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English Literature timeline
Edward FitzGerald publishes The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, romantic translations of the work of the Persian poet
Charles Dickens begins serial publication of his novel "Great Expectations" (in book form 1861)
George Eliot publishes The Mill on the Floss, her novel about the childhood of Maggie and Tom Tulliver
Mrs Henry Wood publishes her first novel, East Lynne, which becomes the basis of the most popular of all Victorian melodramas
Oxford mathematician Lewis Carroll tells 10-year-old Alice Liddell, on a boat trip, a story about her own adventures in Wonderland
English author Charles Kingsley publishes an improving fantasy for young children, The Water-Babies
Lewis Carroll publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a development of the story he had told Alice Liddell three years earlier
Algernon Swinburne scandalizes Victorian Britain with his first collection, Poems and Ballads
The first volume of Das Kapital is completed by Marx in London and is published in Hamburg
English author Matthew Arnold publishes Culture and Anarchy, an influential collection of essays about contemporary society
George Eliot publishes Middlemarch, in which Dorothea makes a disastrous marriage to the pedantic Edward Casaubon
English author Thomas Hardy has his first success with his novel Far from the Madding Crowd
After spending much time in Europe in recent years, Henry James moves there permanently and settles first in Paris
Henry James's early novel Roderick Hudson is serialized in the Atlantic Monthly and is published in book form in 1876
William Gladstone's pamphlet Bulgarian Horrors, protesting at massacre by the Turks, sells 200,000 copies within a month
Henry James moves to London, which remains his home for the next 22 years
English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins develops a new verse form that he calls 'sprung rhythm'
Lewis Carroll publishes The Hunting of the Snark, a poem about a voyage in search of an elusive mythical creature
21-year-old Joseph Conrad, a Polish subject, goes to sea with the British merchant navy
Henry James's story Daisy Miller, about an American girl abroad, brings him a new readership
The Aesthetic Movement and 'art for art's sake', attitudes personified above all by Whistler and Wilde, are widely mocked and satirized in Britain
Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure story, Treasure Island, features Long John Silver and Ben Gunn
Oxford University Press publishes the A volume of its New English Dictionary, which will take 37 years to reach Z
Explorer and orientalist Richard Burton begins publication of his multi-volume translation from the Arabic of The Arabian Nights
Robert Louis Stevenson introduces a dual personality in his novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
