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Famous novelists from this period include Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, the three Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Thomas Hardy, and Rudyard Kipling. The Romantic period was a time of abstract expression and inward focus; during the Victorian era, writers focused on
The following is a list of Victorian novelists. Please feel free to add other writers to this list. Subcategories. This category has the following 15 subcategories ...
This category contains writers active in the United Kingdom and the British Empire during the Victorian era (the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901). Contents Top
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. [1]
Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈ d ɪ k ɪ n z / ⓘ; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian [1] [2]), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. [3]
A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature, and philosophy. Born in Ecclefechan , Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Carlyle attended the University of Edinburgh , where he excelled in mathematics, inventing the Carlyle circle .
This category contains female writers active in the United Kingdom and the British Empire during the Victorian era (the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901). This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Victorian writers .