Emerson, Nature (1836)

Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838)

Poe, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque(1840)

Poe, The Raven and Other Poems and Tales;Frederick Douglass, Narrative (1845)

Brontë, Jane Eyre (1846)

Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850)

Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)

Thoreau, Walden (1854)

Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1^st ed., 1855)

Darwin, Origin of the Species (1859)

Dickinson writes several hundred poems (1860—65)

Marx, Capital (1867)

Browning,The Ring and the Book (1868)

Darwin, Descent of Man (1871)

Hopkins, Wreck of Deutschland (c. 1875)

Ibsen, A Doll’s House (1879)

Poems (eds. Mabel Todd and T. Higginson) (1890)

Whitman, Leaves of Grass (9^th ed.); Gilman,The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)

Letters (ed. M. Todd) (1894)

1825

1895

Dickinson born in Amherst (Dec. 10, 1830)

American Transcendentalists meet in Boston and Concord (1836)

Dickinson attends Amherst Academy (1841—47)

Upsurge of Romantic movement in France, Germany, and Italy (1844—45)

Dickinson attends Mount Holyoke; Seneca Falls Convention for Women’s Rights (1848)

Dickinson corresponds with T. Higginson of Atlantic Monthly seeking publication of her poems (1862)

Dickinson becomes recluse (early 1860s)

Civil War (1861—65); assassination of Lincoln (1865)

Dickinson’s father dies (1873)

Telephone patented (1876)

Edison invents light bulb (1879)

Dickinson’s mother dies (1882)

Mabel Todd begins affair with Austin, Emily’s brother (1883)

Dickinson dies in Amherst (May 15, 1886)

Todd and Higginson edit poems (1890)

Higginson publishes Dickinson’s letters in Atlantic Monthly (1891)

Whitman dies (1892)