BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY PART – XIV/XXII

BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY

PART – XIV/XXII

VICTORIAN LITERATURE

1830 Cobbett, Rural Rides; Tennyson, Poems, Chiefly lyrical

1832 Tennyson, Poems (dated 1833)

1833 Carlyle, Sartor Resartus; 'Tract for the Times'

1835 Browning Paracelsus

1836 Dickens, Sketches by 'Boz' and first number of Pickwick Papers (1836-37)

1837 Carlyle, The French Revolution; Dickens, Oliver Twist

1838 Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

1839 Carlyle, Chartism

1840 Dickens, Master Humphrey's Clock (containing Old Curiosity Shop and

Bomaby Rudge (1840-1); Browning, Sordello

1841 Carlyle, On Heroes and Hero Worship; Newman, Tract XC; Punch

founded

1842 Tennyson, Poems; Browning, Dramatic Lyrics

1843 Macaulay, Essays; Carlyle, Past and Present; Ruskin, Modern Painters

(Vol-l); Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Martin Chuzzlevit

1843-4 Disraeli, Coningsby

1844 Thackeray, Barry Lyndon

1845 Disraeli, Sybil; Browning, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics.

1846-8 Dickens, Dombey and Son

1847 Tennyson, The Princes; Chariotte Bronte, Jane Eyre; Emily Bronte,

Wuthering Heights;

Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey, J.S. Mill, The Subjection of Women

1847-8 Thackeray, Vanity Fair

1848 Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton; Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell

Hall

1848-9 Thackeray, Pendennis

1849 Charlotte Bronte, Shirley; Ruskin, Seven Lamps of Architecture

1849-50 Dickens, David Copperfield

1849-61 Macaulay, History of England

1850 Tennyson, In Memoriam; Carlyle, Latter- Day Pamphlets

1850 E.B. Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese; Kingsley, Alton Locke

1851 Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

1851-3 Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

1852 Thackeray, Henry Esmond; Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna

1852-3 Dickens, Bleak House

1853 Charlotte Bronte, Villette; Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth; Matthew Arnold,

Poems

1854 Dickens, Hard Times

1854-5 Thackeray, The New Comer

1855 Tennyson, Maud Kingsley; Westward Ho; Browning, Men and Women;

Elizabeth

Gaskell, North and South; Trollope, The Warden

1855-7 Dickens, Little Dorrit

1857 E.B. Browning Aurora Leigh; Trollope, Barchester Towers; Elizabeth

Gaskell, Life of Charlotte-Bronte; Charlotte Bronte, The Professor,

George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life

1857-9 Thackeray, The Virgianians

1858 Clogh, Amours de Voyage

1858-65 Carlyle, Frederick the Great

1859 George Eliot, Adam Bede; Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverl;

Darwin, The Origin of Species; Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities; Mill, On

Liberty

1859-72 Tennyson, Idylls of the King

1860 Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White; Ruskin, Unto This Last Eliot, The

Mill on the Floss

1860-1 Dickens, Great Expectations

1861 George Eliot, Silas Marner, Trollope, Family Parsonage

1862 G. Rossetti, Goblin Market; Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret, Meredith,

Modern Love

1862-3 George Eliot, Romola

1863 Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters; J.H. Newman, Apologia Pro

Vita Sua

1864-5 Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

1865 Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism; J.H. Newman, Dream of

Gerontius; Carroll Alice in Wonderland; Swinburne, Atlanta in Calydon

1866 George Eliot, Felix Holt; Kingsley, Here ward the Wake; Swinburne,

Poems and Ballads

1867 Matthew Arnold, New Poems; Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

1868 Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

1868-69 Browning, The Ring and the Book

1868-70 Morris, The Earthly Paradise

1869 Trollope, Phineas Finn

1870 Dickens, Edwin Drood; D.G. Rossetti, Poems

1871-2 George Eliot, Middlemarch

1872 Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

1873 Mathew Arnold, Literature and Dogma; J.S. Mill, Autobiography

1874-5 Trollope, The Way We Live Now

1874 Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

1876 George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

1878 Hardy, The Return of the Native

1879 Meredith, The Egoist

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