Victorian Literature/Related Articles

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Literature [r]: The profession of “letters” (from Latin litteras), and written texts considered as aesthetic and expressive objects. ^[e]
English literature [r]: Literature of the British isles written in English. ^[e]

Matthew Arnold [r]: Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was a poet, critic, and writer on culture. ^[e]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning [r]: Add brief definition or description
Robert Browning [r]: (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) English poet and playwright best known for his dramatic monologues. ^[e]
Charles Dickens [r]: (1812-70) English novelist and social critic; wrote the semi-autobiographical David Copperfield. ^[e]
George Eliot [r]: Add brief definition or description
William Morris [r]: William Morris (1834-1896) was a writer, a businessman, a pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, and an early socialist. ^[e]
George Bernard Shaw [r]: (1856 - 1950) Irish playwright, writer, socialist propagandist, and art, music and drama critic who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925. ^[e]
Algernon Charles Swinburne [r]: A C Swinburne was a Victorian poet and critic. ^[e]
Alfred, Lord Tennyson [r]: (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, author of The Charge of the Light Brigade and Ulysses. ^[e]
William Makepeace Thackeray [r]: William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863), Victorian novelist, verse writer and humorist, author of Vanity Fair, considered by Anthony Trollope to be the greatest novelist among his contemporaries. ^[e]
Anthony Trollope [r]: Victorian novelist. ^[e]

Republicanism [r]: The political ideology of a nation as a republic, with an emphasis on liberty, rule by the people, and the civic virtue practiced by citizens. ^[e]
Ibn Sina [r]: (980 - 1037), Persian court physician and writer of influential medical treatise, called the 'prince of physicians'. ^[e]
Kyrgyzstan [r]: A landlocked central Asian nation, formerly part of the Soviet Union; after a coup, it successfully held democratic elections ^[e]