British Literature

English

William Makepeace Thackeray, Nationality

English

Charlotte Bronte, Nationality

English

George Eliot, Nationality

English

Thomas Hardy, Nationality

English

E. M. Forester, Nationality

English

Virginia Woolf, Nationality

Irish

James Joyce, Nationality

English/Japanese

Kazuo Ishiguro, Nationality

English

Zadie Smith, Nationality

Thackeray

Vanity Fair, Author

Thackeray

Author: The Luck of Barry Lyndon / The Newcomes

Vanity Fair

Puppet play following the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley during the Napoleonic Wars

Vanity Fair

Subtitled A Novel without a Hero

Vanity Fair

The author describes himself as the “manager of the performance” at its start

Vanity Fair

Becky Sharp throws a dictionary out of a carriage and shouts “Vive la France!”

Vanity Fair

Becky and Amelia attend Miss Pinkerton’s Academy

Vanity Fair

Becky becomes romantically involved with the Marquis de Styne

Vanity Fair

Rawdon Crowley dies of yellow fever after being made governor of Coventry Island, a punishment for assaulting the Marquis de Styne

Vanity Fair

George Osborne is killed at Waterloo

Vanity Fair

Its title references a location in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

C Bronte

Sisters Emily and Anne are also Novelists

C Bronte

Jane Eyre, Author

C Bronte

Author: Villette

Jane Eyre

Protagonist's life and relationship with Mr. Rochester

Jane Eyre

Helen Burns, one of Jane’s friends at Lowood School, dies of tuberculosis

Jane Eyre

Jane is raised by her abusive aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Reed, at Gateshead Hall, where she is sent to the red room

Jane Eyre

Jane travels to a hunting lodge in the woods called Ferndean Manor

Jane Eyre

Jane refuses a proposal from her cousin, St. John Rivers, to get married and go on a missionary trip to India

Jane Eyre

Jane dreams that her wedding veil has been torn and then wakes up and discovers it actually has been torn

Jane Eyre

Mr. Rochester breaks off his engagement to Blanche Ingram

Jane Eyre

Bertha Mason, the wife of Mr. Rochester, burns down Thornfield Hall

Jane Eyre

The Madwoman In the Attic, a feminist literary critique by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, takes its name in reference to Mr. Rochester locking Bertha Mason in an attic

Jane Eyre

Wide Sargasso Sea by Dominican author Jean Rhys was inspired by Jane Eyre

Eliot

Real Name is Mary Ann Evans

Eliot

Middlemarch, Author

Eliot

The Mill on the Floss, Author

Eliot

Author: Adam Bede / Silas Marner / Daniel Deronda

Middlemarch

Several Characters in Title Fictional Town in England

Middlemarch

Subtitled “A Study of Provincial Life”

Middlemarch

Eduard Cassaubon, a cleric, is writing a book called The Key to All Mythologies, but it is out of date because he can’t read German

Middlemarch

Dorothea Brooke marries Eduard Casaubon and later Will Ladislaw after he dies

Middlemarch

A reformist doctor, Tertius Lydgate, goes into debt after marrying Rosamond Vincy

Middlemarch

Dorothea’s father, Mr. Brooke, runs for parliament supporting the 1832 Reform Act

The Mill on the Floss

siblings Tom and Maggie Tulliver who grow up at a mill on the river

The Mill on the Floss

Maggie gets involved in a love triangle with Philip Wakem and Stephen Guest

The Mill on the Floss

Maggie renounces the world after reading The Imitation of Christ

The Mill on the Floss

Tom’s rabbits die after Maggie forgets to feed them, and then he takes her on a fishing trip to forgive her

The Mill on the Floss

The Tulliver siblings drown in a flood at the end

Hardy

most novels take place in fictional Wessex of Southwest England

Hardy

Trained as an Architect before becoming a Novelist

Hardy

Tess of the d'Ubervilles, Author

Hardy

Far From the Madding Crowd, Author

Hardy

Jude the Obscure, Author

Hardy

Author: The Mayor of Casterbridge / The Return of the Native

Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Young Woman Tess Durbeyfield faces hardship after learning she is descended from aristocratic family

Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Tess says that humans live on a “blighted star”

Tess of the d'Ubervilles

After falling asleep at the reins, Tess causes an accident that kills her family’s only horse, Prince

Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Tess breaks the necks of several wounded pheasants

Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Alec d’Urberville rapes Tess in the woods

Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Tess names her illegitimate child “Sorrow”

Tess of the d'Ubervilles

While working as a dairy maid, Tess falls in love with Angel Clare

Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Tess is arrested at Stonehenge after killing Alec

Tess of the d'Ubervilles

A black flag signals Tess’ execution

Far from the Madding Crowd

Bathsheba Everdene's relationship with three different men, marriage with Gabriel Oak

Far from the Madding Crowd

A sheepdog chases 200 sheep off a cliff

Far from the Madding Crowd

Its title comes from a line in the Thomas Gray poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

Jude the Obscure

stonemason Jude Fawley and love interest Sue Bridehead

Jude the Obscure

Jude is involved in a failed marriage with Arabella Donn, who gives birth to a child nicknamed “Little Father Time” after they separate

Jude the Obscure

Little Father Time hangs himself and two of Jude and Sue’s children

Forster

A Passage to India, Author

Forster

Howards End, Author

Forster

A Room with a View, Author

Forster

Author: Maurice, The Celestial Omnibus

A Passage to India

Adela Quested visits fictional Marabar Caves and accuses Dr. Aziz of assault

A Passage to India

A pair of broken field glasses is used as evidence against Dr. Aziz at his trial

A Passage to India

Mrs. Moore repeatedly hears “boum” before being sent home to England, and she dies of heatstroke along the way

A Passage to India

Cyril Fielding is the British headmaster of a college where the Indian Professor Godbole works

Howards End

Follows Wilcox family, Bast family, and Schlegel family from different economic classes

Howards End

Begins with the epigraph “only connect”

Howards End

Charles Wilcox kills Leonard Bast

Howards End

Margaret Schlegel inherits Howards End (a country house for the wealthy Wilcox family) via a handwritten note

A Room with a View

Lucy Honeychurch goes on a trip to Italy that challenges her upbringing

A Room with a View

A romantic scene occurs in a field of violets

A Room with a View

Lucy witnesses a stabbing, causing photographs to be stained in blood

Woolf

Helped translate a chapter of Dostoyevsky's Demons

Woolf

Mrs Dalloway, Author

Woolf

To The Lighthouse, Author

Woolf

Orlando, Author

Woolf

A Room of One's Own, Author

Woolf

Author: The Waves

Mrs Dalloway

Title Character in post WWI London throws a Dinner Party

Mrs Dalloway

At the very beginning, Clarissa says she will “buy the flowers herself”

Mrs Dalloway

Clarissa was once proposed to by Peter Walsh

Mrs Dalloway

The World War I veteran Septimus Smith jumps out a window on the night of the dinner party

Mrs Dalloway

Clarissa once kissed Sally Seton

Mrs Dalloway

Its original title was The Hours, and it inspired Michael Cunningham’s novel with that title

To The Lighthouse

Three part novel focusing on Ramsay Family visit to Isle of Skye

To The Lighthouse

Andrew and Prue die during part II, which is titled “Time Passes”

To The Lighthouse

Lily Briscoe paints the Ramsay family

To The Lighthouse

Charles Tansley says women can’t paint or write