Literature - Dates Flashcards
1
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Queen Victoria’s reign
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1837-1901
2
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Great Exhibition
A
1851
3
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Early Victorian Period
A
1830-1850
4
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Middle Victorian Period
A
1850-1873
5
Q
Late Victorian Period
A
1873-1901
6
Q
Great Depression (Victorian)
A
1873
7
Q
Charles Dickens
A
1812-1870
8
Q
A Christmas Carol
A
1843
9
Q
David Copperfield
A
1850
10
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William Makepeace Thackeray
A
1811-1863
11
Q
Charlotte Brontë
A
1816
12
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Emily Brontë
A
1818
13
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Anne Brontë
A
1820
14
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Jane Eyre
A
1847
15
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Wuthering Heights
A
1847
16
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Agnes Grey
A
1847
17
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George Eliot
A
1819-1880
18
Q
Middlemarch
A
1871-72
19
Q
George Meredith
A
1828-1909
20
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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
A
1859
21
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Evan Harrington
A
1861
22
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Thomas Hardy
A
1840-1928
23
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Far from the Madding Crowd
A
1874
24
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
A
1886
25
Wessex Poems
1898
26
Henry James
1843-1916
27
The American
1876
28
The Europeans
1878
29
The Portrait of a Lady
1881
30
Lewis Carroll
1832-1898
31
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1865
32
Through the Looking-Glass
1871
33
Oscar Wilde
1854-1900
34
George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950
35
Irish Famine
1845-1849
36
New Irish cultural nationalism
1880s-1890s
37
Formation of Sinn Fein
1902
38
Sinn Fein political party
1905
39
Sinn Fein main party
1918
40
Lady Windermere's Fan
1892
41
The Importance of Being Earnest
1895
42
Oscar Wilde's tour of America
1882
43
Oscar Wilde's imprisonment
1895-1897
44
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
1898
45
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
1888
46
The Canterville Ghost
1888
47
An Ideal Husband
1895
48
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1891
49
George Bernard Shaw moved to London
1876
50
Bernard Shaw Nobel Prize
1925
51
1925
52
George Bernard Shaw's Buoyant Billions
1949
53
Pleasant and Unpleasant
1898
54
Pygmalion
1912-1913
55
Heartbreak House
1913-1921
56
Back to Methuselah
1921
57
Herman Melville
1819-1891
58
Herman Melville's family business collapse
1830
59
Herman Melville's father's death
1832
60
Herman Melville left school
1834
61
Herman Melville forced to work again
1837
62
Herman Melville embarks St. Lawrence to Liverpool
1839
63
Moby Dick
1851
64
Pierre
1852
65
Billy Budd
1924
66
Herman Melville moves to NYC
1863
67
Typee
1846
68
The Confidence-Man
1857
69
Battle-Pieces
1866
70
Aspects of the War
1866
71
Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1849
72
Edgar Allan Poe joined the army
1827
73
Edgar Allan Poe's mother's death
1829
74
Edgar Allan Poe married Virginia Clemm
1836
75
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
1840
76
Virginia Clemm Tuberculosis
1842
77
The Masque of the Red Death
1842
78
The Raven
1845
79
Virginia Clemm's death
1847
80
Walt Whitman
1819-1892
81
Walt Whitman edits the New Orlean Crescent
1848
82
Leaves of Grass
1855
83
Walt Whitman moves to Camden to care for his dying mother
1870s
84
Leaves of Grass gives Walt Whitman enough money to buy a house
1882
85
Good-Bye, My Fancy
1891
86
Homestead Act
1862
87
William Dean Howells edits the Atlantic
1871
88
William Dean Howells edits Harper's Monthly
1886
89
Mark Twain
1835-1910
90
Mark Twain moves to California
1864
91
The Innocents Abroad
1869
92
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1876
93
Life On The Mississippi
1883
94
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1884
95
Henry James
1843-1916
96
Henry James works as contributor for the Atlantic Monthly and the Nation
1866-1869, 1871-1872
97
Watch and Ward
1871
98
Roderick Hudson
1875
99
Henry James' Letters
1920
100
Henry James' Notes on Novelists
1914
101
Henry James' The Art of Fiction
1884
102
Henry James' The Notebooks of Henry James
1947
103
Hugh MacDiarmid
1892-1978
104
Philip Larkin
1922-1985
105
Ted Hughes
1930-1999
106
Tony Harrison
1937-
107
Seamus Heany
1939-2013
108
Bertolt Brecht
1898-1956
109
Samuel Becket
1906-1989
110
John James Osborne
1929-1994
111
Harold Pinter
1930-2008
112
Tom Stoppard
1937-
113
William Gerald Golding
1911-1993
114
Graham Greene
1904-1991
115
George Orwell
1903-1950
116
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
1892-1973
117
Roal Dahl
1916-1990
