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Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an illustrated collection of poems by William Blake. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789 & five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.
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Mary Wollstonecraft fought for the right to have education for women. She thought that women deserved the chance just as well as other people.
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Charles and Mary Lamb were brother and sister that started writing childrens stories that were called Tales from Shakespeare in the year 1807.
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English artisans called Luddites riot and destroy textile machines, fearing that industrialism threatens their livelihoods. They thought that the new things coming into the world, were a threat to them.
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Grimm's Fairytales is a collection of German fairy tales first published in 1812 by the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm.
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On June 12, 1812 the United States declared war on Great Britain.
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Jane Austen publishes her best novel titled Pride & Prejudice. This novel is about a woman meeting a man and their journey through life back when society wasn't that great.
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Mary Shelley, the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft publishes Frankenstein in 1818.
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In 1828 Noah Webster publishes the first American dictionary of the English language at the age of 70 years old.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame was published in 1831 by Victor Hugo and was named after a Cathedral in Paris.
