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• Review of Essay on the Theory of the Earth, The British Review and London Critical Journal, vol. v 1813.
• Review of Essay on the Theory of the Earth, Edinburgh Review, January 1814.
• London Characters and the Humourous Side of London Life. With Upwards of 70 Illustrations. London: Stanley Rivers & Co., 1871.

Matthew Arnold

• "Calais Sands"
• Culture and Anarchy
• "Dover Beach"

Charles Babbage

• Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. 1837.

Max Beerbohm

• Rossetti and His Circle
• “Diminuendo”
• ““The Pervasion of Rouge” (also known as “A Defence of Cosmetics”)”

Robert Browning

• Miscellaneous poems

Sir Edward G. D. Bulwer-Lytton

• The Last Days of Pompeii

Robert Buchanan

• Selected Poems
• "The Fleshy School of Poetry: D. G. Rossetti"

George Campbell, Duke of Argyll.

• The Reign of Law. 1860.

Thomas Carlyle

• "Signs of the Times," 1829
• Hudson's Statue, 1850

Fox Cooper

• Dramatic Adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. 1860.

Georges Cuvier

• Elegy of Lamarck.
• Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe, et sur les changemens qu'elles ont produits dans le règne animal 3rd French edn 1825.
• Discourse on the revolutionary upheavals on the surface of the globe and on the changes which they have produced in the animal kingdom. 1825.

Charles Darwin

• Autobiography.
• An historical sketch of the progress of opinion on the origin of species.

Charles Dickens

• Great Expectations

Lord Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett

• The Book of Wonder
• Fifty-One Tales.

Thomas Hardy

• Miscellaneous poems

George Heath

• Poems (1870)

Sir Arthur Helps

• Ten examples from Brevia: a: Short Essays and Aphorisms

William Ernest Henley

• In Hospital, 1873-75 (28 poems)
• Views and Reviews: Essays in Appreciation
  • Matthew Arnold
  • Charles Dickens
  • Benjamin Disraeli
  • George Eliot
  • George Meredith
  • William Makepeace Thackeray

William Hope Hodgson

• The Nightland

Thomas Hood

• “The Song of the Shirt”

Gerard Manley Hopkins

• ““Binsey Poplars,” “God's Grandeur,” “Spring,” “Spring and Fall,” and “The Windhover.”

Fleeming Jenkin

• 'Review of Darwin's The origin of species' The North British Review, June 1867, 46, pp. 277-318.

Charles Kingsley

• ““Andromeda”

Rudyard Kipling

• ““Mary Postgate” (short story), ““Gunga Din”, and ““Tommy”

Edward Lear

• ““How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear”

Amy Levy

• ““Xantippe: A Fragment”, ““Felo de Se”,

George Henry Lewes

• “Twenty passages from Maximilien Robespierre and the French Revolution and other works

James Clerk Maxwell

• 'Molecules', Nature, Sept. 1873.

Thomas Babbington Macaulay

• The Lays of Ancient Rome
• Review of Croker’s edition of Boswell’s The Life of Jonson
• Miscellaneous long passages from s History of England from the Accession of James II

George Macdonald

• Phantastes

William Morris

• Poems by the Way (volume of 55 poems)

John Henry Cardinal Newman

• On Reserve in Communicating Religious Knowledge (Tract 80)
• “Moses the Type of Christ” (sermon)

Richard Owen

• Review of Darwin's Origin of Species, Edinburgh Review, 3, 1860, pp. 487-532.

Walter Pater

• The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Literature.

William Brighty Rands

• 41 poems

George W. M. Reynolds

• 35 selections from his novels

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• Miscellaneous poems

Christina Rossetti

• Miscellaneous poems

John Ruskin

• The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1848
• “The Quarry,” Chapter I, The Stones of Venice, 1851
• “Traffic,” 1858
• “Work,” 1858
• Unto This Last, 1860 (1862)
• Munera Pulveris, 1862-63 (1872)

Herbert Spencer

• 'Development Hypothesis' 1852.

A. T. Story

• The Life of John Linnell, 1892

Algernon Charles Swinburne

• "Hymn to Proserpine" and "Evening on the Broads"
• “Charles Reade” (complete text)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

• Miscellaneous poems
• In Memoriam

James Thomson (BV)

• “Jesus Christ Our Great Exemplar” (anti-Christian satire)
• “A Commission of Inquiry on Royalty”
• “Christmas Eve in the Upper Circles” (anti-Christian satire)
• “The Story of a Famous Old Jewish Firm” (anti-Christian satire)

Richard Chenevix Trench

• “Alma”

John Tyndall

• Address Delivered Before the British Association Assembled at Belfast. 1874.

Alfred Russel Wallace

• On the Law which has Regulated The Introduction of New Species. 1855.

Oscar Wilde

• “18 of Wilde’s critical Eessays”
• “Seven poems”

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