Survey of English Literature II:
Victorian Novelists
1803-1873 Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer (Bulwer-Lytton)
Paul Clifford (1830); Eugene Aram (1832);
The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) - historical novels
1805-1882 William Harrison Ainsworth (historical novels)
Jack Sheppard (1839)
1810-1865 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Mary Barton (1848); Cranford (1851-53); Ruth (1853);
North and South (1854-55); Wives and Daughters
(1864-66)
1811-1863 William Makepeace Thackeray
Barry Lyndon (1844/1856); Henry Esmond (1852);
Pendennis (1848-50); The Newcomes (1853-55)
1812-1870 Charles Dickens
1814-1873 Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu
The Purcell Papers (1880); The House by the Churchyard (1863); Uncle Silas (1864)
1814-1884 Charles Reade
Christie Johnstone (1853)
It is Never Too Late to Mend (1856)
The Cloister and the Hearth (1861)
1815-1882 Anthony Trollope
The Warden (1855); Barchester Towers (1857); Doctor Thorne (1858); Last Chronicle of Barset (1866-67)
1816-1855 Charlotte Brontë
The Professor; Jane Eyre (1847); Shirley (1849); Villette (1853)
1818-1848 Emily Jane Brontë
Wuthering Heights (1847)
1820-1849 Anne Brontë
Agnes Grey (1847); The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
1819-1880 George Eliot (Mary Anne/Marian Evans)
Scenes of Clerical Life (1857)
Adam Bede (1859); The Mill on the Floss (1860); Silas Marner (1861); Romola (1862-63); Felix Holt (1866); Middlemarch (1871-72); Daniel Deronda (1876)
1819-1875 Charles Kingsley
Westward Ho! (1855)
1824-1889 William Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White (1859-60); The Moonstone (1868)
1825-1900 Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (1869)
1828-1909 George Meredith
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859);
The Egoist (1879)
1828-1897 Margaret Oliphant
1835-1902 Samuel Butler
Erewhon (1872); The Way of all Flesh (1873)
1836-1901 Sir Walter Besant (novels about the working class)
All Sorts and Conditions of Men (1882)
1839-1894 Walter Horatio Pater
Marius the Epicurean (1885)
1840-1928 Thomas Hardy
Under the Greenwood Tree (1872); A Pair of Blue Eyes (1872-73); Far From the Madding Crowd (1874); The Return of the Native (1878); The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886); The Woodlanders (1886-87); Wessex Tales (1888); Tess of the d´Urbervilles (1891); Jude the Obscure (1894-95)
1850-1894 Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
Kidnapped (1886); The Master of Ballantrae (1888-89)
1852-1933 George Moore
1856-1925 Sir Henry Rider Haggard
King Solomon´s Mines (1885); She (1886-87)
1857-1903 George Robert Gissing
New Grub Street (1891); The Odd Women (1893)
1859-1930 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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