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A timeline (or several) relating to Victorian Literature.

The intention is to list each author at least twice, once in the year they produced their first significant work, and once in the year of their death. They may also be listed in the year of their greatest or best-known work, and, if they wrote in both poetry and prose, in the first year of their alternative medium, or their best production in that medium.

If the publication was originally in a magazine, it will be listed in that year, not the year of the book.

1835

Felicia Hemans d.
William Cobbett d.

1836

Dickens, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Marryat, Mr Midshipman Easy
Caroline Norton, A Voice from the Factories

1837

Queen Victoria came to the throne
Carlyle, The French Revolution
Thackeray, The Yellowplush Papers
Lockhart, Life of Scott

1838

Elizabeth Barrett, The Seraphim, and other poems
Lady Charlotte Guest's translation of The Mabinogion
Surtees, Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities
L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon) died

1839

Ainsworth, Jack Sheppard
L.E.L. (posthumously) The Zenana and minor poems

1840

Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st series

1841

Browning, Bells and Pomegranates no. 1 (Pippa Passes)

1842

Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome
Tennyson, Poems

1843

Richard Horne, Orion
Macaulay, Essays contributed to the Edinburgh Review
Ruskin, Modern Painters i
George Borrow, The Bible in Spain
Southey d.

1844

William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
Kinglake, Eothen

1845

Thomas Hood d.
Barham d.

1846

Bronte sisters, Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
Edward Lear, A Book of Nonsense

1847

Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Thackeray, Vanity Fair

1848

Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
Charles Kingsley, Yeast
Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Emily Bronte d.

1849

Arnold, The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems
Anne Bronte d.
Maria Edgeworth d.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes d.

1850

Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death's Jest Book (expanded version) published posthumously
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
Tennyson, In Memoriam
Wordsworth d.
Wordworth, The Prelude published posthumously

1851

Meredith, Poems

1854

Dickens, Hard Times
Patmore, The Betrothal (part 1 of The Angel in the House)

1855

Trollope, The Warden
Charlotte Bronte d.

1857

Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays

1858

Arthur Hugh Clough, Amours de Voyage
Dean Farrar, Eric, or Little by Little
George MacDonald, Phantastes
Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics

1859

George Eliot, Adam Bede
Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Leigh Hunt d.
Macaulay d.

1861

Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth
Palgrave, The Golden Treasury
E.B. Browning d.
A.H. Clough d.

1862

Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and other poems

1863

Jean Ingelow, Poems
Kingsley, The Water Babies
Sheridan LeFanu, The House by the Churchyard
Margaret Oliphant, Salem Chapel
Thackeray d.

1864

John Clare d.
Walter Savage Landor d.
Adelaide Procter d.
Surtees d.

1865

Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon

1866

Swinburne, Poems and Ballads
Augusta Webster, Dramatic Studies
Keble d.
Thomas Love Peacock d.

1868

R. Browning, The Ring and the Book

1869

Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
Blackmore, Lorna Doone
W.S. Gilbert, Bab Ballads

1870

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems
Dickens d.

1871

George Eliot, Middlemarch
Hardy, Desperate Remedies

1872

Samuel Butler, Erewhon

1873

Walter Pater, Studies in the Renaissance
Amelia Edwards, Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
Sheridan LeFanu d.
Bulwer Lytton d.

1874

James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
Trollope, The Way We Live Now

1875

Kingsley d.

1876

Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
Henry James, Roderick Random

1877

Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

1878

Richard Jefferies, The Gamekeeper at Home
Anna Sewell d.

1879

R.L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

1880

George Gissing, Workers in the Dawn
Joseph Shorthouse, John Inglesant
George Eliot d.

1881

Amy Levy, Xantippe and other Verse
R.L. Stevenson, Treasure Island
Borrow d.
Carlyle d.
Disraeli d.

1882

F. Anstey, Vice Versa
Ainsworth d.
D.G. Rossetti d.
Trollope d.

1883

Jefferies, The Story of my Heart

1884

Michael Field, Calirrhoë and Fair Rosamund
Charles Reade d.

1885

Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines
Pinero, The Magistrate
Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses

1886

William Barnes d.

1887

Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Richard Jefferies d.

1888

Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills
Arnold d.

1889

Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin
Robert Browning d.
Wilkie Collins d.
Gerard Manley Hopkins d.
Amy Levy d.

1891

Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kinglake d.

1892

Kipling, Barrack Room Ballads
Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan (performance)
Yeats, The Countess Cathleen
Tennyson d.
Amelia Edwards d.

1893

E.F. Benson, Dodo
Pinero, The Second Mrs Tanqueray
Yeats, The Celtic Twilight

1894

du Maurier, Trilby
George and Weedon Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody
Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda
George Moore, Esther Waters
Pater d.
Christina Rossetti d.
R.L. Stevenson d.
Augusta Webster d.

1895

Conrad, Almayer's Folly
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

1896

A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad
William Morris d.
Coventry Patmore d.

1897

Jean Ingelow d.

1898

Hardy, Wessex Poems
Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Aubrey Beardsley d.
Lewis Carroll d.

1899

Somerville and Ross, Some Experiences of an Irish RM

1900

John Ruskin d.
Oscar Wilde d.

1901

Arnold Bennett, Anna of the Five Towns
Kipling, Kim
Queen Victoria d.

1902

J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton
De La Mare, Songs of Childhood
Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit
Samuel Butler d.