| 1795 Carlyle born. |
| 1802–85 Victor Hugo. |
| 1803–70 Dumas. |
| 1804–69 Sainte-Beuve. |
| 1809 Tennyson born. |
| 1811 Thackeray born. |
| 1812 Robert Browning born. |
| 1812 Dickens born. |
| 1822 J. G. Lockhart’s Adam Blair. |
| 1824–32 Our Village. |
| 1826 Vivian Grey. |
| 1827 The Christian Year. |
| 1830–2 The Reform Bill. |
| 1830–7 William IV. |
| 1833 Browning’s Pauline. |
| 1833–8 Sartor Resartus. |
| 1834 The Last Days of Pompeii. |
| 1835 Paracelsus. |
| 1836 Pickwick Papers. |
| 1837 Carlyle’s French Revolution. |
| 1837 Browning’s Strafford. |
| 1837 Henrietta Temple. |
| 1837 Accession of Queen Victoria. |
| 1837–8 Oliver Twist. |
| 1838 Guest’s History of English Rhythms. |
| 1838–9 Nicholas Nickleby. |
| 1839 Bailey’s Festus. |
| 1840 Sordello. |
| 1841 Carlyle’s Heroes. |
| 1841–6 Bells and Pomegranates. |
| 1842 Macaulay’s Lays. |
| 1842 Poems by Tennyson. |
| 1843 Past and Present. |
| 1844 Barry Lyndon. |
| 1844 Coningsby. |
| 1845 The “Bon Gaultier” ballads. |
| 1845 Thackeray’s Jeames’s Diary. |
| 1846 Thackeray’s Snobs. |
| 1847 Mrs. Browning’s Sonnets. |
| 1847 Jane Eyre. |
| 1847 The Princess. |
| 1847–8 Vanity Fair. |
| 1848 Clough’s Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich. |
| 1848 Mary Barton. |
| 1849 Shirley. |
| 1849–50 David Copperfield. |
| 1850 Death of Balzac. |
| 1850 In Memoriam. |
| 1850 The Blessed Damozel. |
| 1850 The Germ. |
| 1850 Wuthering Heights. |
| 1851 Casa Guidi Windows. |
| 1851 Death of Turner. |
| 1852 Esmond. |
| 1853 Cranford. |
| 1853 Hypatia. |
| 1853 The Heir of Redclyffe. |
| 1853 Poems by Matthew Arnold. |
| 1853–5 The Newcomes. |
| 1853–6 The Crimean war. |
| 1854–6 Patmore’s Angel in the House. |
| 1855 North and South. |
| 1855 Maud. |
| 1855 Men and Women. |
| 1855 Westward Ho! |
| 1856 Death of Heine. |
| 1856 It is never too late to mend. |
| 1856 John Halifax, Gentleman. |
| 1857 Barchester Towers. |
| 1857 Aurora Leigh. |
| 1857 Two Years Ago. |
| 1857 G. A. Lawrence’s Guy Livingstone. |
| 1857–8 Indian mutiny. |
| 1858 Christmas Eve and Easter Day. |
| 1858 Morris’s Defence of Guenevere. |
| 1858 Scenes of Clerical Life. |
| 1858 ff. Procter’s Legends and Lyrics. |
| 1859 Adam Bede. |
| 1859 FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. |
| 1859 Henry Kingsley’s Geoffrey Hamlyn. |
| 1859 The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. |
| 1859 ff. Idylls of the King. |
| 1859–60 Dion Boucicault’s The Colleen Bawn. |
| 1860 The Mill on the Floss. |
| 1860 The Woman in White. |
| 1861 Silas Marner. |
| 1861 East Lynne. |
| 1862 Lady Audley’s Secret. |
| 1862 Calverley’s Verses and Translations. |
| 1863 Death of Thackeray. |
| 1863 Lear’s Book of Nonsense. |
| 1863 Poems by Jean Ingelow. |
| 1863 Romola. |
| 1863 ff. Ashworth’s Strange Tales. |
