Bronte, Charlotte » Timeline
Historical
Riots in East Anglia and the manufacturing districts of the north of England
William Cobbett's Political Register
Economic depression
Literary
Scott's The Antiquary
Austen, Jane
Austen's Emma
Bronte, Charlotte
Charlotte Brontė born
Byron, Lord George
Byron's Childe Harold Pilgrimage III, 3
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge's Kubla Khan
Dickens, Charles
Dickens family lives in London (- 1817)
Shelley, Mary
Gives birth to son, William.
Returns to England. Fanny Imlay, Mary's half-sister, and Percy Bysshe Shelley's wife, Harriet, commit suicide.
Marries Percy Bysshe Shelley in December
Begins writing Frankenstein
Travels with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Claire to Continent; they stay at the Villa Deodati with Lord Byron and Polidori
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
P. Shelley's Alastor