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19th Century Authors
Authors
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jane Austen | Was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry. Works Include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey. and Persuasion. |
| Charles Dickens | Was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters. Very Famous. Works Include: Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations and a Christmas Carol. |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Works Include:To Helen, Annabel Lee, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Fall of the House of Usher. |
| Mark Twain | Was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Works Include: Tom Sawyer, Huckelbery Finn and an assortment of short stories. |
| Charlotte Bronte | Was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of her sisters who survived into adulthood. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. Works Include: Jane Eyre, Villette, The Professor and Shirley: A Tale |
| George Eliot | Was an English novelist, poet, journalist, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. Went by a man's name. |
| Walt Whitman | Was an American poet,and journalist. Humanist, was a part of a transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Father of free-verse. Works Include: Leaves of Grass,Song To Myself, and I Can Hear America Singing. |
| Henry David Thoreau | Was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection on simple living in natural surroundings,and "Civil Disobedience", an argument for disobedience to an unjust state |
| Emily Bronte | Was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. |
| Thomas Hardy | Was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. Works Include: Tess of the d'Urbervilles. |
| Herman Melville | Was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick; Typee, a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | Was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. Works Include: Self Reliance, Nature, The American Scholar and Silence and Solitude. |
| Nathaniel Hawthorn | Was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. Works Include: The Scarlet Letter, Young Goodman Brown and the House of The Seven Gables. |
| Mary Shelly | Was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, which is considered an early example of science fiction and one of her best-known works. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband. |
| Leo Tolstoy | Was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Works Include: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Childhood, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich. |
| Lewis Carrol | Was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. |
| Rudyard Kipling | was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, a inspiration much of his work. His works of fiction include the Jungle Book, and the Just So Stories and many short stories, like The Man Who Would Be King. |
| Joseph Conrad | Was a Polish-British novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language; though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties Works Include: Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. |
| Emily Dickinson | Was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Works Include:I taste a liquor never brewed, success is counted sweetest, and Wild nights- Wild nights. |
| Louisa May Alcott | Was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. |
| Alexandre Dumas | Was a French writer. His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Works Include: The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Man In The Iron Mask. |
| Jack London | He began writing at 17 years old, when he submitted a story about a recent, nearly disastrous sea voyage he'd been on, winning the contest and earning his first $25 as a writer. Works Include: Call of The Wild and The Sea Wolf |
| Victor Hugo | Was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. Works Include: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Les Misérables and Les Contemplations. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Works Include: How Do I Love Thee, and Aurora Leigh. |
| John Stuart Mill | Was an English philosopher, economist, and MP. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social and political theory, and political economy. Known For: Principles of Political Economy. |
| Jules Vern | Was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led a creation of a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. |
| John Keats | Was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died. Works Include: Lamia, The Eve of St. Agnes, and On Indolence. |
| D. H. Lawrence | Was an English writer, novelist, short story writer, poet. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialization, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Works Include: Sons and Lovers, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. |
| William Blake | Was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life. He is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. Works Include: The Tyger, London and The Lamb. |
| Lord Byron | Was an English romantic poet and peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as among the greatest of English poets Works Include :Don Juan, She Walks in Beauty, and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. |
| Washington Irving | Was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. Works Include: The Rhyme Of The Ancient Mariner. |
| Rabindranath Tagore | Was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Was an author and abolitionist, her work created strides in the progress of the abolitionist movement throughout the 19th century. Works Include: Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | Was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Is remembered as one of the pioneers of existentialism. Works Include: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot,and The Possessed. |
| Franz Kafka | Was a Czech novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. Works Include: The Metamorphosis, The Trial, and The Judgment. |
| Hans Christian Andersen | Was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Works Include: The Empreor's New Clothes and The Little Mermaid. |
| Herman Hesse | Was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Francis of Assisi, Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. |
| William Butler Yeats | Was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre. |
| H.G. Wells | Was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, and popular science. Works Include: The Time Machine and The Invisable Man. |
| Alexander Pushkin | Was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. A noble. Works Include: Eugene Onegin, andThe Captain's Daughter. |
| The Brothers Grimm | Were a brother duo of German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folklore. Works Include: Cinderella, Snow White, and Hansel and Gretel. |
| William Wordsworth | Was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Works Include: I Wandered As Lonely As A Cloud and The Prelude. |
| Transcendentalism | A philosophical and social movement which developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, and Kantian Philosophy it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views. |
| Rationalism | The view that regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge. Holding that reality itself has an inherently logical structure, the rationalist asserts that a class of truths exists that the intellect can grasp directly. |
| Realism | The detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life, Rejects imaginative idealization in favour of a close observation of outward appearances. As such, in its broad sense it comprised artistic currents in different civilizations. |
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