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This timeline is to help established an understanding and offer a perspective of where a work a literature stood in relation to historical events of the world and other literary works published before and after.



1987
Unfinished Tales by by J.R.R. Tolkien post-humously published.

1977
The Silmarillion by by J.R.R. Tolkien published.

1962
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess published.

1960
Obscenity trial over Lady Chatterly's Lover by Thomas Hardy ends with the acquittal of Penguin Books.

1955
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien published.
1954
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien published.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien published.

1949
1984 by George Orwell is published (under the pseudonym Eric Blair).

1937
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien published.

1922
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot published.

1897
Dracula by Bram Stoker published.

1862
Alice's Adventures Under Ground is sent as a Christmas present to Alice Liddell from Charles Lutwidge.

1850
The Scarlette Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne published.

1847
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte published (under the pseudonym Acton Bell).
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte published (under the pseudonym Currer Bell).
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte published (under the pseudonym Ellis Bell).

1845
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published in The New York Evening Mirror.

1692
The Salem Witch Trials begin in Salem, Massachesetts.

1066
Normans conquer England (September 28)


Last Updated: 3-4-2011 Created: 3-4-2011