CHRONOLOGY
Nineteenth Century
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HISTORY | LITERATURE
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| 1825.  Macaulay’s Essay on Milton
| 1826.  Mrs. Browning’s early poems
1830.  William IV | 1830.  Tennyson’s Poems, Chiefly Lyrical 1832.  Reform Bill |
| 1833.  Browning’s Pauline
| 1833-1834.  Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus
| 1836-1865.  Dickens’s novels
1837.  Victoria (d. 1901) | 1837.  Carlyle’s French Revolution
| 1843.  Macaulay’s essays
1844.  Morse’s Telegraph | 1843-1860.  Ruskin’s Modern Painters 1846.  Repeal of Corn Laws |
| 1847-1859.  Thackeray’s important novels
| 1847-1857.  Charlotte Bronte’s novels
| 1848-1861.  Macaulay’s History
| 1853.  Kingsley’s Hypatia
| Mrs. Gaskell’s Cranford
1854.  Crimean War |
| 1853-1855.  Matthew Arnold’s poems
| 1856.  Mrs. Browning’s Aurora Leigh
1857.  Indian Mutiny |
| 1858-1876.  George Eliot’s novels
| 1859-1888.  Tennyson’s Idylls of the King
| 1859.  Darwin’s Origin of Species
| 1864.  Newman’s Apologia
| Tennyson’s Enoch Arden
| 1865-1888.  Arnold’s Essays in Criticism
1867.  Dominion of Canada |
established | 1868.  Browning’s Ring and the Book
| 1869.  Blackmore’s Lorna Doone
1870.  Government schools |
established |
| 1879.  Meredith’s The Egoist
1880.  Gladstone prime minister |
| 1883.  Stevenson’s Treasure Island
| 1885.  Ruskin’s Praeterita begun
1887.  Queen’s jubilee |
| 1889.  Browning’s last work, Asolando
| 1892.  Death of Tennyson
1901.  Edward VII |
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GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Every chapter in this book includes two lists, one of selected readings, the other of special works treating of the history and literature of the period under consideration.  The following lists include the books most useful for general reference work and for supplementary reading.

A knowledge of history is of great advantage in the study of literature.  In each of the preceding chapters we have given a brief summary of historical events and social conditions, but the student should do more than simply read these summaries.  He should review rapidly the whole history of each period by means of a good textbook.  Montgomery’s English History and Cheyney’s Short History of England are recommended, but any other reliable text-book will serve the purpose.