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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during 1824. ==Events== * January 24 - First issue of the radical quarterly founded by Jeremy Bentham, ''The Westminster Review'', is published in London. * February 9 - Because of his family's dire financial straits, Charles Dickens, just turned 12, begins work in a blacking factory in London. On February 23 his father, John Dickens, is committed to the Marshalsea prison as a debtor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dickenslive.com/182029.shtml )〕 * February 15 - Lord Byron falls ill at Missolonghi while taking part in the Greek War of Independence, dying of fever on April 19. * May 7 - Première of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (the "Choral") at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna, incorporating a setting of Schiller's "Ode to Joy" (''Ode an die Freude'', 1785). * May 17 - The publisher John Murray, together with five of Lord Byron's friends and executors, decides to destroy the manuscript of Byron's memoirs (which he has been given to publish) because he considers the scandalous details would damage Byron's reputation. Opposed only by Thomas Moore, the two volumes of memoirs are dismembered and burnt in the fireplace at the John Murray (publisher)'s office, 50 Albemarle Street in London. * June 21 - The Vagrancy Act in England provides for the prosecution of "every Person wilfully exposing to view, in any Street... or public Place, any obscene Print, Picture, or other indecent Exhibition". * Julia Catherine Beckwith's ''St. Ursula’s Convent or, The Nun of Canada; Containing Scenes from Real Life'' becomes the first novel published in Canada by a native-born Canadian (anonymously). * ''The United States Literary Gazette'', a semi-monthly, begins publication. It publishes poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and William Cullen Bryant, among many others. * The periodicals ''The Children's Friend'' and ''The Child's Companion'' both publish their first issues. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1824 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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