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.

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
• 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

• • 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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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

Matthew Arnold as a critic

Growing Old Poem by Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach Poem by Matthew Arnold

Europeans

Charles Baudelaire

August Wilhelm Schlegel