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	Chronology of the Victorian Period
	Harrison Ainsworth
	Robert Michael Ballantyne
	Max Beerbohm
	Arnold Bennett
	Marguerite Blessington
	Mary Elizabeth Braddon
	Anne Bronte
	Charlotte Bronte
	Emily Bronte
	Edward Bulwer Lytton
	Samuel Butler
	Lewis Carroll
	G. K. Chesterton
	Wilkie Collins
	Joseph Conrad
	Charles Dickens
	Benjamin Disraeli
	Arthur Conan Doyle
	George Eliot
	Michael Field
	Ford Madox Ford
	Elizabeth Gaskell
	George Gissing
	Sarah Grand
	Rider Haggard
	Thomas Hardy
	W.H. Hudson
	Rudyard Kipling
	Charles Kingsley
	Vernon Lee
	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
	Amy Levy
	Eliza Lynn Linton
	Harriet Martineau
	Hector Hugh Munro [Saki]
	George McDonald
	George Meredith
	George Moore
	William Morris
	Ouida [Mary Louise de la Ramee]
	Margaret OliphantA
	Charles Reade
	Olive Schreiner
	Robert Louis Stevenson
	Bram Stoker
	William Makepeace Thackeray
	Anthony Trollope
	Humphry Ward
	Herbert George Wells
	Charlotte Yonge

Chronology of the Victorian Period

1814 Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
1815 Battle of Waterloo
1819 Birth of Victoria
1830 Lyell, Principles of Geology. Bulwer Lytton's Paul Clifford.
1831 Disraeli's The Young Duke.
1832 The Reform Bill. Bulwer Lytton's Eugene Aram.
1833 The Oxford Movement. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus. Newman's Tract of the Times.
1834 Ainsworth's Rookwood.
1835 Browning' Paracelsus.
1836 Dickens's Pickwick Papers.
1837 Accession of Queen Victoria. Carlyle's The French Revolution.
1838 The Chartist Movement. Anti-Corn Law League founded.
1839 Thackeray's Catherine. Martineau's Deerbrook.
1840 Shelley's A Defence of Poetry. Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert.
1841 Macaulay's Warren Hastings.
1842 Dickens's American Notes.
1843 Carlyle's Past and Present. Mill's System of Logic.
1844 Chambers' Vestiges of Creation.
1845 Disraeli's Sybil. Engels' The Condition of the Working Class in England. Famine in Ireland.
1846 Repeal of the Corn Laws. George Eliot's Translation of Strauss's Das Leben Jesu.
1847 Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Tennyson's Princess. Marx and Engels' The Communist Manifesto.
1848 Gaskell's Mary Barton. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded.
1849 Dickens's David Copperfield. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture.
1850 Kingsley's Alton Locke. Tennyson, In Memoriam. Tennyson becomes Poet Laureate.
1851 Gaskell's Cranford. Great Exhibition.
1852 Dickens's Bleak House. Newman's The Idea of a University.
1853 Charlotte Bronte's Villette.
1854 Gaskell's North and South. The Crimean War.
1855 Livingstone discovers Victoria Falls.
1856 Charles Reade's It is Never Too Late to Mend.
1857 The Indian Mutiny. George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life.
1858 MacDonald's Fantastes. Queen Victoria proclaims permanent British rule in India.
1859 Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. Darwin's Origin of Species.
1860 Dickens's Great Expectations. Essays and Reviews. Ruskin's Unto the Last.
1861 Ellen Wood's East Lynne. Mill's Utilitarianism. Prince Albert dies.
1862 Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret. Colenso's A Critical Examination of the Pentateuch.
1863 Margaret Oliphant's The Rector. Huxley's Man's Place in Nature.
1864 Le Fanu's Uncle Silas. Spencer's Principles of Biology.
1865 Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Arnold's Essays in Criticism.
1866 Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset. Margaret Oliphant's Miss Marjoribanks.
1867 Marx's Das Kapital. Ouida's Under Two Flags. The Second Reform Bill.
1868 Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone. Browning's The Ring and the Book.
1869 Blackmore's Lorna Doone. Arnold's Culture and Anarchy. Suez Canal opened. Girton College, Cambridge, admits women.
1870 Dickens dies. Hardy's Desperate Remedies. Forster's Education Act.
1871 Darwin's Descent of Man. George Eliot's Middlemarch. Trade Unions legalized.
1872 Butler's Erewhon. Forster's Life of Dickens.
1873 Pater's Studies in the Renaissance. Wilkie Collins's The New Magdalen.
1874 Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd. Disraeli becomes Prime Minister.
1875 Trollope's The Prime Minister. Hopkins's The Wreck of the Deutschland.
1876 George Eliot's Daniel Deronda. Telephone invented.
1877 Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India.
1878 Hardy's Return of the Native.
1879 Meredith's The Egoist. Electric bulb invented.
1880 Huxley's Science and Culture. Gissing's Workers in the Dawn. Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady.
1881 Stevenson's Treasure Island.
1882 Arnold's Literature and Science
1883 Trollope's Autobiography.
1884 The Third Reform Bill.Humphry Ward's Miss Bretherton.
1885 Richard Burton's Arabian Nights.
1886 Haggard's King Solomon's Mines.
1887 Mark Rutherford's The Revolution in Tanner's Lane.
1888 Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills. Arnold's Essays in Criticism.
1889 Gissing's The Nether World.
1891 Morris's News From Nowhere. Hardy's Tess of the D’Urbervilles.
1892 Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
1893 Shaw's Mrs Warren’s Profession.
1894 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
1895 Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Hardy's Jude the Obscure.
1896 Carroll's Symbolic Logic. William Morris dies.
1897 Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus.'
1898 Shaw's Arms and the Man.
1899 The Boer War.
1900 Humphry Ward's Eleanor.
1901 Kipling's Kim. Queen Victoria dies.
1902 Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
1918 The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.