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Edmund Burke publishes ‘A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful’
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George III coronation
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The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
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Vathek by William Beckford
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Beginning of the French Revolution
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The Mystery of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
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The Monk by Matthew Lewis
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The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
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Napoleon Bonaparte made Consul in France, marking end of the French Revolution
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The year the most Gothic novels were published in England
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The Napoleonic Wars starts
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The Napoleonic Wars end
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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George III death
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George IV coronation
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Poetry and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
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George IV death
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William IV coronation
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Slave trade banned in British Empire
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William IV death
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Victoria coronation
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Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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Darwin’s origins of species publication
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
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American Civil War starts
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American Civil War ends
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British and French women granted rights of divorce, raising increased concerns about the greater independence of women
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The Labouchere Amendment passed in England
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Freud publishes ‘Studies in Hysteria’
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Oscar Wilde prosecuted for homosexuality in England
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Dracula by Bram Stoker
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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
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Victoria death
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Edward VII coronation
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The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
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Edward VII death
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George V coronation
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First World War starts
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First World War ends
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Stock market crash
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George V death
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George VI coronation
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Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
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Second World War starts
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Second World War ends
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George VI death
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Elizabeth II coronation
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The Fog by James Herbert
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The Shining by Stephen King
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The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
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Beloved by Toni Morrison