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: Victorian literature
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major victorian Writers,novelists
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to: M.K.Bhavnagar university,,dept.
Of English
The
Victorian era
of British
history was the period of Queen
Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death, on 22 January
1901. Within the fields of social
history and literature, Victorianism refers to the study of
late-Victorian attitudes and culture with a focus on the highly
moralistic, straitlaced language and behaviour of Victorian
morality. wo especially important figures in this period of
British history are the prime ministers Benjamin
Disraeli and William
Gladstone, whose contrasting views changed the course of history.
The
Victorian era was a time of unprecedented demographic increase in
Britain. The population rose from 13.9 million in 1831 to 32.5
million in 1901. Two major factors affecting population growth are
fertility rates and mortality rates. Britain was the first country to
undergo the Demographic
transition and the Agricultural
and Industrial
Revolutions.
Charles
Dickens
Thomas
Hardy
The Brontë
Sisters
H.G. Wells
Wilkie
Collins
Elizabeth
Gaskell
George Eliot
William
Morris
(1)Charles
Dickens:
Charles
Dickens' life is like something out of a Charles Dickens' novel,
which is probably not a coincidence. He was born in 1812
in England, and he was the second of eight children .He read Daniel
Defoe's Robinson
Crusoe (things like
that), Henry Fielding, and he was also really into Arabian
Nights.
List of works:
The
Pickwick Papers – 1836
Oliver
Twist – 1837
Nicholas
Nickleby – 1838
The
Old Curiosity Shop – 1840
Barnaby
Rudge – 1841
Martin
Chuzzlewit – 1843
Dombey
and Son – 1846
David
Copperfield – 1849
Bleak
House – 1852
Little
Dorrit – 1855
A
Tale of Two Cities – 1859
Great
Expectations – 1860
Our
Mutual Friend – 1864
Oliver
Twist:
Oliver
Twist was the second novel of Charles Dickens. It was initially
published in monthly installments that began in February of 1837 and
ended in April of 1839. The publication of Oliver Twist began
before the monthly publication of The
Pickwick Papers ended. The two novels overlapped for nine
months.
Thomas
Hardy:
While Hardy wrote poetry
throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet.
List of his works:
The
Poor Man and the Lady (1867, unpublished and lost)
The
Brontë Sisters
The
sisters, Charlotte
(1816–1855), Emily
(1818–1848), and Anne
(1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists.
Their stories
immediately attracted attention, although not always the best, for
their passion and originality. Charlotte's Jane
Eyre was the
first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering
Heights, Anne's
The
Tenant of Wildfell Hall
and other works were later to be accepted as masterpieces of
literature.
Charlotte
Brontë 21 April
1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the
eldest of the three Brontë
sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become
classics of English literature. She first published her works
(including her best known novel, Jane
Eyre) under the
pen name Currer
Bell.
Emily
Jane Brontë 30
July 1818 – 19 December 1848)was an English novelist and poet who
is best known for her only novel, Wuthering
Heights, now
considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third
eldest of the four surviving Brontë
siblings, between the youngest Anne
and her brother Branwell.
She wrote under the pen name Ellis
Bell.
Anne
Brontë (17 January
1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest
member of the Brontë
literary family.
George
Eliot
Mary
Ann Evans (22
November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne"
or "Marian"), known by her pen name George
Eliot, was an
English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading
writers of the Victorian
era. She is the author of seven novel.The young Evans was
obviously intelligent and a voracious reader. Because she was not
considered physically beautiful, and thus not thought to have much
chance of marriage, and because of her intelligence, her father
invested in an education not often afforded women.
List
of major works:
Middle March:
Middlemarch, A Study of
Provincial Life
is a novel by English author George
Eliot, first published in eight instalments (volumes) during
1871–2. The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands
town of Middlemarch during 1829–32,[1]
and it comprises several distinct (though intersecting) stories and a
large cast of characters. Significant themes include the status of
women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion,
hypocrisy, political reform, and education.
William
Morris:
William
Morris (24 March
1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile
designer, poet,
novelist,
translator,
and socialist
activist. Associated with the British Arts
and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival of
traditional British textile
arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped
to establish the modern fantasy
genre, while he played a significant role in propagating the early
socialist movement in Britain.
William
Morris was a prolific writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and
translations of ancient and medieval texts. His first poems were
published when he was 24 years old.
List
of his works:
H.G.
Wells
Herbert George
Wells (21 September
1866 – 13 August 1946), known primarily as H.
G. Wells,[3][4]
was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel,
history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for
war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science
fiction novels, and is called the father of science fiction,
along with Jules
Verne and Hugo
Gernsback.He was nominated for the Nobel
Prize in Literature in four different years.
list of his works:
The
Time Machine
(1895),
The
Island of Doctor Moreau
(1896),
The
Invisible Man
(1897),
The
War of the Worlds
(1898).
This all are the
major Victorian writers. In this era we find that writers from
different genre came like Dickens,who wrote a novel on reality, a
harsh reality and George Eliot who wrote about contemporary Victorian
society on the other side writers like H G Wells who's fiction are
full of imagination. So this all are the major writer and give us
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