| 1864 Roundell Palmer’s Book of Praise. |
| 1864 Dramatis Personae. |
| 1864 James Payn’s Lost Sir Massingberd. |
| 1864 T. W. Roberston’s David Garrick. |
| 1864–6 Wives and Daughters. |
| 1865 Atalanta in Calydon. |
| 1865 Matthew Arnold’s Essays in Criticism. |
| 1866 Alice in Wonderland. |
| 1866 Newman’s Dream of St. Gerontius. |
| 1866 “Ouida’s” Chandos. |
| 1866 Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads. |
| 1867 Morris’s Life and Death of Jason. |
| 1867 T. W. Robertson’s Caste. |
| 1867 Myers’s St. Paul. |
| 1868 Macdonald’s Robert Falconer. |
| 1868–9 The Ring and the Book. |
| 1868–70 The Earthly Paradise. |
| 1869 Lorna Doone. |
| 1870 Death of Dickens. |
| 1870 Lothair. |
| 1870 Poems by Rossetti. |
| 1870–1 Franco-Prussian war. |
| 1871 Philip Bourke Marston’s Songtide. |
| 1871–2 Middlemarch. |
| 1872 Butler’s Erewhon. |
| 1872 W. G. Wills’s Charles the First. |
| 1873 Matthew Arnold’s Literature and Dogma. |
| 1874–80 Thomson’s City of Dreadful Night. |
| 1875 Gilbert’s comic operas begin. |
| 1877 Morris’s Sigurd the Volsung. |
| 1877 Palgrave’s Golden Treasury. |
| 1877–8 Russo-Turkish war. |
| 1879 Henry James’s Daisy Miller. |
| 1879 Meredith’s Egoist. |
| 1880 Beaconsfield’s Endymion. |
| 1880 Shorthouse’s John Inglesant. |
| 1880 Ballads and Sonnets by Rossetti. |
| 1880–1 Lang’s Ballades in Blue China. |
| 1881 Death of Carlyle. |
| 1881 W. H. White’s The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford. |
| 1882 Besant’s All Sorts and Conditions of Men. |
| 1882 Swinburne’s Tristram of Lyonesse. |
| 1885 Hugh Conway’s Called Back. |
| 1885 Diana of the Crossways. |
| 1885 Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses. |
| 1888 Henley’s Book of Verses. |
| 1889 Amy Levy’s A London Plane Tree. |
| 1889 Death of Robert Browning. |
| 1890 Campbell’s Popular Tales of the West Highlands. |
| 1890 Morris’s Roots of the Mountains. |
| 1890 “Lanoe Falconer’s” Mdlle. Ixe. |
| 1891 Gissing’s New Grub Street. |
| 1891 J. K. Stephen’s Quo Musa tendis? and Lapsus Calami. |
| 1892 Death of Tennyson. |
| 1893 Hubert Crackenthorpe’s Wreckage. |
| 1894 Du Maurier’s Trilby. |
| 1895 Wilde’s The Importance of being Earnest. |
| 1896 Verses by Ernest Dowson. |
| 1897 Cooper’s Mr. Blake of Newmarket. |
| 1897 “John Oliver Hobbes’s” The School for Saints. |
| 1897 M. E. Coleridge’s The King with Two Faces. |
| 1897 Henry James’s What Maisie Knew. |
| 1898 Henry James’s In the Cage. |
| 1900 Harland’s The Cardinal’s Snuffbox. |
| 1901 Accession of King Edward VII. |
| 1901 “G. Douglas’s” The House with the Green Shutters. |
| 1903 Butler’s Way of all Flesh. |
| 1903 Gissing’s Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft. |
| 1904 H. S. Merriman’s The Last Hope. |
| 1908 Thompson’s The Hound of Heaven. |
| 1910 Accession of King George V. |