<p>Year Historical Literary Set texts; date of publication 1828 Duke of Wellington becomes Prime Minister</p><p>1829 Roman Catholic Emancipation</p><p>Robert Peel creates metropolitan police force 1830 Death of George IV Alfred Tennyson, Tennyson, ‘The and accession of Poems Chiefly Lyrical Kraken’; ‘Mariana’ William IV Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology 1831 Cholera outbreak in England 1832 Tennyson, ‘The Lady of Shallott’ 1833 Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire</p><p>First Tracts for the Times published 1834 1835 1836 1837 William IV dies; Sarah Stickney Ellis, succeeded by his The Women of niece, Victoria England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits 1838 Letitia Landon dies, Gold Coast 1839 1840 Queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert, who becomes Prince Consort. Penny post started</p><p>1841 The Tories come to power. Sir Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister 1842 Robert Browning, Tennyson, ‘Ulysses’ Dramatic Lyrics 1843 John Ruskin, Modern Painters (vol. 1)</p><p>Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present 1844 Expansion of railways EBB, ‘The Cry of the across Britain Children’ 1845 John Henry Newman E. A. Poe, Tales of joins the Roman Mystery and Catholic Church Imagination</p><p>Corn Laws repealed</p><p>1846 Famine in Ireland</p><p>Whigs come to Power. 1847 Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre</p><p>Anne Brone, Agnes Grey</p><p>Emily Brone, Wuthering Heights</p><p>William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair 1848 Democratic Pre Raphaelite revolutions in Europe Brotherhood (PRB) is founded</p><p>Newman's Loss and Gain 1849 1850 Death of William EBB, ‘The Runaway Wordsworth. The Slave’ Prelude is published posthumously. Tennyson, In Memoriam Alfred, Lord Tennyson becomes poet Laureate</p><p>Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter</p><p>1851 Great Exhibition 1852 1853 Crimean War Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth 1854 1855 Elizabeth Gaskell, Tennyson, Maud North and South 1856 1857 The Indian Mutiny Gustave Flaubert, EBB, Aurora Leigh Madame Bovary 1858 Emancipation of Jews 1859 Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species 1860 1861 1862 Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems. Includes ‘A Birthday’, ‘The World’, ‘Goblin Market’, ‘Uphill’, ‘A Better Resurrection’ 1863 1864 John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua 1865 Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland 1866 Swinburne, Poems and Ballads </p><p>1867 1868 Gladstone becomes Prime Minister 1869 Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy</p><p>J.S. Mill, On the Subjection of Women</p><p>1870 Education Act Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems</p><p>1871 1872 George Eliot, Middlemarch 1873 1874 1875 1876 Queen Victorian proclaimed Empress of India</p><p>1877 1878 Revolutions in Europe. 1879 1880 1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ballads and Sonnets 1882 Married Women's Property Act enables women to buy, own, and sell property, and to keep their own earnings. 1883 1884 Levy, A Minor Poet and Other Verse 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 Levy, A London Plane- Tree 1890 Emily Dickenson, Poems 1891 1892 1893 1894</p>