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Tags: 1846, Braubach Castle, China, Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, expiation, Germany, gift giving, grandchildren, laurestina (tree), Love, marriage, New Year's Day, omens, repudiation, servants, Siblings, singlehood, speculation, stock market

Tags: "Manfred", 1848, Alps, aristocracy, Battle of Morat, bible, Caroline M. Kirkland, children, class difference, doctors, Englishmen, forget-me-nots, Hamlet, John Kemble, Lord Byron, Madame de Stael, marriage, married women's property, medicine, mother's rights, Nature, Queen Bertha's tomb, rural life, Sartain's Union Magazine, St. Beatus, St. Paul, Swiss peasants, Switzerland, Thomas Campbell, tourism, Travel

Tags: 15th century, 1838, 1839, A New England Tale and Miscellanies, Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War (1407-1435), bourgeois, Charles VI of France, Count de Vaudemont, Duke of Burgundy [John the Fearless], feudalism, France, Historical fiction, Isabella of Bavaria, Italians, Italy, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Jean de Montagu, John - Duke of Berry, literacy, Louis I Duke of Orleans, lynch law, marriage, mystery play, Notre Dame, Romance, scaffold, St. Therese, The Hesperian, The Token, torture rack, Valentina Visconti (Duchess of Orleans)

Tags: "Hymn to Adversity" (1782), "Il Penseroso" (1645), 1833, 1834, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768), Acts 7.60, Angelica Catalani, anonymous publication, aristocracy, As You Like It, ballots, Beauty and the Beast, Chimborazo, clergy, coming of age, Cotton Mather, courtship, Curtius, Death, death-bed promise, Democrat, Edie Ochiltree, elections, Federalism, Gioachino Rossini, Helicon, herbalist, Increase Mather, inheritance, Jack and the Beanstalk, Jacobin, Jews, John Adams, John Cotton, John Milton, Judges 11:34, lampoons, Laurence Sterne, lawyer, letters, Love, marriage, New England, newspapers, Norton Anthology of American Literature, Paradise Lost, partisan, pseudonym, Puritans, second wives, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, sisters, Southerners, spinster, Tales and Sketches -First Series, The Age of Reason (1794), The Antiquary (1816), The Token, Thomas Gray, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Tristam Shandy, Uncle Toby, Vermont, Virgil, widowers, William Cullen Bryant

Tags: "Address to Kilchurn Castle Upon Loch Awe", "Faust", "Principles and Prudence in Politics: The Friend", "She Was a Phantom of Delight", "The Seasons: A Hymn", 1839, 1840, 2 Corinthians 1:22, All's Well That Ends Well, Apollo, Ashby de la Zouch, bankruptcy, belle, Charles Maurice de Tallyrand, courtship, Death, Democrat, duty, El Dorado, engagement, Ephesians 1:13, factionalism, Isaiah 40:8, Ivanhoe, James Thomson (1700-1748), Jewess, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John 3:8, John Milton, letters, loco-foco, Louvre, Love, Mammon, marriage, Measure for Measure, Oliver Goldsmith, Paradise Lost, party politics, phrenology, Procrustes bed, Samuel G. Goodrich, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, speculation, sultan, tableau vivant, The Token, Tories, Whigs, widows, William Wordsworth

Tags: courtship, English countryside, marriage, parents, Romance, Sartain's Union Magazine

Tags: 1843, bachelors, benevolence, Charles Dickens, cousin, Croton Aqueduct, Don Quioxte, Edward Bulwer Lytton, George Washington, Giulia Grisi, John Milton, Ludwig van Beethoven, Luigi Lablache, marriage, Pickwick, service, single life, Tales and Sketches - Second Series, Thomas Gray, United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Vincenzo Bellini, vocation

Tags: 1836, As You Like It, bachelors, boarding house, camelias, class, coming out, Cymbeline, fashion, Female education, fire insurance stock, Grace Church, Harpers, heroism, King Lear, Ladies' Depository, marriage, May-December romance, Much Ado About Nothing, New York City, Pyramus and Thisbe, self reliance, Shakespeare, society, The 1835 Great Fire of New York, The Tempest, The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, the unconscious, Wall Street, women and work

Tags: 1840, 4th of July, abandonment, Aeolus, Aladdin's lamp, almshouse, Apollo, benevolence, Benjamin Franklin, boyhood, charity, Christianity, Consumption, Cotton Mather, deathbed, deformity, fairy, Fortunatus' cap, funeral, gender roles, girls-work, God, gratitude, H. Gally Knight, Honesty, Independence Day, intemperance, juvenile literature, knitting, laudanum, literacy, Magnalia Christi Americana, marriage, Midas, Mothers, orphans, Ovid, philosopher's stone, poverty, prayer, Proverbs 30:24, Psalm 103, public assistance, public education, rickets, self reliance, sewing, shame, shopkeeper, sons, star-spangled banner, Stories for Young Persons, tears, virtue, widows

Tags: 1840, Alexandria, captives, Chios, Christians, Constantinople, daughters, Death, Egypt, Englishmen, execution, Faith, girls, Good Samaritan, Greece, Greek Independence, Greek Orthodox, hostages, Houri, infidels, Jews, Juvenile fiction, London, marriage, massacre, Mohammed, Mothers, Muslims, Oriental, Ottoman Empire, Pacha, patriots, plague, Prophet, revolution, Romaika, Roman Catholic, Scios, Sir Walter Scott, Smyrna, sons, Stories for Young Persons, Turks, war, White Lady of Avenel