Birth: May 24, 1819Death: January 22, 1901Reign: 1837-1901(18-82years old)

“Grandmother of Europe”“Empress of India”

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Themes/Focus Genre

Thomas Carlyle

The bad-worse effect of industrialization

Essay

John Stuart Mill

Analytic approach to the economic and political problems

Essay

John RuskinImportance of independent thinking human values

Essay

William Morris

Importance of independent thinking and human values

Essay

Matthew Arnold

Unimaginative materialism of Victorians

Essay

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson Melancholy and Romantic Poetry

Robert and Elizabeth Browning

Italian Renaissance Poetry

Dante Gabriel RosettiPure & simple images characteristics of Medieval Italian art

Poetry

Christina Rosetti Religious mysticism Poetry

Thomas HardyPessimism, sense of tragedy, disappointment

Poetry

A.E Housman Fatalism Poetry

Gerard Manley Hopkins Poetry

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Themes/Focus Genre

W.S Gilbert

Ridiculous, Hypocrisy, Vitality Drama

Oscar Wilde

English society as devoid of emotional, moral and physical reality

Drama

George Bernard

Shaw

Origins of Social Problems and Represented the anti-Victorian tradition

Drama

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Themes/FocusGenr

eMaster Piece

Charles DickensEntertaining and critical of sham and hypocrisy in Victorian society

Novel-Oliver Twist-Great Expectations

William Makepeace Thackeray

Human conflict Novel-Vanity Fair-The History of Henry Esmond

Samuel Butler Social Criticism Novel-The Way Of All Flesh

Emily Bronte Human emotions Novel-WutheringHeights

Charlotte Bronte Human passion Novel -Jane Eyre

Mary Ann Evans Intellectual ideas Novel -Middle March

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Themes/Focus Genre Master Piece

GeorgeMeredith

Comic romances; Men weakness and female strength

Novel-The Adventures of Harry Richmond

Thomas Hardy Realistic tales; History Novel

-The Return of the Native-Test of the D’Urbervilles-Jude the Obscure

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robust adventure tales Novel Storyteller

Rudyard Kipling

Life of India Novel Storyteller

Joseph ConradEngland’s attempt to justify its supremacy as an imperial power

Novel Storyteller

Charles DodsonParody, irony and symbolic suggestion

Novel

-Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland-Through the looking glass