Victorian Literature/Timelines

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. 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

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 published posthumously

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese

Tennyson, In Memoriam

Wordsworth d.

Wordworth, The Prelude published posthumously