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20 Cards in this Set
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1775-1830
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Jane Austen
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1785-1830
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Romantic Period
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1803-15
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Napoleonic Wars
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1816-1855
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Charlotte Bronte
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1817
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Persuasion published
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1837-1901
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Victorian period
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1832
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First Reform Bill (extending electorate to middle class)
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1847
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Jane Eyre Published
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1850
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Tennyson succeeds Wordsworth as Poet Laureate
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1867
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Second Reform Bill (extending electorate to working classes)
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1915
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T.S. Eliot publishes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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1918-1945
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Modernist Period
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1914-18
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World War I
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1922
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James Joyce's Ulysses published
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1929
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Virginia Woolf publishes "A Room of One's Own"
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1939-45
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World War II
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1945-today
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Contemporary Period
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1945-91
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Cold War
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1947
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Indian and Pakistani independence
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1991
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Collapse of the Soviet Union
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