Nineteenth

Century Novelist

Created by :Ilona Viviana

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Marissa Halim

Jane Austen

Though jane austen wrote her books in troubled years which includes the French revolution, her novels are calm

pictures of society life.

The title of her novels were :

• Elinor and Marriane (1795) but this was later rewritten and published as Sense and Sensibility (1811)

• First Impressions (1796) was later published as Pride and Prejudice (1813). She created an delightful character namely Elisabeth Bennet.

• Masfield Park (1814)• Emma (1816) In this novel, she made a character namely Miss

Bates although she was uninteresting but it won’t to destroy the reader's interest.

• Northanger Abbey (1818) was sold to a book seller in Bath for ten pounds. But she did not publish it, and it was bought back later on.

• And Persuasion (1818) was published in the same year.

Her first novel were refused by publishers, and she had to wait fifteen or twenty years after beginning to write before any novel was accepted.

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer. She remembered as the writer of the famous terror novel.

The title of her novels were :

•Frankenstein (1818) it was begunas a ghost story; but Mrs Shelleyfinally made her character,the Genevan student Frankenstein, collect bones, build a human being, and give it life. Everyone hates for its ugliness, and it is lonely and fierce. It murders Frankenstein's brother and his wife. Frankenstein follows it to the far north and is himself killed by it. The creature then dissapears.

•The Last Man (1826) the story of the slow destruction by disease of every member (except one) of the human race.

Edgar Allan Poe

Most of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems was unsuccessful, but his stories have filled thousands with interest and fear.

The title of his novels were :

• Tales of Mystery and Imagination, they include The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)

• The Masque of the Red Death (1842) originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death“This novel tells the Prince Prospero attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the "Red Death" by hiding in a abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, disguised in a seven-room abbey, each decorated with a different color. In the middle of their revelry, a mysterious figure disguised as a victim of the Red Death enter and make his way through each room. Prospero dies after facing the strangers, and the guests also die in turn.

And:

• A Descent into the Maelstorm (1841)• The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842) Tells the story of a detective, C. Auguste Dupin and his right hand investigating the unsolved murder of the Marie Roget, an employee of a perfume shop in Paris whose body was found in the River Seine.• The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) This story is about the double murder of Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter in the Rue Morgue, a fictional street in Paris. In the news reveals that Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter were strangled and cut until almost break their necks, then the murderer put they into the chimney.

Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott wrote verse – a kind of verse which formed for him a suitable introduction to the prose that he wrote

later.

Here are examples of his Novels :

• The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)• Marmion (1808)• The Lady of The Lake (1810)• The Lord of The Isles (1815)• Waverley (1805)• Guy Mannering (1815)• The Antiquary (1816)• Old Mortality (1816)• Ivanhoe (1819)• Kenilworth (1821)• Quentin Durward (1823)• The Talisman (1825)• Woodstock ( 1826)• The Fair Maid of Perth (1826)

Here are examples of his Dramas, Book of Criticism and Essays:

• The Works of Dryden• The Works of Swift• A Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (1827)

Frederick Marryat

Was an English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy and his children's novel The Children of the New Forest, and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling, known as Marryat’s Code.

Here are examples of his Works :

•The Naval Officer, or Scenes in the Life and Adventures of Frank Mildmay (1829)•The King's Own (1830)•Newton Forster or, the Merchant Service (1832)•Peter Simple (1834)•Jacob Faithful (1834)•The Pacha of Many Tales (1835)•Mr Midshipman Easy (1836)•Japhet, in Search of a Father (1836)•The Pirate (1836)•The Three Cutters (1836)•Snarleyyow, or the Dog Fiend (1837)•Rattlin the Reefer (with Edward Howard) (1838)•The Phantom Ship (1839)•Diary in America (1839)

•Olla Podrida (1840)•Poor Jack (1840)•Masterman Ready, or the Wreck of the Pacific (1841)•Joseph Rushbrook, or the Poacher (1841)•Percival Keene (1842)•Monsieur Violet (1843)•Settlers in Canada (1844)•The Mission, or Scenes in Africa (1845)•The Privateersman, or One Hundred Years Ago (1846)•The Children of the New Forest (1847)•The Little Savage (posthumous, 1848)•Valerie (posthumous, 1848)

Charles Dickens

Generally considered to be one of the greatest English novelists, and he is one of the few whose works didn’t become unpopular after his death.

