| 1868 | Born at 30 Doughty Street, London, third child of Frederick and Anna Mew, two years after the death at seven months of Frederick Mew, her brother. |
| 1871 | Birth of brother, Richard Cobham Mew. |
| 1873 | Birth of (Caroline Frances) Anne Mew, sister. |
| 1875 | Birth of Daniel Kendall Mew, brother. |
| 1876 | Death of Christopher Barnes Mew (brother) at four months. |
| 1876 | Death of Richard Cobham Mew, at five years, of scarlet fever. |
| 1879 | Enrolled in the Lucy Harrison’s School for Girls in Gower Street. Birth of Freda Kendall Mew, sister. |
| 1888 | Anne Mew enters the Female School of Art in Queen’s Square. The Mews move from Doughty Street to 9 Gordon Street, Gordon Square, Bloomsbury. |
| 1891 | Charlotte Mew gets ticket to the British Museum Reading Room, used until 1927. |
| 1894 | First publication of fiction – ‘Passed’ – published in July, in second issue of The Yellow Book. |
| 1895 | Finishes long story ‘The China Bowl’, which is rejected by The Yellow Book. |
| 1898 | ‘F.K.M.’ (Freda Mew, sister) listed as patient in Isle of Wight County Lunatic Asylum. |
| 1898 | Death of Frederick Mew, father. |
| 1899 | Essay ‘The Governess in Fiction’ published in The Academy. |
| 1901 | Death of Henry Herne Mew, brother, at Peckham House Lunatic Asylum, Surrey. By repute, buried in Nunhead Cemetery. Essay ‘Miss Bolt’ published in Temple Bar. Travels to Brittany with five women companions. Poem ‘To a Little Child in Death’ published in Temple Bar. |
| 1902 | Stays in Paris for summer at 26 Rue de Turin. |
| 1904 | Essay on Emily Brontë published in Temple Bar. |
| 1909 | Visits Brittany during summer. |
| 1911 | Visits Boulogne. |
| 1912 | Poem ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ published in The Nation. Meets Sappho Dawson Scott, hostess and later founder of International P.E.N. |
| 1913 | Meets May Sinclair, popular British novelist. Takes a writing holiday in Dieppe. Harold Monro opens The Poetry Bookshop at Devonshire Street, London. |
| 1915 | Meets Alida and Harold Monro. |
| 1916 | Publication in May of The Farmer’s Bride by The Poetry Bookshop. |
| 1921 | New edition of The Farmer’s Bride published, with eleven new poems. Published in the United States by Macmillan with the title Saturday Market. Louis Untermeyer reviews Saturday Market in New York Evening Post. |
| 1922 | Charlotte Mew, her mother and sister, move from Gordon Street to 86 Delancey Street, Camden Town. |
| 1923 | Death of Anna Maria Mew, mother. |
| 1924 | National Portrait Gallery buys Dorothy Hawkesley portrait of Charlotte Mew. |
| 1927 | Horatio Cowan, Fitzroy Square, begins to treat Charlotte Mew for depression. Anne Mew, sister and companion, dies in June of cancer at 53. |
| 1928 | In February enters nursing home in Beaumont Street for ‘neurasthenia’. Charlotte Mew commits suicide on 24 March, by drinking Lysol. Buried beside Anne in Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Road. |