Quiz – Literary Events Timeline (4) 1830-1839
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
1830 – ‘The brain is wider than the sky.’ Which great American poet was born in Massachusetts on December 10th?
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Emily Dickinson
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Walt Whitman
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1830 – Finish the title of this Mary Shelley novel: The — of Perkin Warbeck
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Fortunes
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Tribulations
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Question of
1831 – The Hunchback of Notre Dame is published – what is the name of the love of the eponymous character?
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Esmeralda
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Phoebe
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Question of
1831 – Edgar Allan Poe published 6 works in this year – which genre were they in?
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Poetry
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Short stories
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Question of
1832 – ‘”Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”’. Which author was born in Cheshire on January 27th?
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Lewis Carroll
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George Eliot
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1832 – Which 1862 French novel climaxes with this year’s June Rebellion in Paris?
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Les Miserables
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Germinal
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Question of
1833 – On December 1st a short story called A Dinner at Poplar Walk was the first published work by which great author?
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Charles Dickens
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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Question of
1833 – Which famous poem begins, ‘On either side the river lie/Long fields of barley and of rye…’
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The Lady of Shallot
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My Last Duchess
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Question of
1834 – ‘Alone, alone, all, all alone/Alone on a wide wide sea!’ Which poet died on July 25th?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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George Gordon Byron
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Question of
1834 – Finish the title of this short story by Aleksandr Pushkin: The Queen of —
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Spades
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Diamonds
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Question of
1835 – One of America’s most famous writers, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was born in Missouri on November 30th. What was his pen name?
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Mark Twain
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Henry James
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1835 – Hans Christian Andersen’s first Fairy Tales Told for Children were published. Which one appeared in the first of 61 installments: The Princess and the Pea or The Little Mermaid?
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The Princess and the Pea
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The Little Mermaid
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1836 – Pickwick Papers, Dickens’ first novel, begins serialisation. What is the first name of the eponymous Mr Pickwick, Esquire?
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Samuel
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Edward
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1836 – Which of Browning’s dramatic poems ends with the lines, ‘And all night long we have not stirred/And yet God has not said a word!’
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Porphyria’s Lover
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The Ring and the Book
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Question of
1837 – How was the great Russian poet Pushkin killed on Jan 29th?
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In a duel
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Poisoned
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1837 – Dickens’ second novel begins publication. It was subtitled The Parish Boy’s Progress. What is its main title?
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Oliver Twist
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David Copperfield
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Question of
1838 – Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket was published. Why is it unique amongst his writing?
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It was his only novel
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It was written in verse
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Question of
1838 – Dickens’ third novel, Nicholas Nickleby, introduces the world to the schoolmaster of nightmares. What is his name?
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Wackford Squeers
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Mr M’Choakumchild
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Question of
1839 – Charles Darwin published The Voyage of the Beagle, 20 years before his revolutionary work which changed the world. Where did The Beagle travel to?
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Galápagos Islands
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Fiji
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Question of
1839 – Which 1922 children’s novel by Hugh Lofting is set in this year?
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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
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The Midnight Folk
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