This section will give you an idea of the rich literature written during the Victorian era and the list of all famous Victorian authors. Also, check out Victorian poems that must be read.
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Biographies of Popular Victorian writers, poets and novelists
- Anne Bronte
- Anthony Trollope
- Charles Dickens
- Charlotte Bronte
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Emily Bronte
- George Eliot
- Lewis Carroll
- Oscar Wilde
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Thomas Hardy
- Wilkie Collins
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Lesser-known Victorian Authors (but still good ones)
- Alfred Tennyson
- Anna Sewell
- Christina Rosetti
- Edith Nesbit
- Edward Lear
- Elizabeth Barrett Brownin
- Ellen Woo
- George Gissing
- George Macdonald
- Gerard Hopkins
- H. Rider Haggard
- Margaret Oliphant
- Marie Corelli
- Mary Augusta Ward
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Mary Jane Seacole
- Matthew Arnold
- Olive Schreiner
- R.D. Blackmore
- Robert Browning
- Thomas Carlyle
- Thomas de Quincey
- Thomas Hughes
Pre-Victorian Authors covered on this site
- Alexander Pope
- Anna Seward
- Anne Radcliffe
- Charlotte Smith
- Erasmus Darwin
- Fanny Burney
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Harriet Martineau
- Isaac D’Israeli
- Jane Austen
- John Keats
- Mary Shelley
- P. B. Shelley
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Sir Walter Scott
- Thomas de Quincey
- William Cowper
Victorian era Writers from countries other than England
- Alexandre Dumas – French
- Edgar Allen Poe – American
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton – American
- Emile Zola– French
- Emily Dickinson– American
- Florence Nightengale
- Frederick Douglass – American
- Grant Allen – Canadian-British (Born in Canada but spent much of his life in Britain)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe – American
- Henry James – American (though he also spent a significant part of his life in England and acquired British citizenship late in his life)
- Herman Melville– American
- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens): American
- Nathaniel Hawthorne– American
- Sojourner Truth– American
- Susan B. Anthony– American
- Thomas Braken – New Zealander
- Victor Hugo– French
- William Lloyd Garrison– American
Victorians who verge on the Edwardian Period (their work can be either/or):
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Rudyard Kipling
- H.G. Wells
- Bram Stoker
- Jerome K. Jerome
- Joseph Conrad
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
Here is a complete list of all famous Authors, Novelists, Poets, Poetesses
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- A. C. Benson
- A. E. Housman
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Amy Levy
- Anna Eliza Bray
- Anne Brontë
- Annie Besant
- Anthony Trollope
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Arthur Henry Hallam
- Arthur Hugh Clough
- Arthur Morrison
- Arthur Symons
- Beatrix Potter
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Bertram Dobell
- Bram Stoker
- Captain Marryat
- Caroline Norton
- Catherine Gore
- Catherine Hubback
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Dickens
- Charles Kingsley
- Charles Lever
- Charles Reade
- Charlotte Brontë
- Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
- Charlotte Yonge
- Christina Rossetti
- Coventry Patmore
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Dinah Mulock Craik
- Dion Boucicault
- Douglas William Jerrold
- E. W. Hornung
- Edmund Gosse
- Edward FitzGerald
- Edward Lear
- Eliza Lynn Linton
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Elizabeth Missing Sewell
- Emily Brontë
- Emma Marshall
- Ernest Dowson
- Felicia Hemans
- Frances Trollope
- Francis Orpen Morris
- Frederic William Farrar
- G. K. Chesterton
- G.P.R. James
- G.W.M. Reynolds
- George and Weedom Grosssmith
- George du Maurier
- George Eliot
- George Gissing
- George Heath
- George Henry Lewes
- George Macdonald
- George Meredith
- George Moore
- George Whyte-Melville
- Gerald Massey
- Geraldine Jewsbury
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- H. G. Wells
- Hall Caine
- Hannah More
- Harriet Martineau
- Harriet Taylor Mill
- Harrison Ainsworth
- Henry Holbeach (pseud.)
