CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.
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1831.Disraeli: The Young Duke.
Ebenezer Elliott: Corn Law Rhymes.
Peacock: Crotchet Castle.
Scott: Count Robert of Paris.
Scott: Castle Dangerous.
1832.John Austin: The Province of Jurisprudence Determined.
E. L. Bulwer (Lord Lytton): Eugene Aram.
Disraeli: Contarini Fleming.
Samuel Warren: The Diary of a Late Physician.
Bentham died.
Crabbe died.
Scott died.
1833.Robert Browning: Pauline.
Carlyle: Sartor Resartus (finished 1834).
Hartley Coleridge: Poems.
Disraeli: The Wondrous Tale of Alroy.
Lamb: Last Essays of Elia.
Lyell: Principles of Geology (completed).
J. H. Newman: Arians of the Fourth Century.
Newman and others: Tracts for the Times (begun).
Tennyson: Poems.
1834.E. L. Bulwer (Lord Lytton): The Last Days of Pompeii.
Landor: The Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare.
Marryat: Peter Simple.
Marryat: Jacob Faithful.
Henry Taylor: Philip van Artevelde.
S. T. Coleridge died.
Charles Lamb died.
Malthus died.
1835.Robert Browning: Paracelsus.
E. L. Bulwer (Lord Lytton): Rienzi.
Dickens: Sketches by Boz (finished 1836).
Thirlwall: History of Greece (finished 1847).
Wordsworth: Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems.
Mrs. Hemans died.
James Hogg died.
1836.Dickens: Pickwick (finished 1837).
Landor: Pericles and Aspasia.
Lockhart: Life of Sir Walter Scott (finished 1838).
Marryat: Mr. Midshipman Easy.
Marryat: Japhet in Search of a Father.
W. Godwin died.
James Mill died.
1837.Robert Browning: Strafford.
Carlyle: History of the French Revolution.
Dickens: Oliver Twist (finished 1838).
Disraeli: Henrietta Temple.
Disraeli: Venetia.
Hallam: Literature of Europe (finished 1839).
Landor: The Pentameron.
Thackeray: The Yellowplush Papers (finished 1838).
1838.Thomas Arnold: History of Rome (last volume, 1843).
E. Barrett (Browning): The Seraphim.
E. L. Bulwer (Lord Lytton): The Lady of Lyons.
Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby (finished 1839).
Maurice: The Kingdom of Christ (enlarged 1842).
Newman: Lectures on Justification.
1839.Bailey: Festus.
E. L. Bulwer (Lord Lytton): Cardinal Richelieu.
Carlyle: Chartism.
Carlyle: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays.
Lever: Harry Lorrequer.
Thackeray: Catherine (finished 1840).
John Galt died.
W. M. Praed died.
1840.Robert Browning: Sordello.
E. L. Bulwer (Lord Lytton): Money.
Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop (finished 1841).
Frere: Translation of Aristophanes.
Thackeray: The Paris Sketch Book.
Madame D’Arblay died.
1841.Robert Browning: Pippa Passes.
Carlyle: Heroes and Hero-Worship.
Dickens: Barnaby Rudge.
Lever: Charles O’Malley.
Hugh Miller: The Old Red Sandstone.
Newman: Tract XC.
Thackeray: The Great Hoggarty Diamond.
Warren: Ten Thousand a Year.
1842.Robert Browning: Dramatic Lyrics.
E. L. Bulwer (Lord Lytton): Zanoni.
Dickens: American Notes.
Macaulay: Lays of Ancient Rome.
Marryat: Percival Keene.
Henry Taylor: Edwin the Fair.
Tennyson: Poems.
Wilson: The Recreations of Christopher North.
Wordsworth: The Borderers.
Thomas Arnold died.
1843.Robert Browning: A Blot in the ’Scutcheon.
Carlyle: Past and Present.
Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit (finished 1844).
Horne: Orion.
E. L. Bulwer (Lord Lytton): The Last of the Barons.
Macaulay: Critical and Historical Essays (collected).
Mill: A System of Logic.
