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			1622 Mourt's Relation published in London

1637 Thomas Morton, "New English Canaan"

			1650 Anne Bradstreet, "The Tenth Muse"

1661 George Bishop, "New England Judged"

			1667 George Bishop, "New England Judged, II"

1683 Mary Rowlandson's narrative

			1692 Cotton Mather, "Wonders of the Invisible World"

1695 Thomas Maule denounces Puritan leaders

			1700 Robert Calef, "More Wonders of the Invisible World"

1702 Cotton Mather publishes "Magnalia Christi Americana"
			1702 John Hale publishes "A Modest Inquiry"

1764 Thomas Hutchinson, "History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay"

			1770 Phillis Wheatley, "Elegy for George Whitefield"

1773 Mary Rowlandson's narrative reprinted
			1773 Phillis Wheatley, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral"

1776 Samuel Hopkins, A Dialogue Concerning the Slavery of the Africans

			1801 Reprint of French edition of Phillis Wheatley's poems

1802 Reprint of Phillis Wheatley's poems published in NH

			1814 Washington Irving, "Philip of Pokanoket"

1815 The Affecting Narrative of Louisa Baker

			1820 Cotton Mather's "Magnalia Christi Americana" reprinted
1820 Witch of New England published

			1822 Timothy Dwight, "Travels in New England and New York"

1823 Calef's "More Wonders of the Invisible World" reprinted

			1824 Lydia Sigourney, "Sketches of Connecticut Forty Years Since"
1824 A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison published
			1824 Lydia Maria Child, "Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times"

1825 John Winthrop's "History of New England" reprinted

			1826 James Fenimore Cooper, "The Last of the Mohicans"

1827 James Fenimore Cooper, "The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish"
			1827 Catharine Sedgwick, "Hope Leslie, or Early Times in Massachusetts"
1827 Sarah Josepha Hale, "Northwood"

			1829 William Apes publishes "A Son of the Forest"
1829 Charles Goodrich, "A History of the United States of America"
			1829 David Walker, An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

1830 - 1870 Domestic fiction dominates literary market

			1831 Charles W. Upham, "Lectures on Witchcraft"
1831 John Greenleaf Whitter, "Legends of New England"
			1831 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux"

1833 Lydia Maria Child, "An Appeal for that Class of Americans Called Africans"
			1833 Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Last Leaf"

1834 Whittier publishes "The Slave Ship"
			1834 James Hawkes, A Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, with a Memoir of George R.T. hewes"

1835 Benjamin Bussey Thatcher, "Traits of the Tea Party; Being a Memoir of George R.T. Hewes"

			1836 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Maypole at Merrymount"

1837 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Twice-Told Tales"
			1837 Sarah Grimke, "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes"
1837 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Endicott and the Red Cross"
			1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar"

1839 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Algic Researches

			1841 Catharine Williams, "The Neutral French, or the Exiles of Nova Scotia"
1841 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Skeleton in Armor"
			1841 Catharine Beecher, "A Treatise on Domestic Economy"
1841 Longfellow, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," in Ballads and Other Poems

			1842 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems on Slavery
1842 With the encouragement of his friend Charles Sumner, Longfellow publishes "Poems on Slavery

			1845 Frederick Douglas publishes his narrative.

1846 Hawthorne, "Roger Malvyn's Burial" in Mosses From An Old Manse

			1847 John Greenleaf Whittier, "Supernaturalism of New England"
1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline"

			1848 William Oakes, Scenery of the White Mountains
1848 Elizabeth Ellet. Women of the American Revolution
			1848 James Russell Lowell, "The Courtin'"

1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Scarlet Letter"
			1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Great Stone Face"

1851 Herman Melville, "Moby Dick"
			1851 Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
1851 J.W. DeForest, "History of the Indians of Connecticut"
			1851 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The House of the Seven Gables"

1853 Samuel Drake's edition of "Magnalia Christi Americana"

			1854 Lucy Larcom, "Hannah Binding Shoes"

1855 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Song of Hiawatha"
			1855 Herman Melville, "Tartarus of Maids"
1855 William C. Nell, "Colored Patriots of the American Revolution"

			1856 Benjamin Willey, Incidents in White Mountain History

1857 John Greenleaf Whittier, "Skipper Ireson's Ride,"

			1858 Longfellow, "The Courtship of Miles Standish"

1859 Harriet Wilson, "Our Nig, or Sketches from the LIfe of a Free Black"
			1859 Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing

1861 Longfellow publishes "Paul Revere's Ride" in Atlantic Monthly
			1861 Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Under the Washington Elm"

1862 Hawthorne published "Chiefly About War Matters" in The Atlantic Monthly

			1863 Longfellow , "Tales of a Wayside Inn"

1864 Massachusetts Historical Society published Phillis Wheatley letters

			1866 John Greenleaf Whittier, "Snowbound"

1869 Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Old-Town Folks"

			1881 Controversy over John G. Whittier's "The King's Missive"

1887 Edward Bellamy, "Looking Backward"

			1893 Alice Morse Earle, "Customs and Fashions of Old New England"

1902 Edith Wharton designs "The Mount" in Lenox, Massachusetts
			1902 William Dean Howells purchases a summer home on Kittery Point, Maine

1912 Robert Frost, "North of Boston"

			1915 Frank G. Speck, "Decorative Art of the Indian Tribes of Connecticut"

1953 Arthur Miller, "The Crucible"

			1992 The Last of the Mohicans filmed

1996 The Crucible filmed

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