Book Events for JessamyJane
Events within the books in JessamyJane's library
"Dorian Gray" used in defense of Marquess of Queensbury in Wilde's prosecution for criminal liable
13th century
14th century
15th century
17th century
18th century
- Candide (Dover Thrift Editions) by Voltaire
- The Diverting History of John Gilpin by William Cowper
- Hokusai: A Graphic Biography (Graphic Lives) by Giuseppe Lantazi
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
1980s
1984
19th century
- 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
- The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse (Penguin Classics) by Edward Lear
- From hell : being a melodrama in sixteen parts by Alan Moore
- Hokusai: A Graphic Biography (Graphic Lives) by Giuseppe Lantazi
- The letters of Vincent van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh
1st century
1st century BCE
- Poems (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Gaius Valerius Catullus
- The twelve Caesars by Suetonius.,
4th century BCE
5th century
Age of Sail
Alchemy in Renaissance and early modern Europe
Alien Invasion
American Civil War
Anschluss
Apartheid
Armageddon
Assassination of John Lennon
- John by Cynthia Lennon (1980-12-08)
Bal de l'Opera
- The phantom of the Opera / illustrated by Greg Hildebrandt ; story by Gaston Leroux by Gaston (1868-1927). Greg Hildebrandt (ill.) Leroux
Basil Hallward completes painting of Dorian Gray
Battle of Lepanto
Battle of Maldon
Beheading game
Big Bang
Birth of Tessa Humphries
- More please by Barry Humphries (1963-05-14)
The Board of Poor Law Guardians
The British Women's Temperance Association
Christmas
- "Doctor Who": Hornets' Nest: Stuff of Nightmares v. 1 (BBC Audio)
- "Doctor Who": Hornets' Nest: Circus of Doom v. 3 (BBC Audio) by Paul Magrs
- "Doctor Who": Hornets' Nest: Dead Shoes v. 2 (BBC Audio) by Paul Magrs
- "Doctor Who": Hornets' Nest: Sting in the Tale v. 4 (BBC Audio) by Paul Magrs
- The annotated Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Relics of time by Paul Magrs
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
Classical Antiquity
- Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
- Heroes by Stephen Fry
- Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) by Ovid
- Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece by Stephen Fry (author)
The Conciliation Committee
The Council of Elrond
Creation of humankind
Creation of the universe
Creation of the world
The Crusades
Death of Smaug
Dedication of National Cemetery at Gettysburg
Descente de la Courtille
- The phantom of the Opera / illustrated by Greg Hildebrandt ; story by Gaston Leroux by Gaston (1868-1927). Greg Hildebrandt (ill.) Leroux
The destruction of planet Earth
The Disappearance of the Dolphins
Discovery of Radium
- Marie Curie : a life by Susan Quinn
- Radioactive : Marie & Pierre Curie : a tale of love and fallout by Lauren Redniss
Domesday Book
Dorian Gray meets Lord Henry Wotton
Dreyfus Affair
Edo period or Tokugawa period
Elizabethan Era
- The Common Reader: First Series, Annotated Edition by Virginia Woolf
- Essential Shakespeare handbook by Leslie Dunton-Downer
- The Globe illustrated Shakespeare : the complete works. Annotated. Deluxe edition. by William Shakespeare
End of the Universe
English Renaissance
- The Common Reader: First Series, Annotated Edition by Virginia Woolf
- The Globe illustrated Shakespeare : the complete works. Annotated. Deluxe edition. by William Shakespeare
Existentialism
The Fabian Society
FIFA World Cup
- So, anyway... by John Cleese (1996)
filming
- There and Back Again : An Actor's Tale by Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings)
First Crusade
French Revolution
Gettysburg Address
Grand Ole Opry
Great Depression
The Great Exhibition
The Great Headgate Controversy
Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
The Great Stink
Holocaust
- The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (No 1) by Art Spiegelman
- The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance by Edmund De Waal
Holy Week
Industrial Revolution
Iran-Iraq War
Iranian Revolution
Italian Renaissance
- Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
- Renaissance woman : the life of Vittoria Colonna by Ramie Targoff
Jack the Ripper Murders
Jacobean Era
- Essential Shakespeare handbook by Leslie Dunton-Downer
- The Globe illustrated Shakespeare : the complete works. Annotated. Deluxe edition. by William Shakespeare
Japanese-American Internment
The Law and Liberty League
Liberal Party, UK
The London School Board
McCarthy Era
The Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement
Middle Ages
- The acts of King Arthur and his noble knights by John Steinbeck
- Beowulf : a dual-language edition by Howell D. Chickering
- Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
- The Divine comedy by Dante Alighieri
- The Mabinogion (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
- The travels of Marco Polo : the illustrated edition by Marco Polo
Mississippi Bubble
Mongol Empire
Moorish conquest of Spain
Murder of John Lennon
Murder of Thomas Becket
National Women's League Federation
New Year
The North-of-England Weavers' Association
Original publication of "Dorian Gray" in book form
Original publication of "Dorian Gray" in Lippincott's magazine
Port Arthur massacre
- Port Arthur : a story of strength and courage by Margaret Scott (1996-4-28)
Post-Impressionism
The Primrose League
Qin Dynasty
Quest for Olwen
Ragnarok
The Reappearance of Earth
Reign of Henry II
- Murder in the cathedral by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1189-07-06)
Reith Lectures
- Playing to the gallery : helping contemporary art in its struggle to be understood by Grayson Perry (2013)
Renaissance
- The Common Reader: First Series, Annotated Edition by Virginia Woolf
- Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
- Renaissance woman : the life of Vittoria Colonna by Ramie Targoff
Roman Empire
Roman Invasion of Britain
Salem witch trials
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller (1692)
The Salvation Army
The Scottish Women's Liberal Federation
September 11 Attacks
- In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman (2001-09-11)
South Sea Bubble
Spanish Civil War
Stairway to Heaven
Theft of the Mona Lisa
Transcendentalism
Trojan War
Tulip mania
Victorian Era
- The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse (Penguin Classics) by Edward Lear
- From hell : being a melodrama in sixteen parts by Alan Moore
William the Conqueror's survey of England
Witch trials in the early modern period
The Women's Co-operative Guild
The Women's Franchise League
Women's Liberal Associations
The Women's Liberal Federation
The Women's Social and Political Union
Women's Suffrage
The Women's Suffrage Society
World War I
- Une Australienne : Hilda Rix Nicholas in Paris, Tangier & Sydney by Julie Petersen
- The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance by Edmund De Waal
- Mad enchantment : Claude Monet and the painting of the water lilies by Ross King
- Radioactive : Marie & Pierre Curie : a tale of love and fallout by Lauren Redniss
- The African Queen by C.S. Forester (1918)
- The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (1918)
- Goodbye to All That (Collectors Library) by Robert Graves (1918)
- So, anyway... by John Cleese (1914-1918)
World War II
- 'Rommel?' - 'Gunner who?' : a confrontation in the desert by Spike Milligan
- Monty - his part in my victory by Spike Milligan
- Mussolini : his part in my downfall by Spike Milligan
- Reckoning : a memoir by Magda Szubanski
- They called us enemy by George Takei
- We are on our own : a memoir by Miriam Katin
- The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (No 1) by Art Spiegelman (1945)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell ( 1945)
- Adolf Hitler: my part in his downfall by Spike Milligan (1939-1945)
- So, anyway... by John Cleese (1939-1945)