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Chronology of the Victorian Period
1819 Victoria, the future Queen of England, born.
1830 Lyell, Principles of Geology. Bulwer Lytton's Paul Clifford.
1831 Disraeli's The Young Duke.
1832 The Reform Bill. Bulwer Lytton's Eugene Aram.
1833 The Oxford Movement. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus. Newman's Tract of the Times.
1834 Ainsworth's Rookwood.
1835 Browning' Paracelsus.
1836 Dickens's Pickwick Papers.
1837 Accession of Queen Victoria. Carlyle's The French Revolution.
1838 The Chartist Movement. Anti-Corn Law League founded.
1839 Thackeray's Catherine. Martineau's Deerbrook.
1840 Shelley's A Defence of Poetry. Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert.
1841 Macaulay's Warren Hastings.
1842 Dickens's American Notes.
1843 Carlyle's Past and Present. Mill's System of Logic.
1844 Chambers' Vestiges of Creation.
1845 Disraeli's Sybil. Engels' The Condition of the Working Class in England. Famine in Ireland.
1846 Repeal of the Corn Laws. George Eliot's Translation of Strauss's Das Leben Jesu.
1847 Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Tennyson's Princess. Marx and Engels' The Communist Manifesto.
1848 Gaskell's Mary Barton. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded.
1849 Dickens's David Copperfield. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture.
1850 Kingsley's Alton Locke. Tennyson, In Memoriam. Tennyson becomes Poet Laureate.
1851 Gaskell's Cranford. Great Exhibition.
1852 Dickens's Bleak House. Newman's The Idea of a University.
1853 Charlotte Bronte's Villette.
1854 Gaskell's North and South. The Crimean War.
1855 Livingstone discovers Victoria Falls.
1856 Charles Reade's It is Never Too Late to Mend.
1857 The Indian Mutiny. George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life.
1858 MacDonald's Fantastes. Queen Victoria proclaims permanent British rule in India.
1859 Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. Darwin's Origin of Species.
1860 Dickens's Great Expectations. Essays and Reviews. Ruskin's Unto the Last.
1861 Ellen Wood's East Lynne. Mill's Utilitarianism. Prince Albert dies.
1862 Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret. Colenso's A Critical Examination of the Pentateuch.
1863 Margaret Oliphant's The Rector. Huxley's Man's Place in Nature.
1864 Le Fanu's Uncle Silas. Spencer's Principles of Biology.
1865 Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Arnold's Essays in Criticism.
1866 Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset. Margaret Oliphant's Miss Marjoribanks.
1867 Marx's Das Kapital. Ouida's Under Two Flags. The Second Reform Bill.
1868 Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone. Browning's The Ring and the Book.
1869 Blackmore's Lorna Doone. Arnold's Culture and Anarchy. Suez Canal opened. Girton College, Cambridge, admits women.
1870 Dickens dies. Hardy's Desperate Remedies. Forster's Education Act.
1871 Darwin's Descent of Man. George Eliot's Middlemarch. Trade Unions legalized.
1872 Butler's Erewhon. Forster's Life of Dickens.
1873 Pater's Studies in the Renaissance. Wilkie Collins's The New Magdalen.
1874 Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd. Disraeli becomes Prime Minister.
1875 Trollope's The Prime Minister. Hopkins's The Wreck of the Deutschland.
1876 George Eliot's Daniel Deronda. Telephone invented.
1877 Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India.
1878 Hardy's Return of the Native.
1879 Meredith's The Egoist. Electric bulb invented.
1880 Huxley's Science and Culture. Gissing's Workers in the Dawn. Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady.
1881 Stevenson's Treasure Island.
1882 Arnold's Literature and Science.
1883 Trollope's Autobiography.
1884 The Third Reform Bill. Humphry Ward's Miss Bretherton.
1885 Richard Burton's Arabian Nights.
1886 Haggard's King Solomon's Mines.
1887 Mark Rutherford's The Revolution in Tanner's Lane.
1888 Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills. Arnold's Essays in Criticism.
1889 Gissing's The Nether World.
1891 Morris's News From Nowhere. Hardy's Tess of the D’Urbervilles.
1892 Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
1893 Shaw's Mrs Warren’s Profession.
1894 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
1895 Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Hardy's Jude the Obscure.
1896 Carroll's Symbolic Logic. William Morris dies.
1897 Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus.'
1898 Shaw's Arms and the Man.
1899 The Boer War.
1900 Humphry Ward's Eleanor.
1901 Kipling's Kim. Queen Victoria dies. Edwardian period begins.
1902 Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
1907 John Millington Synge's Playboy of the Western World.
1912 Arnold Bennett's The Matador of the Five Towns.
1913 D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. Chesterton's The Victorian Age in Literature.
1914 First World War.Essential Readings:
Altick, Richard D. Victorian People and Ideas: A Comparison For the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature. New York: Norton. xii+338p bibl illus. 1973.
Brantlinger, Patrick, & Thesing, William B, ed . A Companion to the Victorian Novel. Oxford: Blackwell. xii+513p bibl index. 2002.
Houghton, Walter Edwards . The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870. New Haven: Yale UP for Wellesley College; London: Oxford UP. xvii+467p. 1957.Essential Resources:
Professor Patrick Leary's Victoria Research WebProfessor Sally Mitchell's Doing Research in Victorian Fiction:
Historical, Critical and Reference Sources
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1805 February 4, William Harrison Ainsworth born in Manchester, England.
1817 To Manchester Free Grammar School.
1821 The Rivals: A Serio-Comic Tragedy, published.
1826 October 11, marries Anne Frances Ebers.
1834 Rookwood: A Romance published.
1835 Separated from wife.
1836 Meets Charles Dickens.
1837 Crichton published.
1838 Match 6, wife dies.
1839 Jack Sheppard published. Becomes editor of Bentley's Miscellany.
1840 The Tower of London published.
1841 Guy Fawkes and Old Saint Paul's published. December, resigns from Bentley's Miscellany.
1842 Begins Ainsworth's Magazine, February. The Miser's Daughter published.
1843 Windsor Castle: An Historical Romance published.
1845 Purchases The New Monthly Magazine.
1848 James the Second published.
1849 The Lancashire Witches published.
1854 The Star-Chamber and The Flitch of Bacon published. Purchases Bentley's Miscellany.
1857 The Spendthrift published.
1858 Mervyn Clitheroe published.
1859 The Combat of the Thirty published.
1860 Ovingdean Grange: A Tale of the South Downs published.
1861 The Constable of the Tower published.
1862 The Lord Mayor of London published.
1863 Cardinal Pole published.
1864 John Law published.
1865 The Spanish Match and Auriol published.
1866 The Constable de Bourbon published.
1867 Old Court published.
1868 Myddleton Pomfret published.
1870 Hilary St. Ives published.
1871 Tower Hill: An Historical Romance,The South-Sea Bubble, and Talbot Harland: A Tale of the Days of Charles the Second published.
1872 Boscobel published.
1873 The Good Old Times published.
1874 Merry England published.
1875 The Goldsmiths Wife and Preston Fight published.
1876 The Leaguer of Lathom and Chetwynd Calverley published.
1877 The Full of Somerset published.
1878 Beatrice Tyldesley published.
1879 Beau Nash published.
1881 Stanley Brereton published. Honored at a banquet in the Manchester Town Hall, September 15.
1882 January 3, dies.Essential Readings:
Buckley, Matthew. "Sensations of Celebrity: 'Jack Sheppard' and the Mass Audience." Victorian Studies. (44/3/Spr) 423-463. 2002.
Ligocki, Llewellyn. "Ainsworth's Tudor Novels: History as Theme." Studies in the Novel. (4) 364-377. 1972.
Sanders, Andrew. The Victorian Historical Novel, 1840-1880. London: Macmillan/ New York: St Martin's P. xi+264p index. 1978.Recommended edition:
Ainsworth, William Harrison. John, Juliet, intro.
Cult Criminals: Newgate Novels, 1830-1847. 6 Vols. London: Routledge 2000. Facsimile of original editions of novels.Ainsworth, William Harrison. Jack Sheppard (1839). Edward Jacobs, Edwards & Mourao, Manuela. Broadview Editions. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press. 480p. 2007.
Recommended biography:
Carver, Stephen James. The Life and Works of the Lancashire Novelist: William Harrison Ainsworth, 1805-1882. Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen. 468p bibl index. 2003.
Manuscripts
Berg Coll MSS Guide to the William Harrison Ainsworth collection of papers,1836-1889 The New York Public Library, New York
The manuscripts of poems and portions and drafts of novels, pictorial works including drawings by George Cruikshank for Ainsworth's novels, letters, dating from 1836 to 1889, to Richard Harris Barham, George Cruikshank, his cousin Dr. James Bower Harrison, William Charles Mark Kent, and others, letters relating to the author, dating from 1839 to 1841, between Richard Harris Barham and Richard Bentley.
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1825 April 24, Robert Michael Ballantyne born at Edinburgh, Scotland.
1841 Clerk at Hudson Bay Company, Canada
1846 At Seven Islands, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada
1848 Returns to Edinburgh.
1848 The Hudson Bay Company published.
1854 Meets William Nelson
1856 The Young Fur Traders; or Snowflakes and Sunbeams published.
1857 The Coral Island published.
1858 Ungava published.
1858 Martin Rattler; Adventures of a Boy in the Forests of Brazil published.
1860 The Dog Crusoe and His Master; a Story of the Western Prairies published.
1860 The World of Ice published.
1861 The Gorilla Hunters published.
1861 The Golden Dream; A Tale of the Diggings published.
1863 The Wild Man of the West; a Tale of the Rocky Mountains published.
1863 Man on the Ocean published.
1865 The Lighthouse; the Bell Rock published.
1868 Deep Down; a Tale of the Cornish Mines published.
1868 Shifting Winds; A Tough Yarn published.
1869 Hunting the Lions; the Land of the Negro published.
1869 Erling the Bold; A Tale of the Norse Sea Kings published.
1872 The Norsemen in the West; or America Before Columbus published.
1872 The Pioneers; a Tale of the Western Wilderness published.
1873 Black Ivory; Adventure Among the Slavers of E.Africa published.
1874 The Pirate City; An Algerine Tale published.
1877 The Settler and the Savage; Peace & War in S.Africa published.
1879 Six Months at the Cape; Letters to Periwinkle from South Africa published.
1882 The Giant of the North; or, Pokings Round the Pole published.
1883 The Madman and the Pirate published.
1886 The Prairie Chief published.
1891 The Buffalo Runners; a Tale of the Red River Plains published.
1893 An Author’s Adventures; or, Personal Reminiscences published.
1894 February 8, dies in Rome.
1895 Wrecked but not Ruined published.Essential Reading:
Brantlinger, Patrick. Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914. Ithaca, NY, & London: Cornell UP. xii+309p. 1988.
Recommended biography:
Quayle, Eric . Ballantyne the Brave: A Victorian Writer and His Family. London: Hart-Davis. 316p. 1967.
Manuscripts:
Manuscripts of letters, faded photographs, notebooks, manuscripts of books and drawings are held by Ballantyne's daughter, Miss Isobel Ballantyne, in a family archive in Kent, England.
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1872 May 24, Max Beerbohm born in London, England.
1881 Attends Orme Square School in London.
1885 Attends Charter House school in Surrey.
1890 To Merton College, Oxford.
1893 Infatuation with Cissy Loftus, daughter of an actrees. Becomes friend of Oscar Wilde.
1894 The Happy Hypocrite published.
1896 Works of Beerbohm and Caricatures of Twenty-Five Gentlemen published.
1898 Succeeds George Bernard Shaw as drama critic for the Saturday Review.
1899 More, a collection of essays. published. Settles in Rappalo, Italy.
1904 The Poets Corner published.
1910 Marries Florence Kahn, an American actress.
1911 Zuleika Dobson published.
1912 A Christmas Garland published.
1919 Seven Men published.
1920 And Even Now published.
1922 Rossetti and His Circle published.
1928 The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill published.
1931 Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet published.
1939 Receives knighthood.
1951 January 13, Florence dies.
1954 Lytton Strachey published.
1956 Marries Elisabeth Zungmann. May 20, dies in Rapallo, Italy.Essential Readings:
Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. London: Hamish Hamilton/ New York: Alfred A. Knopf. xiv+632p. 1987.
Riewald, J.G., ed. The Surprise of Excellence: Modern Essays on Max Beerbohm. Hamden, CT: Shoe String P. 265p. 1974.
Recommended editions:
Beerbohm, Max. The Works of Max Beerbohm. London: William Heinemann; New York: Knopf. 10 vols. 1922-1928. 1957.
Recommended biographies:
Behrman, S.N. Portrait of Max: An Intimate Memoir of Sir Max Beerbohm. New York: Random House, 1960. 317p.
Cecil, David. Max: A Biography. London: Constable. 507p. 1964.
Hall, N. John. Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life. New Haven, CT: Yale UP. xiv+284p index. 2002.
Recommended editions of letters:
Beerbohm, Max. Hart-Davis, Sir Rupert, ed. Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner. London: Hart-Davis; Philadelphia: Lippincott. 312p illus. 1964.
Beerbohm, Max. Hart-Davis, Rupert, ed. Letters of Max Beerbohm, 1892-1956. London: John Murray/ New York: W.W. Norton. 244p index illus. 1988.
Manuscripts
Manuscripts of unpublished letters, works, and drawings of Max Beerbohm are held at the British Library; Harvard University; the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library; the Ashmolean Museum and the Merton College Library, University of Oxford; the O'Connell and Taylor Collections, Princeton University Library; and the Tate Gallery, London.
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1867 May 27, Arnold Bennett born at Hanley, Staffordshire, England.
1876 Father, Arnold Bennett, becomes a solicitor.
1883 Leaves school to be trained as a solicitor in father's law office.
1885 Passes matriculation examination.
1891 Tit Bits published.
1894 Becomes Assistant Editor of Woman.
1896 Becomes Editor of Woman.
1898 The Man From the North published.
1902 The Grand Babylon Hotel and Anna of the Five Towns published.
1903 The Gates of Wrath published. Moves to Paris.
1904 A Great Man published.
1905 Sacred and Profane Love and Tales of the Five Towns published.
1906 Whom God Hath Joined and Hugo published.
1907 Marries Marguerite Soulie. The Grim Smile of the Five Towns published.
1908 Buried Alive and The Old Wives' Tale published.
1910 Clayhanger and Helen With a High Hand published.
1911 The Card and Hilda Lessways published.
1912 The Matador of the Five Towns published.
1913 The Regent published.
1914 The First World War. Appointed military representative, Thorpe Division Emergency Committee. Mother dies.
1915 Tours the battlefields of the Western Front. Writes War Scenes on the Western Front. Becomes director of New Statesman.
1916 The Lion's Share and These Twain published.
1918 Becomes Director of Propaganda, Ministry of Information. The Pretty Lady and The Roll-Call published.
1921 Separation from wife. Things That Have Interested Me published.
1922 Mr Prohack published.
1923 Riceyman Steps published.
1926 Lord Raingo published.
1928 The Strange Vanguard published.
1930 Imperial Palace published.
1931 Venus Rising from the Sea published. March 31, dies.Essential Readings:
Squillace, Robert. Modernism, Modernity, and Arnold Bennett. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. 223p. 1997.
Hepburn, James Gordon The Art of Arnold Bennett. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP. 247p bibl. 1963.
Recommended editions:
Penguin editions of the novels.
Recommended biographies:
Drabble, Margaret. Arnold Bennett: A Biography. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. xii+397p bibl index illus. 1974.
Pound, Reginald. Arnold Bennett: A Biography. New York: Harcourt. 385p. 1952.
Recommended editions of letters:
Bennett, Arnold. Letters to His Nephew. London: William Heinemann, 1936.
Bennett, Arnold. Hepburn, James Gordon, ed. Letters of Arnold Bennett. London & New York: Oxford UP. 4 vols Vol. I: Letters to J.B. Pinker. Vol. II: 1889-1915. Vol. III: 1916-1931. Vol. IV: Family Letters. index illus. 1966.
Manuscripts
A collection of Arnold Bennett documents are held at Hanley Museum in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Other papers are at London University; British Library; Manuscript Collections,
University of Texas at Austin.La Fayette Butler Collection of Arnold Bennett Publishing Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1903-1931; Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections Library, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University.
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Chronology
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1835 October 4 Mary Elizabeth Braddon born.
1839 Parents separated. Lives with mother.
1845 To a boarding school but shortly withdrawn due to poverty.
1857 Performs in Yorkshire theatres under stage name "Mary Seaton." Brother leaves for India on the eve of the Sepoy Mutiny to join the British forces.
1859 The Octoroon; or, The Lily of Louisiana the first novel published.
1860 Play, The Loves of Arcadia performed. Three Times Dead; or, The Secret of the Heath published. Meets John Maxwell, her publisher.
1861 Lady Audley's Secret serialized in a periodical, Robin Goodfellow. Serialization discontinued when Robin Goodfellow fails. Serialization completed in Sixpenny Magazine. Lives together with Maxwell.
1862 October Lady Audley's Secret published in three volumes. Aurora Floyd serialized in Temple Bar.
1863 Aurora Floyd published in three volumes.
1864 The Doctor's Wife published.
1866 Edits monthly magazine Belgravia. The Lady's Mile published. Purchases Lichfield House, Richmond.
1868 November 1, mother dies. A week later sister Maggie dies in Italy. Suffers nervous breakdown leading to puerperal fever.
1871 Recovers and publishes Fenton's Quest and The Lovels of Arden.
1873 Strangers and Pilgrims and Lucius Davoren published.
1874 October 2 marries John Maxwell's after his insane wife's death in September.
1876 Joshua Haggard's Daughter and Dead Men's Shoes published. Resigns editorship of Belgravia.
1878 Begins Christmas annual, The Mistletoe Bough.
1884 Ishmael published.
1888 The Fatal Three published.
1895 Maxwell dies.
1915 February 4 Braddon dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 79.
1916 Last novel, Mary published.Essential Readings:
Boardman, Kay, ed , Jones, Shirley, ed. Popular Victorian Women Writers. Manchester: Manchester UP. 245p bibl index. 2004.
Schroeder, Natalie & Schroeder, Ronald A. From Sensation to Society: Representations of Marriage in the Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1862-1866. Newark: University of Delaware Press and Associated University Presses. 290p. 2006.
Tromp, Marlene Anne, ed , Gilbert, Pamela K., ed & Haynie, Aeron, ed. Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context. Albany: State U of New York P. v+302p. 2000.
Recommended editions:
Editions from Oxford University Press, Sensation Press, and Hastings.
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Aurora Floyd. Nemesvari, Richard, Surridge, Lisa, ed. Peterborough, ON: Broadview P. 632p. 1998.
Recommended biography:
Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Work. Sensation P. 450p illus. 2000.
Recommended edition of letters:
Wolff, Robert Lee. Devoted Disciple: The Letters of Mary Elizabeth Braddon to Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1862-1873. Harvard Library Bulletin. (22) 5-35, 129-61. 1974.
Manuscripts
MSS of most novels, with notes and corrected proofs, unpublished diaries from 1890 to 1914, and letters, in the the Robert Lee Wolff Collection at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.
MSS of most novels and some letters in the Houghton Library at Harvard. MSS of some novels and earliest surviving diaries, from 1880 to 1888, and notebooks, at Maxwell collection held by Henry Maxwell, Braddon's grandson.**** For a complete listing of recommended and annotated Essential Readings, Editions, Biographies, Letters, and Manuscripts, search the database (keywords search) using the keywords <Braddon, Mary Elizabeth / List>. To make your search more specific, you may use keywords such as <Braddon, Mary Elizabeth - Manuscripts / List or Braddon, Mary Elizabeth - Biographies / List> ****
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1820 January 17, Anne Bronte born.
1820 April 20, Patrick, father, becomes Reverend of Haworth.
1821 September 15, Maria Bronte, mother, dies of tuberculosis.
1825 May 6, Maria, sister, dies of tuberculosis.
1825 June 15, Elizabeth, another sister, dies of tuberculosis.
1839 Employed as governess to Ingham family.
1840 May, becomes governess to Robinson family.
1842 November, Poem "To Cowper."
1843 October Poem "The Captive Dove."
1845 May, Poem "If this be all."
1846 May, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell published.
1847 October 19, Charlotte's Jane Eyre published.
1847 December, Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights published.
1848 June, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall published.
1848 September 24, Branwell, brother, dies of tuberculosis.
1848 December 19, Emily dies of tuberculosis.
1849 May 28, Anne dies of tuberculosis.
1855 March 31, Charlotte dies of tuberculosis.
1861 June 7, Rev. Patrick Bronte, father, dies.Essential Readings:
Frawley, Maria H. Anne Bronte. Boston: Twayne/Prentice Hall. 171p bibl index. 1996.
Langland, Elizabeth. Anne Bronte: The Other One. Hampshire: Macmillan. 172p. 1989.
Recommended editions:
The Clarendon editions, the Norton Critical editions, and the Penguin
editions.Bronte, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Rosengarten, Herbert, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xxxiii+486p. 1993.
For other editions, search the database using keywords <Bronte, Anne - Editions>.
See also Victorian Fiction: A Guide to Research, 219-222 and Victorian Fiction: A Second Guide to Research, 174-178.Recommended biographies:
Chitham, Edward. A Life of Anne Bronte. Oxford & Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. vii+216p illus. 1991.
Gerin, Winifred. Anne Bronte: A Biography. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield/ London: Allen Lane. 2d ed, xv+372p bibl illus. Prev ed pubd 1959. 1975.
Recommended editions of letters:
Barker, Juliet. The Brontes: A Life in Letters. New York: Viking Bks. 415p. 1997
Spark, Muriel, ed. The Bronte Letters. London: Nevill; Norman: U of Oklahoma P. 208p. 1954.
Manuscripts
The Bronte manuscripts are held at the Bronte Museum, Haworth; See, in particular, The Bronte Manuscripts: Literary Manuscripts and Correspondence of the Bronte Family from the Bronte Society Collection at Haworth Parsonage and the British Library (1992); other locations are the Brotherton Library, Leeds University; and the British Library.
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Chronology
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1816 April 21 Charlotte born.
1820 January 17 Anne Bronte born. April 20 Patrick, father, becomes Reverend of Haworth.
1821 September 15 Maria Bronte, mother, dies of tuberculosis.
1825 May 6 Maria, sister, dies of tuberculosis. June 15 Elizabeth, another sister, dies of tuberculosis.
1831 January, Charlotte enrolls at Miss Wooler's School, Roe Head.
1835 July, Charlotte becomes teacher at Roe Head School.
1837 September, Emily becomes teacher at Law Hill School.
1839 Anne employed as governess to Ingham family. December, Anne is dismissed by the Ingham family.
1840 May, Anne becomes governess to Robinson family.
1842 February, Charlotte and Emily enroll at Pensionnat Heger, Brussels.
1843 January, to Brussels to teach at Pensionnat Heger.
1845 June, Anne resigns as governess to Robinson family.
1846 May, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell published.
1847 October 19, Jane Eyre published. December, Emily's Wuthering Heights and Anne's Agnes Grey published.
1848 June, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall published. September 24, Branwell, brother, dies of tuberculosis. December 19, Emily dies of tuberculosis.
1849 May 28, Anne dies of tuberculosis. October, Shirley published.
1853 January, Villette published.
1854 June 29, Charlotte marries Arthur Bell Nicholls.
1855 March 31, Charlotte dies of tuberculosis.
1857 March, Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte published; June, The Professor published.
1861 June 7 Rev. Patrick Bronte, father, dies.Essential Readings:
Boumelha, Penny. Charlotte Bronte. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf. 152p bibl index. 1990.
Gerin, Winifred. Charlotte Bronte: The Evolution of Genius. Oxford: Clarendon P. xvi+617p bibl. 1968.
Hoeveler, Diane Long & Jadwin, Lisa. Charlotte Brontë. New York: Twayne; London: Prentice Hall. xii, 189p. 1997.
Meyer, Susan L. "Colonialism and the Figurative Strategy of Jane Eyre." Victorian Studies [Refereed]. (33/2) 247-268. 1990.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism." Critical Inquiry. (12) 243-261. 1985.
Recommended editions:
The Clarendon editions, the Norton Critical editions, and the Penguin editions.
Bronte, Charlotte. An Edition of the Early Writings of Charlotte Bronte. Alexander, Christine, ed. Oxford:Shakespeare Head Press by Basil Blackwell. Vol.1, The Glass Town Saga 1826-1832. xxiv+383p. 1986. vol. 2, The rise of Angria 1833-1835: part 1, 1833-1834; part 2, 1834-1835. 1992.Bronte, Charlotte & Bronte, Emily. The Belgian Essays: A Critical Edition. Lenoff, Sue, ed & trans. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 560p.
For other editions, search the database using keywords <Bronte, Anne - Editions>.
See also Victorian Fiction: A Guide to Research, 219-222 and Victorian Fiction: A Second Guide
to Research, 174-178.Recommended biographies:
Barker, Juliet. The Brontes. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1994.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Life of Charlotte Bronte. Easson, Angus, ed. Oxford & New York: Oxford UP. xxxvi+587p. 1996.
Gordon, Lyndall. Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life. London: Chatto & Windus. xi+403p. 1994.
Recommended editions of letters:
Barker, Juliet. The Brontes: A Life in Letters. New York: Viking Bks. 415p. 1997.
Bronte, Charlotte. The Letters of Charlotte Bronte: With a Selection of Letters by Family and Friends. Smith, Margaret, ed. Volume I: 1829-1847. xviii+627p index illus. 1995. Vol. II: 1848-1851. 782p index. 2000. Vol. III: 1852-1855. Oxford: Oxford UP. 396p index. 2004. Oxford: Oxford UP.
Manuscripts
The Bronte manuscripts are held at the Bronte Museum, Haworth; See, in particular, The Bronte Manuscripts: Literary Manuscripts and Correspondence of the Bronte Family from the Bronte Society Collection at Haworth Parsonage and the British Library (1992); other locations are the Brotherton Library, Leeds University; and the British Library.
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Charlotte Brontë on the Web
Professor Mitsuharu Matsuoka's
The Bronte Sisters Web
Nagoya University, JapanCecelia Falk's
The Bronte Sisters SitePeter Friesen's
Bronte Texts, Sources, and CriticismEagle Intermedia's
Bronte CountryThe Bronte Parsonage Museum and Bronte Society
The Bronte Beach Heritage Society
Charlotte Bronte Page
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National University of Singapore
Chronology
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1818 July 30, Emily born.
1820 January 17 Anne born. April 20 Patrick, father, becomes Reverend of Haworth.
1821 September 15 Maria Bronte, mother, dies of tuberculosis.
1825 May 6 Maria, sister, dies of tuberculosis. June 15 Elizabeth, another sister, dies of tuberculosis.
1835 July, Charlotte becomes teacher at Roe Head School.
1837 September, becomes teacher at Law Hill School.
1839 Anne employed as governess to Ingham family. December, Anne is dismissed by the Ingham family.
1840 May, Anne becomes governess to Robinson family.
1842 February, Charlotte and Emily enroll at Pensionnat Heger, Brussels.
1845 June, Anne resigns as governess to Robinson family.
1846 May, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell published.
1847 October 19, Charlotte's Jane Eyre published. December, Wuthering Heights and Anne's Agnes Grey published.
1848 June, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall published. September 24, Branwell, brother, dies of tuberculosis. December 19, Emily dies of tuberculosis.
1849 May 28, Anne dies of tuberculosis.
1855 March 31, Charlotte dies of tuberculosis.
1861 June 7 Rev. Patrick Bronte, father, dies.Essential Readings:
Chitham, Edward. The Birth of Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte at Work. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's P. viii+218p bibl index. 1998.
Davies, Stevie. Emily Bronte: Heretic. London: The Women's P. xiii+274p. 1994.
Pykett, Lyn. Emily Bronte. Savage, MD: Barnes & Noble. vii+147p. 1989.
Vine, Steve. Emily Bronte. New York: Twayne. vii+178p. 1998
Recommended editions:
The Clarendon editions, the Norton Critical editions, and the Penguin editions.
Bronte, Charlotte & Bronte, Emily. The Belgian Essays: A Critical Edition. Lenoff, Sue, ed & trans. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 560p.
For other editions, search the database using keywords <Bronte, Anne - Editions>.
See also Victorian Fiction: A Guide to Research, 219-222 and Victorian Fiction: A Second Guide to Research, 174-178.Recommended biographies:
Barker, Juliet. The Brontes. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1994.
Chitham, Edward. A Life of Emily Bronte. Oxford & New York: Basil Blackwell. viii+284p bibl index illus map. 1993.
Recommended editions of letters:
Barker, Juliet. The Brontes: A Life in Letters. New York: Viking Bks. 415p. 1997
Spark, Muriel, ed. The Bronte Letters. London: Nevill; Norman: U of Oklahoma P. 208p. 1954.
Manuscripts
The Bronte manuscripts are held at the Bronte Museum, Haworth; See, in particular, The Bronte Manuscripts: Literary Manuscripts and Correspondence of the Bronte Family from the Bronte Society Collection at Haworth Parsonage and the British Library (1992); other locations are the Brotherton Library, Leeds University; and the British Library.
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Professor Mitsuharu Matsuoka's
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Nagoya University, JapanCecelia Falk's
The Bronte Sisters SiteMichael E. Grost's
Brief Informatin Page on Emily Jane BronteEagle Intermedia's
Bronte CountryThe Bronte Parsonage Museum and Bronte Society
The Bronte Beach Heritage Society
Emily Bronte Page
Victorian Web
National University of Singapore
Chronology
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1803 May 25, Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton born.
1822 Fellow-Commoner of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
1827 August 30, Marries Rosina Doyle Wheeler. Falkland published.
1828 Pelham and The Disowned published.
1829 Devereux published.
1830 Paul Clifford published.
1831 Becomes editor of New Monthly Magazine. Elected Member of Parliament for St Ives and Lincoln.
1832 Eugene Aram published.
1833 Godolphin published. To Italy.
1834 The Last Days of Pompeii and Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister published. Meets William C. Macready.
1835 Rienzi published.
1836 Separation from Rosina.
1837 Play The Duchesse de Ia Valliere and Ernest Maltravers published.
1838 The Lady of Lyons published. Created a baronet.
1840 Money published.
1841 Night and Morning published. Resigns from the House of Commons.
1842 Zanoni published.
1843 The Last of the Barons published.
1846 Lucretia published.
1848 Harold and King Arthur published. Daughter Emily dies.
1849 The Caxtons published.
1851 Joins Conservative Party.
1852 Returns to Parliament as a Conservative member from Hertford.
1858 What Will He Do With It? published. Becomes Secretary of State for the Colonies.
1861 A Strange Story published.
1866 Awarded peerage of Knebworth and becomes Lord Lytton.
1871 The Coming Race published.
1873 Kenelm Chillingly published. 18 January, dies at Torquay.
Essential Reading:
Mitchell, Leslie. Bulwer-Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters. London: Hambledon. xxi+292p. 2003.
Recommended editions:
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. Falkland. Van Thal, Herbert, ed; Honan, Park, intro. London: Cassell. xviii+123p. 1967.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. Pelham: Or, the Adventures of a Gentleman. McGann, Jerome J., ed. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P. 447p. 1972.Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. The last days of Pompeii. Johnson, Edgar, intro; Craemer, Kurt, illus. London : Sidgwick and Jackson. xxi+513p. 1979.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. The Coming Race. Seed, David, ed & intro. Wesleyan UP. 218p bibl. 2005.
See also: James, Elizabeth. "The Publication of Collected Editions of Bulwer Lytton's Novels." Publishing History. (No.3) 46-60. 1978.For Routledge editions published from 1834 to 1911, search the database using keywords <Bulwer-Lytton, Edward - Editions>.
Recommended biography:
Flower, Sibylla Jane. Bulwer-Lytton: An Illustrated Life of the First Baron Lytton 1803-1873. Aylesbury: Shire. 48p bibl illus. 1973.
Recommended editions of letters:
Usrey, Malcolm Orthell. The Letters of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton to the Editors of Blackwood's Magazine 1840-1873, in the National Library of Scotland [with] Volume II. Dissertation Abstracts International. (24 / Pt.4) 5392. Texas Technological College, (63). 1964.
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Manuscripts
The Bulwer-Lytton manuscripts of letters and works are held at the National Library of Scotland; Hertford County Records Office and Knebworth House, Hertfodshire, England; Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; and Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
Edward Bulwer Lytton on the Web
Scott Rice's
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction ContestEdward Bulwer Lytton Page
Victorian Web
National University of Singapore
Chronology
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1835 Born in Nottinghamshire, England. Son and grandson of eminent clergymen.
1854 To St John's College, Cambridge.
1858 Awarded First Class First in Classics. Settles temporarily in London.
1859 Refused to be ordained. To New Zealand; established a sheep-farm.
1863 A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
1864 Returns to England. Settles in Clifford's Inn near Fleet Street, London.
1867 Meets Eliza Savage.
1868 Exhibits paintings at the Royal Academy.
1872 Erewhon published.
1873 Mother Fanny Worsley dies.
1879 Evolution Old and New published.
1880 Unconscious Memory published.
1885 Eliza Savage dies.
1886 Father Thomas Butler dies. Applies unsuccessfully for professorship at Cambridge.
1887 Luck or Cunning as the Main Means of Organic Modification? published.
1888 Writes Handelian Narcissus: A Dramatic Cantata in collaboration with Henry Festings Jones.
1899 Shakespeare's Sonnets Reconsidered published.
1901 Erewhon Revisited published.
1902 Dies at Clifford Inn, London.
1903 The Way of All Flesh published.
1912 Notebook published.
Essential Reading:
Furbank, P.N. Samuel Butler, 1835-1902. Hamden, CT: Archon Books. 2nd ed. 124p. 1971.
Holt, Lee. Samuel Butler. Boston: Twayne Publishers. 154p. 1989
Recommended editions:
Editions published by A.C. Fifield, London and Penguin.
Recommended biographies:
Raby, Peter. Samuel Butler - A Biography. London: Hogarth Press. xi+334p. 1991.
Norrman, Ralf. Samuel Butler and the Meaning of Chiasmus. London: Macmillan & New York: St. Martin's P. ix+315p bibl index illus. 1986.
Recommended editions of letters:
Butler, Samuel. Silver, Arnold, ed. The Family Letters of Samuel Butler, 1841-1886. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP; London: Cape P. 295p illus. 1962.
Howard, Daniel F, ed. The Correspondence of Samuel Butler With His Sister May. Berkeley: U of Califonia P; Cambridge: Cambridge UP. xx+265p. 1962.
Manuscripts
Manuscripts of Samuel Butler's works are available at the Samuel Butler Collection, St John's College Library, Cambridge University, England; the Chapin Library Williamstown, Massachusetts, contains one of the world's most important Samuel Butler collections, including books, manuscripts, critical works, and memorabilia.
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The Thinking Man's MinefieldSamuel Butler Page
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Literary Heritage
Chronology
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1854 Mona Alison born in Ryde on the Isle of Wight, England.
1875 Lady Hetty published.
1877 Marries James Alexander Henryson-Caird.
1878 Joins the National Society for Women's Suffrage.
1883 Whom Nature Leadeth published.
1887 One That Wins published.
1888 Marriage published.
1889 The Wing Of Azrael published.
1890 The Emancipation of the Family published.
1891 A Romance Of The Moors published.
1892 The Yellow Drawing-Room and A Defence of the So-Called
Wild Women published.
1894 The Daughters
Of Danaus published.
1895 The Sanctuary Of Mercy and A Sentimental View Of Vivisection
published.
1897 Beyond the Pale: An Appeal on Behalf of the Victims of Vivisection
and The Morality of Marriage and Other Essays on the Status and Destiny
of Women published.
1898 The Pathway Of The Gods published.
1900 The Ethics of Vivisection published.
1902 The Logicians: An Episode in Dialogue published.
1904 Joins Theosophical Society.
1906 Romantic Cities Of Provence published.
1908 Militant Tactics and Woman's Suffrage published.
1915 The Stones Of Sacrifice published.
1931 The Great Wave published.
1932 February 4, dies at Hampstead, London.
Essential Readings
Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner,
Mona Caird. Manchester: Manchester UP. 292p bibl index. 2004.
Richardson, Angelique, & Willis, Chris, ed. The New Woman in Fiction
and in Fact: Fin de Siecle Feminisms. London & New York:
Palgrave. 224p. 2000.
Recommended editions:
Full texts of some of Mona Caird's works at Victorian Women Writers Project: an Electronic Collection http://www.indiana.edu/ and University of Minnesota Library Digital Text collections. Check addresses with individual texts in the database.
Manuscripts
The National Library of Scotland has an extensive collection of Mona Caird's papers and original works.
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Breaking out of the Cage by Tracey S. Rosenberg
Women Who Did by Angelique Richardson
Chronology
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1832 January 27, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the future Lewis Carroll, born at Cheshire.
1843 Father, Charles Dodgson, becomes rector at Croft.
1844 Attends Richmond School, Yorkshire. During this time Dodgson wrote a series of magazines to entertain his family.
1846 Attends Rugby School.
1850 To Christ Church, Oxford.
1854 Graduates, Bachelor of Arts, 1st Class Honours in Mathematics, 2nd Class Honours in Classics.
1855 Becomes lecturer in Mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford.
1856 Meets the Liddell family. Meets Edmund Yates, the editor of the Comic Times. Yates calls Dodgson "Lewis Carroll" for the first time. Takes up photography and uses Alice Liddell as subject.
1857 Awarded Master of Arts degree.
1861 Ordained as deacon.
1865 July, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland published.
1867 Begins Through the Looking Glass. Travels to Europe.
1868 Father dies.
1871 Through the Looking-Glass published.
1876 The Hunting of the Snark published.
1881 Resigns Lectureship.
1882 Elected Curator of the Common Room at Christ Church.
1889 Sylvie and Bruno published.
1896 Symbolic Logic published.
1898 January 14, dies at Guildford, Surrey.
Essential Reading:
Kelly, Richard Michael. Lewis Carroll. Boston: Twayne Pub. 163p bibl index. Revised edition. 1990.
Lovett, Charles C. Alice on Stage: A History of the Early Theatrical Productions of Alice in Wonderland, Together With a Checklist of Dramatic Adaptations of Charles Dodgson's Works. New York: Meckler. 239p index. 1989.
Recommended editions:
Norton Critical editions, Broadview editions, Garland and Bodley Head editions of Carrol's works.
Recommended biographies:
Cohen, Morton. Lewis Carroll: A Biography. London: Macmillan; New York: Knopf. xi+577p index. 1995.
Thomas, Donald. Lewis Carroll: A Portrait With Background. London: John Murray. xii+404p. 1996.
Recommended editions of letters:
Cohen, Morton N., & Wakeling, Edward, ed . Lewis Carroll and His Illustrators: Collaborations and Correspondence, 1865-1898. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP. xxxvi+349p index illus. 2003.
Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson). London: T. Fisher Unwin. xx+448p illus. 1898.
Manuscripts
Lewis Carroll's manuscripts are available at the British Library, London; The Ransom Center's collection at the University of Texas at Austin; and the Brabant Lewis Carroll Manuscript Collection at the University of Toronto Library.
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Lewis Carroll Society of North America
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Lewis Carroll PagesLewis Carroll Page
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National University of SingaporeLewis Carroll Page
Courtesy of Lewis Carroll Home Page (LCSNA)Ruthann Logsdon Zaroff's
Alice in Wonderland - An Interactive Adventure
Chronology
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1874 May 29, Gilbert Keith Chesterton born on May 29th, 1874 on Campden Hill, Kensington, London.
1900 Greybeards at Play (poetry) and The Wild Knight and Other Poems published.
1901 June 18, marries Frances Blogg. The Defendant published.
1902 Given weekly column in London's Daily News. Thomas Carlyle published with J. E. H. Williams and Twelve Types.
1903 Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Tennyson, Thackeray with L. Melville, Leo Tolstoy (1903) with G. H. Perris and Edward Garnett published.
