The Victorian era takes its name from Queen Victoria of England, who ruled from 1837 to 1901.
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Alexandre Dumas (born 1802, died 1870)
French novelist.
- Wrote The Three Musketeers
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Ambrose Bierce (born 1842, died 1914)
American short-story writer.
- Wrote ''''An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge''''
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Anthony Trollope (born 1815, died 1882)
English novelist.
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Anton Chekhov (born 1860, died 1904)
Russian physician, playwright and short-story writer.
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Arthur Conan Doyle (born 1859, died 1930)
English mystery writer.
- Wrote The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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August Strindberg (born 1849, died 1912)
Swedish playwright and novelist.
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Charles Dickens (born 1812, died 1870)
English novelist.
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Edgar Allan Poe (born 1809, died 1849)
American poet and short-story writer. Known for his tales of the macabre.
- Wrote Tales of Mystery and Imagination
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Edmond Rostand (born 1868, died 1918)
French poet and playwright.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (born 1821, died 1881)
Russian novelist.
- Wrote Crime and Punishment
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Gustave Flaubert (born 1821, died 1880)
French novelist.
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Guy de Maupassant (born 1850, died 1893)
French short-story writer and novelist.
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Hans Christian Andersen (born 1805, died 1875)
Danish author of fairy tales.
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Henrik Ibsen (born 1828, died 1906)
Norwegian playwright.
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Henry David Thoreau (born 1817, died 1862)
American essayist and poet.
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Henry James (born 1843, died 1916)
American novelist.
- Wrote The Portrait of a Lady
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Horatio Alger (born 1832, died 1899)
American novelist.
- Writer of ''''rags to riches'''' stories for boys
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Ivan Turgenev (born 1818, died 1883)
Russian novelist.
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Joel Chandler Harris (born 1848, died 1908)
American short-story writer.
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John Stuart Mill (born 1806, died 1873)
English philosopher and economist.
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John Ruskin (born 1819, died 1900)
English essayist.
- Wrote The Stones of Venice
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Jules Verne (born 1828, died 1905)
French novelist.
- Wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Leo Tolstoy (born 1828, died 1910)
Russian novelist.
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Mark Twain (born 1835, died 1910)
Pseudonym of American novelist and humorist Samuel Clemens.
- Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Nikolai Gogol (born 1809, died 1852)
Russian novelist and short-story writer.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (born 1809, died 1894)
American novelist, essayist and poet.
- Wrote The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
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Prosper Mérimée (born 1803, died 1870)
French novelist.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (born 1803, died 1882)
American essayist and poet.
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Stephen Crane (born 1871, died 1900)
American novelist, short-story writer and poet.
- Wrote The Red Badge of Courage
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Thomas Carlyle (born 1795, died 1881)
Scottish essayist, historian, philosopher and educator.
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Victor Hugo (born 1802, died 1885)
French novelist and poet.
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William Dean Howells (born 1837, died 1920)
American novelist.
- Wrote The Rise of Silas Lapham
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John Henry Cardinal Newman (born 1801, died 1890)
English theologian, essayist and novelist.
- Wrote Apologia Pro Vita Sua
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George Meredith (born 1828, died 1909)
English novelist.
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Lewis Carroll (born 1832, died 1898)
Pseudonym of English novelist, mathematician and photographer Charles L. Dodgson.
- Wrote Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland
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Oscar Wilde (born 1854, died 1900)
Irish novelist and playwright.
- Wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Rudyard Kipling (born 1865, died 1936)
English novelist and short-story writer known for his tales of India.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (born 1804, died 1864)
American novelist and short-story writer.
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William Makepeace Thackeray (born 1811, died 1863)
English novelist.
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Herman Melville (born 1819, died 1891)
American novelist, short-story writer and poet.
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Bret Harte (born 1836, died 1902)
American short-story writer and poet.
- Wrote ''''The Luck of Roaring Camp''''
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Robert Louis Stevenson (born 1850, died 1894)
Scottish novelist, essayist and poet.
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William ''Wilkie'' Collins (born 1824, died 1889)
English mystery novelist.