Gothic Timeline- Emilie Cheung By osniparitz 1757 Edmund Burke publishes ‘A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful’ 1760 George III coronation 1764 The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 1786 Vathek by William Beckford 1789 Beginning of the French Revolution 1794 The Mystery of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe 1796 The Monk by Matthew Lewis 1797 The Italian by Ann Radcliffe 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte made Consul in France, marking end of the French Revolution 1800 The year the most Gothic novels were published in England 1803 The Napoleonic Wars starts 1815 The Napoleonic Wars end 1817 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 1818 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 1820 George III death 1821 George IV coronation Period: 1827 to 1849 Poetry and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe 1830 George IV death 1831 William IV coronation 1833 Slave trade banned in British Empire 1837 William IV death 1838 Victoria coronation 1838 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 1847 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 1859 Darwin’s origins of species publication 1860 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 1861 American Civil War starts 1865 American Civil War ends 1884 British and French women granted rights of divorce, raising increased concerns about the greater independence of women 1885 The Labouchere Amendment passed in England 1886 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 1895 Freud publishes ‘Studies in Hysteria’ 1895 Oscar Wilde prosecuted for homosexuality in England 1897 Dracula by Bram Stoker 1898 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 1901 Victoria death 1902 Edward VII coronation 1909 The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux 1910 Edward VII death 1911 George V coronation 1915 First World War starts 1918 First World War ends 1929 Stock market crash 1936 George V death 1937 George VI coronation 1938 Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 1939 Second World War starts 1945 Second World War ends 1952 George VI death 1953 Elizabeth II coronation 1975 The Fog by James Herbert 1977 The Shining by Stephen King 1979 The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter 1987 Beloved by Toni Morrison