1904 The Napoleon of Notting Hill published.
1905 Starts weekly column to The Illustrated London News. The Club of Queer Trades and Heretics published.
1908 The Man Who Was Thursday, Orthodoxy, and All Things Considered published.
1909 George Bernard Shaw and The Ball and the Cross published.
1910 What's Wrong with the World published.
1911 Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens, The Ballad Of The White Horse (poetry), Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton, and The Innocence Of Father Brown published.
1912 Manalive published.
1913 Magic (play) and The Victorian Age in Literature published.
1914 The Flying Inn, The Wisdom Of Father Brown, Trial of John Jasper, Lay Precentor of Cloisterham Cathedral in the County of Kent, for the Murder of Edwin Drood, and The Barbarism of Berlin published.
1916 Brother Cecil enlists in war. Takes over brother's weekly paper, The New Witness.
1922 Eugenics and Other Evils published. July 30, converts from the Anglican Church to the Roman Catholic Church.
1936 Autobiography published. June 14, dies in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England.Essential Reading:
Coates, John D. G.K. Chesterton as Controversialist, Essayist, Novelist, and Critic. Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen. 200p bibl index. 2002.
Recommended editions:
Penguin editions of Chesterton's novels.
Recommended biographies:
Barker, Dudley. G.K. Chesterton: A Biography. London: Constable. 304p bibl index illus. 1973.
Coren, Michael. Gilbert: The Man Who Was G.K. Chesterton. London: Jonathan Cape/ New York: Paragon P. x+304p bibl index illus. 1990.
Pearce, Joseph. Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton. San Francisco: Ignatius P. xiv+522p. 1996.Recommended editions of letters:
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. Chesterton 1874-1974: Letters, Drawings, Manuscripts, First Editions: A Centenary Exhibition. Chatham, England: W&J Mackay, 1974.
Manuscripts
The largest collection of Chesterton manuscripts are held at the British Library; University of Notre Dame Archives Notre Dame, Indiana holds Bound typewritten manuscript; and Berg Collection of MSS Chesterton Guide to the Gilbert Keith Chesterton collection of papers at the The New York Public Library, New York.
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Chronology
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1824 January 8, Wilkie Collins born at St. Marylebone, London.
1835 To school at Maida Hill Academy.
1838 Attends Mr Cole’s private boarding school in Highbury.
1841 Apprenticed to Antrobus & Co., tea merchants.
1843 August, The Last Stage Coachman published in the Illuminated Magazine.
1844 Travels to Paris with Charles Ward.
1846 Enters Lincoln's Inn as a law student.
1847 February, father, William Collins, dies.
1848 November, The Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R. A. published.
1849 Exhibit of painting, The Smugglers’ Retreat, at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
1850 Antonina; or the Fall of Rome published.
1851 January, Rambles Beyond Railways published. March, meets Charles Dickens. May, acts with him in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Not So Bad As We Seem.
1852 January, Mr. Wray's Cash Box; or, The Mask and the Mystery published. April, A Terribly Strange Bed published in Household Words. May, tours with Dickens’s company of amateur actors. November, Basil published.
1853 Tours Switzerland and Italy with Dickens and Augustus Egg.
1854 Hide and Seek published.
1855 June, play, The Lighthouse, performed by Dickens’s theatrical company at Tavistock House.
1856 After Dark published. November, becomes editor of Household Words. December, The Wreck of the Golden Mary, published in collaboration with Dickens.
1857 The Dead Secret, published. January, The Frozen Deep performed by Dickens’s theatrical company at Tavistock House. August, The Lighthouse performed at the Olympic Theatre.
1858 October, The Red Vial performed at the Olympic Theatre. In collaboration with Dickens, publishes A House To Let for the Christmas number of Household Words.
1859 Lives with Caroline Graves and her daughter Harriet.
1860 November, serialization of The Woman in White in All the Year Round.
1862 No Name published.
1863 My Miscellanies published. Resigns as editor of All the Year Round.
1866 Armadale published.
1867 December, in collaboration with Dickens, No Thoroughfare, published in All the Year Round.
1868 The Moonstone published. Mother, Harriet Collins, dies. Caroline Graves marries Joseph Charles Clow, while Collins starts living with Martha Rudd. Three children born from this union.
1869 March, Black and White produced at Adelphi Theatre.
1870 Man and Wife published. Caroline Graves comes back. Collins maintains two families.
1872 Poor Miss Finch published.
1874 The Frozen Deep and Other Tales published.
1875 The Law and the Lady published.
1876 The Two Destinies published.
1877 September, The Moonstone performed at the Olympic Theatre.
1879 The Haunted Hotel, a Mystery of Modern Venice published.
1880 Jezebel's Daughter published.
1881 The Black Robe published.
1883 Heart and Science published.
1884 I Say No published.
1886 The Evil Genius and The Guilty River published.
1887 Little Novels published.
1889 The Legacy of Cain published. September 23, Wilkie Collins dies at 82 Wimpole Street.
1890 Blind Love, completed by Walter Besant, published. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices and Other Stories, written in collaboration with Dickens, published.
Essential Reading:
Gasson, Andrew. Wilkie Collins: An Illustrated Guide. Peters, Catherine, ed. Oxford: Oxford UP. xvii+189p. 1997.
Bachman, Maria K. and Don Richard Cox, eds. Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P. xxviii, 386 p. bibl index. 2003.
Recommended editions:
AMS edition of The Works of Wilkie Collins (30 Volumes), 1970. Penguin, Oxford University Press, and Broadview Press editions of Collins's works.
Recommended biographies:
Clarke, William M. The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins. London: Allison & Busby. xiii+239p illus. 1988. Revised 1996.
Peters, Catherine. The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins. Princeton: Princeton UP. xii+502p. bibl index. 1993.
Recommended editions of letters:
Collins, Wilkie. The Letters of Wilkie Collins. Baker, William & Clarke, William M., ed. Vol. I: 1838-1865; Vol. II: 1866-1889. New York: St. Martin's P. xli+xiii+616p. 1999.
Collins, Wilkie. The Public Face of Wilkie Collins: The Collected Letters. Baker, William, et al, eds. London: Pickering & Chatto. 4 vols index. 2005.
Manuscripts
Manuscripts of Wilkie Collins's works can be found at the British Library; the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; Harvard College Library; the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library; Princeton University Library; University of California, Los Angeles; and Huntington Library, California.
See also "Manuscripts of Wilkie Collins," Princeton University Library Chronicle. (17) 85. 1957.
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The Moonstone and British India
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National University of SingaporeDavid R. Grigg's
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Paul LewisAndrew Gasson's
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Chronology
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1857 December 3, Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski born.
1862 May 8, father Apollo Korzeniowski exiled to Russia, accompanied by wife and son.
1865 June 6, Conrad's mother, Evelina (Ewa) Bobrowska, dies. Conrad in care of maternal uncle, Tadeusz Bobrowski.
1869 February, Apollo Korzeniowski and Conrad return to Cracow. May 23, Apollo dies.
1874 October 14, leaves Cracow for Marseilles. Becomes apprentice seaman.
1876 July to February 1877 to West Indies on schooner.
1878 March, attempts suicide. April, joins a British ship, Mavis. June 18 to Lowestoft, England.
1883 July 4, passes mate's examination. Mate on the Riversdale.
1884 Sails from Bombay to Dunkirk as second mate on the Narcissus.
1886 Becomes naturalized British subject; and receives British Merchant Navy Master's certificate.
1887 Appointed first mate on Highland Forest. Involved in accident in Singapore. Sails from Singapore to Borneo on the Vidar as a second mate.
1888 Conrad's first command on the Otago. Sails to Bangkok, Sydney, and Mauritius.
1889 Resigns as captain of Otago, returns to London. Begins Writing Almayer's Folly.
1890 Leaves for the Congo as captain of Roi de Belges.
1892 Meets John Galsworthy.
1894 January 14, ends career as seaman. January 29, Uncle Bobrowski dies.
October, Fisher Unwin accepts Almayer's Folly; meets Edward Garnett and Jessie George.
1895 Almayer's Folly published.
1896 Match 24, marries Jessie George. Outcast of the Islands published. Meets H. G. Wells. Begins writing The Rescue.
1897 Completes The Nigger of the "Narcissus"; friendship with R. B. Cunninghame Graham.
1898 Tales of Unrest published. Collaborates with Ford Madox Ford; meets Stephen Crane.
1899 February, completes Heart of Darkness. Serialization of Lord Jim in Maga.
1900 Lord Jim published.
1901 Publishes The Inheritors in collaboration with Ford.
1902 ‘Youth' and Other Stories published.
1903 ‘Typhoon' and Other Stories published. Romance published in collaboration with Ford.
1904 Jessie Conrad injured and disabled. Nostromo published.
1906 Conrad meets Arthur Marwood. Mirror of the Sea published.
1907 The Secret Agent published.
1908 A Set of Six published.
1909 Quarrel with Ford.
1910 Seriously ill.
1911 Under Western Eyes published.
1912 A Personal Record and ’Twixt Land and Sea published.
1913 Chance published.
1915 Victory published.
1917 The Shadow-Line published.
1919 The Arrow of Gold published.
1920 The Rescue published.
1921 Visits Corsica. Notes on Life and Letters published.
1923 Visits New York.
1924 May, declines knighthood. Health deteriorates, bedridden.
August 3, dies of heart attack . Buried in Canterbury.
1925 Tales of Hearsay and Suspense published.
1928 The Sisters (fragment) published.
1936 December 6, Jessie Conrad dies.
Essential Reading:
Peters, John G. The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 156p. 2006.
Watt, Ian. Essays on Conrad. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. xi+214p index. 2000.
Recommended editions:
Norton editions, Oxford University Press editions, and Penguin editions of Conrad's novels and short stories.
Recommended biographies:
Karl, Frederick R. Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives. New York: Farrar/ London: Faber & Faber. xvi+1150p index illus. 1978.
Watts, Cedric. Joseph Conrad: A Literary Life. London: Macmillan/ New York: St. Martin's P. x+156p bibl index. 1989.
Recommended editions of letters:
Conrad, Joseph. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge UP. 7 vols. 1983-2007.
Manuscripts
Manuscripts of Conrad's novels and short stories are held at the British Library, London; Columbia University Library; Beinecke Library at Yale University Libraries: Berg Collection of Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library; Harvard University Library; The University of South Carolina Library; Alderman Library, University of Virginia; The Ransom Center's collection of George Eliot materials University of Texas at Austin.
See also Gene M. Moore's A Descriptive Location Register of Joseph Conrad's Literary Manuscripts at The Joseph Conrad Society page.
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Joseph Conrad on the Web
Philip V. Allingham's
Comparing Imagery in Conrad and HardyJoseph Conrad Page
Literary HistoryJoseph Conrad Page
The Literature Network
Chronology
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1855 May, born in London. Probably the illegitimate daughter of Dr. Charles
Mackay and his mistress, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mills.
1878 Lives together with Bertha Vyver.
1886 A Romance of Two Worlds published. Immediately became the best selling author in England.
1887 Thelma published.
1889 Ardath published.
1890 Wormwood published.
1893 Barabbas published.
1895 The Sorrows of Satan published.
1896 Murder of Delicia published.
1897 Ziska published.
1898 Arthur H. Lawrence interviews Marie Corelli for The Strand.
1899 Moved to Stratford-on-Avon.
1900 The Master Christian and Boy: A Sketch published.
1902 Temporal Power and Christmas Greeting published.
1905 Free Opinions Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life & Conduct published.
1906 Mighty Atom and The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches published.
1908 Holy Orders: The Tragedy of a Quiet Life published.
1911 The Life Everlasting published.
1918 Young Diana: An Experiment of the Future published.
1921 The Secret Power published.
1924 April 21, dies, buried at the Stratford cemetery.
1925 Open Confession to a Man from a Woman published.Essential Reading:
Federico, Annette R. Idol of Suburbia: Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia. xii+201p. 2000.
Ransom, Teresa. The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestsellers. Stroud: Sutton. 247p. 1999.
Recommended biographies:
Bigland, Eileen. Marie Corelli: The Woman and the Legend: A Biography. London: Jarrolds. 274p. 1953.
Masters, Brian. Now Barabbas Was a Rotter: The Extraordinary Life of Marie Corelli. London: Hamish Hamilton. 340p bibl index. 1978.
Manuscripts
Corelli's manuscripts are scattered across many archives and collections in England and America. Significant holdings are at
the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's Record Office and the Shakespeare Institute; Berg Collection of Corelli papers at the New York Public LibraryNew York, New York; Corelli Papers at UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections.The Marie Corelli Collection of Letters at Bryn Mawr College Library holds letters to friends, editors, and others regarding her writing and social activities from 1886 to 1923.
**** For a complete listing of recommended and annotated Essential Readings, Editions, Biographies, Letters, and Manuscripts, search the database (keywords search) using the keywords <Corelli, Marie / List>. To make your search more specific, you may use keywords such as <Corelli, Marie - Manuscripts / List or Corelli, Marie - Biographies / List> ****
Marie Corelli on the Web
Marie Corelli and the Stratford-upon-Avon controversy
Literary HeritageMarie Corelli Page
Victorian Web
National University of Singapore
Chronology
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1812 February 7, Charles Dickens born at Portsmouth.
1824 John Dickens arrested for debt and sent to the Marshalsea prison. Charles employed at at Warren's Blacking Factory.
1827 Employed as Clerk in Solicitor’s Office.
1829 Becomes a reporter at Doctor’s Commons.
1830 Becomes a reading member of the British Museum.
1831 In love with Maria Beadnell. Establishes as a Parliamentary Reporter.
1833 A Dinner at Poplar Walk published.
1835 Engaged to Catherine Hogarth.
1836 Sketches by Boz published, Marries Catherine.
1837 Pickwick Papers completed. Mary Hogarth, Catherine's sister, dies.
1838 Oliver Twist published.
1839 Nicholas Nickleby published.
1840 Master Humphrey’s Clock published.
1841 The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge published.
1842 Visits America. American Notes published.
1843 A Christmas Carol published.
1844 Visits Italy. Martin Chuzzlewit published.
1845 The Cricket on the Hearth published.
1846 Pictures from Italy and The Battle of Life published.
1848 Dombey and Son and The Haunted Man published.
1850 Begins Household Words. David Copperfield published.
1851 Father, John Dickens, dies.
1853 Bleak House published. Visits Italy and Switzerland.
1854 Hard Times published.
1855 Meets Maria Beadnell (Mrs Winter).
1856 Purchases Gad’s Hill Place.
1857 Little Dorrit published. Meets Ellen Ternan.
1858 Separates from wife. Begins public readings.
1859 Tale of Two Cities published.
1861 Serialization of Great Expectations in All the Year Round.
1865 Our Mutual Friend published.
1867 Second American Public readings tours.
1870 Gives Final Farewell Reading in London. Begins Mystery of Edwin Drood. June, dies at Gad's Hill Place.Essential Reading:
Jordan, John O., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. xxi+235p bibl illus. 2001.
Sanders, Andrew. Dickens and the Spirit of the Age. Oxford: Clarendon P. 198p. 1999.
Recommended editions:
The Clarendon editions, the Norton Critical editions, the Oxford Illustrated editions, and the Penguin editions. For other editions, search the databaseusing keywords <Dickens, Charles - Editions>.See also by Ada Nisbet, "Charles Dickens" in Victorian Fiction: A Guide to Research, 53-59, and Philip Collins, "Charles Dickens" in Victorian Fiction: A Second Guide to Research, 43-49.
Recommended biographies:
Ackroyd, Peter. Dickens. New York : HarperPerennial. xvi+1195p. bibl index. 1992.
Smith, Grahame. Charles Dickens: A Literary Life. New York: St. Martin's P. xiv+190p. 1996.
Johnson, Edgar. Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2 vols. 601p index bibl illus. 1952. See also the revised and abridged edition, New York: Viking, 1977.
Kaplan, Fred. Dickens: A Biography. New York: William Morrow. 607p index illus. 1988.
Page, Norman. A Dickens Chronology. London: Macmillan. 156p. 1988.
For other biographies, search the database using keywords <Dickens, Charles - Biographies>.
See also by Ada Nisbet, "Charles Dickens" in Victorian Fiction: A Guide to Research, 59-72, &
Philip Collins, "Charles Dickens" in Victorian Fiction: A Second Guide to Research, 49-56.Recommended editions of letters:
The Pilgrim Editions of the letters of Charles Dickens.
Manuscripts
MSS of most novels, with notes and corrected proofs, at the Forster Collection, the National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (available in microforms); MSS of almost all the Christmas Books at Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; MSS of Suzannet Collections of Dickens's works at Dickens House, London; MSS of works and letters at Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; Huntington Library, California; Free Library of Philadelphia; New York Public Library; and the Dickens House, London. Also at Victoria and Albert Museum; the British Library; John Rylands Library, Manchester, UK; Botherton Library, Leeds, UK; Rosenbach Foundation Museum, Philadelphia; Boston Public Library, and Harvard University Library.
See also The Forster and Dyce Collections from the National Art Library of the Victorian and Albert Museum, London. Brighton: Harvester Microform, 1987. II, 97-124 & Rosenbaum, Barbara & White, Pamela. "Charles Dickens: 1812-1870" in Index of English Literary Manuscripts. Vol. IV. 1800-1900. London & New York: Mansell, 1982. 705-42.
For elaborate textual notes and number plans of individual novels, see Shatto, Susan, & Paroissien, David, ed. The Dickens Companions. London & Boston: Allen & Unwin & Hastings, UK: Helm Information. For volumes published, search the database using keywords <Dickens, Charles - Textual studies / List>.
For manuscript studies of Battle of Life and The Haunted Man, see Glancy, Ruth. "The Shaping of Battle of Life: Dickens' Manuscript Revisions." Dickens Studies Annual. (17) 67-89. 1988 & Glancy, Ruth. "Dickens at Work on The Haunted Man." Dickens Studies Annual. (15) 65-85. 1986.
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Charles Dickens on the Web
The Dickens Project at the University of Santa Cruz
The Dickensian
Dickens QuarterlyDickens Studies Annual
Professor Mitsuharu Matsuoka's
Dickens Pages
Nagoya University, Japan
David Purdue's
Charles Dickens Pages
Ritva Raesmaa's
Dickens Pages
The University of Helsinki
FinlandDickens Page
Victorian Web
National University of SingaporeCharles Dickens Society
Nagoya University
Chronology
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1804 December 21, born in London.
1817 To Higham Hall School in Walthamstow.
1821 Articled to a law firm.
1824 To Lincoln's Inn.
1825 Establishes The Representative newspaper with John Murray.
1826 Vivien Grey published.
1831 Decides to pursue a career in writing.
1832 Unsuccessful bid for election to parliament as an Independent Radical.
1834 Meets Lord Lyndhurst who later becomes Disraeli's patron.
1835 Joins the Tory party. Challenges Daniel O'Connell to a duel. A Vindication of the English Constitution published.
1836 Writes open letters to The Times under the pseudonym "Runnymede."
1837 Elected MP for Maidstone. December, maiden speech on Irish elections.
1839 July, debate on the Poor Law. Disraeli's sympathy with the Chartists. August, marries Mary Anne Wyndham Lewis.
1841 June, elected MP for Shrewsbury. August, Peel becomes Prime Minister.
1842 Disraeli joins the newly formed "Young England" group.
1844 Coningsby published.
1845 Sybil published.
1845 Tancred published.
1846 Repeal of the Corn Laws.
1848 Disraeli becomes Leader of the Opposition in parliament.
1853 Begins weekly newspaper, The Press.
1868 February, becomes Prime Minister.
1870 Lothair published.
1872 Mary-Anne dies.
1874 Becomes Prime Minister second time.
1876 August, last speech in the House of Commons. Joins the House of Lords as the Earl of Beaconsfield.
1877 Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India.
1881 April 19, Disraeli dies.Essential Reading:
Holloway, John. "Disraeli's 'View of Life' in the Novels." Essays in Criticism. (2) 413-433. 1952.
Levine, Richard A. Benjamin Disraeli. New York: Twayne. 183p bibl. 1968.Recommended biographies:
Hibbert, Christopher. Disraeli and His World. London: Thames & Hudson/ New York: Scribner's. 128p bibl index. 1978.
