https://genrefictionlineage.com/ Every genre has a birth certificate. en https://genrefictionlineage.com/scene-maps/221b-baker-street/https://genrefictionlineage.com/scene-maps/221b-baker-street/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTHolmes's address as Doyle's text gives it: No. 221B, Baker Street in 1887, then the steps, windows and the house opposite, story by story, with a CSV. https://genrefictionlineage.com/scene-maps/around-world-80-days/https://genrefictionlineage.com/scene-maps/around-world-80-days/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTVerne's text dates Fogg's departure to 2 October 1872 and his deadline to 21 December. A map of the 21 legs, with counted dates and unplaced stops marked. https://genrefictionlineage.com/scene-maps/dracula-map/https://genrefictionlineage.com/scene-maps/dracula-map/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTBy this page's count, 19 of Dracula's 27 chapters are set mainly in England. Every place tied to a chapter and a sentence, with Castle Dracula left unplaced. https://genrefictionlineage.com/utopia-dystopia/dystopian-novels-print-order/https://genrefictionlineage.com/utopia-dystopia/dystopian-novels-print-order/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT20 dystopian novels dated by first appearance in print, 1879–1985: magazine serials, changed titles, hidden authors and later edits. Sourced, with a CSV. https://genrefictionlineage.com/detective-fiction/emile-gaboriau/https://genrefictionlineage.com/detective-fiction/emile-gaboriau/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTIn Gaboriau's L'Affaire Lerouge (1866 in the 1911 Britannica), the amateur Père Tabaret solves the case and Lecoq assists. His two pasts compared. https://genrefictionlineage.com/science-fiction/frankenstein-editions/https://genrefictionlineage.com/science-fiction/frankenstein-editions/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTIn the 1818 Frankenstein, Elizabeth is Victor's first cousin; in the 1831 text she is a Milanese nobleman's daughter. Thirteen passages compared side by side. https://genrefictionlineage.com/fairy-tales/little-red-riding-hood/https://genrefictionlineage.com/fairy-tales/little-red-riding-hood/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTPerrault's 1697 Little Red Riding Hood ends with the wolf eating her; the huntsman's rescue is in the Grimms' 1812 text. Three texts compared stage by stage. https://genrefictionlineage.com/detective-fiction/locked-room-mystery/https://genrefictionlineage.com/detective-fiction/locked-room-mystery/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTA sealed-room murder was in print by 1838 in a Le Fanu tale, before Poe's 1841 Rue Morgue. Five rooms dated to 1907, who named whom, and a CSV. https://genrefictionlineage.com/detective-fiction/moonstone/https://genrefictionlineage.com/detective-fiction/moonstone/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Notting Hill Mystery began in Once a Week on 29 November 1862, five years before The Moonstone. Both serials dated and compared, with a CSV. https://genrefictionlineage.com/utopia-dystopia/news-from-nowhere/https://genrefictionlineage.com/utopia-dystopia/news-from-nowhere/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTWilliam Morris reviewed Bellamy's Looking Backward on 22 June 1889; News from Nowhere began in the same weekly in 1890. Dated editions, two texts compared. https://genrefictionlineage.com/fairy-tales/perrault-grimm-shared-tales/https://genrefictionlineage.com/fairy-tales/perrault-grimm-shared-tales/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTPerrault's 1697 book has eight prose tales; the Grimms' notes pair seven with tales in their 1812 edition, and two of those are absent from 1819 to 1857. https://genrefictionlineage.com/fairy-tales/rapunzel/https://genrefictionlineage.com/fairy-tales/rapunzel/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Grimms' 1812 note says Schulz told Rapunzel in 1790 from an oral source; a 1913 reference dates La Force's Persinette, with 14 of 17 stages alike, earlier. https://genrefictionlineage.com/fairy-tales/snow-white/https://genrefictionlineage.com/fairy-tales/snow-white/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTIn the Grimms' 1812 Snow White the jealous queen is her own mother; the 1819 edition makes her a stepmother. Thirteen passages compared in three editions. https://genrefictionlineage.com/science-fiction/space-opera/https://genrefictionlineage.com/science-fiction/space-opera/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe earliest known use of “space opera” is in a January 1941 fan magazine, per the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. The stories it names came first. https://genrefictionlineage.com/science-fiction/subgenres/https://genrefictionlineage.com/science-fiction/subgenres/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTTwelve science fiction names, from utopia to steampunk, each dated against an early work of its kind. Most of the names reached print years later. https://genrefictionlineage.com/utopia-dystopia/thomas-more-utopia/https://genrefictionlineage.com/utopia-dystopia/thomas-more-utopia/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTThomas More's Utopia was printed in Latin in 1516; the earliest known English edition in USTC is Robinson's of 1551. A dated table of 13 printings to 1715. https://genrefictionlineage.com/science-fiction/time-machine/https://genrefictionlineage.com/science-fiction/time-machine/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTEnrique Gaspar's El anacronópete put a time machine in print in Barcelona in 1887, eight years before Wells. Ten time-travel stories to 1895, dated, with a CSV. https://genrefictionlineage.com/utopia-dystopia/utopian-communities/https://genrefictionlineage.com/utopia-dystopia/utopian-communities/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTRobert Owen bought New Harmony ready-built. A dated table of 16 American communities, founded 1825–1846 and later dissolved, each date from an 1870s survey.