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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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| 1859 |
| | | Charles Dickens publishes his French Revolution novel, A Tale of Two Cities | |
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| 1859 |
| | | Edward FitzGerald publishes The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, romantic translations of the work of the Persian poet | |
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| 1860 |
| | | Charles Dickens begins serial publication of his novel "Great Expectations" (in book form 1861) | |
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| 1860 |
| | | George Eliot publishes The Mill on the Floss, her novel about the childhood of Maggie and Tom Tulliver | |
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| 1861 |
| | | Mrs Henry Wood publishes her first novel, East Lynne, which becomes the basis of the most popular of all Victorian melodramas | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Oxford mathematician Lewis Carroll tells 10-year-old Alice Liddell, on a boat trip, a story about her own adventures in Wonderland | |
|  | Page from Carroll's manuscript for Alice
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| 1863 |
| | | English author Charles Kingsley publishes an improving fantasy for young children, The Water-Babies | |
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| 1865 |
| | | Lewis Carroll publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a development of the story he had told Alice Liddell three years earlier | |
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| 1866 |
| | | Algernon Swinburne scandalizes Victorian Britain with his first collection, Poems and Ballads | |
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