Ruskin: Modern Painters (finished 1860).
Thackeray: The Irish Sketch Book.
Southey died.
1844.Barnes: Poems of Rural Life, in the Dorset Dialect.
E. Barrett (Browning): Poems.
Robert Browning: Colombe’s Birthday.
Disraeli: Coningsby.
Kinglake: Eothen.
Stanley: Life of Arnold.
Thackeray: Barry Lyndon.
Thomas Campbell died.
1845.Robert Browning: Dramatic Romances and Lyrics.
Carlyle: Cromwell.
Disraeli: Sybil.
Thomas Hood died.
Sydney Smith died.
1846.Dickens: Dombey and Son (finished 1848).
Grote: History of Greece (finished 1856).
Newman: The Development of Christian Doctrine.
1847.Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre.
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights.
Disraeli: Tancred.
Helps: Friends in Council.
Landor: Hellenics.
Tennyson: The Princess.
Thackeray: Vanity Fair (finished 1848).
Trollope: The Macdermotts of Ballycloran.
1848.Clough: The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich.
Mrs. Gaskell: Mary Barton.
Charles Kingsley: Yeast.
Macaulay: History of England, vols. i. and ii. (last volume, 1860).
Mill: Political Economy.
Thackeray: The Book of Snobs (reprinted from Punch).
Emily Brontë died.
Marryat died.
1849.Matthew Arnold: The Strayed Reveller, and other Poems.
W. E. Aytoun: Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers.
Charlotte Brontë: Shirley.
Clough: Ambarvalia.
Dickens: David Copperfield (finished 1850).
Lytton: The Caxtons.
Ruskin: The Seven Lamps of Architecture.
Thackeray: Pendennis (finished 1850).
T. L. Beddoes died.
Hartley Coleridge died.
Maria Edgeworth died.
1850.Beddoes: Death’s Jest-Book.
E. B. Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese.
Robert Browning: Christmas Eve and Easter Day.
Carlyle: Latter-Day Pamphlets.
Dobell: The Roman.
Charles Kingsley: Alton Locke.
D. G. Rossetti and others: The Germ.
Tennyson: In Memoriam.
Wordsworth: The Prelude.
Francis Jeffrey died.
Wordsworth died.
1851.E. B. Browning: Casa Guidi Windows.
Carlyle: Life of Sterling.
Ruskin: The Stones of Venice (finished 1853).
Joanna Baillie died.
1852.Matthew Arnold: Empedocles on Etna.
Dickens: Bleak House (finished 1853).
Thackeray: Esmond.
Moore died.
1853.Matthew Arnold: Poems.
Charlotte Brontë: Villette.
Dobell: Balder.
Mrs. Gaskell: Cranford.
Charles Kingsley: Hypatia.
W. S. Landor: The Last Fruit off an Old Tree.
Lytton: My Novel.
Charles Reade: Peg Woffington.
Charles Reade: Christie Johnstone.
Alexander Smith: A Life Drama.
Thackeray: The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century (printed).
1854.Hugh Miller: My Schools and Schoolmasters.
Milman: History of Latin Christianity.
Patmore: The Angel in the House (Part I.).
Thackeray: The Newcomes (finished 1855).
Susan Ferrier died.
Lockhart died.
John Wilson died.
1855.Matthew Arnold: Poems.
Robert Browning: Men and Women.
Mrs. Gaskell: North and South.
Charles Kingsley: Westward Ho!
Lewes: Life of Goethe.
Herbert Spencer: Principles of Psychology.
Tennyson: Maud.
Charlotte Brontë died.
Samuel Rogers died.
1856.Dobell: England in Time of War.
Froude: History of England (finished 1870).
Charles Reade: It is Never Too Late to Mend.
Sir W. Hamilton died.
Hugh Miller died.
1857.E. B. Browning: Aurora Leigh.
Buckle: History of Civilization (vol. ii. in 1861).
Hugh Miller: The Testimony of the Rocks.
Alexander Smith: City Poems.
Thackeray: The Virginians (finished 1859).