Here are examples of his Works :•The Pickwick (1836-7)•The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837)•The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839)•The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839)•The Old Curiosity Shop (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 25 April 1840, to 6 February 1841)•Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, 13 February 1841, to 27 November 1841)•The Christmas books:• A Christmas Carol (1843)• The Chimes (1844)• The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)• The Battle of Life (1846)• The Haunted Man and the Ghost's

Bargain (1848)

•The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (Monthly serial, January 1843 to July 1844)•Dombey and Son (Monthly serial, October 1846 to April 1848)•David Copperfield (Monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850)•Bleak House (Monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853)•Hard Times: For These Times (Weekly serial in Household Words, 1 April 1854, to 12 August 1854)•Little Dorrit (Monthly serial, December 1855 to June 1857)•A Tale of Two Cities (Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 30 April 1859, to 26 November 1859)•Great Expectations (Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 1 December 1860 to 3 August 1861)•Our Mutual Friend (Monthly serial, May 1864 to November 1865)•The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870. Only six of twelve planned numbers completed)

William Makepeace Thackeray

Studied and described the nobility instead of the poor. He followed in the footsteps of Fielding and Goldsmith.

Here are examples of his Works :

•The Yellowplush Papers (1837)•Catherine (1839–40)•A Shabby Genteel Story (1840)•The Irish Sketchbook (1843)•The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), filmed as Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick•Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo (1846), under the name Mr M.A. Titmarsh.•The Book of Snobs (1848), which popularised that term•Vanity Fair (1848)•Pendennis (1848–1850)•Rebecca and Rowena (1850), a parody sequel of Ivanhoe •The Paris Sketchbook (1840), featuring Roger Bontemps•Men's Wives (1852)•The History of Henry Esmond (1852)•The Newcomes (1855)•The Rose and the Ring (1855)

•The Virginians (1857–1859)•Four Georges (1860-1861)•The Adventures of Philip (1862)•Roundabout Papers (1863)•Denis Duval (1864)•The Orphan of Pimlico (1876)•Sketches and Travels in London•Stray Papers: Being Stories, Reviews, Verses, and Sketches (1821-1847)•Literary Essays•English Humourists•Lovel the Widower•Ballads•Christmas Books•Samuel Titmarsh•Miscellanies•Stories•Burlesques•Irish Sketchbook volume 2•Character Sketches•Critical Reviews•Second Funeral of Napoleon

Emily Brontë

Was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her solitary novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings , between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell

Here are examples of her Works :

• Wuthering Heights (1847)• Scenes from Clerical Life (1858)• Adam Bede (1859)• The Mill on The Floss (1860)• Silas Marner (1861)• Romola (1863)• Middlemarch (1871-2)• Daniel Deronda (1876)• Cranford (1853)• Mary Barton (1848)• Ruth (1853)• North and South (1854-5)

CHARLES KINGSLEY

Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a minister of the Church of England, a university professor, historian and novelist. He

is particularly associated with the West Country and northeast Hampshire. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles

Darwin.

Here are examples of his Works :

• Hypatia (1853)• Westward Ho! (1855)• The Heroes (1856)• The Water Babies (1863) this one is the favorites omong young people. This story tells about Tom who fell into a river after encountering an upper-class girl named Ellie who was expelled from his home. There he sank and turned into a "water baby", because he was told by Caddisfly-insects molted her. Tom embarks on a series of adventures and lessons, and enjoy other community water baby after he established himself as a moral being. Tom helps Grimes to find repentance, and Grimes will be given a second chance if he can successfully do penance end. By proving his willingness to do the things he does not like, if they are the right thing to do, Tom gets himself back into human form, and a "great man of science" who "can plan railways, and steam-engines , and the electric telegraph, and rifled guns, and so on ". He and Ellie are united, despite the book claiming that they were never married.

WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He was very popular during the Victorian era and wrote 30 novels, more than 60

short stories, 14 plays, and more than 100 nonfiction essays.

