“Curiouser and Curiouser”: Part VII

Part VII: The Long Nineteenth Century

As my chosen research covers texts released at various points throughout the Nineteenth Century, I thought creating a timeline may assist with recognising significant events that occurred alongside the publication of these texts.

The following are a small example of the major events that occurred throughout the Nineteenth Century, and may have influenced the literature produced in the period.

 

 1789 – Beginning of the French Revolution

Matthew Lewis, The Monk                                                                                                1796

   1799 – End of the French Revolution

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein                                                                                               1818

1837 – Queen Victoria’s reign begins

Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Black Cat’                                                                                      1843

   1845 – Irish Potato Famine begins

Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde                                                           1886

     1897 – Women’s suffrage campaign gains momentum

Bram Stoker, Dracula                                                                                                         1897