Early Victorians
Victorian Period 1832 -1914
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Charlotte Bronte
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens Biography
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"David Copperfield" Excerpt for Assignment in Small Font
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"David Copperfield" Excerpt in Large Font
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If you are absent when David Copperfield is introduced, please read Chapters 1-2 and do this worksheet!
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The novels of Charles Dickens were first published at the dates and in the form indicated below:
- Pickwick Papers — Monthly numbers, April 1836 to November 1837
- Oliver Twist — Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany February 1837 to April 1839 (24 installments)
- Nicholas Nickleby — Monthly numbers, April 1838 to October 1839
- The Old Curiosity Shop — Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, April 2S, 1840, to February 6,1841
- Barnaby Rudge — Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, February 13, 184l, to November 27,1841
- Martin Chuzzlewit — Monthly numbers, January 1843 to July 1844
- Dombey and Son — Monthly numbers, October 1846 to April 1848
- David Copperfield — Monthly numbers, May 1849 to November 1850
- Bleak House — Monthly numbers, March 1852 to September 1853
- Hard Times — Weekly serial in Household Words, April 1, 1854, to August 12, 1854
- Little Dorrit — Monthly numbers, December 1855 to June I857
- A Tale of Two Cities — Weekly serial in All the Year Round, April 30, 1859, to November 26, 1859
- Great Expectations — Weekly serial in All the Year Round, December 1, 1860 to August 3, 1861
- Our Mutual Friend — Monthly numbers, May 1864 to November 1865
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood — Monthly numbers, April 1870 to September 1870 (six of twelve numbers completed)
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Charles Dickens Home Tour
Performance of Charles Dickens' book Great Expectations by BJU Theater Department
For fun! An analysis of Dickens vs. Tolstoy featuring scenes performed!
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
"Silas Marner" by George Eliot - Excerpt for Assignment
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Mary Ann Evans wrote seven novels:
- Adam Bede (1859)
- The Mill on the Floss (1860)
- Silas Marner (1861)
- Romola (1862–63)
- Felix Holt, the Radical (1866)
- Middlemarch (1871–72)
- Daniel Deronda (1876)
