English literature from Cooper to Orwell By Arianna.gri Period: 1754 to 1763 French and Indian War 1763 British Proclamation 1785 Alessandro Manzoni (1785- 1837) 1788 Arthur Schopenhauer (1788- 1860) 1789 James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) 1798 Giacomo Leopardi (1798- 1837) 1809 Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849) 1812 Charles Dickens (1812-1870) 1813 Søren Kierkegaard (1813- 1855) 1816 Charlotte Bronte (1816-1865) 1818 Karl Marx (1818- 1883) Period: 1820 to 1821 Liberal movements 1826 The last of the Mohicans' publication 1830 Indian Removal Act Period: 1836 to 1839 Chartism in England 1837 Oliver Twist's publication 1837 Stydies in the history of the Renaissance's publication Period: 1838 to 1901 Queen Victoria's reign 1839 Walter Pater (1839- 1894) Period: 1839 to 1842 First Opium war 1840 Giovanni Verga (1840- 1922) 1840 Thomas hardy (1840-1928) 1841 Colonization of Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong 1844 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) 1847 Jane Eyre's publication 1848 Revolutions in Europe and the First Italian war of Independence 1848 The Communist Manifesto's publication 1848 Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood 1850 Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) 1853 Van Gogh (1853- 1890) Period: 1853 to 1856 Crimean war 1854 Hard times' publication 1854 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 1855 Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912) 1856 Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939) 1859 Second Italian War of Independence 1861 Italo Svevo (1861- 1928) Period: 1861 to 1865 American Civil War 1863 Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) 1865 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) 1867 Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) 1877 Queen Victoria became Empress of India 1881 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) 1882 James joyce (1882-1941) 1882 Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) 1883 Umberto Saba (1883- 1957) 1884 Colonization of Egypt and Sudan 1885 Marius the Epicurean 1886 The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde's publication 1886 Siegfried sassoon (1886-1967) 1887 Rupert Brooke (1887- 1915) 1888 Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888- 1970) 1888 Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) 1890 Isaac Rosenberg (1890- 1918) 1891 The picture of Dorian Gray's publication 1893 Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) 1895 Jude the Obscure's publication 1896 Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896- 1940) 1897 National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies 1899 Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Period: 1902 to 1910 Edward VII's reign 1903 George Orwell (1903-1950) 1903 Women's social and political union 1909 The Manifesto of Futurism Period: 1910 to 1936 George V's reign 1914 Britan declared war on Germany 1914 Dubliners' publication Period: 1914 to 1918 First World war 1916 The Easter Rising 1916 A portrait of the artist as a young man's publication 1921 Michael Robartes and the Dancer's publication 1922 Creation of the URSS 1922 Ulysses' publication 1922 The Waste Land's publication 1925 The Great Gatsby's publication 1925 Establishment of the Fascist Regime in Italy 1925 Mrs Dalloway's publication 1928 All women's right to vote 1929 A farewell to arms' publication 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four's publication