Victorian Authors

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

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

Victorian era Writers from countries other than England

Alexandre Dumas
Edgar Allen Poe
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Emile Zola
Emily Dickinson
Florence Nightengale
Frederick Douglass
Grant Allen
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry James
Herman Melville
Mark Twain
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
Thomas Braken
Victor Hugo
William Lloyd Garrison

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 from Victorian times

- 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
- 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
- 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)

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.