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He is best known for his novels The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844) and Vanity Fair (1847–1848) which are examples of a popular form in Victorian literature: a historical novel in which recent history is depicted. The Brontë sisters wrote fiction rather different from that common at the time.
Victorian era portal; English language novels from the 19th-century Victorian era. Subcategories. This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 total. ...
Articles relating to Victorian literature, English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). The 19th century is considered by some to be the Golden Age of English Literature, especially for British novels. It was in the Victorian era that the novel became the leading literary genre in English.
Victorian juvenile fiction was normally published in single volumes; for example, while all of G. A. Henty's juvenile fiction was issued from the start in single volume editions, his adult novels such as Dorothy's Double (Chatto and Windus, London, 1894), [19]: 259 Rujub the Juggler (Chatto and Windus, London, 1895), [19]: 238 and The Queen's ...
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A History of Victorian Literature (Wiley, 2011). Altick, Richard Daniel. Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature. (1974) online free; Felluga, Dino Franco, et al. The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature (2015). Flint, Kay. The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature (2014). Horsman, Alan.
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 is a list of fictional stories in which illegitimacy features as an important plot element. Passing mentions are omitted from this article. Many of these stories explore the social pain and exclusion felt by illegitimate "natural children". Illegitimacy was a common theme in Victorian literature. "Illegitimacy was a popular subject for ...