Major Writers of The Victorian Period
- Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)
- Brontë, Anne (1820-1849)
- Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)
- Brontë, Emily (1818-1848)
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861)
- Browning, Robert (1812-1889)
- Butler, Samuel (1835-1902)
- Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898)
- Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)
- Collins, Wilkie (1824-89)
- Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861)
- Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
- Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
- Eliot, George (1819-1880)
- Gaskell, Elizabeth (1810-1865)
- Gissing, George (1857-1903)
- Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889)
- Housman, A. E. (1859-1936)
- Kingston, William Henry Giles (1814-1880)
- Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
- Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1802-1838)
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-59)
- Moore, George (1852-1933)
- Morris, William (1834-96)
- Meredith, George (1828-1909)
- Mill, John Stuart (1806-73)
- Pater, Walter (1839-94)
- Patmore, Coventry (1823-96)
- Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894)
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
- Ruskin, John (1819-1900)
- Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
- Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909)
- Tennyson, Alfred (Lord) (1809-1892)
- Trollope, Anthony (1815–82)
- Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863)
- Wells, H.G. (1866-1946)
- Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
- Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)
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