THE VICTORIAN AGE 261Events and publications of 1837–80 The Age and its Sages
Events Notable publications
1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution; Charles Dickens,
The Pickwick Papers.
1838 Chartist movement, demanding votes for workers, 1838 Dickens, Oliver Twist; Elizabeth Barrett, The Seraphim,
begins. and Other Poems.
1839 Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby; Mrs Hemans (d.1835),
Collected Works; Charles Darwin, The Voyage of HMS
Beagle(J. M. W. Turner, The Fighting Téméraire;
Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma).
1840 Victoria marries Prince Albert. Penny Post is begun. 1840 Robert Browning, Sordello.
1841 Sir Robert Peel’s Conservative ministry. 1841 Carlyle, On Heroes and Hero-Worship; Dion Boucicault,
London Assurance.
1842 T. B. Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome; Alfred Tennyson,
Poems.
1843 Carlyle, Past and Present; John Ruskin, Modern Painters
(5 vols 1860).
1844 Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit; Benjamin Disraeli,
Coningsby; Elizabeth Barrett, Poems; William Barnes,
Poems of Rural Life, in the Dorset Dialect; William
Makepeace Thackeray, The Luck of Barry Lyndon.
1845 Potato Famine in Ireland (to 1850). 1845 Disraeli, Sybil, or the Two Nations; John Henry Newman,
Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine; Robert
Browning, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics(Edgar Allan
Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination).
1846 Repeal of Corn Laws protecting landowners: this splits 1846 Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, Poems by Currer, Ellis
the Conservatives. Russell’s Liberal ministry (to 1852). and Acton Bell; Edward Lear, Book of Nonsense.
1847 Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey; Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre;
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights; Anthony Trollope, The
Macdermots of Ballycloran; Tennyson, The Princess.
1848 Revolutions in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, etc. 1848 Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Dickens,
Marx and Engels: The Communist Manifesto. Dombey and Son; Gaskell, Mary Barton; Mill, Principles
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is founded. of Political Economy; Thackeray, Vanity Fair; Arthur Hugh
Clough, The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich.
1849 Charlotte Brontë, Shirley; Macaulay; The History of
England(5 vols to 1861); Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of
Architecture; Thackeray, Pendennis.
1850 Dickens, David Copperfield; Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Sonnets from the Portuguese; Dante Gabriel Rossetti and
others, The Germ; Tennyson, In Memoriam; William
Wordsworth, The Prelude.
1851 Great Exhibition at the ‘Crystal Palace’. 1851 Ruskin, The Stones of Venice(3 vols 1853); E. B.
Browning, Casa Guidi Windows.
1852 Victoria and Albert Museum opened. 1852 Newman, Discourse on the Scope and Nature of
University Education; Thackeray, The History of Henry
Esmond.
1853 Charlotte Brontë, Villette; Dickens, Bleak House;
Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford; Matthew Arnold, Poems.
1854 Crimean War against Russia (to 1856). 1854 Dickens, Hard Times; Thackeray, The Newcomes;
Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade; Coventry
Patmore, The Angel in the House (4 parts, 1862).
1855 Gaskell, North and South; Trollope, The Warden;
R. Browning, Men and Women; Tennyson, Maud
(Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass).