Major Writers of the Victorian Period

Arnold, Matthew (18221888)

1. The Strayed Reveller and
Other Poems (1849)
2. Empedocles on Etna and
other Poems (1852)
3. Poems (1853)
4. Poems, Second
Series (1855)
5. Merope, a
Tragedy (1858)
commentary
6. On Translating
Homer (lectures) (1861)
7. The Study of Celtic
Literature (lectures)
(1867)

3. Jane Eyre: An
Autobiography (1847) (as
Currer Bell).
4. Shirley: A Tale (1849) (as
Currer Bell).
5. Villette (1853)
6. The Professor: A Tale (1857)
7. The Twelve Adventurers and
Other Stories, ed. C. K.
Shorter and E. W. Hatfield
(1925)
8. Legends of Angria: Compiled
from the Early Writings of
Charlotte Bront,

4. Prometheus
Bound (translation of
Aeschylus), 1833
5. The Seraphim and Other
Poems, 1838
6. "The Cry of the Children"
published 1842

Bront, Emily (18181848)

1. "Song"

Browning, Elizabeth
Barrett (1806-1861)

1. The Battle of Marathon, c.

1818 (age 12).
2. "The Rose and Zephyr," first
published work, appears in
1825 Literary Gazette.

Browning, Robert (18121889)

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Bront, Charlotte (18161855)

1. Napoleon and the Spectre"

(1833)
2. Poems by Currer, Ellis and
Acton Bell (1846) ["Edited by
Currer Bell] (as Currer Bell).

3. An Essay on Mind (poems),

1826

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Pauline, A Fragment of a
Confession (1833)
Paracelsus (1835)
Strafford (1837)
Sordello (1840)
Strafford (1837)
Bells and
Pomegranates (1841)
Pippa Passes
Dramatic Lyrics (1842)

Carroll, Lewis (18321898)

1. Useful and Instructive

Poetry (1845)
2. Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland (1865)
3. Phantasmagoria (1869)
4. Through the Looking
Glass (1871)

Carlyle, Thomas (17951881)

1. The Life of Friedrich Schiller

(1825)
2. "Signs of the Time" (1829)
3. The French Revolution (1837)
4. Sartor Resartus (1838)
5. Critical and Miscellaneous
Essays (1839)
6. Chartism (1840)
7. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and
the Heroic in History (1841)
8. Past and Present (1843)

Dickens, Charles (18121870)

1. 1836 "Dinner at Poplar
Walk"

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1836 Sketches by Boz

1836-37 Pickwick Papers

3. 1837-39 Oliver
Twist sitemap
4. 1838-39 Nicholas
Nickleby 1840-41 The
Old Curiosity Shop
5. 1841 Barnaby Rudge
6. 1843 Martin Chuzzlewit
____. A Christmas Carol
7. 1844 The Chimes
8. 1845 The Cricket and the
Hearth

8. "Pied Beauty" "Rosa

Mystica"
9. "A Soliloquy of one of the
Spies left in the
Wilderness"
10. "Spring"
11. "Spring and Fall" "That
Nature is a Heraclitean
Fire"

1. 1881 Schoolboy Lyrics.

2. 1886 Departmental
Ditties.
3. 1887 Soldier Tales,
Indian Tales, and Tales of
the Opposite Sex.
4. 1888 Plain Tales from the
Hills, Soldiers Three, The
Story of the Gadsbys, In
Black and White, Wee
Wee Willie Winkie,
and Turn overs from
"The Civil and Military
Gazette"
5. 1890 The Courting of
Dinah Shadd and Other
Stories and The City of
Dreadful Night.
6. 1891 The Light that
Failed, Letters of
Marque and Life's
Handicap.
7. 1892 Barrack-Room
Ballads, Rhymed Chapter
Headings, and The
Naulahka

Doyle, Arthur Conan

(1859-1930)
1. "The Vanishing Herd"
2. "A Study in Scarlet"
3. "The Hound of the
Baskervilles"
4. "The Silver Mirror"

Eliot, George (18191880)

1. Strauss's Life of
Jesus (1846)
2. Feuerbach's Essence of
Christianity (1854)
Hardy, Thomas (18401928)
1. A Pair of Blue Eyes
2. Far from the Madding
Crowd, 1874

3. "The Three
Strangers," 1883

4. The Romantic
Adventures of a
Milkmaid, 1883
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
(1844-1889)
1. "Barnfloor and
Winepress"
2. "The Bugler's First
Communion"
3. "Carrion Comfort"
4. "God's Grandeur"
5. "The Loss of
the Eurydice"
6. "New Readings"
7. O seem the stranger lies
my lot

Kipling, Rudyard (18651936)

Rossetti, Christina
(1830-1894)
1. "After Death"
2. "Another Spring"
3. "At Home"
4. "An Echo from
Willowwood"
5. "A Ballad of Boding"
6. "A Better Resurrection"
7. "The Convent Threshold"
8. "Goblin Market

9. "Good Friday"

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

(1828-1882)
1. "The Blessed Damozel"
2. "The Burden of Nineveh"

3. Vanity Fair, 1847

4. Pendennis, 1850
5. Henry Esmond, 1852 The
Newcomes, 1853-55
6. The Virginians, 1857

3. "For an Annunciation,
Early German"
4. Pastoral"
5. "The Girlhood of Mary
Virgin" (1849)

Swinburne, Algernon
Charles (1837-1909)
1. The Queen
Mother (1860)

2. Rosamund (1860)
sitemap
3. Atalanta in
Calydon (1865; E-text )
Poems and
Ballads (1866)
Tennyson, Alfred (Lord)
(1809-1892)
1. "Claribel"
2. "Lucretius"
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3. "Mariana"
4. "The Kraken"
5. "The Lady of Shalott"The
Palace of Art"

Thackeray, William
Makepeace (1811-1863)
1. The Luck of Barry
Lyndon, 1844
2. Mrs. Perkin's Ball, 1846

Wilde, Oscar (18541900)

1. The Picture of Dorian
Gray (1890)
2. Lord Arthur Savile's
Crime (1891)
3. The Happy Prince and
Other Tales (discussion)
4. A House of
Pomegranates (discussio
n)
5. The Canterville Ghost
6. The Sphinx Without A
Secret
7. The Model Millionare