Hopkins, Gerard Manley Contents
Hopkins, Gerard Manley Timeline
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| 1844 |
Co-operative Society founded in Rochdale Factory Act (women and children) Expansion of railways across Britain |
Disraeli's Coningsby, or The New Generation published | Hopkins born on 28th July |
| 1845 |
John Henry Newman converts to Catholicism Financial speculation in Railways Onset of the Irish potato famine The first Anglican sisterhood, Park Village, is founded in the Christ Church parish |
Disraeli's Sybil, or The Two Nations published E. A. Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination |
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| 1846 |
Repeal of Corn Laws Famine in Ireland Whigs come to Power |
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| 1847 |
Railway reaches Dorchester Ten Hours' Factory Act |
Disraeli's Tancred | |
| 1848 |
Chartist demonstrations in London following by the collapse of the Chartist movement Democratic Revolutions in Europe. Cholera epidemic Public Health Act Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded |
Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto Newman's Loss and Gain |
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| 1849 | Bedford College for Women founded | Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke | |
| 1850 |
Roman Catholic hierarchy established Public Libraries Act |
Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter |
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| 1851 |
Great Exhibition in London Taylor Mill's The Enfranchisement of Women |
Ruskin's Stones of Venice Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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| 1852 | Hopkins' family move to Hampstead | ||
| 1853 |
Cholera epidemic Crimean War |
Yonge's Heir of Redclyffe | |
| 1854 | Onset of Crimean War | Hopkins attends Highgate Grammar School | |
| 1855 |
Daily Telegraph Repeal of stamp duty on newspapers |
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South | |
| 1856 | Crimean War ends | Dickens, Little Dorrit | |
| 1857 |
Railway extended to Weymouth Indian Mutiny Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act |
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary Hughes' Tom Brown's School days Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh |
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| 1858 |
Ballantyne's Coral Island English Woman's Journal begins George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life |
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| 1859 |
Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species published Rise of movement for Home Rule in Ireland |
Smiles' Self Help published Mill's On Liberty |
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| 1860 | Cornhill Magazine begins | ||
| 1861 |
Death of Prince Consort American Civil War begins |
Dickens, Great Expectations Beeton's Book of Household Management Wood's East Lynne |
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| 1862 | Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret | ||
| 1863 | The Oxford Declaration published | Kingsley's The Water Babies | Hopkins enters Balliol College, Oxford University |
| 1864 | John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua | ||
| 1865 |
American Civil War ends Women's Suffrage Campaign Transatlantic cable laid Joseph Lister establishes antiseptic surgery Completion of St. Pancras' railway station Slavery is abolished in the USA |
Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism | |
| 1866 |
Cholera epidemic Former slaves granted citizenship and equal rights in America Ku Klux Klan founded |
Swinburne's Poems and Ballads (dedicated to Rossetti) published | Newman receives Hopkins into the Catholic Church in October |
| 1867 |
Second Reform Act Fenian Rising in Ireland |
Marx's Das Kapital published George Eliot's Felix Holt, the Radical |
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| 1868 | Gladstone becomes Prime Minister | Hopkins enters the Jesuit order | |
| 1869 |
Opening of Suez Canal Mill's The Subjection of Women |
Arnold's Culture and Anarchy Blackmore's Lorna Doone |
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| 1870 |
Education Act: free education in new board schools First Married Women's Property Act |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems | Studies at Stoneyhurst |
| 1871 |
Trade Union Act Darwin's The Descent of Man |
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| 1872 | MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin | ||
| 1873 |
Mill's Autobiography Pater's Studies in the Renaissance |
Hopkins teaches at Roehampton | |
| 1874 | Hopkins studies at St. Bueno's near St. Asaph, North Wales | ||
| 1875 | Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial by Jury | Hopkins writes The Wreck of the Deutschland | |
| 1876 |
Invention of telephone by Alexander Graham Bell Queen Victorian proclaimed Empress of India |
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| 1877 | Hopkins writes God's Grandeur; The Windhover; Pied Beauty | ||
| 1878 |
Gramophones first produced by Thomas Edison Newman made Cardinal Revolutions in Europe |
Hardy's Return of the Native published Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore |
Hopkins teaching at Stonyhurst and London |
| 1879 | Electric lightbulb invented | George Meredith's The Egoist published | Hopkins in Oxford. Writes Binsey Poplars; Duns Scotus' Oxford etc |
| 1880 | (-1881) First Boer War, also known as the Transvaal War | Hardy's The Trumpet Major is published | Hopkins writes Felix Randal. Lives in Liverpool |
| 1881 | First Anglo-Boer War |
Hardy's A Laodicean published Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ballads and Sonnets Uncle Remus series, J C Harris |
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| 1882 |
First commercial production of electricity Married Women's Property Act, enables women to buy, own and sell property and to keep their own earnings |
Hopkins writes Ribblesdale. Lives in Stonyhurst | |
| 1883 | Fabian Society founded |
Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathrustra |
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| 1884 |
Ruskin's Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth-Century Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain |
Hopkins goes to University College, Dublin as professor |
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| 1885 | Haggard's King Solomon's Mines | Hopkins writes the Terrible Sonnets | |
| 1887 | Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee celebrating 50 years of her reign | Haggard's Allan Quartermain | |
| 1888 |
Jack the Ripper murders five women in London Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society |
Arnold's Essays in Criticism (Second Series) | Hopkins writes That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire |
| 1889 | Newman dies | Death of Gerard Manley Hopkins | Hopkins writes Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord; in April contracts typhoid fever, then dies on June 8th |
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