Chronology of Texts

1780s

William Blake (1757-1827) Selected Poems

1790s

Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld (1743-1825) and John Aikin (1747-1822) ‘The Little Philosopher’ from Evenings at Home (1796)

Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld (1743-1825) & John Aikin (1747-1822) ‘The Flying Fish’ from Evenings at Home (1796)

1830s

Harriet Martineau (1802-76) From Society in America (1837)
William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857) Act 2 Scene 6, “Tom and Jerry; Or, Life in London”. Cumberland’s British Theatre. Vol. 33. London: John Cumberland, [n.d.].

1850s

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) From ‘The Present Time’, Latter Day Pamphlets (1850)

William Wells Brown (c.1814-84) From ‘Anti-Slavery Meeting’ [Speech by Brown, August, 1854]

Herman Melville (1819-1891) From ‘Poor Man’s Crumbs and Rich Man’s Pudding’ in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (1854)

Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (1780-1865) and Pierre Toussaint (1766-1853) Excerpt from Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (1854)

Martin Delany (1812-85) From Introduction to Four Months in Liberia: or African Colonization Exposed [1855].

[Rev.] E.S. Mathews (1812-?) From The Autobiography of the Rev. E. Mathews (1867) ‘To William Wells Brown, The American Fugitive Slave’ (1855)

1860s

William Craft (1824–1900) and Ellen Craft (1826–91) from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860)

Transatlantic Exchange on Abolition as the Union’s Newly Declared War Aim (1862-63)

1870s

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) ‘Great-Grandfather’ (1870)

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) “Surly Tim, A Lancashire Story” (1872)

Captain E. Rogers (1836-1915) ‘The Gun of the Age’, Once a Week (1872)

1880s

Louis Jackson (1843-?) From Our Caughnawagas in Egypt (1885)

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) ‘Letter XIV, 13th February 1837’, From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883)

1890s

Frederick Douglass (C. 1835-1895) ‘Haiti and the United States’ Parts I and II (1891)

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) “Little Betty’s Kitten Tells Her Story” (1894)

Frieda Cassin (1870-1896?) ‘Scissors and Paste’ (1895)

1900s

Rubén Darío (1867-1916) ‘A Roosevelt’ (1907)

1910s

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) ‘Suicide’ (1915)

Van Wyck Brooks (1886-1963) From ‘Towards Socialism’ in The World of H.G. Wells (1915)

1920s

Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) ‘This Way to the Flea Market’ (1925)