Victorian novelists

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)

English writer and poet (1865–1936)

Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)

British writer and physician (1859–1930)

English writer (1866–1946)

British author and scholar (1832–1898)

Scottish novelist and poet (1850-1894)

British statesman (1804–1881)

English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)

British novelist and poet (1816-1855)

Emily Jane Brontë was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

Polish-British writer (1857–1924)

English novelist and poet (1840–1928)

English playwright and author (1874–1965)

Irish novelist and short story writer (1847–1912)

British novelist and poet (1820-1849)

American and British writer (1843–1916)

Scottish writer and playwright (1860–1937)

British novelist (1811–1863)

British textile artist, author, and socialist (1834-1896)

British statesman and author (1803–1873)

English novelist and critic (1835–1902)

British writer (1824-1889)

British author (1810-1865)

English adventure novelist (1856–1925)

British novelist and poet (1828–1909)

English novelist of the Victorian period (1815-1882)

English writer (1867–1931)

Scottish writer and Christian minister (1824–1905)

19th-century literary family

Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rare for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself.

Scottish author and politician (1875–1940)

British clergyman, historian and novelist (1819–1875)

Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels (1814–1873)

English novelist (1857–1903)

Welsh author and mystic (1863–1947)

Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic (1844–1912)

English writer, critic and essayist (1839–1894)

British naval officer and novelist (1792–1848)

British Zionist author (1864–1926)

Maria Louise Ramé (1 January 1839 – 25 January 1908), going by the name Marie Louise de la Ramée and known by the pseudonym Ouida ( ), was an English novelist. Ouida wrote more than 40 novels, as well as short stories, children's books and essays. Moderately successful, she lived a life of luxury, entertaining many of the literary figures of the day.

British writer (1855-1924)

English novelist (1805-1882)

British novelist and poet (1826–1887)

British writer and poet (1835–1913)

English author (1835-1915)

British philosopher (1817-1878)

Scottish author of juvenile fiction (1825-1894)

English feminist, social reformer, and author, editor (1808-1877)

English novelist, journalist, traveller and egyptologist (1831–1892)

English lawyer, judge, politician and author (1822–1896)

English author (1803–1881)

English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, eclectic scholar, folk song collector (1834-1924)

English writer, editor (1823–1901)

English author of short stories and novels (1863–1943)

Scottish novelist, 1828–1897 (1828–1897)

British novelist and dramatist (1814–1884)

British novelist (1851-1920)

French-British cartoonist and author (1834-1896)