DATES

Question 1

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Answer 1

1859

Question 2

J.S Mill ‘The Subjection of Women’

Answer 2

1869

Question 3

Simone de Beauvoir ‘The Second Sex’

Answer 3

1949

Question 4

Kate Millett ‘Sexual Politics’

Answer 4

1968

Question 5

Middlemarch, George Eliot

Answer 5

1871-2

Question 6

Portrait of a Lady, Henry James

Answer 6

1881

Question 7

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Date, Anne Bronte (under pseudonym Acton Bell)

Answer 7

1848

Question 8

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (under pseudonym Ellis Bell)

Answer 8

December 1847

Question 9

Villette, Charlotte Bronte (under pseudonym Currer Bell)

Answer 9

Jan 1853

Question 10

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Answer 10

16th October 1847

Question 11

North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell

Answer 11

1854

Question 12

Culture and Anarchy, Matthew Arnold

Answer 12

1869, a series of periodical essays published in Cornhill Magazine

Question 13

The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century, Ruskin

Answer 13

1884

Question 14

My Last Duchess, Robert Browning

Answer 14

1842

Question 15

Porphyria’s Lover

Answer 15

1836

Question 16

MAUD, Tennyson

Answer 16

1855

Question 17

Hard Times, Charles Dickens

Answer 17

1854

Question 18

Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens

Answer 18

1864-5

Question 19

People’s Charter

Answer 19

8 May 1838: Chartism 3 national petitions presented to parliament

1. 1839
2. 1842
3. 1849

Question 20

Slavery Abolished

Answer 20

1 August 1838

Question 21

Victoria on the throne

Answer 21

June 1837 - 22 Jan 1901

Question 22

Opening of the Great Exhibition, in Hyde Park, London

Answer 22

1 May 1851

- 19 acre palace designed by Joseph Paxton

Question 23

Crimean War

Answer 23

Oct 1853 – Mar 1856

Question 24

24th November 1859

Answer 24

Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species Published

Question 25

Second Reform Act

Answer 25

August 1867: Doubles electorate

Question 26

Gladstone PM

Answer 26

1868 ; Lib government defeats Disraeli's Conservative government

Question 27

Forster's Education Act

Answer 27

1870; 1880 education compulsory

Question 28

Married Women's Property Act

Answer 28

1870; developed 1883

Question 29

Second Boer War

Answer 29

1899-1902

Question 30

Women on the Market

Answer 30

1985

Question 31

The Newly Born Women (Cixous)

Answer 31

1975

Question 32

Playboy of the Western World

Answer 32

January 1907

Question 33

The Importance of Being Earnest

Answer 33

1895