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| 1855 |
| | Tennyson publishes a long narrative poem, Maud, a section of which ('Come into the garden, Maud') becomes famous as a song | |
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| 1855 |
| | English author Anthony Trollope publishes The Warden, the first in his series of six Barsetshire novels | |
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| 1857 |
| | In Tom Brown's Schooldays Thomas Hughes depicts the often brutal aspects of an English public school | |
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| 1858 |
| | Oliver Wendell Holmes' book The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table is the first in a breakfast-table series | |
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| 1858 |
| | Longfellow uses a romantic story of early New England for his narrative poem The Courtship of Miles Standish | |
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| 1859 |
| | Charles Darwin puts forward the theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species, the result of 20 years' research | |
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| 1859 February |
| | English author George Eliot wins fame with her first full-length novel, Adam Bede | |
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| 1859 |
| | In On Liberty John Stuart Mill makes the classic liberal case for the priority of the freedom of the individual | |
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| 1859 |
| | Samuel Smiles provides an inspiring ideal of Victorian enterprise in Self-Help, a manual for ambitious young men | |
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| 1859 |
| | Tennyson publishes the first part of Idylls of the King, a series of linked poems about Britain's mythical king Arthur | |
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