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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