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Events relating to english literature
Charles Dickens' first novel, Oliver Twist, begins monthly publication (in book form, 1838)
English poet Robert Browning publishes a vivid narrative poem about the terrible revenge of The Pied Piper of Hamelin
English author Thomas Babington Macaulay publishes a collection of stirring ballads, Lays of Ancient Rome
Ebenezer Scrooge mends his ways just in time in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
In his novel Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli develops the theme of Conservatism uniting 'two nations', the rich and the poor
Friedrich Engels, after running a textile factory in Manchester, publishes The Condition of the Working Class in England
Edward Lear publishes his Book of Nonsense, consisting of limericks illustrated with his own cartoons
After marrying secretly, the English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett go abroad to live in Florence
The three Brontë sisters jointly publish a volume of their poems and sell just two copies
English author William Makepeace Thackeray begins publication of his novel Vanity Fair in monthly parts (book form 1848)
Charlotte becomes the first of the Brontë sisters to have a novel published — Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights follows just two months after her sister Charlotte's Jane Eyre
Branwell, Emily and Anne Brontë die within a period of eight months
Charles Dickens begins the publication in monthly numbers of David Copperfield, his own favourite among his novels
Alfred Tennyson's elegy for a friend, In Memoriam, captures perfectly the Victorian mood of heightened sensibility
London physician Peter Mark Roget publishes his dictionary of synonyms, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
Within six weeks of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimea, Tennyson publishes a poem finding heroism in the disaster
Tennyson publishes a long narrative poem, Maud, a section of which ('Come into the garden, Maud') becomes famous as a song
English author Anthony Trollope publishes The Warden, the first in his series of six Barsetshire novels
In Tom Brown's Schooldays Thomas Hughes depicts the often brutal aspects of an English public school
English author George Eliot wins fame with her first full-length novel, Adam Bede
Charles Darwin puts forward the theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species, the result of twenty years' research
In On Liberty John Stuart Mill makes the classic liberal case for the priority of the freedom of the individual
Samuel Smiles provides an inspiring ideal of Victorian enterprise in Self-Help, a manual for ambitious young men
Tennyson publishes the first part of Idylls of the King, a series of linked poems about Britain's mythical king Arthur
