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.
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Question of
1820 – ‘There is always a ‘but’ in this imperfect world.’ Which Bronte sister was born this year – on January 17th?
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Anne
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Emily
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Question of
1820 – Which novel by Walter Scott, set in Saxon times, was published in this year?
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Ivanhoe
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Waverley
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Question of
1821 – Which Romantic poet died in Rome of TB at the tragically young age of 26?
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Keats
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Coleridge
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Question of
1821 – James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy takes place in which part of American history?
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American Revolution
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Arrival of the Mayflower
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Question of
1822 – How did radical Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley die in this year?
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Drowned when his boat sinks
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Addiction to opium
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Question of
1822 – Finish the name of this novel by Washington Irving: Bracebridge —
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Hall
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Manor
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Question of
1823 – Which Shakespearean tragedy was performed with the original, tragic ending – for the first time in nearly 140 years?
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King Lear
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Romeo and Juliet
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Question of
1823 – Mary Shelley’s Valperga is a novel in which genre?
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Historical
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Gothic
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Question of
1824 – Where does revolutionary Romantic poet Byron die in April of this year?
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Greece
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Italy
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Question of
1824 – Which Alexandre Dumas was born in this year – pere or fils?
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Fils
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Pere
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Question of
1825 – The author of Lorna Doone, RD Blackmore, was born in this year. What does the RD in his name stand for?
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Richard Doddridge
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Robert Danford
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Question of
1825 – Which famous diaries are published for the first time in this year?
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Samuel Pepys’
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Pliny the Younger’s
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Question of
1826 – Which famous American novel published in this year was subtitled A Narrative of 1757?
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The Last of the Mohicans
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The Pathfinder
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Question of
1826 – Which novelist and future British Prime Minister published Vivian Grey?
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Benjamin Disraeli
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William Gladstone
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Question of
1827 – Which of Dickens’ novels begins in May 1827?
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The Pickwick Papers
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Little Dorrit
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Question of
1827 – When William Blake died in London, which great work was he illustrating?
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Dante’s Divine Comedy
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The Decameron
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Question of
1828 – ‘If you want to be happy, be.’ Which great Russian novelist was born in Tula, Russia on September 9th?
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Leo Tolstoy
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Question of
1828 – What was Nathaniel Hawthorne’s first printed work called?
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Fanshawe
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Twice-Told Tales
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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?
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Middlemarch
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Mill on the Floss
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Question of
1829 – Which aid to reading was invented in this year?
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Braille
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Bi-focal glasses
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