262 8 · THE AGE AND ITS SAGES
Events and publications of 1837–80 continuedEvents Notable publications
1856 James Anthony Froude, History of England(12 vols, 1870).
1857 Indian Mutiny. 1857 Charlotte Brontë, The Professor; Dickens, Little Dorrit;
Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë; Carlyle, Collected
Works(16 vols, 1858); Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s
Schooldays; Trollope, Barchester Towers; E. B. Browning,
Aurora Leigh; George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life
(Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary; Charles Baudelaire,
Les Fleurs du Mal).
1858 Carlyle, Frederick the Great(8 vols 1865); Clough,
Amours de Voyage.
1859 Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities; Eliot, Adam Bede, ‘The
Lifted Veil’.
1860 Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White; Eliot, The Mill on the
Floss.
1861 American Civil War (to 1865). Prince Albert dies. 1861 Dickens, Great Expectations; Thackeray, The Four
Georges; Trollope, Framley Parsonage; Francis Turner
Palgrave (ed.), The Golden Treasury; D. G. Rossetti
(trans.), Early Italian Poets.
1862 Prince Bismarck becomes Prussian Chancellor 1862 E. B. Browning, Last Poems; George Meredith, Modern
(to 1890). Love; Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market.
1863 London Underground begun. 1863 Eliot, Romola; Mill, Utilitarianism.
1864 Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua; Trollope, Can You
Forgive Her?; Robert Browning, Dramatis Personae.
1865 Arnold, Essays in Criticism; Lewis Carroll, Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland; Dickens, Our Mutual Friend;
Newman, The Dream of Gerontius.
1866 Eliot, Felix Holt; Elizabeth Gaskell (d.1865), Wives and
Daughters; Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and
Ballads.
1867 Benjamin Disraeli’s Second Reform Bill. 1867 Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset
(Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace).
1868 W. E. Gladstone PM (to 1874). 1868 Collins, The Moonstone; Robert Browning, The Ring and
First Trades Union Congress. the Book; William Morris, The Earthly Paradise(3 vols,
1870).
1869 Anglican Church disestablished in Ireland. 1869 Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy.
1870 Prussians defeat Napoleon III at Sedan. 1870 Disraeli, Lothair; Newman, A Grammar of Assent.
1871 Paris Commune suppressed. Non-Anglicans allowed to 1871 Eliot, Middlemarch(4 vols 1872).
attend Oxford and Cambridge.
1872 Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree.
1873 Arnold, Literature and Dogma; Hardy, A Pair of Blue
Eyes; Walter Pater, Studies in the Renaissance.
1874 Disraeli becomes PM (to 1880). 1874 Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd; James (B. V.)
Thomson, ‘The City of Dreadful Night’
1875 Public Health Act. 1875 Trollope, The Way We Live Now.
1876 Invention of the telephone. 1876 Eliot, Daniel Deronda; Henry James, Roderick Hudson.
1877 Victoria Empress of India. 1878 Hardy, The Return of the Native(Tolstoy, Anna Karenina).
1879 Gladstone denounces the Imperialism of the 1879 James, Daisy Miller, The Europeans.
Conservative Government. 1880 (Fyodor Dostoievsky, The Brothers Karamazov).