Mock 11 – Victorian Age (Part 1)

The Hand of Ethelberta (1876) → The Return of the Native (1878) → The Trumpet-Major (1880) → The Woodlanders (1887) → Tess (1891).

A dramatic poem meant for reading. Arnold withdrew it in 1853 because it showed suffering 'finding no vent in action'.

'Fog everywhere': the opening of Bleak House (1852–53) makes the fog an image of Chancery and Jarndyce and Jarndyce.

Blackwood issued it in eight parts (Books I–VIII), December 1871 to December 1872. The four-volume edition followed in 1873.

The story is told near Simon's Town, the naval base by Cape Town. In it, Vickery becomes obsessed with Mrs Bathurst after seeing her on a cinematograph screen. It was published in 1904 and collected in Traffics and Discoveries.

Tales of Unrest (1898) collects 'Karain', 'The Idiots', 'An Outpost of Progress', 'The Return' and 'The Lagoon'. The other three are by Henry James.

In Browning's 'Andrea del Sarto' (1855) the painter speaks to his silent wife Lucrezia, revealing his character — the defining marks of a dramatic monologue. Donne's poems are lyric addresses and 'Tintern Abbey' is a meditative lyric.

Daniel Deronda (1876) was Eliot's last novel, after The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861) and Middlemarch (1871–72).

Men's Wives (Fraser's Magazine, 1843): 'Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berry', 'The Ravenswing' and 'Dennis Haggarty's Wife'.

Its letters from 'Arminius von Thunder-ten-Tronckh' continue the satire on Philistinism of Culture and Anarchy (1869).

Tennyson, Huxley (who coined 'agnostic' there) and Gladstone were founding members of the society (1869–80), which debated religion and science.

Tennyson (1859–85); Browning (1842); E. B. Browning (1850); Swinburne (1866).

Adam Bede (1859), ch. 17, 'In Which the Story Pauses a Little', Eliot's defence of realism.

Evelina (1778); Agnes Grey (1847); The Good Earth (1931); My Son's Story (1990).

Wilde, 'The Critic as Artist' (Intentions, 1891): the critic, like the mystic, stands above ordinary moral law.

Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), last line; Lawrence; Greene, The End of the Affair (1951); Dickens, Dombey and Son (1848).

Hopkins: inscape is the distinctive inner form of a thing; instress is the force that holds it and impresses it on the beholder ('The Windhover', 'Pied Beauty').

'Signs of the Times' (1829) → The French Revolution (1837) → Chartism (1839, dated 1840) → On Heroes (1841) → 'Occasional Discourse' (1849).

Dickens's gin-loving nurse Sarah Gamp (Martin Chuzzlewit, 1843–44); Shaw's pompous physician 'B.B.' (The Doctor's Dilemma, 1906); Tess's father, 'Sir John' Durbeyfield; Harry, Lord Monchensey, pursued by the Furies in Eliot's The Family Reunion (1939).

Note: The source lists Tess's father as 'Abraham Durbeyfield'; Abraham is Tess's brother, her father is John. The matching is unaffected.

Published in December 1847 as by 'Ellis Bell', the novel is told through nested narrators — Lockwood and the housekeeper Nelly (Ellen) Dean — not Catherine Linton. It was Emily's only novel.

Jude the Obscure ran in Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1894–95) in bowdlerised form, first as 'The Simpletons' and then as 'Hearts Insurgent', before appearing complete in 1895.