| Introduction: History |
| Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) |
| The Professor |
| Jane Eyre, 1847 |
| Shirley, 1849 |
| Villette, 1853 |
| Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) |
| The Pleasures of Memory, 1792 |
| Human Life, 1819 |
| Italy, 1822–28 |
| Mary Russell Mitford (1787–1855) |
| Our Village, 1824–32 |
| Dramas |
| Poetry |
| Letters |
| Robert Montgomery (1807–1855) |
| Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855) |
| Sir William Hamilton (1788–1856) |
| James Gates Percival (1795–1856) |
| Hugh Miller (1802–1856) |
| Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857) |
| John Wilson Croker (1780–1857) |
| Edition of Boswell’s Johnson, 1831 |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815–1857) |
| Poets and Poetry of America, 1842 |
| Life of Poe, 1850 |
| Elisha Kent Kane (1820–1857) |
| Robert Owen (1771–1858) |
| Thomas Hart Benton (1782–1858) |
| George Combe (1788–1858) |
| Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) |
| Oratory |
| Essays |
| Poems |
| The History of England, 1849–55 |
| Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) |
| Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821–22 |
| Washington Irving (1783–1859) |
| Salmagundi, 1807 |
| The Sketch-Book, 1819 |
| Bracebridge Hall, 1822 |
| A History of Christopher Columbus, 1828 |
| The Conquest of Granada, 1829 |
| The Alhambra, 1832 |
| Life of Oliver Goldsmith, 1844 |
| Life of Washington, 1855–59 |
| Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) |
| The Story of Rimini, 1816 |
| Autobiography, 1850–60 |
| Poems |
| Henry Hallam (1777–1859) |
| Europe During the Middle Ages, 1818–48 |
| Constitutional History of England, 1827 |
| Introduction to the Literature of Europe, 1837–39 |
| William Hickling Prescott (1796–1859) |
| The Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, 1838 |
| The Conquest of Mexico, 1843 |
| The Conquest of Peru, 1847 |
| The Reign of Philip II, 1855–58 |
| Charles V, 1857 |
| Lady Sydney Morgan (1783–1859) |
| Rufus Choate (1799–1859) |
| Lawyer |
| Horace Mann (1796–1859) |
| Educator |
| Delia Bacon (1811–1859) |
| Theodore Parker (1810–1860) |
| Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) |
| George Payne Rainsford James (1801?–1860) |
| Sir William Napier (1785–1860) |
| George Croly (1780–1860) |
| James Kirke Paulding (1778–1860) |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
| A Drama of Exile, 1844 |
| Lady Geraldine’s Courtship, 1844 |
| The Cry of the Children, 1844 |
| Casa Guidi Windows, 1851 |
| Aurora Leigh, 1856 |
| Sonnets |
| Letters |
| General |
| Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
| The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, 1848 |
| Lord Campbell (1779–1861) |
| David Gray (1838–1861) |
| Catherine Gore (1799–1861) |
| Sir Francis Palgrave (1788–1861) |
| Theodore Winthrop (1828–1861) |
| Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) |
| Walden, 1854 |
| Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862) |
| History of Civilization, 1857–61 |
| James Sheridan Knowles (1784–1862) |
| Virginius, 1820 |
| The Hunchback, 1832 |
| William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
| Art |
| Barry Lyndon, 1844 |
| Book of Snobs, 1848 |
| Vanity Fair, 1848 |
| History of Pendennis, 1849–50 |
| Henry Esmond, 1852 |
| English Humourists, 1853 |
| The Newcomes, 1854–55 |
| The Virginians, 1858–59 |
| The Four Georges, 1861 |
| Poems |
| General |
| Richard Whately (1787–1863) |
| Frances Milton Trollope (1780–1863) |
| Domestic Manners of the Americans, 1832 |
| Frederick William Faber (1814–1863) |
| Poetry |
| Sir George Cornewall Lewis (1806–1863) |
| Lyman Beecher (1775–1863) |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) |
| Fanshawe, 1828 |
| Twice-Told Tales, 1837–42–52 |
| Mosses from an Old Manse, 1846 |
| The Scarlet Letter, 1850 |
| The House of the Seven Gables, 1851 |
| The Blithedale Romance, 1852 |
| Marble Faun, or Transformation, 1860 |
| Septimus Felton, 1872 |
| Note-Books |
| General |
| Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
| Gebir, 1798 |
| Count Julian, 1813 |
| Poems |
| Pericles and Aspasia, 1836 |
| Pentameron, 1837 |
| Imaginary Conversations |
| General |
| Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) |
| John Clare (1793–1864) |
| George Pope Morris (1802–1864) |
| Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793–1864) |
| Josiah Quincy III. (1772–1864) |
| Benjamin Silliman (1779–1864) |
| Thomas Starr King (1824–1864) |
| James Frederick Ferrier (1808–1864) |
| Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) |
| Statesman |
| Edward Everett (1794–1865) |
| Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) |
