Jude the Obscure (Oxford World's Classics)
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History of Creation
(popularizing an evolutionary view) John Henry Newman joins the Roman Catholic Church. Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil F. Engels, Condition of the Working Classes in England in ‘Railway Mania’ year: Railway Acts passed. Repeal of the Corn Laws which have protected farm prices. Irish potato famine ( –) kills over a million people. Ten Hour Factory Act (limiting working hours). Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights. Life Historical and Cultural Background – Schooling in Dorset. Chartist Petition to Parliament and end of Chartism. Year of revolutions in Europe. Public Health Act (inspired by Edwin Chadwick’s Report into the Sanitary Conditions of the Working Classes). Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded. Dickens, Dombey and Son Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto Public Libraries Act. Dickens, David Copper field Tennyson, In Memoriam The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, supported by Prince Albert, a great success. Ruskin, The Stones of Venice Thackeray, Henry Esmond Vaccination against smallpox becomes compulsory. Dickens, Bleak House Charlotte Brontë, Villette Gaskell, Cranford Matthew Arnold, Poems Outbreak of the Crimean War: Britain and France defend European interests in the Middle East against Russia; Florence Nightingale goes out to Scutari in the Crimea. Dickens, Hard Times Gaskell, North and South Anthony Trollope, The Warden ( first of the Barchester novels) Hardy watches the hanging of Martha Browne for the murder of her husband (thought to be remembered in the death of Tess Durbey field on the gallows). Crimean War ends; Victoria Cross for bravery instituted. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (lengthy and melodramatic verse narrative of a woman writer’s life) Chronology xxx Life Historical and Cultural Background – Articled to Dorchester architect John Hicks; later his assistant; late s, important friendship with Horace Moule (eight years older, middle-class, and Cambridge educated) who becomes his intellectual mentor and encourages his self-education in the classics. Matrimonial Causes Act makes divorce possible without an Act of Parliament, but on unequal terms for men and women. Dickens, Little Dorrit Trollope, Barchester Towers Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary Indian Mutiny crushed. George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life Darwin, The Origin of Species Samuel Smiles, Self-Help J. S. Mill, Liberty Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Eliot, Adam Bede Tennyson, Idylls of the King Cobden Act extends free trade. Eliot, The Mill on the Floss Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White Death of Prince Albert: Victoria goes into seclusion. Outbreak of American Civil War. Dickens, Great Expectations Eliot, Silas Marner Francis Palgrave, Golden Treasury (much quoted by Hardy) Isabella Beeton, Book of Household Yüklə 1,33 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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