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Thomas Carlyle
Famous Works: Sartor Resartus; The French Revolution; Heroes and Hero-Worship. -
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Famous Works: The Palace of Art, Ulysses, The Two Voices. -
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Charles Dickens
Famous Works: David Coperfield; Great Expectations; A Christmas Carol; Oliver Twist. -
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Robert Browning
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John Ruskin
Famous Works: The Seven Lamps of Architecture; The Stones of Venice; Unto This Last; Sesame and Lilies. -
Catholic Emancipation was achieved in Britain
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The Reform Bill
The Reform Bill was passed in order to democratize parliamentary representation. -
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Lewis Carroll
Famous Works: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass. -
Abolition of slavery
The British Isles passed a bill to abolish slavery. -
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Famous Works: The Wreck of the Deustschland, Duns Scotus's Oxford. -
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species", which would go on to become the foundation of evolutionary biology.