1856: Miss Emily is born; the narrator never mentions her birthday directly,
but his reference to "the day of her death at seventy-four"(127-28)
defines the parameters of any chronology in terms of a span of 74
years.
1870-1879:
The Grierson house is built "in the heavily lightsome style of the
seventies"(119), thus presumably during the 1870s.
1888: Her father dies after "she got to be thirsty" (123)
1889: She meets Homer Barron "the summer after her father's death"(124).
1890: She buys arsenic from the druggist "over a year after they had begun
to say "Poor Emily....She was over thirty then"(125). She poisons
Homer Barronn, who disappears "two years after her father's death";
a smell is noticed "a short time after""(122), which is also "thirty
years before" the tax visit(121).
1893-1990:
Miss Emily is "about forty"; she gives lessons in china-painting "for
a period of six or seven years"(128)
1894: "Meanwhile"(119,128) Colonel Sartoris, the mayor remits her taxes.
1920: She is visited by a deputation of the Board of Aldermen "eight or ten
years" after she stops giving china-painting lessons (120) and "almost
ten years" (121) after the death of Colonel Sartoris.
1930: She dies "at least ten years" (119) since her last visit, presumably
from the tax deputation; after her funeral, the room, "which no one
had seen in forty years" (129), is open.
THE NORTON INTRODUCTION to Literature p500
APPENDIX: A CHRONOLOGY FOR MISS EMLY GRIERSON
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