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1939
Emily returns to St. Pol-sur-Mer (near Dunkerque)
World War II (1939-1945) begins
Emily publishes The Perfeckt Mann
1940
Trotsky assassinated in Mexico
Germany occupies: Poland, France, low countries
Emily delays Germans near Dunkerque
Emily attempts to row to England, captured by German sub UC-1
Battle of Britain
Emily delivered to Joseph Goebbles, and introduces herself as Murray Slaughter
Emily meets William Shirer of CBS News
Emily meets Heisenberg again, who will not help her
1941
Emily stays at Berchtesgarden, then escapes to Switzerland
Emily takes up pole vaulting
Emily writes: "Fun Untersee" ("My Lovely Seamen")(unpublished)
Germany invades Russia
Pearl Harbor: USA enters war
Orson Welles: Citizen Kane
1942
Battle of Stalingrad begins
Emily writes: The Stench of the Master Race (unpublished)
Battle of Midway
Fermi: nuclear chain reaction
1943
Allies invade Italy
Emily writes: Bugger All That (unpublished)
Germany loses Battle of Stalingrad
1944
D-Day Invasion
Emily writes: Smelly Old Buffers in Fantastical Realms (unpublished, but
she leaves the manuscript with JRR Tolkein)
1945
US drops atom bombs on Japan
War ends
Emily moves to London, England and settles in Spidgy Park
United Nations
1946
Cold war begins
Emily publishes: Phallusees of Hope: The Coming of the King
(1946, LongFellow Press, London)
1947
Puppet communist states in Eastern Europe
Indian independence
Emily runs into Hilda Matheson
"The Invincibles" take over English cricket
1948
Emily finishes Speculations (unpublished)
(Oct. 29) Emily Chesley dies tragically saving orphans from fire
Berlin airlift
Israel established
Transistor developed
George Orwell: 1984
1967
(Apr. 20) Margaret Havisham receives Throgmorton Spendawad's long lost
letter to Emily, originally mailed in late 1918
1998
Emily Chesley Reading Circle formed
2000
Emily Chesley Reading Circle website launched (emilychesley.com)
2001
The Tundra Prize instituted by Circle
2003
First publication of the (semi) Annual Meanderings of the Emily Chesley
Reading Circle.
Play produced about the life of Emily Chesley, called, "Cordially
Entertaining Emily Chesley".
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