Nineteenth-Century Novel


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Public domain image. Illustration by Hugh Thomson for Pride and Prejudice, 1894


Early Nineteenth-Century British, Romantic, & Gothic Novel

Austen, Jane 1775-1817

Burney, Fanny 1752-1840. At the Literary Encyclopedia

Edgeworth, Maria 1768-1849. At the Literary Encyclopedia

Lewis, Matthew 1775-1818. The Monk. At the Literary Encyclopedia

Radcliffe, Anne 1764-1823. The Mysteries of Udolpho. At the Literary Encyclopedia

Scott, Sir Walter 1771-1832

Shelley, Mary 1797-1851

Walpole, Horace 1717-1797. The Castle of Otranto. At the Literary Encyclopedia


English Victorian Novel

Brontë, Charlotte 1816-1855

Brontë, Emily 1818-1848

Collins, William Wilkie 1824-1889

Craik, Dinah 1826-1887. At the Literary Encyclopedia

Dickens, Charles 1812-1870

Eliot, George 1819-1880

Gaskell, Elizabeth 1810-1865

Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811-1863

Trollope, Anthony 1815-1882


American Nineteenth-Century Novel

Alcott, Louisa May 1832-1888

Chopin, Kate 1850-1904

Cooper, J. Fenimore 1789-1851. At the Literary Encyclopedia

Crane, Stephen 1871-1900. At the Literary Encyclopedia

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1860-1935

Hart, Bret 1836-1902. At the Literary Encyclopedia

Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864

Howells, William Dean 1837-1920. At the Literary Encyclopedia

Melville, Herman 1819-1891

Poe, Edgar Allan 1809-1849

Sedgwick, Catherine Maria 1789-1867. At the Literary Encyclopedia

Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811-1896


Sensation Novel & Crime Fiction

Alcott, Louisa May. A Whisper in the Dark 1863.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth 1835-1915. At the Literary Encyclopedia. The Doctor's Wife 1864; Aurora Floyd 1862-63

Collins, William Wilkie 1824-1889. The Woman in White 1859-60; The Moonstone

Poe, Edgar Allan 1809-1849

Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850-1894 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1886. At the Literary Encyclopedia

Wood, Ellen. East Lynne 1861


Later Nineteenth-Century British Novel

Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928

James, Henry 1843-1916

Kipling, Rudyard 1865-1936

Meredith, George 1828-1909

Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850-1894


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