- Henry Mayhew
- Henry Morley
- Isaac Williams
- Israel Zangwill
- J. A. Symonds (Outside VW)
- J. M. Barrie
- James Thomson
- John Barlas
- John Clare
- John Henry Cardinal Newman
- John Keble
- John Ruskin
- John Stuart Mill
- Joseph Conrad
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- Julia Horatia Ewing
- Laurence Housman
- Leslie Stephen
- Lewis Carroll
- Lord Dunsany
- Louis Jennings
- Lydia Sigourney
- M.R. James
- Margaret Harkness
- Margaret Oliphant
- Marianne Farningham
- Marie Corelli
- Mary Augusta Ward
- Mary Coleridge
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Mary Howitt
- Matthew Arnold
- Matthew Browne (pseud.)
- Max Beerbohm
- Mikhail Lermontov
- Mona Caird
- Mrs. Henry Wood
- Olive Schreiner
- Oscar Wilde
- Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé)
- R. D. Blackmore
- R. S. Surtees
- Richard Jefferies
- Robert Browning
- Robert Buchanan
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robert Murray Gilchrist
- Rudyard Kipling
- Samuel Butler
- Samuel Rogers
- Samuel Smiles
- Samuel Beckett
- Sir Arthur Helps
- Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Sir Henry Taylor
- Theodore Wratislaw
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Thomas Carlyle
- Thomas Hardy
- Thomas Hood
- Thomas Hughes
- Thomas Moore
- W. H. Davies
- W. M. Thackeray
- Walter Bagehot
- Walter Besant
- Walter Pater
- Walter Savage Landor
- Wilkie Collins
- William Brighty Rands
- William Ernest Henley
- William Howitt
- William Morris
- William Schwenck Gilbert
- William Sharp (Fiona MacLeod)
- my Secret Life by Walter
- Y B Yeats
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- Samuel Coleridge: English poet and philosopher who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England.
- Joseph Conrad: Polish-British writer acclaimed for his complex novels, such as “Heart of Darkness”.
- Lucy Maud Montgomery: Canadian author best known for the “Anne of Green Gables” series.
- Kenneth Grahame: British writer known for “The Wind in the Willows”.
- John Galsworthy: English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize winner.
- Charles Lamb: English essayist known for “Essays of Elia”.
- William Hazlitt: English writer known for his humanistic essays.
- P G Wodehouse: British author known for his comedic works, including the Jeeves series.
- William Faulkner: American writer known for novels set in the American South.
- Alexander Pope: English poet known for his satirical verse.
- George MacDonald: Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.
- Richard Marsh: English author known for his horror novel “The Beetle”.
- Montague Rhodes James: English author, best known for his ghost stories.
- E. W. Hornung: English author and poet, known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories.
- Edith Nesbit: English author and poet; wrote children’s books under the name E. Nesbit.
- Leonard Ravenhill: English Christian evangelist and author.
- Sir William Henry Perkins: British chemist and entrepreneur.
- Rebecca Sharp: Fictional character from William Makepeace Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair”.
- George Bernard Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist known for his satires.
- Beatrix Potter: English writer, illustrator, and conservationist known for her children’s books.
- J M Barrie: Scottish novelist and playwright, best known for creating “Peter Pan”.
- Andrew Robertson: Likely the Scottish portrait miniaturist.
Oscar Wilde: Famous Victorian Author and Novelist
Oscar Wilde is probably the most famous of Victorian authors. He was an Irish. Check out the biography of Oscar Wilde, his life quotes, his famous book Happy Prince and much more.
Matthew Arnold
The Scholar Gipsy by Matthew Arnold
The Last Word Poem by Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold function of criticism
Growing Old Poem by Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach Poem by Matthew Arnold
Europeans
Michael Hartnett (Irish: Mícheál Ó hAirtnéide) was a bilingual poet who wrote in both English and Irish
- Leo Tolstoy: Russian writer best known for “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”
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- Friedrich Holderlin: A German poet and philosopher; famous work: “Hyperion”.
- Friedrich Schiller: A German poet, philosopher, and playwright; famous work: “Ode to Joy”.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A German writer and statesman; famous work: “Faust”.
- Siegfried Sassoon: An English poet and soldier; known for his war poetry.
- Arthur Wellesley: The 1st Duke of Wellington, an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman; known for his victory at the Battle of Waterloo.
- Daniel O’Connell: An Irish political leader; known for his campaign for Catholic Emancipation.