Chronology / Publication Date
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722)
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (1847)
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001)
Toni Morrison, A Mercy (2008)
Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (2009)
Jo Baker, Longbourn (2013)
Chronology / Narrative Time and Setting
Moll Flanders
Moll is born in 1614; the narrated story concludes in 1683; Set in England and the Colonial America
A Mercy
1680s and 1690s; Europe and Colonial Americas
Pride and Prejudice
Early 19th Century; England
Longbourn
Early 19th Century; England
Wide Sargasso Sea
1830s and 1840s; Jamaica and England
Jane Eyre
Mid-Nineteenth Century; England
Mrs. Dalloway
Post World War I; England
Atonement
1930s, 1940s, present day; England
Brooklyn
1950s; Ireland and the United States