Novelists.—­Wilkie Collins (1824-1899):  The Moonstone.  Dinah Maria Craik (1826-1877):  John Halifax, Gentleman.  Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll 1832-1898):  Alice in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass.  Joseph H. Shorthouse (1834-1903):  John Inglesant.  Walter Besant (1836-1901):  All Sorts and Conditions of Men.  William Black (1841-1898):  A Daughter of Heth.  Canon W. Barry, D.D. (1849- ):  The Two Standards.  Mrs. Humphry Ward (1851- ):  Marcella.  Canon P.A.  Sheehan, D.D. (1852- ):  My New Curate; The Queen’s Fillet.  Hall Caine (1853- ):  The Manxman.  Rider Haggard (1856- ):  King Solomon’s Mines.  George Gissing (1857-1903):  New Grub Street; The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft.  John Ascough (Rt.  Rev. Mgr.  Bicherstaffe-Drew, 1858- ):  Marotz.  Kenneth Grahame (1859- ):  The Golden Age; Dream Days.  A. Conan Doyle (1859- ):  The White Company; Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.  R.H.  Benson (1871- ):  By What Authority; The Queen’s Tragedy.  Mrs. Wilfrid Ward:  Great Possessions.

Poets.—­Richard H. Barham (1788-1845):  Ingoldsby Legends.  James C. Mangan (1803-1849):  Selected Poems.  Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883):  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (translation).  Aubrey de Vere (1814-1902):  Irish Odes.  Coventry Patmore (1823-1896):  The Angel in the House; Amelia.  Sidney Dobell (1824-1874):  The Roman; Balder.  Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864):  Legends and Lyrics.  Jean Ingelow (1830-1897):  Poems.  Edwin Arnold (1832-1904):  The Light of Asia.  Lewis Morris (1833-1907):  Epic of Hades.  James Thompson (1834-1882):  The City of Dreadful Night.  J.B.L.  Warren (Lord de Tabley, 1835-1895):  Poems:  Dramatic and Lyrical.  Alfred Austin (1835-1913, appointed poet-laureate in 1896):  English Lyrics, edited by William Watson.  Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832- ):  The Coming of Love.  Philip Bourke Marston (1850-1887):  Song-Tide and Other Poems; Wind Voices.  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900):  Ave Imperatrix; The Ballad of Reading Gaol; De Profundis (prose).

1900-

Essayists.—­Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1857- ):  The Enchanted Woods and Other Essays; The Sentimental Traveler.  Lawrence Pearsall Jacks (1860- ):  Mad Shepherds, and Other Human Studies.  Arthur Symons (1865- ):  William Blake; The Romantic Movement in English Poetry.  Edward Verrall Lucas (1868- ):  Life of Charles Lamb; Old Lamps for New; also the stories Over Bemerton’s and Mr. Ingleside.  Hilaire Belloc (1870- ):  On Everything.

Novelists.—­Justin Huntley M’Carthy (1860- ):  The Proud Prince; If I Were King.  W.W.  Jacobs (1863- ):  Many Cargoes; Ship’s Company.  Anthony Hope Hawkins (Anthony Hope, 1863- ):  The Prisoner of Zenda; Rupert of Hentzau.  Marie Corelli (1864- ):  Thelma; Ardath.  Robert S. Hichens (1864- ):  The Garden of Allah.  G.W.  Birmingham (rev.  J.O.  Hannay, 1865- ):  Spanish Gold.  Seumas Macmanus (1870- ):  The Chimney Corner; Donegal Fairy Stories.  J.C.  Snaith (1876- ):  Araminta; Broke of Covenden.  May Sinclair:  The Divine Fire.