Novelists of the victorian age

1. Novelists of The Victorian Age
SOLANKI CHIRAGKUMAR K
MA SEM : 2
Roll Number: 3
Enrolment No : 2069108420180049
Bench: 2017-19
Email: chiragksolanki7@gmail.com
Submitted To : Department Of English, MKBU

2. The Victorian Age
• Introduction
• The Victorian age started in 1832
to 1901 during the reign of Queen
Victoria.
• The Victorian age is one of the
most remarkable periods in the
history of England.
• The Victorian age was the age of
prose and novel. We found
development of prose and novels
on this age.

3. • The novel in this age fill a place which the drama hold in the days
of Elizabethan Age
• The novels were looking like the bright stars in the sky of England
during the Victorian age
• The great novelists like:-
• Charles Dickens,
• Thomas Hardy,
• William Thackeray,
• George Eliot
• Robert Browning

4. Charles Dickens
• Charles Dickens is the most famous Victorian
novelist.
• He is still one of the most popular and read
authors of the world
• His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, written when
he was twenty five year old
• His most important works include Oliver Twist,
Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations, Our
Mutual Friend, and many more

5. George Eliot
• She was a leading Victorian Novelist.
• She also translator. Journalist, Poetist
• Her major well known Novels.. - The Mill on the
Floss, Middlemarch, Felix Holt, The Radical and
many more
• She helped to define realism
• In Middlemarch the point isn't getting married,
but being married.

6. Thomas Hardy
• Thomas Hardy remains one of the great novelists of
the Victorian age, known for his many novels, short
stories and poems
• He0 witnessed almost all of the significant social,
religious and political developments of the Victorian
age
• The impression of Hardy in The Return of the
Native is that family relationships are tragic and that
the people who try to rise above their class have to
suffer
• His works - Far from the Madding Crowd, The Poor
Man and the Lady, The Return of the Native, The
Woodlanders, A Pair of Blue Eyes and many more

7. William Thackeray
• William Thackeray was born in India where his
father served in the British East India Company
• His first major novel was The Luck of Barry
Lyndon
• He is probably best known now for Vanity Fair
• His works - Vanity Fair, The Luck of Barry Lyndon,
The Adventures of Philip, The Rose and the Ring
and many more

8. Conclusion
• The era ended in 1901, when Queen Victoria died.
• The Victorian age still lives on today through music, literature, and
art. This age will always be remembered as a great time in history
when Queen Victoria ruled.