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Quiz – Literary Events Timeline (3) 1820-1829

Quiz – Literary Events Timeline (3) 1820-1829

A new series beginning in 1800.
Beginning in the early years of the novel – as we know and love it – each quiz covers a decade of literary events – 2 questions per year. Births, deaths, publications, events; fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays and books for children.

  • Question of

    1820 – ‘There is always a ‘but’ in this imperfect world.’ Which Bronte sister was born this year – on January 17th?

    • Anne
    • Emily
  • Question of

    1820 – Which novel by Walter Scott, set in Saxon times, was published in this year?

    • Ivanhoe
    • Waverley
  • Question of

    1821 – Which Romantic poet died in Rome of TB at the tragically young age of 26?

    • Keats
    • Coleridge
  • Question of

    1821 – James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy takes place in which part of American history?

    • American Revolution
    • Arrival of the Mayflower
  • Question of

    1822 – How did radical Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley die in this year?

    • Drowned when his boat sinks
    • Addiction to opium
  • Question of

    1822 – Finish the name of this novel by Washington Irving: Bracebridge —

    • Hall
    • Manor
  • Question of

    1823 – Which Shakespearean tragedy was performed with the original, tragic ending – for the first time in nearly 140 years?

    • King Lear
    • Romeo and Juliet
  • Question of

    1823 – Mary Shelley’s Valperga is a novel in which genre?

    • Historical
    • Gothic
  • Question of

    1824 – Where does revolutionary Romantic poet Byron die in April of this year?

    • Greece
    • Italy
  • Question of

    1824 – Which Alexandre Dumas was born in this year – pere or fils?

    • Fils
    • Pere
  • Question of

    1825 – The author of Lorna Doone, RD Blackmore, was born in this year. What does the RD in his name stand for?

    • Richard Doddridge
    • Robert Danford
  • Question of

    1825 – Which famous diaries are published for the first time in this year?

    • Samuel Pepys’
    • Pliny the Younger’s
  • Question of

    1826 – Which famous American novel published in this year was subtitled A Narrative of 1757?

    • The Last of the Mohicans
    • The Pathfinder
  • Question of

    1826 – Which novelist and future British Prime Minister published Vivian Grey?

    • Benjamin Disraeli
    • William Gladstone
  • Question of

    1827 – Which of Dickens’ novels begins in May 1827?

    • The Pickwick Papers
    • Little Dorrit
  • Question of

    1827 – When William Blake died in London, which great work was he illustrating?

    • Dante’s Divine Comedy
    • The Decameron
  • Question of

    1828 – ‘If you want to be happy, be.’ Which great Russian novelist was born in Tula, Russia on September 9th?

    • Leo Tolstoy
    • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Question of

    1828 – What was Nathaniel Hawthorne’s first printed work called?

    • Fanshawe
    • Twice-Told Tales
  • Question of

    1829 – ‘And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.’ Which major British novel, written nearly 50 years later, begins in this year?

    • Middlemarch
    • Mill on the Floss
  • Question of

    1829 – Which aid to reading was invented in this year?

    • Braille
    • Bi-focal glasses

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