Stephen Crane
School of Thought: Naturalism
(1871-1900)

1848 Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx (LOD)

 

 

 

1861 Confederate States formed
Abraham Lincoln 16th US President (MW)

 

1863 Battle of Gettysburg (GNK)

 

1865 North wins the Civil War (SI)

 

1869 Women suffrage movement formed two national organizations (FS)

1871 Born in Newark, New Jersey (ASS)

1872 Susan B Anthony and others arrested for voting in the Presidential election (LOD)

 

 

1880 Father died (BS)

1885 Wrote first story, “Uncle Jake and the Bell Handle”. Enrolled at Pennington Seminary (ASS)


1887 Withdrew from Pennington in protest of hazing charges (CSH)

 

1888 Enrolled at Claverack College (BS)

 

1890 First sketch, “Henry M. Stanley” published in the school magazine, Vidette (SC)

 

1890 Entered Lafayette College as mining engineering student, did not attend classes (SCS)

 

1891 Transferred to Syracuse University, became Syracuse correspondent for New York Tribune. First published story, “The King’s Favor” appeared in Syracuse University Hearld. Began writing A Girl on the Streets; quit school (CE)

 

1892 Sketches appeared in New York Tribune, and first NY sketch, “The Broken Down Van” published. Fired from Tribune for writing bitterly sarcastic article on the Junior Order of United American Mechanics (BS)


1893 Published himself A Girl of the Streets, published at his own expense because publicly rejected (ASS)

1893 Women granted full voting rights in New Zealand (LOD)

1894 Sold abridged version of The Red Badge of Courage to Bachellor-Johnson Syndicate for $90, first appeared in Philadelphia Press (RA)

 

1895 Embarked on American West and Mexico trip, writing special articles for Bachellor-Johnson. Published The Red Badge, became best seller and popular in England (ASS)

1895 Major railroad trunk lines, as we know them today, were completed, as with some telephone lines (LOD)

1896 George’s Mother, a revised versionof A Girl on the Streets, and first short story collection, The Little Regiment and Other Episodes of the American Civil War published (ASS)

 

1897 Attempted to carry contraband for Cuban rebels but shipwrecked in Florida; caused him to write “The Open Boat”. (CSH)

 

1897 Marriage to Cora Taylor, who ran brothel in Florida. Aroused large suspicion that he was drug addict and satanist (DSC)

 

1898 The Blue Hotel, The Monster, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, Death and the Child, The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure published (ASS)

1898 US declares war on Spain
Sears launches full scale Catalogue (LOD)

1899 Publishes War is Kind, The Monster and Other Stories, and Active Service, novel based on personal experience in Greece (LCI)

 

1899 Began writing extensively to pay off debt; began final book, The O’Ruddy (ASS)

 

1900 Died from Tuberculosis in an sanatorium Badenweiler, Germany (ASS)

 

 

 

 

1902 Marshall Fields and Macy's established in Chicago and Manhattan respectively (SI)

 

 

 

 1909 Boy Scouts (MW)

 

1915 Girls Scout Inception (LOD)

 

1917 US enters WWI (AHH)

 

1919 Treaty of Versailles (TVD)

 

 

 

10/29/1929 Black Tuesday: Start of Great Depression (TMM)

 

 

 

12/7/1941 Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
12/8/1941 US declares war on Japan (WWII) (SI)

 

1946 Nazi War Criminals Tried in Nuremberg Trials (SI)

 

 

 

1963 Equal Pay Act (SI)

 

1964 The Civil Rights Act (AH)

 

1967 Presidential Order prohibiting against the discrimination of women by Federal Government Contractors (LOD)

 

Work Cited

 

1. AH: Schultz, Stanley. American History 102: Civil War to Present. 2000.
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/

2. AHH: Marshall, S. L. A. The American heritage history of World War I,
New York. American Heritage Pub. Co.; book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster. 1993.

3. ASS: Hitchcock, Bert. American Short Stories, Seventh Edition. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education.

4. BS: Biography of Stephen Crane. 2001.
http://ri.essortment.com/stephencrane_rqry.htm

5. CE: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press
http://www.bartleby.com/65/cr/Crane-St.html

6. CSH: Crane’s Significant Dates of History. Copyright 2003 Crane & Co., Inc. All rights reserved.
http://www.crane.com/about/history/timeline.asp

7. DSC: Benfey, Christopher E. G. The Double life of Stephen Crane
New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1992. 1st ed.

8. FS: DuBois, Ellen Carol. Feminism and suffrage : the emergence of an independent women's movement in America, 1848-1869. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1980, c1978.

9. GNK: Borrit, Gabor. The Gettysburg nobody knows. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

10. LCI: Rowe, John Carlos. Literary culture and U.S. imperialism : from the Revolution to World War II. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

11. LOD: Leach, William. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. Vintage Books. September 1994.

12. MW: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. 10th Edition. Merriam-Webster, Inc.; 10th edition 1998.

13. RA: Geismar, Maxwell David. Rebels and ancestors; the American novel, 1890-1915. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1953.

14. SC: Stephen Crane, American Authors. 2002.
http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/crane.htm

15. SCS: The Stephen Crane Society. 2002.
http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/crane/works.htm

16. SI: Smithsonian Institution. American History Timeline. 2003.
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/timeline.htm

17. TMM: Gross, Stuart E. Gross' Anatomy of Finance: A Text For Money Management. 1996.

18. TVD: Kissinger, Henry. Diplomacy. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1994.