Jude the Obscure (Oxford World's Classics)

Cornhill Magazine
). Hardy
marries Emma and sets up
house in Surbiton, London.
(They have no children, to
Hardy’s regret, and she never
gets on with his family.)
Factory Act.
 Emma and Hardy return to
Swanage in Dorset. 
Artisans’ Dwellings Act (providing hous-
ing for the ‘respectable poor’ or ‘artisans’).
E
fficient system of compulsory
vaccination of children against smallpox
introduced.
Trollope, The Way We Live Now (
fierce sat-
ire on contemporary society and its greed)
 The Hand of Ethelberta (previ-
ously serialized in the Cornhill
Magazine
) published in
volume form.
Disraeli creates Victoria Empress of India.
Alexander Graham Bell patents the
telephone. Invention of the phonograph.
Eliot, Daniel Deronda
Henry James, Roderick Hudson
 The Return of the Native (pre-
viously serialized in Belgravia)
published in volume form.
The Hardys move back to
London (Tooting). Serialized
version of part of the
unpublished 
first novel
appears in Harper’s Weekly in
New York as An Indiscretion in
the Life of an Heiress
(never
included in his collected
works).
London University grants degrees to
women for the 
first time.
G. H. Lewes dies.

Beginning of a long though intermittent
economic depression in Britain, lasting
into the 
s. William Morris’s lecture,
The Art of the People
, explaining ideas
which led later to the Arts and Crafts
Movement in the latter part of the century.
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House
James, Daisy Miller
Chronology
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Life
Historical and Cultural Background
 The Trumpet-Major
(previously serialized in Good
Words
) published in volume
form. Hardy is ill for many
months.
Gladstone becomes Prime Minister for the
second time. George Eliot and Gustave
Flaubert die.
Education Act makes elementary
education compulsory. Charles Parnell
demands home rule for Ireland.
George Gissing, Workers in the Dawn
Tennyson, Ballads and Other Poems
Trollope, The Duke’s Children (last of the
Palliser novels)
 A Laodicean (previously
serialized in Harper’s New
Monthly Magazine
) published
in volume form. The Hardys
return to Dorset, living at 
first
in Wimborne.
Death of Carlyle. ‘Otto’ safety bicycle
patented: Hardy and Emma become keen
cyclists. By the 
s many have
succumbed to ‘bicycle mania’.
Ibsen, Ghosts (involving syphilis but later
seen by Queen Victoria)
James, Portrait of a Lady
 Two on a Tower (previously
serialized in the Atlantic
Monthly
) published in volume
form.
–
Parliament repeatedly vetoes votes for
women.

Andrew Mearns, The Bitter Cry of Outcast
London
(exposé of poverty)
 Hardy becomes a Justice
of the Peace and serves
as a magistrate in
Dorchester.
Third Reform Bill. Founding of the Fabian
Society.
 The Hardys move for the last
time: to a house, Max Gate,
outside Dorchester, designed
by Hardy and built by his
brother.
Death of General Gordon at Khartoum.
Criminal Law Amendment Act (raises age
of consent to 
).
 The Mayor of Casterbridge
(previously serialized in The