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Victorian Timeline
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1830
Tennyson
Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
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1832
Passage of the Great Reform Bill
Tennyson, Poems
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1833
Slavery abolished
Lyell, Principles of Geology
Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
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1835
Browning, Paracelsus
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1836
Dickens, Sketches by Boz
Pickwick Papers begins
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1837
Victoria ascends the throne
Dickens, Oliver Twist
Carlyle, The French Revolution
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1838
Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby |
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1839
Beginning of penny postage
Carlyle, Chartism
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1840
Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
Browning, Sordello
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1841
Carlyle, On Heroes and Hero Worship
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1842
Chartist Riots
Tennyson, Poems
Browning, Dramatic Lyrics
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1843
Carlyle, Past and Present
Ruskin, Modern Painters begins
Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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1844
Chambers, Vestiges of Creation
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1845
Browning, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
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1846-48
Dickens, Dombey and Son
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1847
Ten Hours Act
Tennyson, The Princess
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
Thackeray, Vanity Fair
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1848
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Gaskell, Mary Barton
Chartist demonstration
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded
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1849
Dickens, David Copperfield
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1849-50
Macauley, History of England
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1850
Tennyson, In Memoriam AHH
Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets
E. B. Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
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1851
The Great Exhibition
Gaskell, Cranford
Ruskin, The Stones of Venice
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1852
Duke of Wellington dies
Dickens, Bleak House
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1853
Arnold, Poems
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1854
Crimean War begins
Dickens, Hard Times
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1855
Tennyson, Maud
Gaskell, North and South
Trollope, The Warden
Browning, Men and Women
Dickens, Little Dorritt begins
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1857
Indian Mutiny
E. B. Browning, Aurora Leigh
Trollope. Barchester Towers
Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life
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1858
British Crown gains control of India
Carlyle, Frederick the Great
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1859
Darwin, The Origin of Species
Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Eliot, Adam Bede
Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Mill, On Liberty
Tennyson, The Idylls of the the King begin
Smiles, Self-Help
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1860
Eliot, Mill on the Floss
Collins, The Woman in White
Dickens, Great Expectations
Ruskin, Unto This Last
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1861
Eliot, Silas Marner
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1862
Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market
Eliot, Romola
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1863
Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers
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1864
Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
Newman, Apologia por vita sua
Browning, Dramatis Personae
Dickens, Our Mutual Friend begins
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1865
Suppression of Jamaican Rebellion
Arnold, Essays in Criticism
Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon
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1866
Eliot, Felix Holt
Swinburne, Poems and Ballads
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1867
Passage of Second Reform Bill
Arnold, New Poems
Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset
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1868
Collins, The Moonstone
Browning, The Ring and the Book
Morris, The Earthly Paradise begins
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1869
Trollope, Phineas Finn
Mill, The Subjection of Women
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1870
Married Woman's Property Act
Education Act
Dickens, Edwin Drood
Dickens dies
D. G. Rossetti, Poems
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1871
Lear, The Owl and the Pussy Cat
Eliot, Middlemarch begins
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1872
Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Butler, Erewhon
Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
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1873
Arnold, Literature and Dogma
Mill, Autobiography
Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Trollope, The Way We Live Now begins
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1874
Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
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1875
Agricultural Depression sets in
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1876
Eliot, Daniel Deronda
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1877
Victoria becomes Empress of India
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1878
Hardy, Return of the Native
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1879
Meredith, The Egoist
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1880
Hardy, The Trumpet Major
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1881
Carlyle dies
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1882
Hardy, Two on a Tower
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1885
Discovery of radio waves
Invention of internal combustion engine
Pater, Marius the Epicurean
Meredith, Diana of the Crossways
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1886
Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Gissing, Demos
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1887
Victoria celebrates her Golden Jubilee
Doyle, first adventure of Sherlock Holmes published
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1889
Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin
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1891
Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Gissing, New Grub Street
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1893
Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession
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1894
Moore, Esther Waters
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1895
Discovery of X-rays
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Wells, The Time Machine
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1896
Invention of the wireless telegraph
Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Housman, A Shropshire Lad
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1897
Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee
Stoker, Dracula
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1898
Hardy, Wessex Poems
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1899-1902
Boer War
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1900
Conrad, Lord Jim
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1901
Death of Victoria
Edward VII ascends the throne
Kipling, Kim
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1903
First airplane flight
Butler, The Way of All Flesh
Gissing, Henry Ryecroft
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1904
Hardy, The Dynasts
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1905
Shaw, Man and Superman
and Major Barbara
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1907
Synge, The Playboy of the Western World
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1908
Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale
Forster, A Room with a View
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1910
Edward VII dies
George V ascends throne
Forster, Howards End
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1913
Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
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1914
England enters WWI (4 August)
Joyce, The Dubliners
Hardy, Satires of Circumstance
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1915
Lawrence, The Rainbow
Brooke, 1914 and Other Poems
Woolf, The Voyage Out
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1916
Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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1917
Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations
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1918
End of WWI
Franchise Act gives women (over 30) the vote
Hopkins, Poems
Strachey, Eminent Victorians
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1920
Owen, Poems
Lawrence, Women in Love
Shaw, Heartbreak House
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1922
Eliot, The Wasteland
Joyce, Ulysses
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