Editing Whitsun (section)

==In literature==
* 1485: [[Thomas Malory|Malory]]'s ''[[Le Morte D'Arthur]]'' has the [[Knights of the Round Table]] witness a divine vision of the [[Holy Grail]] on a Whitsunday, prompting their quest to find its true location.
* 1607: [[Thomas Middleton]] refers to "the Whitsun holy-days" in ''[[Michaelmas Term (play)|Michaelmas Term]]'' (IV.i.73).
* 1611: In [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Winter's Tale]]'' [[Perdita (The Winter's Tale)|Perdita]] imagines that she plays "as I have seen them do / In Whitsun pastorals" (IV.iv.133-34).
* 1617: [[James VI and I|James I]]'s ''[[Declaration of Sports]]'' encouraged "[[Parish ale|Whitsun ale]]s", among other things, as soon as church was over on a [[Sabbath in Christianity|Sunday]].
* 1633: [[George Herbert]] wrote a poem called "Whitsunday", first published in ''The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations''.
* 1759-67: [[Laurence Sterne]]'s novel ''[[The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]]'' contains several allusions to Whitsuntide.
* 1785: [[Samuel Johnson]] records in his ''Prayers and Meditations'' that "Between Easter and Whitsun-tide [1773 . . . he] attempted to learn the Low Dutch language." [[James Boswell]] reproduces the remark in his ''[[Life of Samuel Johnson]]'' (1791).
* 1787: ''The Whitsun Donative'' was an anonymous satirical pamphlet inspired by [[Laurence Sterne|Sterne]]'s ''[[The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman|Tristram Shandy]]''.
* 1844: Whitsun is central to religious life in Swiss author [[Jeremias Gotthelf]]'s novel ''Money and Spirit''.
* 1849: [[Charlotte Brontë]]'s novel ''[[Shirley (novel)|Shirley]]'' contains an episode set against a Whitsun-tide procession in which [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] parishioners are confronted by [[English Dissenters|dissenters]].
* 1853: [[Charles Dickens]] sets a scene in the life of King [[Edward I of England|Edward I]] on "one Friday in Whitsun week" in ''[[A Child's History of England]]''.
* 1853: [[Christina Rossetti]] wrote a poem called "Whitsun Eve", published posthumously in 1896.
* 1861: [[George Eliot]] mentioned Whitsun in her novel [[Silas Marner]]. 
* 1875: Charles Dickens's posthumous collection ''[[The Uncommercial Traveller]]'' includes (in Chapter 21) a reflection on "one day in the Whitsun week last past".
* 1875: In [[Anthony Trollope]]'s book ''[[The Way We Live Now]]'' many of the aristocrats leave London and travel to their country estates, or those of their acquaintances, for the week of Whitsuntide.
* 1896: [[H. G. Wells]] refers to Whitsun in "The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham", later included in ''[[The Country of the Blind and Other Stories]]''.
* 1897: In H. G. Wells's ''[[The Invisible Man]]'', important events take place around Whit Monday and subsequent days.
* 1911: The short story "The Wrong Shape" in [[G. K. Chesterton|G. K. Chesterton's]] ''The Innocence of Father Brown'' takes place in Whitsuntide.
* 1916: [[James Joyce]]'s novel ''[[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]'' contains reference (in Chapter 2) to a Whitsuntide play at [[Stephen Dedalus]]'s school, Belvedere College.
* 1922: James Joyce's novel ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' contains four references to Whit Monday. [[Leopold Bloom]] is stung by a bee on Whitmonday, 23 May 1904.
* 1932: [[Agatha Christie]]'s short story "[[The Thirteen Problems|Ingots of Gold]]" references Whitsuntide and Whit Monday as clues in solving the crime.
* 1936: In [[Gladys Mitchell]]'s [[Mrs Bradley]] detective novel ''Dead Men's Morris'' ([[Michael Joseph (publisher)|Michael Joseph]], 1936, reprinted 1986) the story of the murders of an [[Oxfordshire]] solicitor and his rival, a landowner, begins on Christmas Eve, and reaches its climax with a [[Morris dance]] performance on Whit-Monday.
* 1938: In [[Graham Greene]]'s [[Brighton Rock (novel)|Brighton Rock]], Hale is murdered on Whitsun, kicking off events in the novel.
* 1943: [[Kathleen Raine]]'s poem "Whitsuntide 1942" provides the title for her first poetry collection, ''Stone and Flower'', by referencing 'the world / of stone and flower that compels my thought... what nerve have I, beloved Lord, what sense / to know the holy presence of my God?'
* 1950: The autobiographical novel [[A Voice Through a Cloud]] by [[Denton Welch]] concerns the author's near-fatal bike accident and its aftermath, which occurred on a Whitsun holiday.
* 1957: [[Enid Blyton]]'s ''[[Five Go to Billycock Hill]]'' is a novel in the [[The Famous Five (novel series)|Famous Five]] series of children's books set during a camping holiday at Whitsun.
* 1961: [[Sylvia Plath]] wrote a poem called "[[Crossing the Water|Whitsun]]", published posthumously in 1971.
* 1964: ''[[The Whitsun Weddings]]'' is a poem and the title of a collection by [[Philip Larkin]].
* 1965: "Whitsunday in Kirchstetten" is a poem by [[W. H. Auden]], from his collection ''[[About the House]]''.
* 1973: [[Thomas Pynchon]] refers to Whitsun in his novel ''[[Gravity's Rainbow]]'' (section 2, 20).
* 2010: In ''[[Washington: A Life]]'', a 2010 biography by [[Ron Chernow]], [[George Washington]] is said to have included a drinking allowance in an employment contract with one of his gardeners, allowing "two dollars at Whitsuntide to be drunk four days and four nights" (p.&nbsp;135).
* 2011: Several episodes in author Jeff Wheeler's ''Muirwood Trilogy'' revolve around Whitsunday and its significance and impact on Muirwood's inhabitants.
*2022: Whitsun is mentioned in Gillian McAllister's "Wrong Place Wrong Time"