Smith, Paul. Disraeli: A Brief Life. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge UP. x+246p index. 1996.Recommended editions of letters:
Disraeli, Benjamin. Wiebe, M.G., et al. ed. Benjamin Disraeli: Letters. Toronto & London: U of Toronto P. 7 vols. 1982-2004.
Manuscripts
Microfilm copies of Disraeli’s papers, previously housed at his home at Hughenden, near Wycombe, Bucks, but now at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. This collection includes correspondence to Disraeli, political papers, manuscripts of his literary works, Monypenny’s notes for his Life of Disraeli, and Mrs Disraeli’s account books.
The Disraeli Project at Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada, is the major source of information on Disraeli's manuscripts. The project holds microfilm copies of Disraeli's letters; microfilm copies of Disraeli’s political papers, manuscripts of his literary works, Monypenny’s notes for his Life of Disraeli, and Mrs Disraeli’s account books at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
Benjamin Disraeli on the Web
Benjamin Disraeli Page
VictorianWeb
National University of SingaporeDisraeli's Page from Number 10 Downing Street
Chronology
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1859 May 22, Conan Doyle born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1868 To Jesuit boarding school in England.
1876 Attends the University of Edinburgh Medical School; meets Dr. Joseph Bell, his mentor.
1879 The Mystery of the Sasassa Valley published.
1880 Appointed ship's surgeon on the Greenland whaler Hope.
1881 Awarded Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery. Becomes shipboard medical officer on S.S. Mayumba.
1882 Establishes his own medical practice at Southsea, Portsmouth.
1883 Joins Portsmouth Literary and Scientific Society.
1884 January, J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement published in Cornhill Magazine; January, The Heiress of Glenmahowley published in Temple Bar; May, The Cabman's Story published in Cassell's Saturday Journal.
1885 January, The Man from Archangel published in London Society; August 5, marries Louise Hawkins.
1887 A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story, published.
1888 December, The Mystery of Cloomber published.
1889 Micah Clarke published.
1890 The Sign of Four published.
1891 Gives up medical practice, concentrates on writing. The White Company published.
1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes published.
1893 Father, Charles, dies. To Switzerland with Louise for treatment. Joins the British Society for Psychical Research. The Adventure of the Final Problem published.
1894 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes published. To the United States on a lecture tour.
1895 The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard published
1896 Conan Doyle and family move back to England.
1897 May, Uncle Bernac published. Meets Jean Leckie.
1898 February, The Tragedy of the Korosko published.
1899 A Duet with an Occasional Chorus published.
1900 Serves in the Boer War.
1901 The Hound of the Baskervilles serialized in The Strand magazine.
1902 The War in South Africa: Its Causes and Conduct published. Conan Doyle knighted.
1904 The Return of Sherlock Holmes published.
1905 Sir Nigel published.
1906 Louise dies. Investigates the George Edalji case.
1907 Marries Jean Leckie.
1909 Joins agitations against Belgian oppression in the Congo. writes The Crime of the Congo.
1910 September, The Marriage of the Brigadier published.
1911 Involved in Irish Home Rule under the influence of Sir Roger Casement.
1912 The Lost World published.
1913 The Poison Belt published.
1914 Visits the United States.
1915 The Valley of Fear published.
1918 The New Revelation published. Proclaiming Spiritualism. Danger! and Other Stories published.
1922 The Coming of the Fairies published.
1925 The Land of Mist published.
1926 History of Spiritualism published.
1927 The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes published.
1928 The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories published.
1930 July 8, Conan Doyle dies.Essential Reading:
Orel, Harold, ed. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Interview and Recollections. Basingstoke & London: Macmillan. xvii+278p. 1991.
Recommended editions:
Oxford Sherlock Holmes edited by Owen Dudley Edwards (1993) and Sherlock Holmes: The Major Short Stories with Contemporary Critical Essays edited by John A. Hodgson (1994).
Recommended biographies:
Edwards, Owen Dudley. The Quest for Sherlock Holmes: A Biographical Study of Arthur Conan Doyle. Edinburgh: Mainstream/ Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble. 380p index illus. 1982.
Lellenberg, Jon J., ed. The Quest for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Thirteen Biographers in Search of a Life. Carbondale & Edwardsville: Southern Illinois UP. 236p. 1987.
Recommended edition of letters:
Doyle, Arthur Conan. Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters. Stashower, Daniel; Lellenberg, Jon L.; & Foley, Charles, ed. Penguin Press HarperPress. 720 p. 2007.
Manuscripts
The manuscripts of Arthur Conan Doyle's works are held at the British Library, London; Berg Collection of Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library; Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia; Lilly Library, Indiana University; The Ransom Center's collection at the University of Texas at Austin; the University of California, San Diego; Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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Arthur Conan Doyle on the Web
Marsha Perry's
The Chronicles of Sir Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle Online Exbihition
Westminister LibrariesChris Redmond's
Sherlockian Homepage
Chronology
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1859 Mary Chavelita Dunne (George Egerton) born in Australia. Childhood in New Zealand.
1873 Father imprisoned at the Marshalsea; five children and pregnant wife left to themselves in Dublin.
1875 Mother, Isabel George, a Welsh woman, dies.
1887 Elopes with Henry Higginson, a married clergyman to Norway.
1888 Leaves Higginson. Settles in England.
1891 Marries George Egerton Clairmonte, a Newfoundlander. Takes his name, "George Egerton", as her pseudonym. Settles in Ireland.
1893 Keynotes published.
1894 April, “A Lost Masterpiece” in The Yellow Book, Vol. 1, 189-196 and Discords published.
1895 July, “The Captain’s Book” in The Yellow Book, Vol. 6, 103-116 published. Receives a letter from
John Lane telling her that she was “very much in
the air” in the United States.
1897 Symphonies published.1898 The Wheel of God and Fantasias published.
1899 Translates Knut Hamson's novel Hunger.
1900 Divorces Clairmonte.
1901 Marries Reginald Golding Bright. Rosa Amorosa: The Love Letters of a Woman published. Father, Captain John J. Dunne, dies.
1905 Flies in Amber published.
1925 Camilla States Her Case published.
1929 Meets John Gawsworth.
1932 A Keynote to Keynotes published.
1945 Dies in London.
1958 The Yellow Book: The Correspondence of George Egerton published.Essential Readings:
Fluhr, Nicole M. "Figuring the New Woman: Writers and Mothers in George Egerton's Early Stories." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 43.3 (Fall 2001): 243-266.
Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First-Wave Feminism. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's P. 221p index. 2000.
Richardson, Angelique, ed, Willis, Chris, ed. The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact: Fin de Siecle Feminisms. London & New York: Palgrave. 224p. 2000.
Vicinus, Martha. Introduction to Keynotes. London : Virago, 1983.
Recommended biographies:
Egerton, George. "A Keynote to Keynotes," 1932.
Stetz, Margaret Diane. “‘George Egerton’:Woman and Writer of the Eighteen-Nineties.” Dissertation, Harvard University, 1982.
Stetz, Margaret Diane. "Keynotes: A New Woman, Her Publisher, and Her Material." Studies in the Literary Imagination 20 (1997), 89-106.
Recommended edition of letters:
Egerton, George. A Leaf from The Yellow Book: The Correspondence of George Egerton. Ed. White, Terence De Vere. London: The Richards Press, 1958.
Manuscripts
George Egerton's manuscripts, biographical notes, and correspondence are held at the Manuscripts Division, Princeton University Library, Princeton, New Jersey and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
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George Egerton on the Web
www.nwe.ufl.edu/~jdouglas/litprop.pdf George Egerton, A New Woman
Chronology
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1819 November 22, Mary Ann Evans born in Warwickshire, England.
1836 Mother. Christiana Evans, dies.
1840 Poem published in the Christian Observer.
1842 Translates bits of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico Politicus.
1843 Studies Greek.
1844 Translates Strauss's Das Leben Jesu. Begins studying Hebrew.
1846 Strauss translation published.
1849 June, father, Robert Evans, dies.
1851 Reviews Mackay's Progress of the Intellect for Westminster Review; meets Herbert Spencer.
1852 January 1, becomes editor of the Westminster Review.
Friendship with George HenryLewes; begins translation of Feuerbach's Das Wesen des Christentums.
1854 June, Feuerbach translation published; July 20, leaves with Lewes for Weimar; November 3, begins translating Spinoza's Ethics.
1856 February, finishes Spinoza, begins writing The Sad Fortunes of Rev. Amos Barton.
1857 Begins Scenes of Clerical Life for Blackwood's Magazine under the pseudonym George Eliot.
1859 Adam Bede published.
1860 To Italy with Lewes. The Mill on the Floss published.
1861 Silas Marner published.
1862 July, Begins serialisation of Romala in the Cornhill Magazine.
1863 Romola published.
1864 To Italy once more. Begins studying Spanish.
1866 Felix Holt published.
1868 To Germany and Switzerland with Lewes. The Spanish Gyspy published.
1869 March, to Italy with Lewes; meets John Walter Cross in Rome.
1871 Middlemarch published.
1876 Daniel Deronda published.
1878 December 22, George Henry Lewes dies.
1879 October, John Blackwood dies.
1880 May 6, marries John Cross. December 22, George Eliot dies.Essential Readings:
Ashton, Rosemary, ed. Selected Critical Writings. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xxxvii,383p. 1992.
Hertz, Neil. George Eliot's Pulse. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP. xii+168p. 2003.
Paris, Bernard J. Rereading George Eliot: Changing Responses to Her Experiments in Life. Albany: State U of New York P. 220p bibl index. 2003.
Recommended editions:
Editions published by Clarendon, Oxford University Press, Penguin, and Norton.
Recommended biography:
Bodenheimer, Rosemary. The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction.
Ithaka: Cornell University Press. 320p. New Ed 1996.Haight, Gordon Sherman. George Eliot: A Biography. London & New York: Oxford UP. xvi+616p bibl illus. 1968.
Simcox, Edith J. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot: Edith J. Simcox's 'Autobiography of a Shirtmaker'. Fulmer, Constance M. & Barfield, Margaret E., ed. New York: Garland. xviii+293p. 1998.
Recommended editions of letters:
George Eliot: The Letters. The original letters are stored at Warwickshire County Record Office. High quality facsimiles are available for study at Nuneaton Library, Warwickshire.
Eliot, George. Haight, Gordon Sherman, ed. The George Eliot Letters 7 Vols. 1954-1955.
Manuscripts
Manuscript sources are the British Library, London; The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; Bodleian Library, Oxford; Beinecke Library at Yale University Libraries: Berg Collection of Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library; Harvard University Library; Princeton University Library; The Ransom Center's collection of George Eliot materials University of Texas at Austin; Cambridge University Library; Coventry City Library; Nuneaton Library; Warwickshire Archives.
George Eliot on the Web
Tim Watson's
Jamaica, Genealogy, George Eliot: Inheriting the Empire After Morant Bay
Columbia University
Professor Hugh Witemeyer's
George Eliot and Visual Arts
Victorian Web
University of New MexicoGeorge Eliot Page
Victorian Web
National University of SingaporeWilliam Baker's
George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies
Chronology
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1873 December 17, Ford Madox Hueffer born in Merton, Surrey, England.
1881 Attended Praetoria House, Folkestone.
1889 Father dies. Attends University College Scholl, London.
1891 The Brown Owl published.
1892 The Feather published.
1892 The Shifting of the Fire published.
1893 The Questions at the Well published under pseudonym "Fenil Haig."
1894 Elopes with Elsie Martindale.
1896 Ford Madox Brown, biography of grandfather,
1898 Introduced to Joseph Conrad by Edward Garnet.
1901 The Inheritors (in collaboration with Conrad) published.
1902 Rossetti published.
1903 Romance (in collaboration with Conrad) published.
1904 Travels on the Continent.
1905 The Benefactor and Hans Holbein published.
1906 The Fifth Queen published.
1907 Privy Seal, An English Girl, and The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood published.
1908 Becomes editor of the English Review. Lives with Volet Hunt at South Lodge. The Fifth Queen Crowned published.
1909 The "Half Moon" published.
1910 A Call and The Portrait published.
1911 Ladies Whose Bright Eyes and The Simple Life Limited published.
1912 The New Humpty-Dumpty and The Panel published.
1913 Mr. Fleight, The Young Lovell, and Henry James published.
1915 Commissioned as second lieutenant in the Welsh Regiment. Active service in France. The Good Soldier published.
1919 Changes name from Hueffer to Ford. Becomes a farmer in Sussex.
1922 Moves to Provence, France.
1923 The Marsden Case published.
1924 Becomes editor of the Transatlantic Review. Some Do Not and Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance published.
1926 Travels to the United States. A Man Could Stand Up published.
1928 The Last Post and A Little Less Than Gods published.
1929 No Enemy published.
1929 The English Novel published.
1931 When the Wicked Man and Return to Yesterday published.
1933 The Rash Act and It Was the Nightingale published.
1934 Henry for Hugh published.
1935 Provence published.
1936 Vive le Roy and Collected Poems published.
1937 Becomes Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Olivert College, Michigan. Awarded honorary degree of Doctor of Letters. Mightier Than the Sword published.
1939 June 26, dies at Deauville, France.Essential Readings:
MacShane, Frank. The Life and Work of Ford Madox Ford. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; New York: Horizon P. xx+298p. 1965.
Stang, Sondra J., ed. The Presence of Ford Madox Ford. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P. xxx+245p. 1981.
Recommended editions:
Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford, Broadview Press, and Norton Critical editions.
Recommended biographies:
Ford, Ford Madox. Memories and Impressions. New York. 1911.
Saunders, Max. Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life. New York : Oxford University Press. 2 Vols. Vol. 1: xvii+632p. Vol. 2: xiv+696p. 1996.
Recommended editions of letters:
Ludwig, Richard M, ed. Letters of Ford Madox Ford. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP. 355p. 1965.
See also MacShane, Frank. "Ford Madox Ford: Collections of His Letters, Collections of His Manuscripts, Periodical Publications by Him, His Introductions, Prefaces and Miscellaneous Contributions to Books by Others." English Literature in Transition . (4/2) 11-18. 1961.
Manuscripts
Cornell University holds the largest collection of Ford's manuscripts; holdings are also at Princeton University Library; Washington University in St. Louis; and the Manuscripts Library at Yale University.
Ford Madox Ford on the Web
Max Saunders'
Ford Madox Ford Website
Chronology
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1810 September 29, Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson born at Chelsea, London, England.the eighth child of William Stevenson and his wife, Elizabeth (nee Holland).
1811 Mother, Elizabeth, dies.
1822 To Avonbank School.
1832 August 30, marries William Gaskell, a minister at Cross Street Unitarian Chapel, Manchester.
1837 Sketches Among the Poor, a poem, published. May 1, Aunt Hannah Lumb, who brought her up, dies. .
1844 October 23, son William born.
1845 October 10, William dies.
1847 Libbie Marsh's Three Eras and The Sexton's Hero published in Howitt's Journal.
1848 Christmas Storms and Sunshine published in Howitt’s Journal. Mary Barton published.
1850 The Moorland Cottage published. The Heart of John Middleton published in Household Words. August 19, meets Charlotte Bronte.
1851 Cranford published in Household Words; Mr. Harrison's Confessions published in the Ladies Companion.
1852 The Old Nurse's Story published in Household Words.
1853 Ruth published. Meets Charlotte Bronte at Haworth. The Squire's Story published in Household Words.
1854 Serialization of North and South in Household Words.
1855 North and South published. Half a Life-time Ago published in Household Words. Lizzie Leigh and Other Stories published.
1857 The Life of Charlotte Bronte published.
1858 The Doom of the Griffiths in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, My Lady Ludlow and Right at Last in Household Words published.
1859 The Crooked Branch and Lois the Witch published in All the Year Round.
1860 Right at Last and Other Tales published.
1861 The Grey Woman published in All the Year Round. Six Weeks at Heppenheim published in Cornhill Magazine.
1863 Cousin Phillis published in Cornhill Magazine. Sylvia's Lovers and A Dark Night's Work published.
1864 French Life published in Fraser’s Magazine. Serialization of Wives and Daughters.
1865 The Grey Woman and Other Tales published. November 12, dies.
1866 Wives and Daughters published.Essential Readings:
D'Albertis, Deirdre. Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text. New York: St. Martin's P. x+230p. 1997.
Schor, Hilary M. Scheherezade in the Marketplace: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Novel. Oxford & New York: Oxford UP. viii+236p index. 1992.
Spencer, Jane. Elizabeth Gaskell. New York: St. Martin's P. viii+156p. 1993
Recommended editions:
Editions of Gaskell's novels published by Oxford, Penguin, Everyman, and e-texts in Mitsuharu Matsuoka's website.
Recommended biographies:
Chapple, John. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Early Years. Manchester: Manchester UP; New York: St. Martin's P. xviii+492p bibl index. 1997.
Uglow, Jenny. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. London: Faber & Faber, 1992; New York: Farrer Strauss Giroux, 1993. xiii+670p.
Unsworth, Anna. Elizabeth Gaskell: An Independent Woman. London: Minerva P. xi+244p. 1996.
Recommended editions of letters:
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell. Chapple, John & Pollard, Arthur, ed. New York: St. Martin's P. xxxiii+1010p. 1997.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Further Letters of Mrs Gaskell. Chapple, John & Shelstone, Alan, ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. 288p.
Manuscripts
Literary Manuscripts of Elizabeth Gaskell can be located at the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds; and Gaskell Manuscripts and Archives in the John Rylands University Library.
See also Sharps, John Geoffrey. Mrs. Gaskell's Observation and Invention: A Study of Her Non-Biographic Works. London: Linden P/Centaur P. xxxi+693p bibl index illus. 1970.
**** For a complete listing of recommended and annotated Essential Readings, Editions, Biographies, Letters, and Manuscripts, search the database (keywords search) using the keywords <Gaskell, Elizabeth / List>. To make your search more specific, you may use keywords such as <Gaskell, Elizabeth - Manuscripts / List or Gaskell, Elizabeth - Biographies / List>. ****
Elizabeth Gaskell on the Web
Professor Mitsuharu Matsuoka's
The Gaskell Web
Nagoya University, JapanProfessor Mitsuharu Matsuoka's
The Gaskell Society
Nagoya University, JapanProfessor Mitsuharu Matsuoka's
The Gaskell Society Journal
Nagoya University, JapanAlan Shelston's
Elizabeth Gaskell's ManchesterElizabeth Gaskell Page
Victorian Web
National University of Singapore
Chronology
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1857 November 22, born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England.
1870 December 28, father, Thomas Waller Gissing, dies.
1871 To Quaker boarding school at Alderley Edge, Cheshire.
1872 Highest rank in exam, wins scholarship. To Owens College, Manchester.
1874 Matriculates with high honors at University of London.
1875 Moves to Manchester, winning honors in English and Latin.
1876 Meets Marianne Helen Harrison (Nell), a young prostitute. May 31 arrested for stealing. Convicted. Expelled from Owens College. Sails to America.
1877 Becomes a teacher in a school at Waltham, Massachusetts. The Sins of the Fathers published in Chicago Tribune.
October 3, returns to Liverpool.
1878 November 22, receives £500, his share of the trust fund left by his father.
1879 January, meets Eduard Bertz, a German intellectual. October 27, marries Marianne Helen Harrison.
1880 March, Workers in the Dawn, published. Meets Frederic Harrison.
1881 Earns living by tutoring children. August moves to 15 Gower Place.
1882 Mrs. Grundy's Enemies completed but never published.
1883 Nell back to prostitution.
1884 June, The Unclassed published. Meets Mrs. Gaussen.
1886 February, Isabel Clarendon published. Demos published a month later.
1887 April, Thyrza published.
1888 February, A Life's Morning published. February 29, Nell dies.
1889 March, The Nether World published.
1890 March, The Emancipated published. September 24 meets Edith Underwood.
1891 February 25, marries Edith. April, New Grub Street published.
1892 February, Denzil Quarrier and April, Born in Exile published.
1893 April, The Odd Women published. Meets Clara Collet.
1894 October, In the Year of Jubilee published.
1895 Eve's Ransom, The Paying Guest and Sleeping Fires published.
1897 The Whirlpool published.
1898 Meets Gabrielle Marie Edith Fleury. Human Odds and Ends and Charles Dickens, A Critical Study published.
1899 Begins living with Gabrielle Fleury in France. October, The Crown of Life published.
1901 Our Friend the Charlatan and By the Ionian Sea published.
1902 Edith committed to asylum.
1903 The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft published. December 28, dies in Ispoure (Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port).
