R.D. Blackmore (1825-1900) -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) -- Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920) -- Robert Buchanan (1841-1901) -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902) -- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) -- Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) -- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (see Lewis Carroll) -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) -- James Anthony Froude (1818-1894) -- George Gissing (1857-1903) -- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- G.A. Henty (1832-1902) -- Thomas Hughes (1822-1896) -- Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-1898) -- George MacDonald (1824-1905) -- W.H. Mallock (1849-1923) -- Henry Mayhew (1812-1887) -- George Meredith (1828-1909) -- George Moore (1852-1933) -- William Morris (1834-1896) -- John Henry Newman (1801-1890) -- Laurence Oliphant (1828-1897) -- Ouida (1839-1908) -- James Payn (1830-1898) -- Marie Louise de la Ramee (see Ouida) -- Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919) -- Mark Rutherford (1831-1913) -- Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) -- Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834-1903) -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) -- Mrs. Humphry Ward (1851-1920) -- William Hale White (see Mark Rutherford) -- Mrs. Henry Wood (1814-1887) -- Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) -- Literature at Nurse, or Circulating Morals -- From "The Decay of Lying" (Oscar Wilde) -- Candour in English Fiction (Thomas Hardy) -- The Present State of the English Novel, 1892 -- The Place of Realism in Fiction -- The Future of the Novel (Henry James)
Summary
Records the later development of Victorian fiction and the new themes and situations that began to dominate the novel. These include: confrontation with spiritual crisis; problems of the independent woman; the conflict between sexual frankness and the values of a new age; and the dualities of the self
