Poetry 1833- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, begins writing long poem In Memoriam 1850- Elizabeth Barrett Browning publishes love poems Sonnets from the Portuguese 1868 - Gerard Manley Hopkins enters Jesuit religious order and stops writing poetry 1875 - Hopkins resumes writing poetry Other Literature 1843- Charles Dickens publishes short novel A Christmas Carol 1847- Charlotte Brontë publishes Jane Eyre; sister Emily publishes Wuthering Heights 1860- Dickens publishes first magazine installment of Great Expectations 1861- George Eliot publishes Silas Marner 1865- Lewis Carroll publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1883- Robert Louis Stevenson publishes adventure novel Treasure Island 1887- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes A Study in Scarlet, introducing detective Sherlock Holmes 1891- Thomas Hardy publishes Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Oscar Wilde's novel, A Picture of Dorian Gray, shocks Victorian England with its theme of corruption of wealth 1895- H.G.
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