1904 Veranilda published.
1905 Will Warburton published.
1906 The House of Cobwebs published.Essential Reading:
Poole, Adrian. Gissing in Context. London: Macmillan & Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield. xi+231p bibl index. 1975.
Ryle, Martin, & Bourne Taylor, Jenny, ed . George Gissing: Voices of the Unclassed. Aldershot: Ashgate. 174p. 2005.
Recommended editions:
Harvester Press editions of Gissing's works.
Recommended biographies:
Halperin, John. Gissing: A Life in Books. Oxford & New York: Oxford UP. xvi+426p bibl illus. 1982.
Korg, Jacob. George Gissing: A Critical Biography. Seattle: U of Washington P. vii+311p illus. 1963.
Tindall, Gillian. The Born Exile: George Gissing. London: Temple Smith. 1974.Recommended editions of letters:
Gissing, George. Mattheisen, Paul F, Young, Arthur C, Coustillas, Pierre, ed. The Collected Letters of George Gissing, Volume Five: 1892-1895. Athens: Ohio UP. 9 vols. 1994-1996.
Young, Arthur C, ed. The Letters of George Gissing to Edward Bertz: 1887-1903. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP & London: Constable. xi+337p. 1961.Manuscripts
Manuscripts of Gissing's works are available at the Beinecke Library at Yale University Libraries: Berg Collection of Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library; and the Ransom Center's collection of Gissing materials at the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, University of Texas at Austin.
George Gissing on the Web
Professor Mitsuharu Matsuoka's
George Gissing in Cyberspace
The Gissing Trust
Nagoya University, JapanPeter Morton's
The George Gissing WebsiteGeorge Gissing Page
Victorian Web
National University of Singapore
Chronology
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1854 Born, Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke at Donaghadi, County Down, Ireland.
1861 Father, Edward John Bellenden Clarke dies. Moves to Yorkshire with mother.
1868 With great-aunt's bequest, enters Royal Naval School at Twickenham. Later sent to a a school in Holland Park, Kensington.
1871 Marries David Chambers McFall.
1873 Two Dear Little Feet published.
1880 Moves to Orford Barracks, Warrington, Lancashire.
1888 Ideala: A Study From Life published.
1890 Leaves surgeon husband.
1893 Adopts pseudonym Sarah Grand. The Heavenly Twins and Singularly Deluded published.
1894 Coins the phrase "New Woman." Our Manifold Nature published.
1897 The Beth Book published.
1898 McFall dies. The Modern Man and Maid published.
1899 The Tenor and the Boy published.
1901 Babs the Imposiible published.
1908 Emotional Moments published.
1912 Adnam's Orchard published.
1916 The Winged Victory published.
1922 Becomes Mayoress of Bath. Our Manifold Nature and Variety published.
1933 The Breath of Life published.
1943 May 12, Sarah Grand dies.Essential Reading:
Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester: Manchester UP. 292p bibl index. 2004.
Richardson, Angelique. Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman. Oxford: Oxford UP. 250p. 2003.Richardson, Angelique, & Willis, Chris, ed. The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact: Fin de Siecle Feminisms. London & New York: Palgrave. 224p. 2000.
Mangum, Teresa. Married, Middlebrow, and Militant: Sarah Grand and the New Woman Novel. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P. viii+298p. 1999.
Recommended editions:
William Heinemann editions of Grand's novels.
Recommended biographies:
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. London: Virago. 392p bibl illus. 1983.
Recommended editions of letters:
Heilman, Ann, & Forward, Stephanie, ed. Sex, social purity and Sarah Grand. 4 vols. Volume 2. London & New York: Routledge, 2000.
Manuscripts
Some manuscripts of Grand's letters and works are available at Bath Municipal Libraries; the British Library, London; the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; Berg Collection of Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library;
See also Kersley, Gillian . Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. London: Virago. 392p bibl illus. 1983.
Showalter, Elaine . A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing. Princeton & Guildford: Princeton UP. viii+378p bibl index. 1977.
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1856 June 22, born in Norforl, England.
1869 To Ipswitch Grammar School.
1875 To South Africa as secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer.
1876 On diplomatic mission to the Transvaal.
1880 Marries Mariana Louisa Margitson.
1881 Returns to England.
1882 Cetywayo and His White Neighbours published.
1884 Dawn and The Witch's Head published.
1885 King Solomon's Mines published.
1887 She, A Tale of Three Lions and Jess published.
1888 Mr. Meeson's Will, Colonel Quaritch, V.C. and Maiwa's Revenge published.
1889 Cleopatra and Allan's Wife published.
1890 Beatrice and The World's Desire published.
1891 Eric Brighteyes published.
1892 Nada the Lilly published.
1893 Montezuma's Daughter published.
1894 The People of the Mist published.
1895 Tries for a Parliamentary seat.
1896 The Wizard published.
1898 Doctor Therne and Swallow published.
1899 Elissa; the Doom of Zimbabwe published.
1900 Black Heart and White Heart; a Zulu Idyll published.
1901 Lysbeth published.
1903 Pearl Maiden published.
1904 Stella Fregelius and Brethren published.
1905 The Poor and the Land published.
1905 Ayesha, the Return of She published.
1906 Benita published.
1907 Fair Margaret published.
1908 The Ghost Kings and The Yellow God published.
1909 The Lady of Blossholme published.
1910 Queen Sheba's Ring and Regeneration: An account of the Social Work of the Salvation Army published.
1911 Red Eve, The Mahatma and the Hare published.
1912 Awarded knighthood. Marie published.
1913 Child of Storm published.
1914 The Wanderer's Necklace published.
1915 Allan and The Holy Flower published.
1916 The Ivory Child published.
1917 Finished published.
1918 Love Eternal and Moon of Israel published.
1919 When the World Shook published.
1920 The Ancient Allan and Smith and The Pharaohs published.
1921 She and Allan published.
1922 The Virgin of the Sun published.
1923 Wisdom's Daughter published.
1925 Queen of the Dawn published.
1925 May 14, dies.
1926 The Days of my Life: An autobiography of Sir H. Rider Haggard and Treasure of the Lake published.
1927 Allan and the Ice Gods published.
1929 Mary of Marion Isle published.
1930 Belshazzar published.
Essential Reading:
Etherington, Norman. Rider Haggard. Boston: G.K. Hall. v+138p. 1984.
Recommended edition:
Haggard, Sir Henry Rider. Etherington, Norman, ed. The Annotated She: A Critical Edition of H. Rider Haggard's Victorian Romance. Bloomington, IN: Indiana P. xliii+241p. 1990.
Recommended biographies:
Cohen, Morton Norton. Rider Haggard: His Life and Works. London: Hutchinson. 327p illus. 1960.
Haggard, Henry Rider. The Days of My Life: An Autobiography. London: Longmans, Green. 1926.
Pocock, Tom. Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire: A Biography. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. xiii+160p. 1993.
Recommended editions of letters and Diaries:
Haggard, Henry Rider, Higgins, D.S., ed. The Private Diaries of Sir H. Rider Haggard, 1914-1925. London: Cassell. xvi+299p index bibl. 1980.
De Moor, Marysa. Andrew Lang's Letters to H. Rider Haggard: The Record of a Harmonious Relationship. "Etudes Anglaises". (40/3) 313-322. 1987.
Great Britain Colonial Office . Letter to the Right Hon. Lewis Harcourt From Sir Rider Haggard Relating to His Visit to Rhodesia and Zululand. London. 18p. 1914.Manuscripts
The main archive for Henry Rider Haggard Papers is at the Columbia University Libraries, New York.
Rider Haggard on the Web
Chronology
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1840 June 2, Thomas Hardy born in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England.
1848 To Julia Martin's school in Bockhampton.
1849 To a private school in Dorchester.
1853 Studies Latin, Greek and the Classics.
1856 Articled to architect John Hicks.
1862 Moves to London to work with Arthur Blomfield.
1865 March 18, How I Built Myself a House published.
1867 Returns to Dorset and assists Hicks in church restoration.
1868 January, finishes first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, submits to both Macmillan and Chapman and Hall. Never published.
1870 March, to St. Juliot, Cornwall, starts working on the restoration of the local parish church. Meets Emma Lavinia Gifford, the rector's sister-in-law.
1871 March, Desperate Remedies published.
1872 June, Under the Greenwood Tree published.
1873 A Pair of Blue Eyes published. Devotes full-time to writing.
1874 Far From the Madding Crowd serialized and published. September 17, marries Emma Gifford. October 4, Destiny and a Blue Cloak published.
1876 The Hand of Ethelberta published.
1877 The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing published.
1878 The Return of the Native published. April 6, The Duchess of Hamptonshire published.
1879 The Distracted Preacher published.
1880 The Trumpet-Major published.
1881 A Laodicean published.
1882 Two on a Tower published.
1883 Moves to Dorchester. The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid published.
1884 The Duchess of Hamptonshire published.
1885 A Tryst at an Ancient Earthwork published.
1886 The Mayor of Casterbridge published.
1887 The Woodlanders published.
1888 Wessex Tales published.
1889 The First Countess of Wessex published.
1890 A Group of Noble Dames published.
1891 Tess of the d'Urbervilles published.
1892 Father dies.
1893 Meets Florence Henniker.
1894 Life's Little Ironies published.
1895 Jude the Obscure published.
1896 Returns to poetry after a hostile reception of Jude the Obscure.
1897 The Well-Beloved published.
1898 Wessex Poems published.
1902 The Dynasts, dramatic blank verse, published.
1910 Receives the Order of Merit.
1912 November 27, Emma dies.
1913 A Changed Man published.
1914 Satires of Circumstance published.
1914 Marries Florence Dugdale.
1928 January 11, Hardy dies.
1930 Florence publishes The Later Years of Thomas Hardy.Essential Reading:
Kramer, Dale & Marck, Nancy. Critical Essays on Thomas Hardy: The Novels. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall. 259p. 1990.
Morgan, Rosemarie. Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy. London & New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. xvii+205p. 1988.
Recommended editions:
The Wessex Edition, 24 vols. 1912-1931 London: Macmillan. Collected editions,Incorporates
revisions by Hardy; Clarendon Press, World's Classic, and Norton Critical editions of Hardy's works.The New Wessex Edition, ed. P.N. Furbank, 22 vols. 1974-1978.
Recommended biographies:
Millgate, Michael. Thomas Hardy: A Biography. Oxford & Melbourne: Oxford UP/ New York & Toronto: Random. xvi+639p index illus. 1982.
Seymour-Smith, Martin. Hardy. London: Bloomsbury. x+886p. 1993.
Recommended editions of letters:
Hardy, Thomas. Purdy, Richard Little & Millgate, Michael , ed. The collected letters of Thomas Hardy. 7 volumes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978-1988.
Hardy, Emma & Hardy, Florence. Millgate, Michael, ed. Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy. Oxford: Clarendon P. 1996 xxvi+364p.
Manuscripts
The greatest collection of Manuscripts of Hardy's books and memorabilia are held at the Dorset County Museum. Further manuscripts at the British Library, the National Library of
Scotland, University College, Dublin, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Birmingham Museum and the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle.**** For a complete listing of recommended and annotated Essential Readings, Editions, Biographies, Letters, and Manuscripts, search the database (keywords search) using the keywords <Hardy, Thomas / List>. To make your search more specific, you may use keywords such as <Hardy, Thomas - Manuscripts / List or Hardy, Thomas - Biographies / List> ****
Thomas Hardy on the Web
Thomas Hardy Page - Theme and Subject
Victorian Web
National University of SingaporeThe Thomas Hardy Association
Yale UniversityMitsuharu Matsuoka's
The Thomas Hardy Society of Japan
Nagoya UniversityThomas Hardy Photographs and Articles
Mark Simon's
Thomas Hardy Page
Chronology
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1867 November 3, Pearl Craigie (pseudonym John Oliver Hobbes), born in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
1868 Family moves to and settles in London. Father becomes a millionaire in business selling American cigarettes.
1887 Marries Reginald Walpole Craigie.
1890 Son, John Churchill Craigie, at parents' home on the Isle of Wight.
1891 Leaves husband and lives with parents. Some Emotions and a Moral published.
1892 The Sinner's Comedy published. Becomes a Roman Catholic and adopts the name Mary-Teresa.
1893 A study in Temptations published.
1894 A Bundle of Life published.
1895 Divorces husband. Settles in London. The Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wickensham and Some Good Intentions and a Blunder published.
1896 The Herb-Moon: A Fantasie published.
1897 The School for Saints published.
1898 The Ambassador: A Comedy in Four Acts (play) published. Meets William Francis Brown, a Catholic priest.
1899 A Repentance (play) published.
1900 Robert Orange published.
1901 The Serious Wooing: A Heart's History and The Wisdom of the Wise (play) published.
1902 December, visits India and attends the Queen's Delhi Durbar as a special guest of Lord Curzon. Love and the Soul Hunters and Tales About Temperaments published.
1903 Imperial India: Letters from the East published.
1904 The Vineyard and The Artist's Life published.
1905 Flute of Pan published. Lecture tour of America.
1906 August 13, dies of heart failure at age thirty-eight. The Dream and the Business published.Essential Readings:
Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York: New York UP. 313p. 1970
Harding Davis, Mildred. Air-Bird in the Water: The Life and Works of Pearl Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes). Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP; London: Associated UP. 535p. 1996.
Recommended biography:
Maison, Margaret. John Oliver Hobbes: Her Life and Work. London: Eighteen Nineties Society. 90p bibl. 1976
Recommended edition of letters:
Hobbes, John Oliver. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes Told in Her Correspondence with Numerous Friends, With a Biographical Sketch by Her Father. Richards, John Morgan, ed. London, J. Murray, 1911.
Manuscripts
Manuscripts of Hobbes' works can be found at the Berg Collection, New York Public Library, the University of Reading Pearl Craigie Collection, UK, Leeds University Library, Special Collections, UK, The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University, Butler Library, Columbia University, and the Special Collection, Penn State University Library.
**** For a complete listing of recommended and annotated Essential Readings, Editions, Biographies, Letters, and Manuscripts, search the database (keywords search) using the keywords <Hobbes, John Oliver / List>. To make your search more specific, you may use keywords such as <Hobbes, John Oliver - Manuscripts / List or Hobbes, John Oliver - Biographies / List> ****
John Oliver Hobbes on the Web
John Oliver Hobbes Memorial Scholarship in Modern English Literature
University College LondonJohn Oliver Hobbes page
Old and Sold Antiques Digest
Chronology
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1865 December 30, born in Bombay, India.
1868 To foster home in Southsea, England.
1877 To United Services College, Devon.
1880 In love with Florence Garrard.
1881 Becomes editor of school magazine. Leaves school and returns to Lahore in India. Becomes assistant editor of Civil and Military Gazette. Schoolboy Lyrics published.
1886 Becomes correspondent of the Pioneer. Departmental Ditties published.
1887 Transferred as editor to the Pioneer at Allahabad. Soldier Tales, Indian Tales, and Tales of the Opposite Sex published.
1888 Becomes editor of the Week's News. Plain Tales from the Hills published. Railway Library series of short stories published.
1889 Leaves India. Travels to Burma, Singapore, Hong Kong and Canton, Japan, and San Francisco. Meets Caroline Taylor. Finally settles down in Villiers Street, Strand, London.
1890 The Courting of Dinah Shadd and Other Stories and The City of Dreadful Night published.
1891 Life's Handicap, The Light that Failed, and Letters of Marque published. To South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
1892 Barrack-Room Ballads, Rhymed Chapter Headings and The Naulahka published. Marries Carolyn Balestier. Settles down in Brattleboro, Vermont, in the United States.
1893 Many Inventions published.
1894 The Jungle Book published.
1895 The Second Jungle Book published.
1896 The Seven Seas and Soldier Tales published.
1897 Moves to England. Captains Courageous published.
1898 An Almanac of Twelve Sports, The Day's Work and A Fleet in Being published.
1899 To South Africa. Stalky and Co. and From Sea to Sea published.
1900 The Kipling Reader published.
1901 Kim and War's Brighter Side published.
1902 Just So Stories published.
1903 The Five Nations published.
1904 Traffics and Discoveries published.
1906 Puck of Pook's Hill published.
1907 Collected Verse published. Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.
1909 Actions and Reactions published.
1910 Rewards and Fairies published.
1911 A History of England published.
1912 Collected Verse and Songs from Books published.
1916 Sea Warfare published.
1917 A Diversity of Creatures published.
1919 The Graves of the Fallen and The Years Between published.
1920 Horace Odes, Book V and Letters of Travel published.
1923 Becomes Lord Rector of St. Andrews University. The Irish Guards in the Great War and Land and Sea published.
1924 Songs for Youth published.
1926 Sea and Sussex and Debits and Credits published.
1927 Songs of the Sea published.
1928 A Book of Words published.
1929 Poems, 1886-1929 published.
1930 Thy Servant A Dog published.
1932 Limits and Renewals published.
1934 Collected Dog Stories published.
1936 January 18, dies.Essential Reading:
Dobree, Bonamy. Rudyard Kipling: Realist and Fabulist. London and New York: Oxford UP. x+244p bibl. 1967.
McBratney, John. Imperial Subjects, Imperial Space: Rudyard Kipling's Fiction of the Native-Born. Columbus: Ohio State UP. xxvii+224p bibl index. 2002.
Recommended editions:
The Sussex Edition (35 volumes, 1937-1939).
Recommended biographies:
Amis, Kingsley. Rudyard Kipling and His World. London: Thames & Hudson/ New York: Scribner's. 128p bibl index illus. 1975.
WILSON, Angus. The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Works. London: Secker & Warburg/ New York: Viking P. xiv+370p index illus. 1977.
Birkenhead, Lord Frederick Edwin Smith. Rudyard Kipling. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson/ New York: Random. xi+423p bibl index. 1978.
Carrington, Charles. Life and Works of Rudyard Kipling. London: Macmillan. Rev ed. 640p. 1978.
Recommended editions of letters:
Kipling, Rudyard. Cohen, Morton, ed. Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard: The Record of a Friendship. London: Hutchinson; Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP. xvi+196p bibl illus. 1965.
Kipling, Rudyard. Pinney, Thomas, ed. The Letters of Rudyard Kipling. 6 Vols. Iowa City: U of Iowa P. 1990-2004.
Manuscripts
Some manuscripts of Kipling's works and letters are held at Cornell University Library; the University of Sussex Special Collections; the British Library, London; and Berg Collection of Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library;
Rudyard Kipling on the Web
Rudyard Kipling page
Victorian Web
National University of Singpore
Chronology
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1819 July 12, born at Holne Vicarage near Dartmoor, Devonshire.
1837 To King's College, London.
1838 Matriculates from Magdalene College, Cambridge. Influenced by Frederick Denison Maurice's The Kingdom of Christ.
1842 Becomes curate of Eversley in Hampshire.
1844 Marries Fanny Grenfell. Becomes rector of Eversley Church.
1848 Forms the Christian Socialist movement with Frederick Denison Maurice and Thomas Hughes. Becomes Professor of English Literature and Composition, Queen's College, London.
1850 Starts contributing to Christian Socialist under the pseudonym of Parson Lot. Alton Locke was published.
1851 Yeast: A Problem published.
1852 Phaethon; or Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers published.
1853 Hypatia published.
1854 Alexandria and Her Schools published.
1855 Westward Ho! and Glaucus; or, The Wonders of the Shore published.
1856 The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children published.
1857 Two Years Ago published.
1858 Andromeda and Other Poems published.
1859 Invited to preach before Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at Buckingham Palace. Appointed chaplain to the queen.
1860 Accepts Regius Chair of Modern History at Cambridge.
1861 Appointed private tutor to the Prince of Wales.
1863 The Water-Babies published.
1864 Altercation with John Henry Newman.
1866 Hereward the Wake, "Last of the English" published.
1869 Appointed Canon of Chester; leaves on trip to the West Indies.
1870 Madam How and Lady Why published.
1871 At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies published.
1873 Prose Idylls, New and Old published. Appointed the canon of Westminster Abbey.
1874 Health and Education published. Tours the United States.
1875 January 23, dies at Eversley.Essential Reading:
Colloms, Brenda. "Charles Kingsley, Poet and Social Reformer." Rivista di Studi Vittoriani. (1/2) 23-47. 1996.