Here are examples of his Works :

• The Woman In White (1860) is a complicated story about Walter Hartright, a drawing-master, who teaches a rich girl, Laura Fairlie. The woman dressed in white Anne Catherick, who is shut up and mad. After many troubles and difficulties, Hartright marries Laura Fairlie. A famous character in the book is the fat, calm, and evil Count Fosco, who is at last killed by a member of a secret society.

•The Moonstone (1868) Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large India diamond on her eighteenth birthday. This is the heritage of his uncle, a corrupt English army officer who served in India. Rachel's eighteenth birthday was celebrated with a big party, which included her cousin Franklin Blake. She wears Moonstone on her dress the night for all to see it, including some Indian acrobats who have called at the house. Later that night, the diamond was stolen from Rachel's bedroom, and chaos, unhappiness, misunderstandings and ill-luck ensues. Diamonds are a religious significance as well as being extremely valuable, and three Hindu priests have dedicated their lives to recovering it.

CHARLES READE

Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth. He is a bad-tempered writer. He began by writing plays but turned one of them into

a novel.

Here are examples of his Works :

• Peg Woffington (1853)•It is Never too Late to Mend (1856)•Hard Cash (1863)•The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) his greatest works is a historical novel. Located in the 15th century, it is due to spin a story about the journey of a young scribe and illuminator, Gerard Eliassoen, through several European countries. The Cloister and Hearth often describes the events, people and their practices in detail. Its main theme is the struggle between the human obligation to the family and the Church.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian

era. He earned £ 70,000 by his books.

Here are examples of his Works :

• The Warden (1855)• Barchester Towers (1857)• Doctor Thorne (1858)• Framley Parsonage of Barset (1867)

GEORGE MEREDITH

George Meredith (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. His novels were so difficult to

read until one is accustomed to his tricks of style.

Here are examples of his Works :

• The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859)• Diana of the Crossways (1855)• Evan Harrington (1861)• The Egoist (1879) is his best book. The Egoist is a novel by George Meredith tragicomical published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage, rejected by his first bride-to-be, he vacillates between the sentimental Laetitia Dale and the strong-willed Clara Middleton. More importantly, the novel follows Clara's attempts to escape from her engagement to Sir Willoughby, who desires women to serve as a mirror for him and consequently cannot understand why she would not want to marry him. Thus, The Egoist dramatizes the difficulty contingent upon being a woman in Victorian society, when women's bodies and minds are trafficked between fathers and husbands to cement male bonds.

JOSEPH CONRAD

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish author who wrote in English after

settling in England.

Here are examples of his Works :

• Almayer’s Folly (1895)• An Outcast of the Islands (1896)• Lord Jim (1900)• The Secret Agent (1907)• Under Western Eyes (1911)

And his another Short Story :• Youth, Hearth of Darkness • Typhoon

ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR STEVENSON

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr

Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Here are examples of his Works :

• Inland Voyage (1878)• Travels with a Donkey (1878)

And his Essays :• Virginibus Puerisque (=for girls and boys) (1881)• Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882)• Treasure Island (1883)• The New Arabian Nights (1882)• Kidnapped (1886)• The Black Arrow (1888)• The Master of Ballantrae (1889)• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

ANTHONY HOPE

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. Although

he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and

its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898).

OSCAR WILDE

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.

Here are examples of his Works :• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) a novel which gave the public of the time a severe book. Wilde’s plays are discussed in another chapter.

THOMAS HARDY OM

(2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) Age 87 years old. He was an English novelist and poet. In the novels Thomas Hardly, Nature is herself a

character. Handy’s scenes are set in ‘Wessex’ (the country of Dorest) among trees, farms, fields, and low hills and explored tragic characters

struggling against their passions and social circumstances

Here are examples of his Works :

• Far from the Madding Crowd (1874),• The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), • Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and• Jude the Obscure (1895).

However, since the 1950s Hardy has been recognized as a major poet, and had a significant influence on The Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Phillip Larkin.

Thomas Hardy's birthplace at Higher Bockhampton, where Under the Greenwood Tree and Far from the Madding Crowd were written.

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