Gothic Timeline- Emilie Cheung

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  • Edmund Burke publishes ‘A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful’

  • George III coronation

  • The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

  • Vathek by William Beckford

  • Beginning of the French Revolution

  • The Mystery of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

  • The Monk by Matthew Lewis

  • The Italian by Ann Radcliffe

  • Napoleon Bonaparte made Consul in France, marking end of the French Revolution

  • The year the most Gothic novels were published in England

  • The Napoleonic Wars starts

  • The Napoleonic Wars end

  • Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

  • George III death

  • George IV coronation

  • Period: to

    Poetry and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

  • George IV death

  • William IV coronation

  • Slave trade banned in British Empire

  • William IV death

  • Victoria coronation

  • Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

  • Darwin’s origins of species publication

  • The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

  • American Civil War starts

  • American Civil War ends

  • British and French women granted rights of divorce, raising increased concerns about the greater independence of women

  • The Labouchere Amendment passed in England

  • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

  • Freud publishes ‘Studies in Hysteria’

  • Oscar Wilde prosecuted for homosexuality in England

  • Dracula by Bram Stoker

  • The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

  • Victoria death

  • Edward VII coronation

  • The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

  • Edward VII death

  • George V coronation

  • First World War starts

  • First World War ends

  • Stock market crash

  • George V death

  • George VI coronation

  • Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

  • Second World War starts

  • Second World War ends

  • George VI death

  • Elizabeth II coronation

  • The Fog by James Herbert

  • The Shining by Stephen King

  • The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

  • Beloved by Toni Morrison