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19th Century AD - Writers
The 19th century lasts from 1801-1900 in the Gregorian calendar. In the U.S., writers like Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, Nathanial Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman were creating great literature; while in English literature, you can read Christina Rossetti, Charles Lamb, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Shelley, and others!!
- 19th Century AD
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Arnold, Matthew
- Baum, L. Frank
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Blake, William
- Bronte, Anne
- Bronte, Charlotte
- Bronte, Emily
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
- Browning, Robert
- Burney, Fanny
- Butler, Samuel
- Byron, George Gordon - Lord
- Carroll, Lewis
- Chopin, Kate
- Clark, Willis Gaylord
- Coleridge, Samuel
- Collins, Wilkie
- Conrad, Joseph
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Crane, Stephen
- Darwin, Charles
- Davis, Rebecca Harding
- Defoe, Daniel
- Dickens, Charles
- Dickinson, Emily
- Douglass, Frederick
- Dreiser, Theodore
- Eliot, George
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Godwin, William
- Grimke, Angelina
- Hardy, Thomas
- Harte, Bret
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Housman, A.E.
- Howells, William Dean
- Irving, Washington
- Jackson, Helen Hunt
- James, Henry
- Jewett, Sarah Orne
- Keats, John
- Lamb, Charles
- London, Jack
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Meredith, George
- Mill, John Stuart
- Moore, Clement Clarke
- Muir, John
- O. Henry
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Tennyson, Lord Alfred
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Twain, Mark
- Victorian Period
- Washington, Booker T.
- Whitman, Walt
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wordsworth, William
The Historians - Victorian Period - A History of English Literature
19th Century Novels -- By Writer
The 19th century is full of great novels, by amazing authors. Here's a selected reading list of 19th-century novels.