TIMELINE

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Harriet Beecher Stiwe

Bret Harte
Sarah Ome Local Color Works Especially
(1836-1902) Local William Dean Howells
Colorist “The Luck
Jewet “The Pearl of Do´r Islan”

MAIN AUTHORS
Born 1849 (1862)
of Roaring Camp” Modern Instance (1882)
Writes “The
white Herd”

Samuel Henry James Local Colorist A Hazard of New

Clemens (1835- Born 1843 Fortunes 1890
1910) Mark International After the Civil War many
Twain Frontier, Theme Edith Wharton pre-writers: (Harte: Twain
Humor and Thoreau, Hawntone and Washington)
Realism Born 1862 “The House Lowell
of Mirth”

AMERICAN LITERATURE EVENTS

1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1920

1900
WORLD HISTORY EVENTS
1830 1840
1920
1850 1860 1870 1880 1890

PRINCIPAL EVENTS
USA becomes “The
Frontier Humor American Civil War
Midwestern Richest Nation” and
and Realism Began (1861-1865) The Glided Age of
Realism Achieves Political
1830 Old Between the Industrial 1870 Standing (1914)
Southwest North and the Local
Agriculture Colorist
Cospolitan
Novelists