English novels of the 18th and 19th centuries

 

Samuel Richardson  (1689-1761) 1740 Pamela; 1748 Clarissa : The History of a Young Lady; 1749 Sir Charles Grandison

 

Henry Fielding  (1707-1754) 1742 Joseph Andrews; 1743 Jonathan Wild the Great; 1749 Tom Jones; 1751 Amelia

 

Tobias Smollett  (1721-1771) 1748 Roderick Random; 1751 Peregrine Pickle; 1771 The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker;

 

Laurence Sterne  (1713-1768) 1760 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy; 1768 Sentimental Journey

 

Oliver Goldsmith  (1728-1774) 1766 The Vicar of Wakefield

 

Henry Mackenzie  (1745-1831) 1771 The Man of Feeling

 

Horace Walpole  (1717-1797) 1765 The Castle of Otranto

 

Frances Burney  1752-1840) 1778 Evelina; 1782 Cecilia; 1796 Camilla

 

Ann Radcliffe  (1764-1823) 1794 The Mysteries of Udolpho; 1797 The Italian

 

"Monk" Lewis  (1775-1818) 1796 The Monk

 

William Godwin  (1756-1836) 1794 Caleb Williams

 

William Beckford  (1760-1844) 1786 The Caliph Vathek

 

Maria Edgeworth  (1767-1849) 1801 Belinda; 1800 Castle Rackrent; 1809 The Absentee; 1817 Ormond

 

Thomas Love Peacock  (1785-1866) 1816 Headlong Hall; 1818 Nightmare Abbey; 1831 Crotchet Castle

 

Jane Austen  (1775-1817) Sense and Sensibility (written 1795-1797 published 1811); Pride and Prejudice (1796-7:1813); Northanger Abbey (1798:1818); Mansfield Park (1812:1814); Emma (1814:1816); Persuasion (1815:1818)

 

Walter Scott  (1771-1832): 1814 Waverley; 1815 Guy Mannering; 1816 The Antiquary; 1816 The Black Dwarf, Old Mortality; 1818 Heart of Midlothian; 1818 Rob Roy; 1819 The Bride of Lammermore, The Legend of Montrose; 1820 Ivanhoe; 1820 The Monastery; 1820 The Abbot; 1821 Kennilworth; 1822 The Pirate; 1822 The Fortunes of Nigel; 1822 Peverill of the Peak; 1823 Quentin Durward; 1824 St Ronan's Well; 1824 Redgauntlet; 1825 The Betrothed, The Talisman; 1826 Woodstock; 1827 Chronicles of the Canongate; 1828 The Fair Maid of Perth; 1829 Anne of Geierstein; 1832 Count Robert of Paris, Castle Dangerous.

 

Mary Shelley  (1797-1851): 1818 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus;

 

William Makepeace Thakery  (1811-1863): 1847 Vanity Fair; 1852 Henry Esmond; 1848 Pendennis

 

Charles Dickens   (1812-1870): 1835 Sketches by Boz; 1836 Pickwick Papers; 1837 Oliver Twist; 1838 Nicholas Nickleby; 1840 Barnaby Rudge, The Old Curiosity Shop; 1843 Martin Chuzzlewit, A Christmas Carol; 1844 The Chimes; 1845 The Cricket on the Hearth; 1846 The Battle of Life; 1847 The Haunted Man, Dombey and Son; 1849 David Copperfield; 1852 Bleak House; 1854 Hard Times; 1857 Little Dorrit; 1859 A Tale of Two Cities; 1861 The Uncommercial Traveller; 1860 Great Expectations; 1864 Our Mutual Friend; 1870 The Mystery of Edwin Drood (unfinished).

 

Anthony Trollope  (1815-1882)-wrote 60 novels- 1855 The Warden; 1857 Barchester Towers;  1861 Framley Parsonage; 1864 The Small House at Allington; 1867 The Last Chronicles of Barset; 1869 Phineas Phinn....

 

Charlotte Bronte  (1816-1855) 1847 Jane Eyre; 1849 Shirley; 1853 Villette

 

Emily Bronte  (1818-1848) Wuthering Heights.

 

Mary Ann Evans - George Eliot  (1819-1881): 1857 Mr Gilfill¡¯s Love Story; 1859 Adam Bede;  1860 The Mill on the Floss; 1861 Silas Marner; 1863 Romola; 1866 Felix Holt; 1871 Middlemarch; 1876 Daniel Deronda.

 

Benjamin Disraeli  (1804-1881); 1844 Coningsby; 1845 Sybil; 1847 Tancred.

 

Mrs. Gaskell  (1810-1865): 1853 Cranford; 1855 North and South; 1863 Sylvia¡¯s Lovers; 1865 Cousin Phillis.

 

Lewis Carroll  (1832-1898) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Alice Through the Looking Glass; The Hunting of the Snark.

 

Wilkie Collins  (1824-1889) The Dead Secret, 1860 The Woman in White; 1868 The Moonstone;

 

Thomas Hardy  (1840-1928) 1871 Desperate Remedies; 1872 Under the Greenwood Tree; 1873 A pair of Blue Eyes; 1874 Far from the Madding Crowd; 1878 The Return of the Native; 1880 The Trumpet Major; 1886 The Mayor of Casterbridge; 1891 Tess of the D¡¯Urbervilles; 1896 Jude the Obscure; 1897 The Well-Beloved;

 

George Meredith  (1829-1909) 1859 The Ordeal of Richard Feverel; 1861 Evan Harrington; The Adventures of Harry Richmond; 1865 Rhoda Fleing; 1867 Vittoria; 1879 The Egoist; 1885 Diana of the Crossways; 1891 One of our Conquerors; 1895 Lord Ormont and his Aminta; The Amazing Marriage.

 

Henry James  (1843-1916) born in New York. 1875 A Passionate Pilgrim; 1876 Roderick Hudson; 1881 Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady; 1877 The American; 1878 The Europeans; 1879 Daisy Miller; 1886 The Bostonians; The Princess Casamassima: 1897 The Spoils of Poynton; 1898 What Maisie Knew; 1898 The Turn of the Screw; 1902 The Wings of the Dove; 1904 The Golden Bowl; 1903 The Ambassadors.