Literature - Dates Flashcards
Queen Victoria’s reign
1837-1901
Great Exhibition
1851
Early Victorian Period
1830-1850
Middle Victorian Period
1850-1873
Late Victorian Period
1873-1901
Great Depression (Victorian)
1873
Charles Dickens
1812-1870
A Christmas Carol
1843
David Copperfield
1850
William Makepeace Thackeray
1811-1863
Charlotte Brontë
1816
Emily Brontë
1818
Anne Brontë
1820
Jane Eyre
1847
Wuthering Heights
1847
Agnes Grey
1847
George Eliot
1819-1880
Middlemarch
1871-72
George Meredith
1828-1909
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
1859
Evan Harrington
1861
Thomas Hardy
1840-1928
Far from the Madding Crowd
1874
The Mayor of Casterbridge
1886
Wessex Poems
1898
Henry James
1843-1916
The American
1876
The Europeans
1878
The Portrait of a Lady
1881
Lewis Carroll
1832-1898
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
1865
Through the Looking-Glass
1871
Oscar Wilde
1854-1900
George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950
Irish Famine
1845-1849
New Irish cultural nationalism
1880s-1890s
Formation of Sinn Fein
1902
Sinn Fein political party
1905
Sinn Fein main party
1918
Lady Windermere’s Fan
1892
The Importance of Being Earnest
1895
Oscar Wilde’s tour of America
1882
Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment
1895-1897
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
1898
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
1888
The Canterville Ghost
1888
An Ideal Husband
1895
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1891
George Bernard Shaw moved to London
1876
Bernard Shaw Nobel Prize
1925
1925
George Bernard Shaw’s Buoyant Billions
1949
Pleasant and Unpleasant
1898
Pygmalion
1912-1913
Heartbreak House
1913-1921
Back to Methuselah
1921
Herman Melville
1819-1891
Herman Melville’s family business collapse
1830
Herman Melville’s father’s death
1832
Herman Melville left school
1834
Herman Melville forced to work again
1837
Herman Melville embarks St. Lawrence to Liverpool
1839
Moby Dick
1851
Pierre
1852
Billy Budd
1924
Herman Melville moves to NYC
1863
Typee
1846
The Confidence-Man
1857
Battle-Pieces
1866
Aspects of the War
1866
Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1849
Edgar Allan Poe joined the army
1827
Edgar Allan Poe’s mother’s death
1829
Edgar Allan Poe married Virginia Clemm
1836
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
1840
Virginia Clemm Tuberculosis
1842
The Masque of the Red Death
1842
The Raven
1845
Virginia Clemm’s death
1847
Walt Whitman
1819-1892
Walt Whitman edits the New Orlean Crescent
1848
Leaves of Grass
1855
Walt Whitman moves to Camden to care for his dying mother
1870s
Leaves of Grass gives Walt Whitman enough money to buy a house
1882
Good-Bye, My Fancy
1891
Homestead Act
1862
William Dean Howells edits the Atlantic
1871
William Dean Howells edits Harper’s Monthly
1886
Mark Twain
1835-1910
Mark Twain moves to California
1864
The Innocents Abroad
1869
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1876
Life On The Mississippi
1883
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884
Henry James
1843-1916
Henry James works as contributor for the Atlantic Monthly and the Nation
1866-1869, 1871-1872
Watch and Ward
1871
Roderick Hudson
1875
Henry James’ Letters
1920
Henry James’ Notes on Novelists
1914
Henry James’ The Art of Fiction
1884
Henry James’ The Notebooks of Henry James
1947
Hugh MacDiarmid
1892-1978
Philip Larkin
1922-1985
Ted Hughes
1930-1999
Tony Harrison
1937-
Seamus Heany
1939-2013
Bertolt Brecht
1898-1956
Samuel Becket
1906-1989
John James Osborne
1929-1994
Harold Pinter
1930-2008
Tom Stoppard
1937-
William Gerald Golding
1911-1993
Graham Greene
1904-1991
George Orwell
1903-1950
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
1892-1973
Roal Dahl
1916-1990