Victorian novelist
19th-century British fiction writer
A Victorian novelist is a writer of fiction who worked during Queen Victoria's reign over Britain (1837–1901).
The term evokes authors like Dickens, Eliot, and the Brontës, whose long novels explored social conditions, moral questions, and domestic life.
She's writing her dissertation on Victorian novelists and gender.
- foggy LondonMist-shrouded British capital
- social classSocietal stratification by status
- drawing roomFormal reception space
- marriage plotStory centered on courtship
- fallen womanMorally disgraced female
Charles Dickens · George Eliot · Thomas Hardy · orphan hero · penny dreadful · realism · Charlotte Brontë · industrialization · Emily Brontë · melodrama · morality · poverty · urbanization · British Empire · intricate plots · satire · child labor laws · gender roles
Victorian novelistmodernist writer
Author embracing fragmentation, interiority
modernist · James Joyce · Virginia Woolf · Samuel Beckett · Franz Kafka
Victorian novelistabsurdist
Believer in cosmic meaninglessness
Marquis de Sade · Henry Miller · William Burroughs · provocateur · pornographer
Victorian novelistVictorian poet
Versifier from Britain's empire era
poet · dramatist · essayist · short story writer · screenwriter
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