The Victorian Era

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    George Borrow

    Full of the open air and “wind on the heath”
    Lavengro, The Bible in Spain and The Romany Rye.
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    Elizabeth Barret Browning

    She was thought to be superior as a poet to her husband.
    Aurora Leigh, sonnets from the Portuguese.
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    Edward Fitzgerald

    He produced a series of quatrains that are still widely read, though they had to be rescued from obscurity in their own day by Rossetti.
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    A.W. Kinglake

    He wrote about the Muslim
    Eothen
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    Alfred Tennyson

    He sums up many of the preoccupations of the period in work which is thoroughly Romantic.
    The Palace of Art, Ulysses, The Two Voices, In Memoriam.
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    Mrs. Gaskell

    Cranford
    Mary Barton
    Ruth
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    William Makepeace Thackeray

    Wrote of the upper classes and was anti-romantic.
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    Robert Browning

    Anti-romantic, language is often colloquial and even slangy; there is also humor.
    The Pied Piper, Sordello, Pauline, Men and Women, Dramatis Personae, Abt Vloge, The Statue and the Bust, Ring and the Book.
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    Charles Dickens

    The greatest of Victorian story-tellers.
    Doctrine: love.
    Style: grotesque, inelegant.
    Faults: inability to construct a convincing plot, his clumsy and sometimes ungrammatical prose, his sentimentality, his lack of real characters in the Shakespearean sense.
    The secret of his popularity lies in an immense vitality that swirls around his creations and creates a special Dickensian world.
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    Anthony Trollope

    His work is a little too lacking in warm for some people, but he was able to write by forcing on himself a mechanical routine. This explains a lack of inspiration in his novels.
    The Warden, Barchester Towers, Dr. Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset.
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    Charlotte Brontë

    Jane Eyre
    The Professor
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    Emily Brontë

    She has more remarkable talent than her sister.
    Her poems are vital and original
    Wuthering Heights
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    Arthur Hugh Clough

    He had a modern technique and a modern attitude to life.
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    Charles Kignsley

    Preaches a kind of Christian Communism in Alton Locke.
    Turns to the Elizabethan past in Westward Ho!
    Turns to the world of the Vikings with Hereward the Wake.
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    George Eliot

    She shows sympathy in her novels for the faith of others and she is always concerned with moral problems.
    Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Romola, Middle-march, Daniel Deronda, and others.
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    Anne Bronë

    She’s the best remembered because of her sisters: her talent is smaller than theirs.
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    Mathew Arnold prose writer

    Essays in Criticism and Culture and Anarchy
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    Wilkie Collins

    First great British writer of mystery-stories, and to a gift of maintaining suspense, terror, and credible plot.
    Woman in White, The Moonstone
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    George Meredith

    He liked verbal smartness, remote references to subjects and books not generally known.
    The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, The Egoist, Diana of the Crossways.
  • Catholic Emancipation

  • Reform Bill

    A progressive move was made in the direction of ‘democratizing’ parliamentary representation.
  • Abolition of slavery

    British colonies were officially rid of slavery.
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    Samuel Butler

    The man who had most to say to our age.
    Erewbone, The Way of All Flesh.
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    Algernon Charles Swinburne

    With sensuality and noise, he had almost Byronic impact on the public.
    Flowers of Evil, Aurora Leigh, Poems and Ballads.
  • The Origin of Species by Darwin appeared.

  • Arthur Hugh published Amours de Voyage

  • Das Kapital by Marc preached a new conception of society and of the distribution of wealth.

  • Hopkins´ poems were published.

    He became almost immediately a powerful influence. We see him as a “modern”, but he is Victorian.