Texts in the Victorian Era

1843

Thomas Hood "The Song of the Shirt"

1852

Ernest Jones "The Song of the Low"

1842-43

The Children's Employment Commission "First Report of the Commissioners, Mines"

1894

Ada Nield Chew "A Living Wage for Factory Girls at Crewe, 5 May 1894"

1862

Adelaide A. Procter "Homeless"

1848

Elizabeth Gaskell "Mary Barton"

1835

Alexis de Tocqueville's "Journeys to England and Ireland"

1891

Thomas Hardy "Tess of the d'Urbervilles"

1845

Friedrick Engles The Great Towns

1859

Charles Darwin The Origin of the Species

1871

Charles Darwin The Descent of Man

1792

Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

1860

J.S. Mill The Subjection of Women (1860s)

1839

Sarah Stickney Ellis "The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits" (1830s)

1854-62

Coventry Patmore The Angel in the House (1850s/60s)

1864

John Ruskin "Of Queen's Gardens" (1860s)

1855

Caroline Norton "A Letter to the Queen...Marriage and Divorce Bill"

1858

Anonymous The Great Social Evil (1850s)

1939-40

Virgina Woolf A Room of One's Own

1942

Virgina Woolf "Professions for Women" (1940s)

1859

Christina Rossetti "Goblin Market" (late 1850s)

1764

Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto (1760s)

1773

Anna Letita Akin and John Akin "On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror (1770s)

1791

Ann Radcliffe "The Romance of the Forest" (1790s)

1794

Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho (1790s)

1796

Matthew Lewis The Monk (1790s)

1797

Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Review of The Monk by Matthew Lewis"

1800

Mary Robinson "The Haunted Beach" (1800s)

1798-1800

Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Christabel"

1819

John Keats "La Belle Dame sans Merci" (1810s)

1885

Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde