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William Cobbett
He agitated for a parliamentary reform. -
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Carlyle
He wrote Sartor Resartus, The French Revolution, Heroes and Hero-Worship. -
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Well known for his historical verse, such as Lays of Ancient Rome and History of England -
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John Henry Newman
Author of Apologia pro Vita Sua, and poem like The Dream of Gerontious. -
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Bulwer Lytton
Writer of Lat Day of Pompeii and Rienzi. -
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Writer of Aurora Leigh and Sonnets from the Portuguese -
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Edward Fitzgerald
He produced a series of quatrains which are still widely read. -
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William Makepeace Thackery
He worte articles for the comic weekly Punch, and othr works like The Book of Snobs and Yellowplush Papers. -
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Charles Dickens
Perhas the greatest of Victorian story-tellers. -
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Robert Browning
Author of The Pied Piper, Sordello, Pauline. -
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Anthony Trollope
Writer of the Warden, Barcheser Towers, Dr. Thorne, Franley Parsonage, The Small House ar Allington and The Last Chronicle of Barset. -
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Emily Bronte
Writer of poems like Wusthering Heights. -
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John Ruskin
Author of The Seven Lamps of Architecture, The Stones of Venice, Unto This Last and Sesame and Lilies. -
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George Eliot
Whose real name was Mary Ann Evans, author of Seenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Romola, Middle-march, Daniel Deronda and others. -
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Arthur Hugh Clough
Creater of Amours de Voyage published in 1849 -
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Herbert Spencer
The founder of a philosophy based on the principle of evolution, and of an ethical system which tries to reconcile evolution and utilitarianism. He produced Keble and Pusey. -
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Anne Bronte
Author of Agnes Graveyars and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. -
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Matthew Arnold
Author of Thysis, Dover Beach, The Scholar Gipsy. He also wrote The Essays in Criticism and Culture and Anarchy. -
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George Meredith
Writer of novels like The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, The Egoist, and Diana of the Crossways. -
Catholic Emancipation
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Reform Bill
A progressive move was made in the direction of 'democratising' -
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Lewis Carrol
The pseudonym of Charles Dodgson (1832-98) and Edward Lear (1812-88), created Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Loking-Glass. -
Slavery
Slavery was denounced, and the British colonies were oficially rid of it by 1833 -
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Samuel Butler
Author of Erewhon and Erewhon Recisited. -
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Author of Poems and Ballads. -
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
His poems were published in 1918, and he became almost immediately a powerful influence. -
Darwin's Theory
The Origin of Species, presenting his revolutionary theory was published -
Das Kapital
Written by Marx and published in 1867, preached a new conception of society and of the distribution of wealth.
