The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
Volume XIII. The Victorian Age, Part One.
1795 Carlyle born. |
1802–85 Victor Hugo. |
1803–70 Dumas. |
1804–69 Sainte-Beuve. |
1809 Tennyson born. |
1811 Thackeray born. |
1812 Robert Browning born. |
1812 Dickens born. |
1822 J. G. Lockhart’s Adam Blair. |
1824–32 Our Village. |
1826 Vivian Grey. |
1827 The Christian Year. |
1830–2 The Reform Bill. |
1830–7 William IV. |
1833 Browning’s Pauline. |
1833–8 Sartor Resartus. |
1834 The Last Days of Pompeii. |
1835 Paracelsus. |
1836 Pickwick Papers. |
1837 Carlyle’s French Revolution. |
1837 Browning’s Strafford. |
1837 Henrietta Temple. |
1837 Accession of Queen Victoria. |
1837–8 Oliver Twist. |
1838 Guest’s History of English Rhythms. |
1838–9 Nicholas Nickleby. |
1839 Bailey’s Festus. |
1840 Sordello. |
1841 Carlyle’s Heroes. |
1841–6 Bells and Pomegranates. |
1842 Macaulay’s Lays. |
1842 Poems by Tennyson. |
1843 Past and Present. |
1844 Barry Lyndon. |
1844 Coningsby. |
1845 The “Bon Gaultier” ballads. |
1845 Thackeray’s Jeames’s Diary. |
1846 Thackeray’s Snobs. |
1847 Mrs. Browning’s Sonnets. |
1847 Jane Eyre. |
1847 The Princess. |
1847–8 Vanity Fair. |
1848 Clough’s Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich. |
1848 Mary Barton. |
1849 Shirley. |
1849–50 David Copperfield. |
1850 Death of Balzac. |
1850 In Memoriam. |
1850 The Blessed Damozel. |
1850 The Germ. |
1850 Wuthering Heights. |
1851 Casa Guidi Windows. |
1851 Death of Turner. |
1852 Esmond. |
1853 Cranford. |
1853 Hypatia. |
1853 The Heir of Redclyffe. |
1853 Poems by Matthew Arnold. |
1853–5 The Newcomes. |
1853–6 The Crimean war. |
1854–6 Patmore’s Angel in the House. |
1855 North and South. |
1855 Maud. |
1855 Men and Women. |
1855 Westward Ho! |
1856 Death of Heine. |
1856 It is never too late to mend. |
1856 John Halifax, Gentleman. |
1857 Barchester Towers. |
1857 Aurora Leigh. |
1857 Two Years Ago. |
1857 G. A. Lawrence’s Guy Livingstone. |
1857–8 Indian mutiny. |
1858 Christmas Eve and Easter Day. |
1858 Morris’s Defence of Guenevere. |
1858 Scenes of Clerical Life. |
1858 ff. Procter’s Legends and Lyrics. |
1859 Adam Bede. |
1859 FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. |
1859 Henry Kingsley’s Geoffrey Hamlyn. |
1859 The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. |
1859 ff. Idylls of the King. |
1859–60 Dion Boucicault’s The Colleen Bawn. |
1860 The Mill on the Floss. |
1860 The Woman in White. |
1861 Silas Marner. |
1861 East Lynne. |
1862 Lady Audley’s Secret. |
1862 Calverley’s Verses and Translations. |
1863 Death of Thackeray. |
1863 Lear’s Book of Nonsense. |
1863 Poems by Jean Ingelow. |
1863 Romola. |
1863 ff. Ashworth’s Strange Tales. |
1864 Roundell Palmer’s Book of Praise. |
1864 Dramatis Personae. |
1864 James Payn’s Lost Sir Massingberd. |
1864 T. W. Roberston’s David Garrick. |
1864–6 Wives and Daughters. |
1865 Atalanta in Calydon. |
1865 Matthew Arnold’s Essays in Criticism. |
1866 Alice in Wonderland. |
1866 Newman’s Dream of St. Gerontius. |
1866 “Ouida’s” Chandos. |
1866 Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads. |
1867 Morris’s Life and Death of Jason. |
1867 T. W. Robertson’s Caste. |
1867 Myers’s St. Paul. |
1868 Macdonald’s Robert Falconer. |
1868–9 The Ring and the Book. |
1868–70 The Earthly Paradise. |
1869 Lorna Doone. |
1870 Death of Dickens. |
1870 Lothair. |
1870 Poems by Rossetti. |
1870–1 Franco-Prussian war. |
1871 Philip Bourke Marston’s Songtide. |
1871–2 Middlemarch. |
1872 Butler’s Erewhon. |
1872 W. G. Wills’s Charles the First. |
1873 Matthew Arnold’s Literature and Dogma. |
1874–80 Thomson’s City of Dreadful Night. |
1875 Gilbert’s comic operas begin. |
1877 Morris’s Sigurd the Volsung. |
1877 Palgrave’s Golden Treasury. |
1877–8 Russo-Turkish war. |
1879 Henry James’s Daisy Miller. |
1879 Meredith’s Egoist. |
1880 Beaconsfield’s Endymion. |
1880 Shorthouse’s John Inglesant. |
1880 Ballads and Sonnets by Rossetti. |
1880–1 Lang’s Ballades in Blue China. |
1881 Death of Carlyle. |
1881 W. H. White’s The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford. |
1882 Besant’s All Sorts and Conditions of Men. |
1882 Swinburne’s Tristram of Lyonesse. |
1885 Hugh Conway’s Called Back. |
1885 Diana of the Crossways. |
1885 Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses. |
1888 Henley’s Book of Verses. |
1889 Amy Levy’s A London Plane Tree. |
1889 Death of Robert Browning. |
1890 Campbell’s Popular Tales of the West Highlands. |
1890 Morris’s Roots of the Mountains. |
1890 “Lanoe Falconer’s” Mdlle. Ixe. |
1891 Gissing’s New Grub Street. |
1891 J. K. Stephen’s Quo Musa tendis? and Lapsus Calami. |
1892 Death of Tennyson. |
1893 Hubert Crackenthorpe’s Wreckage. |
1894 Du Maurier’s Trilby. |
1895 Wilde’s The Importance of being Earnest. |
1896 Verses by Ernest Dowson. |
1897 Cooper’s Mr. Blake of Newmarket. |
1897 “John Oliver Hobbes’s” The School for Saints. |
1897 M. E. Coleridge’s The King with Two Faces. |
1897 Henry James’s What Maisie Knew. |
1898 Henry James’s In the Cage. |
1900 Harland’s The Cardinal’s Snuffbox. |
1901 Accession of King Edward VII. |
1901 “G. Douglas’s” The House with the Green Shutters. |
1903 Butler’s Way of all Flesh. |
1903 Gissing’s Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft. |
1904 H. S. Merriman’s The Last Hope. |
1908 Thompson’s The Hound of Heaven. |
1910 Accession of King George V. |