| Mary Barton, 1848 |
| Ruth, 1853 |
| Cranford, 1853 |
| North and South, 1855 |
| Life of Charlotte Brontë, 1857 |
| Wives and Daughters, 1865 |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman (1802–1865) |
| Fabiola, 1854 |
| Richard Cobden (1804–1865) |
| William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865) |
| Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, 1848 |
| Francis Wayland (1796–1865) |
| Educator |
| Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865) |
| Richard Hildreth (1807–1865) |
| History of the United States, 1849–52 |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) |
| John Keble (1792–1866) |
| The Christian Year, 1827 |
| William Whewell (1794–1866) |
| History of the Inductive Sciences, 1837 |
| Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) |
| Poetry |
| Jared Sparks (1789–1866) |
| John Pierpont (1785–1866) |
| Airs of Palestine, 1816 |
| Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout) (1804–1866) |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) |
| Poetry |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) |
| Fanny, 1819 |
| Marco Bozzaris, 1827 |
| Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) (1834–1867) |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789–1867) |
| Henry Timrod (1828–1867) |
| Michael Faraday (1791–1867) |
| Alexander Smith (1830–1867) |
| A Life Drama, 1852 |
| Dreamthorp, 1863 |
| Sir Archibald Alison (1792–1867) |
| Lord Brougham (1778–1868) |
| Oratory |
| Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868) |
| History of the Jews, 1829 |
| History of Christianity, 1840 |
| History of Latin Christianity, 1855 |
| Poems |
| Samuel Lover (1797–1868) |
| Sir David Brewster (1781–1868) |
| William Carleton (1794–1869) |
| Charles Dickens (1812–1870) |
| Readings and Theatricals |
| Pickwick Papers, 1837 |
| Oliver Twist, 1838 |
| Nicholas Nickleby, 1839 |
| Master Humphrey’s Clock, 1840–41 |
| Barnaby Rudge, 1841 |
| Old Curiosity Shop, 1841 |
| American Notes, 1842 |
| A Christmas Carol, 1843 |
| Martin Chuzzlewit, 1844 |
| The Cricket on the Hearth, 1845 |
| Dombey and Son, 1848 |
| David Copperfield, 1850 |
| Bleak House, 1858 |
| Hard Times, 1854 |
| Little Dorrit, 1857 |
| A Tale of Two Cities, 1859 |
| Great Expectations, 1861 |
| Our Mutual Friend, 1865 |
| The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1870 |
| Letters |
| General |
| William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) |
| George Denison Prentice (1802–1870) |
| John Pendleton Kennedy (1795–1870) |
| George Grote (1794–1871) |
| History of Greece, 1846–56 |
| Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 1865 |
| George Ticknor (1791–1871) |
| History of Spanish Literature, 1849 |
| Robert Chambers (1802–1871) |
| Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, 1844 |
| Cyclopædia of English Literature, 1844 |
| John Frederick William Herschel (1792–1871) |
| Henry Longueville Mansel (1820–1871) |
| Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (1792–1871) |
| The Silurian System, 1839 |
| Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871) |
| Henry Alford (1810–1871) |
| Alice Cary (1820–1871) |
| Phoebe Cary (1824–1871) |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813–1871) |
| Frederick Denison Maurice (1805–1872) |
| Charles Lever (1806–1872) |
| Charles O’Malley, 1841 |
| Mary Somerville (1780–1872) |
| Norman Macleod (1812–1872) |
| Sir John Bowring (1792–1872) |
| Horace Greeley (1811–1872) |
| William Henry Seward (1801–1872) |
| Statesmen |
| Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872) |
| Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) |
| Lady Lytton |
| Falkland, 1827 |
| Pelham, 1828 |
| Paul Clifford, 1830 |
| Eugene Aram, 1833 |
| The Last Days of Pompeii, 1834 |
| Rienzi, 1835 |
| The Lady of Lyons, 1838 |
| Richelieu, 1838 |
| The New Timon, 1846 |
| King Arthur, 1848–49 |
| The Caxtons, 1849 |
| My Novel, 1853 |
| The Coming Race, 1871 |
| Kenelm Chillingly, 1873 |
| General |
| John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) |
| A System of Logic, 1843 |
| Principles of Political Economy, 1848 |
| On Liberty, 1859 |
| The Subjection of Women, 1869 |
| Autobiography, 1873–74 |
| Louis Agassiz (1807–1873) |
| David Livingstone (1813–1873) |
| Samuel Wilberforce (1805–1873) |
| Thomas Guthrie (1803–1873) |
| Caroline Clive (1801–1873) |
| Charles Knight (1791–1873) |
| Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) (1787–1874) |
| Charles Sumner (1811–1874) |
| Statesman |
| Oratory |
| Sydney Dobell (1824–1874) |
| The Roman, 1850 |
| Balder, 1854 |
| Agnes Strickland (1796–1874) |
| Lives of the Queens of England, 1840–49 |
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