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1851
 
    
Marian Evans (her new spelling of her name) moves to London and gets a job as subeditor of Westminster Review       
1851
 
   
In London's Great Exhibition numerous examples of Pugin's designs and craftsmanship are displayed by different exhibitors      
1851
 
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The Great Exhibition attracts six million visitors to London's new Crystal Palace in a period of only six months      
1851
 
   
The first American branch of the Young Men's Christian Association is established in Boston      
1851
 
    
The New York Times is founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond as a conservative daily with an emphasis on accuracy       
1851
 
    
US author Nathaniel Hawthorne bases his novel The House of the Seven Gables on a curse invoked against his own family       
1851
 
    
Richard Wagner writes an anti-semitic tract, Jewishness in Music       
1851
 
     
Marian Evans meets the journalist George Henry Lewes in William Jeff's bookshop in Burlington Arcade        
1851
 
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Lord and Lady Russell of Pembroke Lodge found the Russell School in Petersham See in Google maps   
1851
 
    
Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick; or, The Whale, a novel based on his own 18-month experience on a whaler in 1841-2