomes the first of the Brontë sisters to have a novel published — Jane Eyre | |
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| 1847 |
| | Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights follows just two months after her sister Charlotte's Jane Eyre | |
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| 1848 |
| | Branwell, Emily and Anne Brontë die within a period of eight months | |
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| 1849 |
| | Charles Dickens begins the publication in monthly numbers of David Copperfield, his own favourite among his novels | |
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