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What author enlisted in the light dragoons under the alias of Silas Tonkin Comberbache?

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Samuel Taylor coleridge

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Which poet was also an engraver?

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William blake

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Which poet presented all experiences as 'a tangle of inseparable but irreconcilable opposites'?

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John keats

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Which poet is known as the father of romanticism?

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William wordsworth

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Which author is considered a failed poet?

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Samuel taylor coleridge

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Which poet wrote a song that was eventually adopted as a hymn of the British labor movement?

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P. B. Shelley

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Which poet is anti-romantic?

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Lord byron

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Coleridge thought which one was "the best poet of the age"?

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William wordsworth

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"Opened up to poets in the modern world the realm of mystery and magic, in which materials from ancient folklore, superstition, and demonology are used to impress upon the sense of occult powers and unknown modes of being"

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Wrote "To a Mouse" and "To a Louse"

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Robert Burns

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Who made repeated use of the fascination with the forbidden and the appeal of the terrifying Satanic hero?

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Lord byron

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Which poet mingled pleasure and pain at its highest intensity with the destructive aspects of sexuality and the erotic quality of longing for death?

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John keats

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Which poet was heavily addicted to opium for medicinal purposes?

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Which poet had gained and immense European reputation during his lifetime?

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Lord byron

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Which poet was the national poet of Scotland?

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Robert burns

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Which poet died of tuberculosis?

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John keats

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Had a deformed foot but overcame lameness by becoming an athlete in boxing, fencing and swimming

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Lord byron

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Known as a radical nonconformist

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P. B. Shelley

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Wrote "what is a poet?"

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William wordsworth

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Began a series of amorous affairs and fathered several illegitimate children. Biographer said "it was not so much that he was conspicuously sinful as that he sinned conspicuously"

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Robert burns

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Had an incestuous relationship with his half-sister

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Lord byron

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Felt a foreboding of early death and applied himself to his art with urgency

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John keats

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fell in love with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

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P. B. Shelley

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Organized an expedition in the Greek war for independence from the Turks

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Lord byron

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Collaborated on pamphlet "the necessity of atheism" which cause him to be expelled

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P. B. Shelley

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Deliberately chose to represent common life. (Peasants, children, outcasts, criminals, and idiotic boys)

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William wordsworth

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Eloped with the daughter of a well to do tavern keeper

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P. B. Shelley

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Subverted the neoclassic principle that in many kinds of poem the language must be elevated over standard speech by a special diction and by artful figures of speech to match the language to the height and dignity of a particular genre

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William Wordsworth

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Known for one rendition of the song we sing in New Year's Eve

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Robert burns

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First wife drowned

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P. B. Shelley

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Son of a London haberdasher

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William blake

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Because of his radical relationships which poet envisioned himself as an alien and outcast rejected by the human race so whose welfare he has dedicated his powers and his life?

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P. B. Shelley

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Offered his first wife a financial settlement so he could pursue a childhood friend

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William wordsworth

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Wrote "the spirit of the age"

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William hazlitt

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Described poetry as the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"

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William Wordsworth

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Abandoned medicine for poetry

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John keats

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Refused payment for his songs

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Robert burns

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Said "I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans"

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William Blake

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5 poets that represent the British romantic period

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Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats

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belatedly added as the sixth

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William blake

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Lyrical ballads published in this year

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1798

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Byron died in fierce battle

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False

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Blake declared that all he knew came from

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The bible

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What if ironic about the ending of the poem "Adonais"?

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It describes dying in a ship during a violent storm. He actually ended up dying while sailing a ship in violent waters

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"Ozymandias" is named for which king

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Ramses II

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An instance of that neoclassical type, a satire against modern civilization, and shares many of the aims and methods of Pope, Swift, Voltaire and Sterne

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Don Juan

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What was the name of the figure, infusing the archrebel in a non-political form with a strong erotic interest, that was imitated in life as well as in art and helped shape the intellectual and the cultural history of the later nineteenth century?

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Lord byron

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One text and it's hero

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Heathcliff Wuthering Heights

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Because Wordsworth is so known for his nature poetry, of the poem studied in class, which one were you most surprised to find And why?

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Steamboats, viaducts, and railways. He is embracing technology

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What three disasters deeply affected wordsworth?

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His father died, his brother died, his children died

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What year was Wordsworth poet laureate?

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1843

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For keats, what made marriage impossible and love a torment?

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staying dedicated to poetry, poverty, his sickness

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The French Revolution began with what even on July 14, 1789

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Storming of bastille

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Three women who were some of the best regarded poets of the time

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Anna Barbauld, charlotte smith, Mary Robinson

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Name one book that epitomized the radical social thinking stimulated by the revolution

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"A Vindication of the Rights of Men" Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

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Perfected the steam engine in 1765

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James watt

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Did the reform bill of 1832 give women the right to vote

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No

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What "to a mouse" wanted us to learn

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Things don't always go as planned

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What "to a louse" wanted us to learn

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We see ourselves differently than others see us

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Dates of the romantic age

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1785-1832

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What poem did Blake Tackle head on the question of color

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The little black boy

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What was one result of the "let alone" theory of government

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Inadequate wages, long hours of work, bad conditions, harsh discipline, employment of women and children

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What happened at the peterloo massacre

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Assembly at saint peters fields was charged by saber wielding troops who killed 9 and injured hundreds. Workers wanted to demand parliamentary reform

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Why was the invention of the steam engine so important

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Steam replaced wind and water as primary source of power. Hallmark to new age

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What was Enclosure

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Taking common land and making it private

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Why was enclosure important

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It gave them a more efficient method of agriculture to feed the growing population

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What brought on the first modern industrial depression

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Demobilization of troops after 1815

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How did women constitute a deprived class

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Limited schooling, rigid code of sexual behavior, had no rights, could not divorce husbands

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First reform bill passed

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1832

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What did the reform bill do

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Did away with rotten Burroughs, redistributed parliament representation to include industrial cities, extended the franchise

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What did the reform bill not do

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Half the middle class, almost all middle class, and all women could still not vote

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Lake school

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Wordsworth, Coleridge, Robert Southey

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Cockney school

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Leigh hunt, William Hazlitt, associated with keats

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Satanic school

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Leigh hunt, p. B. Shelley, byron

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Lyric poem

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First person

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romantic poetry

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Nature poetry

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Two types of fiction prominent in eighteenth century

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Gothic, novel of purpose

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Gothic

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Mystery and horror

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Novel of purpose

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Suggests new way of understanding social reform

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Author untouched by the political, intellectual, and artistic revolutions of the age

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Jane Austen

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Sir Walter Scott was who's contemporary?

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Jane austen

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Poets wife was illiterate

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William blake

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Have up poetry in sixties to devote himself to pictorial art

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William Blake

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Establishment of the society for effecting the abolition of the trade in slaves

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1787

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Revolution begins with the assembly of the estates general in may and the storming of bastille

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1789

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King Louis XVI executed, England joins alliance against France

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1793

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Reign of Terror under Robespierre

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1793-1794

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Napoleon crowned emperor

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1804

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Napoleon defeated at Waterloo

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1815

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British slave trade outlawed

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1807

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The regency- George, prince of wales is regent for George III who was declared incurably insane

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1811-1820

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Peterloo massacre

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1819

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Accession of George IV

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1820

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Accession of William IV

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1830

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Passage of the reform act in parliament

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1832

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