Recommended editions:
Kingsley, Charles. The Works of Charles Kingsley. 28 vols. London: Macmillan. 1880-1885.
Kingsley, Charles. The Life and Works of Charles Kingsley. 19 vols. London: Macmillan. 1901-1903.
Recommended biographies:
Chitty, Susan. The Beast and the Monk: A Life of Charles Kingsley. London: Hodder & Stoughton/ New York: Mason & Charter. 317p. 1974.
Colloms, Brenda. Charles Kingsley: The Lion of Eversley. London: Constable & New York: Barnes & Noble. 400p. 1975.
Recommended editions of letters:
Kingsley, Charles. Kingsley, Frances Eliza, ed. Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life. London: Henry S. King. 3rd. ed. 2 vols. 1877.
Martin, Robert B . Charles Kingsley. Princeton University Library Chronicle. (13) 168. 1952.
Wright, C.J. "'My Darling Baby': Charles Kingsley's Letters to His Wife." British Library Journal. (10/2) 147-157. 1984.
Manuscripts
Some Kingsley manuscripts can be located at Charles Kingsley Collection, McMaster University, Mills Memorial Library; Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University Pitts Theology Library; Emory University; Morris L. Parrish Collection, Princeton University Library; and Cornell University Library.
Charles Kingsley on the Web
The Charles Kingsley Page
The San Antonio CollegeCharles Kingsley Page
Victorian Web
National University of Singapore
Chronology
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1856 October 14, Violet Paget (Vernon Lee) born at Château St Léonard, Boulogne sur Mer, France.
1866 Meets John Singer Sargent.
1873 Family settles permanently in Italy.
1875 April 6, chooses pseudonym H.P. Vernon-Lee.
1878 Meets Annie Meyer.
1879 Meets Mary Robinson.
1883 Annie Meyer dies.
1880 Tuscan Fairy Tales, Taken from the Mouth of the People and
Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy published.
1881 Meets Walter Pater. Belcaro, being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Considerations published.
1882 Settles in Florence published.
1883 The Prince of the Hundred Soups: A Puppet-Show in Narrative published.
1883 Ottilie published.
1884 The Countess of Albany, Miss Brown and Euphorion published.
1886 Baldwin: Being Dialogues on Views and Aspirations and A Phantom Lover published.
1887 Meets Clementina Anstruther-Thomson. Juvenilia published.
1888 Moves to Villa Il Palmerino, Maiano.
1892 Vanitas: Polite Stories published.
1893 Meets George Bernard Shaw.
1893 Lectures at Cambridge.
1894 November, father dies. Althea: a Second Book of Dialogues on Aspirations and Duties published.
1895 Renaissance Fancies and Studies published.
1896 Mother dies.
1897 Limbo published.
1899 Genius Loci: Notes on Places published.
1903 Play Ariadne in Mantua and Penelope Brandling published.
1904 Pope Jacynth and Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life published.
1905 The Enchanted Woods published.
1906 Buys the Villa Il Palmerino. Sister Benvenuta and the Christ Child and The Spirit of Rome: Leaves from a Diary published.
1907 Step brother Eugene dies.
1908 Gospels of Anarchy and The Sentimental Traveller: Notes on Places published.
1909 Laurus Nobilis: Chapters on Art and Life published.
1912 Vital Lies: Studies of Some Varieties of Recent Obscurantism and Beauty and Ugliness (with Clementina Anstruther Thomson) published.
1913 The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics published.
1914 Louis Norbert, a Two-Fold Romance and The Tower of the Mirrors: and Other Essays on the Spirit of Places published.
1915 The Ballet of Nations, a Present-Day Morality published.
1923 The Handling of Words: and Other Studies in Literary Psychology published.
1924 September 20, awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Durham.
1925 Proteus, or the Future of Intelligence and The Golden Keys published.
1926 The Poet’s Eye published.
1927 For Maurice: Five Unlikely Stories published.
1932 Music and Its Lovers published.
1935 February 13, dies in Florence.Essential Readings:
Gardner, Burdett . The Lesbian Imagination, Victorian Style: A Psychological and Critical Study of 'Vernon Lee'. New York: Garland. xxii+592p bibl. 1987.
Pulham, Patricia & Maxwell, Catherine, ed. Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 210p. 2006
Zorn, Christa. Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History and the Victorian Female Intellectual. Athens, OH: Ohio UP. 213p. 2003.
Recommended editions:
Bodley head editions published by John Lane.
Recommended biographies:
Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P. xiv+390p. 2003.
Manuscripts
Some manuscripts of Vernon Lee's works are held at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, Italy; the British Institute of Florence; Colby College Libraries, Waterville, ME, USA; and the Berg Collection of Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library.
**** For a complete listing of recommended and annotated Essential Readings, Editions, Biographies, Letters, and Manuscripts, search the database (keywords search) using the keywords <Lee, Vernon / List>. To make your search more specific, you may use keywords such as <Lee, Vernon - Manuscripts / List or Lee, Vernon - Biographies / List> ****
Vernon Lee on the Web
The Vernon Lee Library
The British Institute of FlorenceVernon Lee Page
The Literary GothicSophie Geoffroy's
The Sibyl: A Bulletin of Vernon Lee Studies
Chronology
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1814 August 28, Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu born in Dublin.
1837 Graduates from Trinity College, Dublin.
1838 The Ghost and the Bonesetter published.
1839 Called to the bar but never practices.
1840 Purchases and edits the Warden and the Protestant Guardian.
1843 Marries Susanna Bennett.
1845 The Cock and Anchor published.
1847 The Fortunes of Colonel Torlogh O'Brien: A Tale of the Wars of King James published.
1851 Moves to Merrion Square, Dublin. Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery published.
1858 Wife, Susanna, dies.
1861 Becomes proprietor and editor of the Dublin University Magazine.
1863 The House by the Churchyard published.
1864 Uncle Silas and Wylder's Hand published.
1865 Guy Deverell published.
1867 The Tenants of Malory published.
1868 Haunted Lives published.
1869 Sells the Dublin University Magazine.
1871 Chronicles of Golden Friars and The Rose and the Key published.
1872 In a Glass Darkly published.
1873 February 10, dies in Merrion Square, Dublin.Essential Readings:
Begnal, Michael H. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP. 87p bibl. 1971.
McCormack, W.J. Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland. Oxford: Clarendon P/ New York: Oxford UP. xii+310p bibl index illus. 1980.
Melada, Ivan. Sheridan Le Fanu. Boston, MA: Twayne Pub/G.K. Hall. 142p bibl index. 1987.
Recommended editions:
Carmilla and 12 Other Classic Tales of Mystery. Ed. Leonard Wolf. New York: Signet, 1996.
The Collected Works of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Ed. Devendra P. Varma. 52 vols. New York: Arno Press, 1977.
In a Glass Darkly. Ed. Robert Tracy. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
For links to eTexts and other editions, check
The Literary Gothic page on Joseph Sheridan Le FanuRecommended biography:
Crawford, Gary William. J. Sheridan Le Fanu: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood P. x+155p. 1995.
Melada, Ivan. Sheridan Le Fanu. Boston, MA: Twayne Pub/G.K. Hall. 142p bibl index. 1987.
Manuscripts
Manuscripts of Le Fanu's works are available at the National Library of Ireland; Trinity College, Dublin; Public Records Office of Northern Ireland; Brotherton Library, University of Leeds; Janus Collections, Cambridge, England; and the University of Illinois Library.
**** For a complete listing of recommended and annotated Essential Readings, Editions, Biographies, Letters, and Manuscripts, search the database (keywords search) using the keywords <Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan / List>. To make your search more specific, you may use keywords such as <Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan - Manuscripts / List or Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan - Biographies / List> ****
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu on the Web
Barbara T. Gates'
Le Fanu Studies
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Page
Victorian Web
National University of Singapore
Mitsuharu Matsuoka's
Joseph Sheridain Le Fanu Page
Nagoya UniversityPaco Quilis-Gómez's
Joseph Sheridian Le Fanu Page
Joseph Sheridian Le Fanu Page
Literary GothicGaslight's
Joseph Sheridian Le Fanu Page
Chronology
Some e-texts of Amy Levy's works are available at Victorian Women Writers Project: an Electronic Collection at http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/
1861 Born in Clapham.
1875 Ida Grey published in Pelican.
1879 To Newnham College, Cambridge University.
1880 Xantippe and Mrs. Pierrepoint published.
1881 To Dresden, Germany.
1884 A Minor Poet and Other Verse published.
1886 To Florence. Essays The Ghetto at Florence, The Jew in Fiction, Jewish Humour, and Jewish Children published in Jewish Chronicle. Essay, travelogue, Out of the World, published.
1888 Novels The Romance of a Shop and Reuben Sachs published.
1889 Poem A London Plane-Tree published.
1889 Commits suicide.Essential Reading:
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Athens, OH: Ohio UP. xvi+331p bibl index. 2000.
Recommended editions:
New, Melvyn, ed. The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy, 1861-1889. Gainsville, FL: UP of Florida. 1993.
Recommended letters & biographies:
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Athens, OH: Ohio UP. xvi+331p bibl index. 2000.
Manuscripts
Some manuscripts of Amy Levy's works are held at the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.
**** For a complete listing of recommended and annotated Essential Readings, Editions, Biographies, Letters, and Manuscripts, search the database (keywords search) using the keywords <Levy, Amy / List>. To make your search more specific, you may use keywords such as <Levy, Amy - Manuscripts / List or Levy, Amy - Biographies / List> ****
Amy Levy on the Web
Chronology
1822 February 10, Eliza Lynn born in Keswick, England.
1845 To London.
1846 Azeth, the Egyptian published.
1848 Joins the Morning Chronicle.
1851 Realities published.
1856 March 14, sells her house, "Gad's Hill," to Charles Dickens.
1858 Marries William James Linton.
1866 Husband goes to America.
1867 Separated.
1868 The Girl of the Period published.
1872 The True History of Joshua Davidson published.
1874 Patricia Kemball and Christopher Kirkland published.
1895 July 14, dies in London.Essential Reading:
Anderson, Nancy. Woman Against Women in Victorian England: A Life of Eliza Lynn Linton. Bloomington: Indiana UP. xii+260p. 1987.
Recommended biographies:
Belflower, James Robert. Jr. The Life and Career of Elizabeth Lynn Linton (1822-1898), Victorian Woman of Letters. "Dissertation Abstracts International". (28/Pt.4) 4116A-4117A. Duke U., (67). 1968.
Van Thal, Herbert. Eliza Lynn Linton: The Girl of the Period: A Biography. London & Boston: Allen & Unwin. vii+245p bibl index. 1979.
Manuscripts
Manuscripts of Linton's works are available at Eliza Lynn Linton Collection, Keswick Museum, Keswick, Cumbria, England; Beinecke Library at Yale University Libraries: University of Illinois Library; Knox College Library, Galesburg, Illinois; Harvard University Library; The Ransom Center's collection of George Eliot materials University of Texas at Austin; The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh;the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; and the Princeton University Library.
Eliza Lynn Linton on the Web
Chronology
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1824 December 10, George MacDonald Born in Huntley, West Aberdeenshire.
1832 Mother, Helen dies.
1839 Father marries Margaret McColl.
1840 To King's College, Aberdeen University.
1842 catalogues library in northern Scotland. Teaches Arithmetic.
1845 Awarded M.A. degree. Becomes tutor in London.
1846 Poem published.
1848 To Independent College, Highbury.
1850 Becomes pastor at Arundel.
1851 Marries Louisa Powell.
1853 Resigns from ministry.
1855 Within and Without published.
1858 Phantastes published.
1859 October, becomes professor of English Literature at Bedford College.
1860 converts to Church of England.
1863 David Elginbrod published. Meets John Ruskin.
1868 Robert Falconer published. Receives degree of L.L.D.
1871 At the Back of the North Wind published.
1872 On a lecture tour to America. The Princess and the Goblin published.
1876 Exotics published.
1877 Receives pension from the Queen.
1882 The Princess and Curdie published.
1902 January 13, wife Louisa dies.
1905 September 18, MacDonald dies in Surrey.Essential Reading:
Wolff, Robert Lee. The Golden Key: A Study of the Fiction of George MacDonald. New Haven: Yale UP. xi+425p illus bibl index. 1961.
Recommended biographies:
Triggs, Kathy. The stars and the Stillness: A Portrait of George Macdonald. Cambridge : Lutterworth, 1986. vii, 182 p.
Recommended editions of letters:
MacDonald, George. Sadler, Glenn Edward, ed. SadlerAn expression of character: the letters of George MacDonald. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c1994. xix, 395 p.,
Manuscripts
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University holds a significant collection of MacDonald materials.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA holds manuscripts of The Seaboard Parish and Wilfrid Cumbermede, together with poems and shorter writings. Also includes 30 pen drawings by Arthur Hughes for a 1905
edition of MacDonald's Phantastes and a scrapbook of manuscript and printed poems by MacDonald collected by his son Greville MacDonald.George McDonald on the Web
George Macdonald Page
Vicorian Web
National University of SingaporeKathryn Lindskoog's
Mark Twain and George Macdonald
Chronology
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1828 February 12, George Meredith born.
1833 Mother, Jane Macnamara Meredith, dies.
1838 Father, Augustus Meredith, becomes bankrupt.
1842 To the the Morovian school at Neuwied.
1846 Becomes articled clerk.
1849 August 9, marries Mary Ellen Nicolls.
1851 Poems published.
1855 The Shaving of Shagpat published.
1857 Farina: A Legend of Cologne published.
1858 Mary Ellen Meredith elopes with Henry Wallis.
1859 The Ordeal of Richard Feverel published.
1860 Becomes reader at Chapman and Hall.
1861 Mary Ellen Meredith dies. Evan Harrington published.
1862 Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside published.
1864 Emilia in England published.
1864 September 20, marries Marie Vulliamy.
1866 Vittoria published.
1866 To Italy as a war correspondent.
1870 The Adventures of Harry Richmond published.
1876 Beauchamp's Career published.
1879 The Egoist published.
1880 The Tragic Comedians published.
1883 Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth published.
1884 Diana of the Crossways published.
1885 September 17, wife Marie dies.
1887 Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life published.
1888 A Reading of Earth published.
1891 One of Our Conquerors published.
1892 Elected president of the Society of Authors.
1892 The Empty Purse (poems) published.
1893 Lord Ormont and His Aminta published.
1895 The Amazing Marriage published.
1898 Odes in Contribution to the Song of French History published.
1901 A Reading of Life, with Other Poems published.
1905 Receives the Order of Merit.
1909 May 18, dies.
1910 Celt and Saxon, unfinished novel, published.Essential Reading:
Beer, Gillian. Meredith: A Change of Masks: A Study of Novels. London: Athlone Press. x+214p bibl index. 1970.
Recommended editions:
Memorial Edition (27 volumes, 1909-1912).
Recommended biographies:
Stevenson, Lionel. The Ordeal of George Meredith: A Biography. New York: Scribner's. xii+368p. 1953.
Williams, David. George Meredith: His Life and Lost Love. London: Hamish Hamilton. xii+227p bibl index illus. 1977.
Recommended editions of letters:
Meredith, George. Cline, C.L., ed. The Letters of George Meredith. Oxford: Clarendon UP. 3 vols. 1786p bibl. 1970.
Meredith, George. Shaheen, Mohammad, ed. Selected Letters of George Meredith. New York: St. Martin's P. vii+287p. 1997.
Manuscripts
The Altschul Collection at Yale University Libraries holds the largest collection of Meredith manuscripts. Other sources are the British Library, London; Berg Collection of Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library; Senate House Library, University of London.
See also Harris, Margaret. "George Meredith's Notes and Notebooks," Yale University Library Gazette. (52) 53-65. 1977.
George Meredith on the Web
George Meredith Selected Poems
University of Toronto LibrariesDonna J. Pridmore's
George Meredith PageGeorge Meredith Page
Victorian Web
National University of JapanThe George Meredith Page
The San Antonio College
Chronology
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1852 February 24, born in Ballyglass, Ireland.
1861 To St. Mary's College, Oscott in Birmingham.
1863 Studies interrupted because of ill health.
1868 Father, George Henry Moore, relected to Parliament. Family moves to London.
1870 Father dies.
1873 March 13, to Beaux Arts school in Paris.
1880 Moves to London.
1881 Pagan Poems published.
1883 Modern Lover published.
1885 A Mummer's Wife and Literature at Nurse published.
1886 A Drama in Muslin published.
1887 A Mere Accident and Parnell and His Island published.
1888 Spring Days and Confessions of a Young Man published.
1893 Modern Painting published.
1894 Esther Waters published.
1898 Evelyn Innes published.
1899 Returns to Ireland.
1901 Sister Theresa published.
1906 Reminiscences of the Impressionist Painters published.
1911 Returns to London.
1914 Hail and Farewell published.
1916 The Brook Kerith published.
1918 A Storyteller's Holiday published.
1924 Conversations in Ebury Street published.
1927 The Making of an Immortal (a play) published.
1930 Aphrodite in Aulis published.
1933 Dies.Essential Readings:
Brown, Malcolm Johnston. George Moore: A Reconsideration. Seattle: U of Washington P. 235p illus. 1955.
Jeffares, A. Norman. George Moore. London: Longmans, Green. 43p. 1965.Recommended editions:
Works of George Moore. Uniform Edition. 20 volumes (London, Heinemann, 1924-1933/New York, Brentano's, 1924-33).
Recommended biographies:
Frazier, Adrian. George Moore, 1852-1933. New Haven, CT: Yale UP. xix+604p. 2000.
Grubgeld, Elizabeth. George Moore and the Autogeneous Self: The Autobiography and Fiction. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP. xviii+287p bibl index illus. 1994.
Recommended editions of letters:
Hone, J.M . "George Moore and Some Correspondents." Dublin Magazine. (22/1) 9-20. 1947.
Moore, George. Gerber, Helmut E., Brack, O.M., ed. George Moore on Parnassus: Letters (1900-1933) to Secretaries, Publishers, Printers, Agents, Literati, Friends, and Acquaintances. Newark, Delaware: U of Delawere P. 1988.
Taylor, Robert H . "The J. Harlin O'Connell Collection." Princeton University Library Chronicle. (19) 150-152. 1958.
Manuscripts
Some manuscripts of George Moore's works can be found at the George Moore Collection at Boston College; Special Collections, University of Delaware Library Newark, Delaware; University Libraries, The Pennsylvania State University.
George Moore on the Web
George Moore Page
at Princess Grace Irish Library
Chronology
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1834 24 March, born in Walthamstow, Essex, England.
1847 Father, William Morris Senior, dies.
1848 To Marlborough College.
1853 To Exeter College, Oxford.
1856 Becomes articled Clerk to G. E. Street.
1857 Works on Oxford Union frescos with Cormell Price, Burne-Jones, and Rossetti.
1858 Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems published.
1859 Marries Jane Burden.
1861 Morris, Marshall and Faulkner decorating firm in partnership with Rossetti, Madox Brown and Marshall, and Burne-Jones.
1868 The Earthly Paradise published.
1869 Begins working on calligraphy and illuminating manuscripts.
1871 Travels to Iceland. Rents Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire with Rossetti.
1873 Visits Italy and Iceland.
1874 Morris and Company founded.
1875 Three Northern Love Songs and Sigurd the Volsung published.
1877 Founds The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.
188 A Dream of John Ball published.
1882 Hopes and Fears of Art published.
1883 Joins the Democratic Federation, declares himself a socialist.
1883 Becomes an honorary fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
1884 Art and Socialism published. Becomes the leader of the Socialist League. Lectures on textile fabrics at the International Health Exhibition.
1885 Arrested for assault on policemen but released as a well known man of letters.
1888 Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society founded by Walter Crane.
1889 To Paris to attend the Second International Conference of Socialists at Paris.
1890 Establishes the Kelmscott Press. Withdraws from the Socialist League.
1891 News from Nowhere published.
1891 Poems by the Way published.
1892 Refuses poet laureateship.
1894 The Wood Beyond the World published.
1896 October 3, dies in London.Essential Reading:
Lindsay, Jack. William Morris, Writer. London: William Morris Society. 29p. 1961.