Trollope: Barchester Towers.
1858.Carlyle: Frederick the Great (finished 1865).
George Eliot: Scenes of Clerical Life (serially, 1857).
Lytton: What will He do with It?
William Morris: The Defence of Guenevere.
1859.Barnes: Hwomely Rhymes.
Darwin: The Origin of Species.
Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities.
George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss.
Edward FitzGerald: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
George Meredith: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel.
Mill: Liberty.
Tennyson: Idylls of the King (part).
De Quincey died.
Henry Hallam died.
Leigh Hunt died.
Macaulay died.
1860.George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss.
Essays and Reviews (various authors).
Swinburne: The Queen Mother.
Swinburne: Rosamond.
Thackeray: The Four Georges (printed).
Sir W. Napier died.
1861.Matthew Arnold: On Translating Homer.
George Eliot: Silas Marner.
Maine: Ancient Law.
May: Constitutional History of England (finished 1863).
Mill: Representative Government.
Charles Reade: The Cloister and the Hearth.
D. G. Rossetti: The Early Italian Poets.
Thackeray: The Adventures of Philip (finished 1862).
Trollope: Framley Parsonage.
E. Barrett Browning died.
1862.Alfred Austin: The Human Tragedy.
Colenso: The Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua Examined (finished 1879).
George Meredith: Modern Love, and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads.
Mill: Utilitarianism.
Christina Rossetti: Goblin Market, and other Poems.
Henry Taylor: St. Clement’s Eve.
Buckle died.
1863.George Eliot: Romola.
Freeman: History of Federal Government.
Kinglake: The Invasion of the Crimea (finished 1887).
Lyell: The Antiquity of Man.
George Macdonald: David Elginbrod.
Margaret Oliphant: Chronicles of Carlingford (begun).
Thackeray died.
Whately died.
1864.Robert Browning: Dramatis Personæ.
Dickens: Our Mutual Friend (finished 1865).
Newman: Apologia pro Vita Sua.
Herbert Spencer: Principles of Biology (finished 1867).
Tennyson: Enoch Arden.
Landor died.
1865.Matthew Arnold: Essays in Criticism (collected).
Lewis Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Grote: Plato and the other Companions of Socrates.
Lecky: History of Rationalism.
Lightfoot: St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians.
George Meredith: Rhoda Fleming.
Ruskin: Ethics of the Dust.
Ruskin: Sesame and Lilies.
Seeley: Ecce Homo!
Swinburne: Atalanta in Calydon.
Swinburne: Chastelard.
Aytoun died.
Mrs. Gaskell died.
1866.Matthew Arnold: Thyrsis.
Lord de Tabley: Philoctetes.
Mrs. Gaskell: Wives and Daughters.
Charles Kingsley: Hereward the Wake.
Charles Reade: Griffith Gaunt.
Christina Rossetti: The Prince’s Progress, and other Poems.
Ruskin: Crown of Wild Olive.
Swinburne: Poems and Ballads.
Keble died.
Whewell died.
1867.Matthew Arnold: New Poems.
Bagehot: The English Constitution.
Lord de Tabley: Orestes.
Freeman: History of the Norman Conquest (finished 1876).
Froude: Short Studies on Great Subjects (last series, 1883).
William Morris: The Life and Death of Jason.
Thackeray: Denis Duval.
Trollope: The Last Chronicle of Barset.
Alex. Smith died.
1868.Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book (finished 1869).
George Eliot: The Spanish Gypsy.
Lightfoot: St. Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians.
William Morris: The Earthly Paradise (finished 1870).
Milman died.
1869.Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy.
Blackmore: Lorna Doone.
Lecky: History of European Morals.
George Macdonald: Robert Falconer.
Mill: The Subjection of Women.
Tennyson: The Holy Grail, and other Poems.
Wallace: The Malay Archipelago.
1870.Matthew Arnold: St. Paul and Protestantism.
Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Disraeli: Lothair.
Huxley: Lay Sermons.
Newman: Grammar of Assent.
D. G. Rossetti: Poems.
Dickens died.