Literature in Great Britain, the Victorians and their Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Precursors: A Chronology (original) (raw)

1709

Richard Steele, The Tatler

1711

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
Joseph Addison and Steele, The Spectator

1714

Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

1719

Daniel DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe

1725

Pope's edition of Shakespeare

1726

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

1729

Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"

1733

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

1740

Samuel Richardson, Pamela

1747

Samuel Richardson, Clarissa

1749

Henry Fielding, Tom Jones

1750

Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

1755

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

1757

Edmund Burke, On the Sublime and Beautiful

1758

Samuel Johnson, The Idler

1759

Samuel Johnson, History of Rasselas
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy

1765

Samuel Johnson's edition of Shakespeare.

1773

Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

1775

Richard Sheridan, The Rivals
[Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther]

1776

Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

1781

Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets

1787

Robert Burns, Poems

1789

William Blake, Songs of Innocence

1790

Edmund Burke, Reflection on the Revolution in France

1791

James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

1792

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

1793

William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches

1794

Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho

1796

Matthew G. Lewis, The Monk

1798

William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads

1801

Walter Scott, Ballads

1802

William Wordsworth, "Preface to Lyrical Ballads."

1803

Thomas Chatterton, Works (posthumous)

1804

Williamn Blake, Jerusalem

1805

Walter Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel

1808

[Goethe, Faust (Part 1)]

1809

London exhibition of paintings by William Blake

1810

Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake

1812

George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (I & 11).
[Grimms Fairy Tales ]

1813

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Percy Byshhe Shelley, Queen Mab

1814

Walter Scott, Waverley

1816

Percy Byshhe Shelley, "Alastor"
Jane Austen, Emma

1817

John Keats, Poems.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazinefounded

1818

John Keats, Endymion
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Walter Scott, Rob Roy

1819

Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

1820

John Keats, "Lamia," "Isabella," "The Eve of St. Agnes," and other poems
Percy Byshhe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound

1821

John Keats dies
Percy Byshhe Shelley, "Adonais" and Defence of Poetry
Thomas DeQuincey, Confessions of an Opium Eater

1822

Shelley drowns near Lerici, Italy
Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia

1823

Goerge Gordon Lord Byron, Don Juan

1824

Byron dies near Missilonghi, Greece.
Thomas Carlyle transl. of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

1826

[James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans]

1829

Thomas Carlyle, "Signs of the Times"

1830

Alfred Tennyson, Poems Chiefly Lyrical

1831

Alfred Tennyson, Poems

1833

Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus

1836

Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers
[Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"]

1837

Thomas Carlyle, French Revolution
[Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice Told Tales]

1838

Lady Guest, Mabinogion

1839

Shelley, Poetical Works (posthumous).

1841

Punch begins publication
Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes and Hero-Worship

1842

Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics
Alfred Tennyson, Poems
Mudie establishes the Circulating Library
Thomas B. Macauley, Lays of Ancient Rome

1843

Wordsworth appointed Poet Laureate.
John Ruskin, Modern Painters (1).

1845

[E. A. Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination]<

1846

George Eliot, translation of Strauss's Life of Jesus
Ruskin, Modern Painters (II)

1847

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

1848

Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

1849

[Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"]

1850

Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam
William Wordsworth dies and The Prelude published.
Tennyson appointed Poet Laureate
[Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter]
Arthur Hugh Clough, Dipsychus

1851

John Ruskin, Stones of Venice (through 1853).
[Herman Melville, Moby Dick]

1852

Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna
John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University

1854

Charles Dickens, Hard Times
[Henry David Thoreau, Walden]
Coventry Patmore, The Angel in the House, Part 1.

1855

Robert Browning, Men and Women
Alfred Tennyson, Maud and Other Poems
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, North and South
[Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass]
[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha]
Harriet Martineau, Autobiography

1856

William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine

1857

Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays
Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers
[Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary]
[Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs de Mal]

1858

John Ruskin, "Traffic"
Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne
William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere

1859

Tennyson, Idylls of the King
George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
John Stuart Mill On Liberty
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species

1860

John Ruskin, Unto This Last
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

1861

[H.C. Andersen, Fairy Tales]
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

1862

Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems.Text -- Overview
George Meredith. Modern Love[Victor Hugo, Les Miserables]

1864

Matthew Arnold, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time."
John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua

1865

Lewis CarrolI, Alice in Wonderland
[Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace]

1866

Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, First Series.
[Fyodor Dostoyevski, Crime and Punishment]

1868

Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book

1869

Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Holy Grail and Other Poems
John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy

1870

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems

1873

Walter Pater, The RenaissanceJohn Stuart Mill Autobiography (posthumous)

1874

Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

1875

Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

1878

Thomas Hardy, Return of the Native

1879

[Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House]
George Meredith, The Egoist

1881

D. G. Rossetti, Ballads and Sonnets
[Ibsen, Ghosts]
[Henry James, Portrait of a Lady]

1883

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

1884

[Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn]

1888

Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills

1890

Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads
[Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler]

1891

Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
W. B. Yeats, Ernest Dowson, and Lionel Johnson form The Rhymers' Club.

1894

The Yellow Book (includes Max Beerbohm and Aubrey Beardsley).
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Books

1895

Oscard Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
W. B. Yeats, Poems

1896

[Anton Chekhov, The Seagull]

1898

Thomas Hardy, Wessex Poems
George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant

1899

[Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya]

1900

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
[Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie]

1901

Rudyard Kipling, Kim

1902

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

1903

[Henry James, The Ambassadors]

1904

William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory open the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
[Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard]

1905

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara

1907

J. M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World

1908

William Butler Yeats, Collected Works

1912

D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

1914

William Butler Yeats, Responsibilities
James Joyce, Dubliners

1915

D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow

1916

James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1917

T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

1918

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems (posthumous)