Recommended editions:
Morris, William. Morris, May, ed. Collected Works. London: Longmans; New York: Russell & Russell. 24 vols bibl illus. 1966.
Recommended biographies:
Henderson, Philip. William Morris: His Life, Work and Friends. London: Thames & Hudson; New York: McGraw-Hill. 388+82illus. 1967.
Recommended editions of letters:
Morris, William. Kelvin, Norman, ed. The Collected Letters of William Morris. 4 vols. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP. 1996.
Manuscripts
Some manuscripts of Morris's works are available at the British Library, London; The Ransom Center's collection of George Eliot materials University of Texas at Austin; The Huntington Library, San Marino, California; the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; and the Senate House Library, University of London.
William Morris on the Web
William Morris Page
Victorian Web
National University of SingaporeSelected poems of Willliam Morris
University of Toronto LibrariesWilliam Morris Gallery
London Borough of Waltham Forest's Adult and Community Services DirectorateJournal of the William Morris Society
Chronology
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1828 Margaret Oliphant Wilson born in Wallyford, Midlothian.
1838 Moves to England.
1845 Broken engagement.
1849 Passages in the Life of Margaret Maitland published.
1851 Visits Edinburgh. Meets Major Blackwood.
1852 Marries her cousin, Frank Oliphant.
1859 Frank dies in Rome.
1860 October, moves to Edinburgh.
1861 The Executor published. Moves to Ealing.
1862 Salem Chapel published.
1863 The Perpetual Curate published. Visits Italy.
1865 Miss Marjoribanks published. Moves to Windsor.
1876 Phoebe Junior published.
1879 A Beleaguered City published.
1883 Hester published.
1889 Kirsteen published.
1890 Travels to Jerusalem.
1894 Cecco, last surviving child, dies.
1896 Moves to Wimbledon.
1897 June 25, Margaret Oliphant dies. Annals of a Publishing House published.
1899 Autobiography published.Essential Reading:
Colby, Vineta & Colby, Robert Alan. The Equivocal Virtue: Mrs. Oliphant and the Victorian Literary Market Place. Hamden, Conn: Archon Books. 281p. 1966.
Rubik, Margarete. The Novels of Mrs. Oliphant: A Subversive View of Traditional Themes. New York: Peter Lang. viii+343p. 1994.
Shattock, Joanne, ed. Women and Literature in Britain, 1800-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 311p bibl index. 2001.
Trela, D.J., ed. Margaret Oliphant: Critical Essays on a Gentle Subversive. Selingsgrove: Susquehanna UP//London: Associated UP. 190p. 1995.
Recommended biographies:
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. London: Macmillan/ New York: St. Martin's P. xvi+217p index illus. 1986.
Recommended editions of letters:
Coghill, Harry, ed. Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. Margaret Oliphant. Leicester: Leicester UP. 464p illus. Repr. of 1899 edition. 1974.
Manuscripts
Margaret Oliphant's papers are held at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; the British Library, London; and the Princeton University Library.
**** For a complete listing of recommended and annotated Essential Readings, Editions, Biographies, Letters, and Manuscripts, search the database (keywords search) using the keywords <Oliphant, Margaret / List>. To make your search more specific, you may use keywords such as <Oliphant, Margaret - Manuscripts / List or Oliphant, Margaret - Biographies / List> ****
Margaret Oliphant on the Web
Margaret Oliphant
Victorian Web
National University of SingaporeMargaret Oliphant Discussion List
CITES (Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services
University of Illinois at Urbana - ChampaignMargaret Oliphant Page
Literary Gothic
Chronology
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1839 January 7, Marie Louise de la Ramée (pseudonym Ouida) born in Bury St. Edmunds, England.
1857 Moves to London. Meets Harrison Ainsworth.
1859 Encouraged by Harrison Ainsworth to contribute to Bentley's Miscellany.
1860 Granville de Vigne published in the New Monthly Magazine. Spends time in Italy.
1863 Held in Bondage published.
1865 Strathmore published.
1866 Chandos published.
1867 Moves to Langham Hotel as a hostess. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage and Other Novelettes, Under Two Flags and Idalia published.
1869 Tricotrin published.
1870 Puck published.
1871 Unrequieted love with sixty-one year old Italian tenor Mario. Moves to Italy permanently. Folle-Farine published.
1872 A Dog of Flanders published. Intimate friendship with three women, Emilie de Tchiatcheff, Lady Orford, and Lady Paget. After a few months, falls in love with Marchese Lotteria Lotheringo della Stufa, unaware that he was also in love with Mrs. Janet Rose.
1873 Visits Rome. Pascarel published.
1874 Settles in Florence. Two Little Wooden Shoes published.
1875 Signa published.
1876 In a Winter City published.
1877 Ariadne published.
1878 Friendship published.
1880 Moths and Pipistrello and Other Stories published.
1881 A Village Commune published. Evicted from her rented villa in Florence.
1882 Bimbi: Stories for Children and In Maremma published.
1883 Wanda and Frescoes: Dramatic Sketches published.
1884 Falls in love with Robert Lord Lytton (already married), Bulwer-Lytton's son. Princess Napraxine published.
1885 Othmar and A Rainy June published.
1886 Don Guesaldo published.
1887 A House Party published.
1889 Guilderoy published.
1890 Ruffino and Other Stories and Syrlin published.
1891 Santa Barbara and Other Stories published.
1892 The Tower of Taddeo published.
1893 The New Priesthood: A Protest Against Vivisection published. Mother, Madam Rame, dies.
1894 Two Offenders and Other Tales and The Silver Christ and a Lemon Tree published. Views on New Woman published in North American Review. Falls into debt, evicted, and moves to Lucca.
1895 Toxin and Views and Opinions published.
1896 Le Selve and Other Tales published.
1897 The Massarenes, Dogs, and An Altruist published.
1899 La Strega and Other Stories published.
1900 The Waters of Edera and Critical Studies published.
1901 Street Dust and Other Stories published.
1904 Moves to Viareggio. Becomes a destitute.
1907 Awarded Civil List Pension.
1908 Helianthus published. January 25, dies in Viareggio, Italy.Essential Readings:
Gilbert, Pamela K. Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 217p. 2005.
Schaffer, Talia. The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia. 288p. 2000
Schroeder, Natalie. "Feminine Sensationalism, Eroticism, and Self-Assertion: M.E. Braddon and Ouida." Tulsa Studies in Women: A Cultural Review's Literatureudies in Women: A Cultural Review's Literature. (7/1/Spr) 87-103. 1988.
Stirling, Monica. The Fine and the Wicked: The Life and Times of Ouida. London: Gollancz. 223p. 1957.Recommended editions:
Editions published by Chapman & Hall, Chatto & Windus, and Broadview Press.
Full texts of some of Ouida's works are available at Victorian Women Writers Project: an Electronic Collection http://www.indiana.edu/
Recommended biographies:
Lee, Elizabeth. Ouida: A Memoir. London: Unwin. 1914.
Stirling, Monica. The Fine and the Wicked: The Life and Times of Ouida. London: Gollancz. 223p. 1957.
**** For a complete listing of recommended and annotated Essential Readings, Editions, Biographies, Letters, and Manuscripts, search the database (keywords search) using the keywords <Ouida / List>. To make your search more specific, you may use keywords such as <Ouida - Manuscripts / List or Ouida - Biographies / List> ****
Chronology
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1814 June 8, born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, England.
1831 Matriculation at Oxford University; studies at Magdalen College, Oxford.
1835 Obtains B.A. degree at Oxford, becomes a fellow of his college.
Graduates with third in Greats, June 18. July 22, becomes probationary fellow at Oxford. Entered at Lincoln's Inn, November 20.
1838 Obtains M.A.
1842 Elected Vinerian Fellow.
1843 Called to the bar.
1851 May, The Ladies' Battle, first comedy, and Angela produced.
1852 A Village Tale, Masks and Faces and The Lost Husband produced.
1853 Gold and Christie Johnstone produced.
1854 Two Loves and a Life (in conjunction with Tom Taylor), The King's Rival, and The Courier of Lyons produced.
1856 The First Printer (in collaboration with Tom Taylor) produced.
It's Never Too Late to Mend published.
1857 The Course of True Love published.
1858 Jack of all Trades and The Autobiography of a Thief published.
1859 Love Me Little, Love Me Long published.
1860 White Lies published. Meets Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
1861 The Cloister and the Hearth published.
1863 Hard Cash published.
1866 Griffith Gaunt published.
1867 Dora and The Double Marriage produced.
1868 Foul Play (in collaboration with Dion Boucicault) produced.
1870 Put Yourself in His Place published.
1871 A Terrible Temptation published.
1875 The Rights and Wrongs of Authors and The Wandering Heir published.
1877 Good Stories of Man and Other Animals published.
1877 The Jilt: A Novel and A Woman-Hater published.
1879 Meets Reverend Charles Graham.
1882 Singleheart and Doubleface produced.
1883 Nance Oldfield produced.
1884 Dies in London.Essential Readings:
Phillips, Walter Clarke. Dickens, Reade, and Collins, Sensation Novelists: A Study in the Conditions and Theories of Novel Writing in Victorian England. New York: Russell & Russell. 230p. 1962.
Poovey, Mary. "Forgotten Writers, Neglected Histories: Charles Reade and the Nineteenth-Century Transformation of the British Literary Field." ELH. (71/2/Sum) 433-453. 2004.Recommended editions:
See Parrish, Morris Longstreth & Miller, Elizabeth V. Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade: First Editions Described with Notes. New York: B. Franklin. x+354p. 1968.
Recommended biography:
Elwin, Malcolm. Charles Reade, a Biography. London, Jonathan Cape. 388 p. 1934.
Recommended editions of letters:
See Martin, Robert B. "Manuscripts and Correspondence of Charles Reade." Princeton University Library Chronicle. (19) 102-104. 1958.
Manuscripts
Some Reade manuscripts can be found in Morris L. Parrish Collection, Princeton University Library; The Ransom Center's collection at the University of Texas at Austin; Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; and Beinecke Library at Yale University Libraries.
See also Burns, Wayne. "More Reade Notebooks." Studies in Philology. (42) 824-842. 1945.
Charles Reade on the Web
Charles Reade Page
Victorian Web
National University of SingporeCharles Reade Page
The San Antonio CollegeCharles Reade Link
Classical Authors Directory
Chronology
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1855 March 24, Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner born at Wittebergen, Cape Colony.
1861 Family moves to Healdtown.
1866 Father Gottlob Schreiner becomes insolvent.
1867 To school at Cradock.
1870 Meets Julius Gau.
1871 Meets free-thinking Willie Bertram.
1872 Abortive engagement to Gau.
1873 Meets John and Mary Brown.
1875 Becomes a governess.
1876 Father dies.
1880 Sends manuscript of African Farm to England. Turned down.
1881 Travels to England. Tries nursing training at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1882 Meets Eleanor Marx.
1883 The Story of an African Farm published.
1884 Meets Havelock Ellis and Edward Carpenter.
1885 Meets Karl Pearson. Joins Men and Women's Club.
1886 Leaves England for Europe. Bryan Donkin, physician, proposes, but declined.
1889 Meets Arthur Symons. October, returns to South Africa.
1890 Meets Cecil Rhodes. Settes in Matjesfontein.
1891 Dreams published.
1892 December, meets Samuel Cron Cronwright.
1893 Visits England. Dream Life and Real Life published.
1894 Marries Cronwright.
1895 Baby dies. Six miscarriages later.
1896 The Political Situation (with Cronwright-Schreiner) published.
1897 To England. Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland published.
1898 Moves to Johannesburg.
1899 Anglo-Boer War. An English South African's View of the Situation published.
1900 Antiwar speeches.
1903 Mother dies.
1906 Letter on the Jew published.
1909 Closer Union published. Supports Mahatma Gandhi's satyagraha movement.
1911 Woman and Labour published.
1913 Resigns as Vice-President of Women's Enfranchisement Leage at Kalk Bay. To England.
1914 To London.
1920 Cronwright-Schreiner travels to England to join wife after separation of five years. Returns to South Africa. December 10, dies of heart failure.
1923 Stories, Dreams, and Allegories and Thoughts on South Africa published.
1924 Cronwright-Schreiner edits The Life of Olive Schreiner and The Letters of Olive Schreiner 1870-1920.
1926 From Man to Man published.
1929 Undine published.Essential Reading:
Burdett, Carolyn. Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism: Evolution, Gender, Empire. London & New York: Palgrave. 232p bibl index. 2001.
Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester: Manchester UP. 292p bibl index. 2004.
Recommended biographies:
First, Ruth , Scott, Ann. Olive Schreiner: A Biography. London: Deutsch/ New York: Schocken. 383p bibl index illus. 1980.
Recommended editions of letters:
Schreiner, Olive. Rive, Richard, ed. Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-99. Oxford University Press, 1988.
Manuscripts
Olive Schreiner papers are mainly held at Albany Library, Grahamstown, Albany; Bodleian Library, Oxford; The Ransom Center's collection, University of Texas at Austin; Cory Library, Rhodes University, Grahamstown; Cullen Library, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Rhodes House Library, Oxford; Edward Carpenter Collection at Sheffield City Libraries; and Karl Pearson Library, University College Library, London.
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1858 May 2, Edith Oenone Somerville born at Corfu.
1862 June 11, Violet Florence Martin born at Ross House, County Galway, Ireland.
1872 Violet's father, James Martin, dies. Violet and mother move to Dublin.
1886 January 17, Cousins Edith and Violet Martin meet for the first time at Castle Townshend.
1887 Edith and Violet Martin visit London and Paris. Edith studies at Dusseldorf and Paris.
1889 An Irish Cousin published under the name Martin and Ross.
1891 Naboth's Vineyard published.
1892 Through Connemara in a Governess Cart published.
1893 In the Vine Country published.
1894 The Real Charlotte published.
1895 Beggars on Horseback published. Violet visits Scotland. Meets Andrew Lang. Edith's mother dies.
1897 The Silver Fox published.
1898 Edith's father dies.
1899 Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. published. Violet adopts pseaudonym Martin Ross.
1901 Martin meets W.B. Yeats.
1902 A Patrick's Day Hunt published.
1903 Edith becomes first woman master of foxhounds. All on the Irish Shore and Slipper's ABC of Fox Hunting published.
1906 Some Irish Yesterdays published. Martin's mother dies.
1908 Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. published.
1911 Dan Russell the Fox published.
1913 Edith becomes President of Munster Women's Franchise League, and Martin becomes Vice-President.
1915 In Mr. Knox's Country published. December 21, Violet Martin dies in Cork.
1916 Believes making contact with Martin's spirit. Edith continues to write under the joint name.
1917 Irish Memories published.
1919 Mount Music published. Meets Ethel Smyth and begins friendship.
1920 Strayaways published.
1921 An Enthusiast published.
1925 The Big House at Inver published.
1926 Edith meets George Moore.
1928 French Leave published.
1930 The States Through Irish Eyes published.
1932 An Incorruptible Irishman published. Trinity College, Dublin awards Edith a D.Litt.
1933 The Smile and the Tear published. Edith attends Irish Academy of Letters.
1936 The Sweet Cry of Hounds published.
1938 Sarah's Youth published. Exhibition of paintings in New York.
1941 Notions in Garrison published.
1944 Dame Ethel Smyth dies.
1946 Happy Days published.
1949 Maria and Some Other Dogs published. October 8, Somerville dies at Castle Townshend.Essential Readings:
Lewis, Gifford. Somerville and Ross: The World of the Irish R.M. New York: Viking P. 252p illus. 1985.
Robinson, Hilary. Somerville and Ross: A Critical Appreciation. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan/ New York: St Martin's P. 217p. 1980.
Recommended editions:
Editions published by Longman's Green.
Recommended biographies:
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. London: Faber. iii+286p. 1968.
Recommended editions of letters:
Lewis, Gifford, ed. The Selected Letters of Somerville and Ross. London: Faber & Faber. 308p. 1989.
Manuscripts
Manuscripts of the works of Somerville and Ross are available at the National Libray of Ireland, the New York Public Library, the libraries of Trinity College, Dublin, and the Queen's University of Belfast.
Somerville and Ross on the Web
Somerville and Ross Manuscript Collection
Archives Hub
Chronology
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1850 November 13, born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1867 Studies engineering at Edinburgh University.
1871 Starts Studying law.
1878 The New Arabian Nights and An Inland Voyage published.
1879 Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes published.
1880 Marries Fanny Osbourne.
1881 Meets John Addington Symonds.
1883 Treasure Island and Silverado Squatters published.
1885 Prince Otto published.
1887 Leaves England for health reason. The Merry Men (short stories) published. Father Thomas Stevenson dies.
1886 Kidnapped and The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde published.
1887 Sails to New York.
1887 Sails for the South Seas.
1889 The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale and The Wong Box published.
1890 Settles in his estate at Vailima in Samoa.
1892 Across the Plains published.
1893 Island Nights' Entertainments, The Beach of Falesá and Catriona published.
1894 Ebb-Tide published. December 3, dies of cerebral haemorrhage.
1895 The Amateur Emigrant published.
1896 Weir of Hermiston published.
1897 St. Ives (completed by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch) published.Essential Reading:
Ambrosini, Richard & Drury, Richard, ed. Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries. ix+377p. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Robert Louis Stevenson. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publications. 332 p. 2004.
Gray, William. Robert Louis Stevenson: A Literary Life. London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 190p bibl index. 2004.
Reid, Julia. Robert Louis Stevenson, Science, and the Fin de Siècle. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 256p. 2006.
Recommended edition:
University of Edinburgh Press editions of Stevenson's works, Norton Critical editions, Viking-Penguin edition of Treasure Island (1996), and Hunting Library Press edition of Kidnapped (1999).
Recommended biographies:
Calder, Jenni. Robert Louis Stevenson: A Life Study. London: Hamish Hamilton/ New York: Oxford UP. xi+362p bibl index illus. 1980.
Harman, Claire. Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. New York, NY: HarperCollins. xix+503p. 2005.
Recommended editions of letters:
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Booth, Bradford A. & Mehew, Ernest, ed. New Haven, CT: Yale UP. 8Vols. 1995.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Mehew, Ernest, ed. New Haven, CT: Yale UP. 626p. 1997.
Manuscripts
Manuscripts of Stevenson's works are held at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Yale University; Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California; Silverado Museum, St. Helena, California; and the British Library, London.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Page
Thomas Cooper Library, University of South CarolinaRobert Louis Stevenson Page
Victorian Web
National University of SingaporeThe Robert Louis Stevenson Club
Chronology
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1847 Born November 8, in Dublin, Ireland. Remained disabled until age seven.
1854 Miraculaous recovery from disability.
1860 To Trinity College, Dublin. Awarded University Athletics Championship.
1868 Clerk at Civil Service Petty Sessions Office.
1871 Graduates with Honours in Pure Mathematics.
1876 Father, Abraham Stoker, dies. Meets Henry Irving.
1878 Marries Florence Balcombe. Becomes acting manager at Irving's Lyceum Theatre. Moves to London. The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland published.
1882 Under the Sunset published.
1883 On American tour.
1891 The Snake's Pass published.
1897 May, Dracula published.
1898 Fire at Lyceum.
1903 The Jewel of Seven Stars published.
1905 Henry Irving dies.
1906 Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving published.
1911 The Lair of the White Worm published.
1912 April 20, dies in London.Essential Readings:
Hughes, William. Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker's Fiction and Its Cultural Context. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's P. 216p bibl index. 2000.
Roth, Phyllis A. Bram Stoker. Boston: Twayne Pub. viii+167p bibl index. 1982.
Recommended editions:
Norton Critical Editions, Broadview Press editions, and St. Martin's Press editions.
See also Dalby, Richard. Bram Stoker: A Bibliography of First Editions. London: Dracula P. xii+84p illus. 1983.
Recommended biographies:
Belford, Barbara. Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula. New York: Knopf. xv+381p. 1996.
