Life
Historical and Cultural Background
Albert Memorial is constructed.
Newman,
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Trollope,
Can You Forgive Her? (the
first of the political series, the Palliser
novels)
Founding
by William Booth of what
becomes the Salvation Army. End of
American Civil War.
Dickens,
Our Mutual Friend
After the defeat of the Reform Bill to
extend the vote: rioting in Hyde Park.
Eliot,
Felix Holt, the Radical
Gaskell,
Wives and Daughters, left
un
finished at her death
Returns to Dorset as a jobbing
architect.
He works for Hicks
on church restoration.
Second Reform Act increases voters to two
million; Mill tries to include women in the
Bill but fails. Paris Exhibition.
Trollope,
The Last Chronicle of Barset (last
of the Barchester novels)
Marx,
Das Kapital
Completes his first novel
The
Poor Man and the Lady
but it
is rejected for publication (see
).
Founding of the Trades Union Congress.
Collins,
The Moonstone
Browning,
The Ring and the Book
Works
for the architect
Crickmay in Weymouth, again
on church restoration.
Suez Canal opened. Founding of Girton
College.
Arnold,
Culture and Anarchy
Mill,
The Subjection of Women
After many youthful
infatuations thought to be
referred
to in early poems,
he meets Emma Lavinia
Gi
fford, his future wife, on a
professional visit to St Juliot
in north Cornwall.
Married Women’s Property Act gives
wives the right to keep their earnings.
Elementary Education Act enabling local
authorities to set up schools. Dickens dies,
leaving
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
un
finished.
D. G. Rossetti,
Poems
Desperate Remedies published
in volume form by Tinsley
Brothers.
Legalizing of trade unions. First Impres-
sionist Exhibition in Paris. Religious tests
abolished at Oxford, Cambridge, and
Durham universities.
Eliot,
Middlemarch
Darwin,
The Descent of Man
Under the Greenwood Tree
published in volume form by
Tinsley Brothers.
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Historical and Cultural Background
A Pair of Blue Eyes (based on
his meeting with Emma) and
previously serialized in
Tinsleys’ Magazine
. Horace
Mould
commits suicide in
Cambridge.
Mill,
Autobiography
Walter Pater,
Studies in the History of the
Renaissance
(encouraging ‘Art for Art’s
sake’ and an impetus towards the later
Aesthetic Movement)
Far from the Madding Crowd
(previously serialized in the
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