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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
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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
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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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.
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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
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Emily Brontë
She has more remarkable talent than her sister.
Her poems are vital and original
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Arthur Hugh Clough
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Charles Kignsley
Preaches a kind of Christian Communism in Alton Locke.
Turns to the Elizabethan past in Westward Ho!
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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
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Wilkie Collins
First great British writer of mystery-stories, and to a gift of maintaining suspense, terror, and credible plot.
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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
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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.
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Arthur Hugh published Amours de Voyage
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Das Kapital by Marc preached a new conception of society and of the distribution of wealth.
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Hopkins´ poems were published.
He became almost immediately a powerful influence. We see him as a “modern”, but he is Victorian.