DATES Flashcards
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
1859
J.S Mill ‘The Subjection of Women’
1869
Simone de Beauvoir ‘The Second Sex’
1949
Kate Millett ‘Sexual Politics’
1968
Middlemarch, George Eliot
1871-2
Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
1881
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Date, Anne Bronte (under pseudonym Acton Bell)
1848
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (under pseudonym Ellis Bell)
December 1847
Villette, Charlotte Bronte (under pseudonym Currer Bell)
Jan 1853
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
16th October 1847
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
1854
Culture and Anarchy, Matthew Arnold
1869, a series of periodical essays published in Cornhill Magazine
The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century, Ruskin
1884
My Last Duchess, Robert Browning
1842
Porphyria’s Lover
1836
MAUD, Tennyson
1855
Hard Times, Charles Dickens
1854
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
1864-5
People’s Charter
8 May 1838: Chartism 3 national petitions presented to parliament
- 1839
- 1842
- 1849
Slavery Abolished
1 August 1838
Victoria on the throne
June 1837 - 22 Jan 1901
Opening of the Great Exhibition, in Hyde Park, London
1 May 1851
- 19 acre palace designed by Joseph Paxton
Crimean War
Oct 1853 – Mar 1856
24th November 1859
Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species Published
Second Reform Act
August 1867: Doubles electorate
Gladstone PM
1868 ; Lib government defeats Disraeli’s Conservative government
Forster’s Education Act
1870; 1880 education compulsory
Married Women’s Property Act
1870; developed 1883
Second Boer War
1899-1902
Women on the Market
1985
The Newly Born Women (Cixous)
1975
Playboy of the Western World
January 1907
The Importance of Being Earnest
1895
