Literature of the Victorian Period
By Roger Blackwell Bailey, Ph.D.
Queen Victoria ( 1819 - 1901 )
Thomas Carlyle ( 1795-1881 ).
Thomas Babington Macaulay ( 1800 - 1859 ).
John Henry Cardinal Newman ( 1801-1890 ).
Benjamin Disraeli ( 1804-1881 ).
John Stuart Mill ( 1806-1873 ).
Elizabeth Barrett Browning ( 1806-1861 ).
Charles Darwin ( 1809-1882 ).
Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( 1809-1892 ).
William Makepeace Thackeray ( 1811-1863 ).
Robert Browning ( 1812-1889 ).
Charles Dickens ( 1812-1870 ).
Charles Reade ( 1814-1884 ).
Anthony Trollope ( 1815-1882 ).
Charlotte Brontë ( 1816-1855 ).
Emily Brontë ( 1818-1848 ).
Arthur Hugh Clough ( 1819-1861 ).
George Eliot ( 1819-1880 ).
Charles Kingsley ( 1819-1875 ).
John Ruskin ( 1819-1900 ).
Matthew Arnold ( 1822-1888 ).
Coventry Patmore ( 1823-1896 ).
Wilkie Collins ( 1824-1889 ).
Thomas Henry Huxley ( 1825-1895 ).
George Meredith ( 1828-1909 ).
Dante Gabriel Rossetti ( 1828-1882 ).
Christina Rossetti ( 1830-1894 ).
Lewis Carroll ( 1832-1898 ).
James Thomson ( 1834-1882 ).
William Morris ( 1834-1896 ).
Samuel Butler ( 1835-1902 ).
Sir William Schwenk Gilbert ( 1836 - 1911 ).
Algernon Charles Swinburne ( 1837-1909 ).
Walter Pater ( 1839-1894 ).
Thomas Hardy ( 1840-1928 ).
Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1844-1889 ).
Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1850-1894 ).
Oscar Wilde ( 1854-1900 ).
George Gissing ( 1857 - 1903 ).
Joseph Conrad ( 1857 - 1924 ).
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1859-1930 ).
Francis Thompson ( 1859 - 1907 ).
About Victorian Literature
Jerome Buckley, The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture. Harvard, 1969.
Melinda Corey and George Ochoa, The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Holt, 1996.
Walter Houghton, The Victorian Frame of Mind. Yale, 1963.
David Newsome, The Victorian World Picture. Rutgers, 1997.
G. M. Young, Victorian England. Second Edition. Oxford, 1953.
The Victorian Web. Beautiful work-- and growing.
Extensive Victorian Resources from Jack Lynch at Rutgers University.
Victorian Literary Studies Archive from Mitsuharu Matsuoka.
Victorian from Voice of the Shuttle.
Last Updated 10/29/09
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