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  Monarchy-Free Canada / Replacements for the Queen on Canadian Currency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Through his role in the victory at the battle of the Châteauguay, de Salaberry became a celebrated and legendary historical figure.
(1800 - 1829) Her people exterminated by disease and bounties by European settlers, Shawnadithit was the last Beothuk.
As a reminder of the ruthlessness of humanity, Shawnadithit spent her remaining days recounting her culture and language to early Newfoundlanders.
www.monarchyfreecanada.org /canadians.htm   (5431 words)

  
 Cardiff Corvey Articles, I.1: P. GARSIDE & A. MANDAL, Producing Fiction in Britain, 1800—1829
In the 1820s, accessions reached a new level, with the library in two single years (1822 and 1829) actually taking all but one of the novels in my index file.
Furthermore, female-penned works outnumber male-penned works by 23% (approximately 121 novels), although the average output of women’s novels had dropped from 64% in the latter half of the 1810s to around 51% during 1825–9.
Perhaps this emphasis on the female market explains the demise of Minerva in the 1820s, with their rather ‘unfashionable’ touting of female-penned works at a time which anticipated the dominance of the Victorian male author in the light of Scott’s phenomenal achievement.
www.cf.ac.uk /encap/corvey/articles/cc01_n01.html   (3962 words)

  
 Eighteenth-Century Resources -- Literature
With a handy chronological table of forgers around 1800.
I've collected a list of words where confusing the long s (in typography before 1800) with the letter f will result in a word that will sneak past a spelling-checker.
Women Playwrights around 1800 (Thomas C. Crochunis and Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Stanford)
andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/18th/lit.html   (4958 words)

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