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- - - - He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, taking his B.A. in 1835, and became a fellow of his college
        
        He was subsequently dean of arts and vice-president, taking his degree of D.C.L. in 1847
        
        His first comedy, The Ladies' Battle, appeared at the Olympic Theatre in May 1851
  - - - Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire
      - He also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues, and other topical matters
        
        At the time of his marriage, he had only written the first of three volumes of his first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran
    - - was an English novelist, biographer and short story writer
        
        Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor
        
        Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published in 1857, was the first biography of Charlotte Brontë
  - - - was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher
        
        He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism
        
        He is best known for satirical comedies such as Lucky Jim (1954), One Fat Englishman (1963), Ending Up (1974), Jake's Thing (1978) and The Old Devils (1986)
      - Blackmore
        
        English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an epic poet, but he was also a respected medical doctor and theologian
        
        He was educated briefly at Westminster School and entered St Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 1669 at 15. He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1674 and his MA in 1676
        
        Blackmore had a passion for writing epics. Prince Arthur, an Heroick Poem in X Books appeared in 1695
        
        In 1711, Blackmore produced The Nature of Man, a physiological/theological poem on climate and character (with the English climate being the best)
    - - She enlisted in school at Roe Head, Mirfield, in January 1831, aged 14 years
        
        n May 1846 Charlotte, Emily, and Anne self-financed the publication of a joint collection of poems under their assumed names Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
        
        In 1848 Brontë began work on the manuscript of her second novel, Shirley
  - - - At first his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but he gradually established a reputation as a novelist
        
        He was an encourager of other novelists, as well as an influence on them; among those to benefit were Robert Louis Stevenson and George Gissing
        
        He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times
    - - was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer
        
        He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses
        
        Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life, but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health
        
        Stevenson wrote an estimated 700,000 words during his years on Samoa
        
        He completed The Beach of Falesá, the first-person tale of a Scottish copra trader on a South Sea island, a man unheroic in his actions or his own soul.
      - Hardy
        
        was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth
        
        While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898
        
        Initially, he gained fame as the author of novels such as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895)
        
        Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances, and they are often set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex
- - - - He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign
        
        In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu"
        
        He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830
        
        Tennyson also excelled at short lyrics, such as "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears", and "Crossing the Bar"
        
        He died of a stroke at the age of 22
    - - (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets
        
        He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary
        
        In March 1833, "Pauline, a Fragment of a Confession" was published anonymously by Saunders and Otley at the expense of the author, Robert Browning, who received the money from his aunt, Mrs Silverthorne
        
        Browning identified as a Liberal, supported the emancipation of women, and opposed slavery, expressing sympathy for the North in the American Civil War.
        
        While staying in Venice in 1889, Browning caught cold, became seriously ill, and died on December 12. He was buried in Westminster Abbey
  - - - best known as the 19th century's most celebrated designer, but he was also a driven polymath who spent much of his life fighting the consensus
        
        In 1875 Morris became sole director of the renamed and restructured Morris & Company
        
        His first poems were published when he was 24 years old, and he was polishing his final novel, The Sundering Flood, at the time of his death
        
        Morris began publishing poetry and short stories in 1856 through The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine which he founded with his friends and financed while at university
    - - (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
        
        He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
        
        Swinburne was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1903 to 1909
        
        In 1908 he was one of the main candidates considered for the prize, and was nominated again in 1909
        
        The Queen Mother (1860), Rosamond (1860), Chastelard (1865)
        
        Swinburne died at the Pines on 10 April 1909, at the age of 72
- - - - Dickens's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers
        
        His 1843 novella A Christmas Carol remains especially popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre
        
        His 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities (set in London and Paris) is his best-known work of historical fiction
        
        Charles Dickens died of an apparent stroke on June 9, 1870
  - - - He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a 1975 film by Stanley Kubrick
        
        was born in Calcutta, British India, and was sent to England after his father's death in 1815
        
        later novels, such as Pendennis and The Newcomes, reflected a mellowing in his tone, focusing on the coming of age of characters and critical portrayals of society
        
        During 1831-33 Thackeray studied law at the Middle Temple, London, but had little enthusiasm to continued his studies. He also began to study art, while he supported himself by selling sketches and working at a bill discounting firm.
        
        William began writing as many articles as humanly possible and sending them to any newspaper that would print them. This was a precarious sort of existence which would continue for most of the rest of his life.
        
        THE YELLOWPLUSH PAPERS (1838), THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK (1840)
      - Thackeray was the only son of Richmond Thackeray, an administrator in the East India Company
    - - was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator
        
        She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876)
        
        In 1857, when she was 37 years of age, "The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton", the first of the three stories included in Scenes of Clerical Life, and the first work of "George Eliot", was published in Blackwood's Magazine
        
        They moved to a new house in Chelsea, but Eliot fell ill with a throat infection
- - - - He was educated at a private school in Hertfordshire and, subsequently, at Trinity College, Cambridge where he won several prizes, including the Chancellor's Gold Medal in June 1821, and where he in 1825 published a prominent essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review
        
        During the 1840s, Macaulay undertook his most famous work, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, publishing the first two volumes in 1848
        
        Died: December 28, 1859 (aged 59)
    - - was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era
        
        He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany
        
        He wrote essays and treatises , poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale
        
        Ruskin went on to enrol and complete his studies at King's College, where he prepared for Oxford under Dale's tutelage
        
        Author of The King of the Golden River
      - Matthew Arnold
        
        was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
        
        He was also an inspector of schools for thirty-five years, and supported the concept of state-regulated secondary education
        
        He wrote verse for a family magazine, and won school prizes. His prize poem, "Alaric at Rome", was printed at Rugby
        
        His 1867 poem "Dover Beach" depicted a nightmarish world from which the old religious verities have receded
        
        Died: 15 April 1888 (aged 65) Liverpool
        
        John Henry Newman
        
        Thomas Carlyle
        
        was a British essayist, historian, and philosopher from the Scottish Lowlands
        
        A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature, and philosophy
        
        Born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Carlyle attended the University of Edinburgh where he excelled in mathematics, inventing the Carlyle circle
        
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        was an English theologian, academic, intellectual, philosopher, polymath, historian, writer, scholar and later as a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century
        
        Originally an evangelical academic at the University of Oxford and priest in the Church of England, Newman became drawn to the high-church tradition of Anglicanism
        
        Newman died at Edgebaston, Birmingham, where he had spent his final years, on August 11, 1890