Hopkins, Lisa. Bram Stoker: A Literary Life. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. x+173p. 2007.Manuscripts
Some manuscripts of Bram Stoker's works are held at Leslie Shepard Bram Stoker Collection, Dublin City Public Libraries, Dublin, Ireland.
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Chronology
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1811 July 18, born in Calcutta, India. , the only son of Richmond Thackeray, an East India Company administrator, and Anne Becher Thackeray, the daughter of distinguished civil servants in India.
1816 Father, Richmond Thackeray, dies. Leaves for England to live with aunt.
1817 To school in Chiswick Mall.
1822 To Charterhouse School, London.
1829 To Trinity College, Cambridge.
1830 Leaves university.
1831 Studies law at Middle Temple, London.
1834 Contributes to Fraser's Magazine.
1836 Becomes Paris correspondent of The Constitutional. Marries Isabella Gethen Shawe.
1837 Contributes to The Times, The New Monthly Magazine, and Punch.
1840 Isabella, wife, becomes insane.
1842 Meets Charles Lever in Dublin.
1843 The Irish Sketchbook published.
1844 Travels to the Mediterranean and the Mideast.
1846 From Cornhill to Cairo published. Meets Mrs. Henry Brookfield.
1848 Vanity Fair and The Book of Snobs published.
1850 The History of Pendennis and Rebecca and Rowena published.
1852 The History of Henry Esmond published.
1852 Lecture tour to America.
1855 The Newcomes published.
1857 Runs unsuccessfully for Parliament. The Rose and the Ring and Miscellanies published.
1862 The Virginians, The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through the World and Lovel the Widower published.
1861 Founds Cornhill Magazine.
1863 December 24, dies in London.
1864 Denis Duval published.Essential Readings:
Clarke, Michael. Thackeray and Women. DeKalb: Northern Illinois UP. xii+235p. 1995.
Reed, John R. Dickens and Thackeray: Punishment and Forgiveness. Athens, OH: Ohio UP. xvi+504p index. 1995.
Thomas, Deborah A. Thackeray and Slavery. Athens, OH: Ohio UP. xviii+245p. 1993.
Recommended editions:
Peter Shillingsburg's Thackeray Editions from the University of Michigan Press and Penguin editions of Thackeray's works.
See also, Shillingsburg, Peter. "Editing Thackeray: A History." Studies in the Novel. (27/3) 363-374. 1995 & Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W.M. Thackeray. Charlottesville, VA: UP of Virginia. 301p bibl index. 1992.
Recommended biographies:
Ray, Gordon Norton. The Buried Life: A Study of the Relation Between Thackeray's Fiction and His Personal History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP. vi+148p. 1952.
Shillingsburg, Peter. William Makepeace Thackeray: A Literary Life. London & New York: Palgrave. 163p bibl illus. 2001.
Taylor, D.J. Thackeray. London: Chatto & Windus. xxv+494p illus. 1999.
Recommended editions of letters:
Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray. Ray, Gordon Norton, ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP. clxxiii+522p, viii+853p. 1945.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray: A Supplement to Gordon N. Ray. Harden, Edgar F., ed. New York: Garland. 2 vol. cvi+1500p. 1994.
Manuscripts
Manuscripts of Thackeray's novels can be located at the British Library; the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; Harvard College Library; the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Yale University; Trinity College Library, University of Cambridge; and Robert H. Taylor Collection at Princeton University Library.
See also Colby, Robert & Sutherland, John. "Thackeray's Manuscripts: A Preliminary Census of Library Locations," Costerus. (2) 333-359. 1974 & Sutherland, John. Thackeray at Work. London: Athlone Press. 165p. 1974.
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University of Nagoya
Chronology
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1790 October 1, Charlotte Elizabeth born in Norwich, England.
1796 Becomes blind for several months.
1800 Becomes deaf.
1812 Father, Reverend Michael Browne, dies. Moves to London.
1813 Marries Captain George Phelan. Moves to Nova Scotia, Canada with husband.
1819 Moves to Ireland. Converts to Evangelical Protestantism, becomes anti-catholic.
1820 Starts writing for the Dublin Tract Society. Separates from husband, assumes pseudonym Charlotte Elizabeth. Returns to Bristol, England.
1827 Moves to Bagshot Heath to be near her brother.
1834 Becomes editor of The Christian Lady's Magazine.
1836 Chapters on Flowers published.
1841 Helen Fleetwood published.
1840 American Tract Society publishes collections of children's stories.
1841 Personal Recollections, The Simple Flower and Philip and His Garden published. Becomes the editor of the Protestant Magazine. Marries Lewis Hippolytus Joseph Tonna, a religious writer.
1842 Principalities and Powers in Heavenly Places and Conformity published.
1843 "The Forsaken Home," "The Little Pin-Headers," and "Milliners and Dress-Makers" in The Wrongs of Woman; The Perils of the Nation: An Appeal to the Legislature, The Clergy, and the Higher and
Middle Classes and Judah's Lion published.
1844 "The Lace -Runners" in The Wrongs of Woman published.
1845 Kindness to Animals published.
1846 June, writes a joyous farewell letter to readers on her impending death from cancer. July 12, dies.
1847 Life of Charlotte Elizabeth and A Memoir published by husband, Lewis Hippolytus Joseph Tonna.Essential Readings:
Dzelzainis, Ella. "Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Premillennialism, and the Formation of Gender Ideology in the Ten Hours' Campaign." Victorian Literature and Culture. (31/1) 181-191. 2003.
Kovacevic, Ivanka & Kanner, S. Barbara. "Blue Book Into Novel: The Forgotten Industrial Fiction of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna." Nineteenth Century Fiction. (25) 152-173. 1970.
Recommended biographies:
Cross, Thomas Clinton. "The Life and Works of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna: Anglican Evangelical Progressive." Dissertation Abstracts International. (58/11/May) 4409-A. U. of North Texas, (97). 1998.
Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth. Personal Recollections. London: R. B. Seeley & W. Burnside, 1841.
Lewis Hippolytus Joseph Tonna. Life of Charlotte Elizabeth and A Memoir, 1847.
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna on the Web
Shaping the values of Youth
MSU Libraries
Chronology
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1815 April 24, born in Bloomsbury, London.
1822 To Harrow School.
1825 To Arthur Drury school.
1827 To Winchester school. Mother, Frances, goes to America.
1832 Frances Trollope publishes Domestic Manners of the Americans.
1834 To Bruges, Belgium.
1835 Father, Thomas Anthony Trollope, dies
1836 Brother, Henry, and sister, Emily, die.
1841 To Ireland as post office clerk.
1844 Marries Rose Heseltine.
1847 The Macdermots of Ballycloran, an Irish story, published.
1848 The Kellys and the O'Kellys, another Irish novel, published.
1850 La Vendee published.
1855 The Warden published.
1857 Barchester Towers published.
1858 Doctor Thorne and The Three Clerks published.
1859 The Bertrams published.
1860 Castle Richmond published.
1861 Framley Parsonage published.
1862 Orley Farm published.
1863 Rachel Ray published.
1864 The Small House at Allington published.
1865 Can You Forgive Her? published.
1866 The Belton Estate published.
1867 The Claverings, The Last Chronicle of Barset and Nina Balatka published.
1868 Becomes a Liberal party candidate for the House of Commons.
1869 He Knew He Was Right and Phineas Finn published.
1873 The Eustace Diamonds published.
1875 The Way We Live Now published. Travels to Australia.
1876 The Prime Minister published.
1877 The American Senator published.
1878 Is He Popenjoy? published.
1880 The Duke's Children published.
1881 Ayala's Angel published.
1882 December 6, dies in London.
1883 An Autobiography, The Landleaguers and Mr. Scarborough's Family published.Essential Readings:
MacDonald, Susan Peck. Anthony Trollope. Boston, MA: Twayne Pub. xii+138p bibl index. 1987.Morse, Deborah Denenholz. Women in Trollope's Palliser Novels. Ann Arbor: UMI Research P. xii+165p. 1987.
Recommended editions:
World Classc editions of the novels published by Oxford University Press.
Recommended biographies:
Glendenning, Victoria. Anthony Trollope. London: Hutchinson. xxiv+551p. 1992
Hall, N. John. Trollope: A Biography. Oxford: Clarendon P. xv+581p index illus. 1991
Mullen, Richard. Anthony Trollope: A Victorian in His World. London: Duckworth. 767p illus. 1990.
Super, R.H. The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P. xvi+528p index. 1988.Recommended editions of letters:
Trollope, Anthony. Hall, N. John & Burgis, Nina, ed. The Letters of Anthony Trollope. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP. Vol. I: '1835-1870.' xxxvii+536p Vol. II: '1871-1882.' xv+537-1082p index illus. 1983.Manuscripts
Manuscripts of Anothony Trollope's works and letters can be located at the British Library; the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library; Harvard College Library; the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Yale University; and the Robert H. Taylor Collection at Princeton University Library.
See also Ray, Gordon N. "Trollope at Full Length," Huntington Library Quarterly. (31) 313-340. 1968.
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National Potrait Gallery
Chronology
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1851 June 11, Born in Hobart, Tasmania., the first of nine children of Thomas Arnold, Jr., and Julia Sorell Arnold.
1856 October 17, family arrives in London.
1858 To Anne Clough's school.
1861 To Miss Davies's Rock Terrace School at Shropshire.
1864 October, completes A Tale of the Moors (unpublished).
1865 To Miss May's boarding school at Clifton. Family moves to Oxford.
1966 Completes Lansdale Manor (unpublished).
1867 Meets of Mark Pattison.
1869 Completes A Gay Life (unpublished). October, Alice rejected by Smith, Elder.
1870 A Westmoreland Story published.
1871 January, meets T. Humphry Ward.
1872 April 6, marries Humphry Ward.
1877 Elected secretary of the newly-formed Association of the Education of Women.
1978 Younger brother, Arthur Arnold, aged 21, killed in the Basuto War.
1880 The English Poets published.
1881 Husband Humphry appointed leader writer on the The Times in London. The Wards move to Russell Square, Bloomsbury. December, Milly and Olly published.
1882 Humphry appointed art critic on The Times. November, Mary meets Henry James.
1884 November, Miss Bretherton published.
1885 Translation of Amiel's Journal Intimate published.
1888 Robert Elsmere published. Mother Julia Arnold dies.
1889 An Appeal Against Female Suffrage published.
1892 January, The History of David Grieve published.
1894 April 3, Marcella published.
1895 The Story of Bessie Costrell published.
1896 September, Sir George Tressady published.
1898 June, Helbeck published.
1900 Eleanor published.
1903 March, Lady Rose's Daughter published.
1905 March, The Marriage of William Ashe published.
1906 May, Fenwick's Career published.
1908 December, launches Anti-Suffrage Review.
1909 May, Daphne published.
1910 April, Canadian Born published.
1911 October, The Case of Richard Meynell published.
1913 March, The Mating of Lydia and October, The Coryston Family published.
1915 January, Delia Blanchflower published. October, Eltham House published.
1916 A Great Success and Lady Connie published.
1917 Towards the Goal and Missing published.
1918 December, The War and Elizabeth.
1919 November, Cousin Philip published.
1920 February, becomes one of the first women magistrates. March 24, Mary Ward dies.
1926 May 6, Humphry Ward dies.Essential Readings:
Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York: New York UP. 313p. 1970
Sutton-Ramspeck, Beth. Raising the Dust: The Literary Housekeeping of Mary Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Athens, OH: Ohio UP. 272p bibl index. 2004.
Smith, Esther M.G. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Boston, MA: Twayne Pub. 163p. 1980
Recommended editions:
Westmoreland Edition of Ward's collected works (The Autograph Edition in the US).
Recommended biography:
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-Eminent Edwardian. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 432p bibl index. 1990.
Recommended editions of letters:
Arnold, Thomas, Jr. New Zealand Letters of Thomas Arnold
the Younger. Ed. James Bertram. Wellington, N.Z., 1966.Collister, Peter. "A Postlude to Gladstone on Robert Elsmere: Four Unpublished Letters." Modern Philology, 79 (1982), 284-96.
Peterson, William S. "Mrs Humphry Ward on Robert Elsmere: Six New Letters." Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 74 (1970), 587-97.
Peterson, William S. "J. S. Shorthouse and Mrs. Humphry Ward: Two New Letters." Notes and Queries, n.s. 18 (1971), 259-61.
Manuscripts
Mrs Humphry Ward's manuscripts are are now in the Library of Pusey House, Oxford and the Honnold Library for the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California.
Humphry Ward on the Web
Mary Ward Centre Page
The Mary Ward CentreProfessor Barbara T. Gates'
Mary Augusta Ward Page
Victorian Web
National University Singapore
Chronology
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1866 September 21, born at Bromley in Kent, England.
1874 To Thomas Morley's Commercial Academy.
1881 Apprentice in a drapery shop.
1883 Leaves drapery shop. Becomes a teacher at Midhurst Grammar School.
1884 To Normal School of Science, London. Studies Biology under Thomas Huxley.
1891 Settles in London. Marries cousin Isabel Mary Wells.
1895 Divorces Isabel and marries Amy Catherine Robbins. Select Conversations with an Uncle, The Time Machine, The Wonderful Visit, and The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents published.
1896 The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Wheels of Chance published.
1897 The Invisible Man published.
1899 When the Sleeper Wakes published.
1900 Love and Mr. Lewisham published.
1901 The First Men in the Moon and Anticipations published.
1902 Joins the Fabian Society.
1904 The Food of the Gods published.
1905 Mother dies. A Modern Utopia and Kipps published.
1906 In the Days of the Comet published.
1907 First and Last Things published.
1908 New Worlds for Old and The War in the Air published.
1909 Tono-Bungay and Ann Veronica published.
1910 Father dies. The History of Mr. Polly published.
1911 The New Machiavelli published.
1914 Visits Russia. An Englishman Looks at the World and The War That Will End War published.
1916 Visits Italian, French, and German fronts. Mr. Britling Sees It Through published.
1919 Resigns from the League of Nations Union.
1920 Second visit to Russia. Meets Lenin. Outline of History published.
1921 To the United States as a special correspondent to cover Washington Peace Conference.
1922 Becomes member of Labour Party. Defeated in a bid for Parliament.
A Short History of the World published.
1923 Men Like Gods published.
1924 The Story of a Great Schoolteacher and the Dream published.
1925 Christina Alberta's Father published.
1926 The World of William Clissold published.
1927 Wife, Amy Catherine Wells, dies.
1928 Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island published.
1929 The King Who Was a King published.
1930 Meets Rabindranath Tagore in Geneva, Switzerland. The Autocracy of Mr. Parham and The Science of Life published.
1932 The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind published.
1933 The Shape of Things to Come published.
1934 Third visit to Russia to meet Stalin. Visits the United States to meet President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Experiment in Autobiography published.
1936 The Anatomy of Frustration and The Croquet Player published.
1937 Brynhild and Star-Begotten published.
1939 The Fate of Homo Sapiens and The Holy Terror published.
1940 Visits America on lecture tour. Babes in the Darkling Wood published.
1941 You Can't be Too Careful published.
1945 Mind at the End of Its Tether published.
1946 August 13, dies in London.
1969 The Wealth of Mr. Waddy published.Essential Readings:
Ross, William T. H.G. Wells' World Reborn: 'The Outline of History' and Its Companions. Cranbury, NJ: Susquehanna UP. 135p bibl index. 2002.
Wagar, W. Warren. H.G. Wells: Traversing Time. Wesleyan UP. 334p bibl index. 2004.
Recommended editions:
The Atlantic Edition of the works of H.G. Wells (28 Volumes), 1924-1927.
Recommended biography:
MacKenzie, Norman & MacKenzie, Jeanne. The Life of H.G. Wells: The Time Traveller. London: Hogarth P. Rev. ed. 500p illus. 1987.
Recommended editions of letters:
Edel, Leon, & Ray, Gordon N, ed. Henry James and H.G. Wells: A Record of Their Friendship. Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P. 272p illus. 1958.
Ray, Gordon N. H.G. Wells and Rebecca West. London: Macmillan/ New Haven, CT: Yale UP. xxvi+215p illus. 1974.
Manuscripts
The papers of H.G. Wells are mostly to be found in the Rare Books & Manuscripts Library, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; HG Wells Collection, the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England; Berg Collection, The New York Public Library, New York; and H.G. Collection in Bromley Central Library, Bromley, Kent, England.
Herbert George Wells on the Web
H.G. Wells Page
at Spartacus Educational
Chronology
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1823 August 11, born in Otterbourne, Hampshire, England.
1835 Meets Reverend John Keble.
1838 First book, Le Chateau de Melville, published.
1844 Abbeychurch published.
1847 Scenes and Characters, or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft published.
1850 Henrietta's Wish, or Domineering: A Tale, Kenneth or, The Rear Guard of the Grand Army and Langley School published.
1853 The Heir of Redclyffe published.
1854 Heartsease, or The Brother's Wife, The Castle Builders, or, The Deferred Confirmation,
and The Little Duke, or Richard the Fearless published.
1855 The History of the LIfe and Death of the Good Knight Sir Tom Thumb and The Lances of Lynwood published.
1856 The Daisy Chain, or, Aspirations published.
1858 The Christmas Mummers published.
1860 Friarswood Post Office and The Pigeon Pie published.
1861 A Young Stepmother, or, A Chronicle of Mistakes published.
1862 Countess Kate published.
1863 A History of Christian Names published.
1864 A Book of Golden Deeds and The Apple of Discord, a Play published.
1865 The Clever Woman of the Family published.
1866 The Dove in the Eagle's Nest published.
1867 The Six Cushions published.
1868 The Chaplet of Pearls, or, The White and Back Ribaumont published.
1869 The Seal, or, The Inward Spiritual Grace of Confirmation published.
1871 Pioneers and Founders, or, Recent Workers in the Mission Field published.
1873 The Life of John Coleridge Patteson, Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands published.
1874 Lady Hester, or, Ursula’s Narrative published.
1875 Recollections of Colonel de Gonville published.
1876 The Three Brides published.
1879 The Youth of Queen Elizabeth, 1533-1558 published.
1881 Lads and Lasses of Langley published.
1882 Pickle and His Page Boy, or, Unlooked For: A Story published.
1884 Memoirs of Colonel Bugeaud Edited from the French by Charlotte M. Yonge published.
1886 A Modern Telemachus published.
1888 Hannah More, Our New Mistress, or, Changes at Brookfield Earl and Beechcroft at Rockstone published.
1889 The Cunning Woman's Grandson: a Tale of Cheddar a Hundred Years Ago published.
1890 Life of H.R.H. the Prince Consort published.
1891 Old Times at Otterbourne and Two Penniless Princesses published.
1893 Authorship published.
1894 The Cook and the Captive, or Attalus the Hostage published.
1895 The Carbonels published.
1896 The Release, or, Caroline's French Kindred published.
1898 John Keble's Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne published.
1901 Reasons why I am a Catholic and not a Roman Catholic published. Charlotte Young dies, buried in Otterbourne Churchyard.
Essential Readings:
Boardman, Kay, ed , Jones, Shirley, ed. Popular Victorian Women Writers. Manchester: Manchester UP. 245p bibl index. 2004.
Dennis, Barbara. Charlotte Yonge (1823-1901), Novelist of the Oxford Movement: A Literature of Victorian Culture and Society. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: Edwin Mellen P. vii+176p. 1992.
Sturrock, June. 'Heaven and Home': Charlotte M. Yonge's Domestic Fiction and the Victorian Debate Over Women. Victoria: U of Victoria. 127p. 1995.
Recommended editions:
Editions published by Oxford University Press, Macmillan, Bernhard Tauchnitz, Virago, and Boradview Press.
Recommended biographies:
Battiscombe, Georgina. Delafield, E.M., intro. Charlotte Mary Yonge. The Story of an Uneventful Life. 1943.
Coleridge, Christabel. Charlotte Mary Yonge. Her life and letters. London: Macmillan, 1903.
Recommended edition of letters:
Yonge, Charlotte Mary. The Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901). Ed. Mitchell, Charlotte; Jordan, Ellen; and Schinske, Helen. London: University of London School of Advanced Study, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10065/337
Manuscripts
Manuscripts of Charlotte Yonge's works are held in the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists at the Princeton University Library; Plymouth and West Devon Record Office, England; University of Pennsylvania Library; Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK; and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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