Victorian Culture and Literature: Reading list
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
Charlotte Brontë: Villette
George Eliot: “The Lifted Veil”
Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South
Elizabeth Braddon: Lady Audley’s Secret
Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone
Poems by Alfred Tennyson:
The Lady of Shalott;
The Lotos Eaters (incl. Choric Song);
Ulysses; Tears,
Idle Tears;
Selected poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: the poems in The Norton Anthology of
Women’s Literature (three photocopies also deposited in the library – 101; not on
loan)
Poems by Alfred Tennyson:
The Lady of Shalott;
The Lotos Eaters (incl. Choric Song);
Ulysses;
Tears, Idle Tears;
Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
Sonnets IV., VII., XV
also: the poems in The Norton Anthology of Women’s Literature (three photocopies
also deposited in the library – 101; not on loan),
Poems by Robert Browning:
Porphyria’s Lover;
My Last Duchess;
Andrea del Sarto;
A Toccata of Galuppi’s;
Home Thoughts, from Abroad
Poems by Christina Rossetti:
the poems in The Norton Anthology of Women’s Literature (four photocopies also
deposited in the library – 101; not on loan)
Poems by Mathew Arnold:
The Scholar Gypsy;
Dover Beach;
Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Chorus from Atalanta in Calydon
The Garden of Proserpine
A Forsaken Garden
Oscar Wilde
The Sphinx
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure
Rudyard Kipling: “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”; “On the City Wall”; “The
Mark of the Beast”; “Beyond the Pale”; “Gunga Din”
Arthur Conan Doyle: “The Boscombe Valley Mystery”; “The Man with the Twisted
Lips”
Violet Hunt, “The Prayer” (http://www.horrormasters.com/Text/a0434.pdf)
Mona Caird: “The Yellow Drawing Room”
George Egerton: “A Cross Line”
Margaret Oliphant: “The Open Door”
H. Rider Haggard: She
Henry James: “The Turn of the Screw”
Robert Louis Stevenson: “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”
Arthur Conan Doyle: “Lot No. 249”