"Silas Marner Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community. The novel is set in the early years of the 19th century. Silas Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern Yard, a slum street in Northern England. He is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds while watching over the very ill deacon. Two clues"
"Louse""; ""To a Mouse""; ""The Battle of Sherramuir""; ""Tam o' Shanter"" and ""Ae Fond Kiss"". The most important British novelist at the beginning of the early 19th century was Sir Walter Scott, who was not only a highly successful novelist, but ""the greatest single influence on fiction in the 19th century [...] [and] a European figure"". Scott's novel writing career was launched in 1814 with ""Waverley"", often called the first historical novel, and was followed by ""Ivanhoe"". The Waverley Novels, including ""The Antiquary"", ""Old Mortality"", ""The Heart of Midlothian"", and whose subject is Scottish history, are now generally regarded as"
"the anonymous ""Robin Hood: A Tale of the Olden Time"" (1819), and a few months later ""Ivanhoe"" by Walter Scott, 1819. ""Ivanhoe"" was Scott's first novel where history and romance is combined. Robin Hood in this book is the saviour of the nation. The Upper classes need the working classes as much as the working classes rely on their 'betters'. Scott's tale is significant because it is the first time that Robin is presented as an Anglo-Saxon freedom fighter, a theme which many later Victorian Robin Hood novels would utilise. The next novel following Scott was Thomas Love Peacock's novella"
"Miss Prissy is right and Mary should be with the man that she loves, so he calls off the wedding. The Minister's Wooing The Minister's Wooing is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, first published in 1859. Set in 18th-century New England, the novel explores New England history, highlights the issue of slavery, and critiques the Calvinist theology in which Stowe was raised. Due to similarities in setting, comparisons are often drawn between this work and Nathaniel Hawthorne's ""The Scarlet Letter"" (1850). However, in contrast to Hawthorne's ""The Scarlett Letter"", ""The Minister's Wooing"" is a ""sentimental romance""; its central"
"The Minister's Wooing The Minister's Wooing is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, first published in 1859. Set in 18th-century New England, the novel explores New England history, highlights the issue of slavery, and critiques the Calvinist theology in which Stowe was raised. Due to similarities in setting, comparisons are often drawn between this work and Nathaniel Hawthorne's ""The Scarlet Letter"" (1850). However, in contrast to Hawthorne's ""The Scarlett Letter"", ""The Minister's Wooing"" is a ""sentimental romance""; its central plot revolves around courtship and marriage. Moreover, Stowe's exploration of the regional history of New England deals primarily with the"
"1819 as part of the ""Mazeppa"" collection, concerning the mysterious fate of an aristocrat named Augustus Darvell whilst journeying in the Orient—as his contribution to the famous ghost story competition at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816, between him, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and John William Polidori (who was Byron's personal physician). This story provided the basis for ""The Vampyre"" (1819) by Polidori. Byron's own wild life became the model for Polidori's undead protagonist Lord Ruthven. According to A. Asbjorn Jon 'the choice of name [for Polidori's Lord Ruthven] is presumably linked to Lady"
"Four Loom Weaver Four Loom Weaver (Roud 1460), probably derived from ""The Poor Cotton Weaver"" is a 19th-century English lament on starvation. One source also names it Jone o Grinfilt though this title usually refers to different lyrics and score, which is about the naiveté of country folk. Actually, it is very similar to Jone o'Grinfilt Junior which can be found in John Harland's ""Ballads and Songs of Lancashire"" (1875 pp. 169–171). According to Axon website (Axon) Jone o Grinfilt was written by Joseph Lees of Glodwick, near Oldham in the 1790s. The earlier version, the Poor Cotton Weaver, was"
"in a respectable establishment. There is disagreement as to whether Mary Ann Radcliffe is the author of several Gothic novels attributed to her. Manfroné was one of the most popular Gothic novels of the early nineteenth century and was remembered warmly by William Makepeace Thackeray. “The Memoirs of Mrs Mary Ann Radcliffe; in Familiar Letters to Her Female Friend” complicates matters by making no reference to Mary Ann as a Gothic novelist. Other novels attributed to Mary Ann Radcliffe are Radzivil and The Fate of Velina de Guidova, both published in 1790 by William Lane at the Minerva Press. Radclife’s"
"the early nineteenth century that included the work of Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary Brunton and Christian Johnstone. The outstanding literary figure of the early nineteenth century was Walter Scott, whose ""Waverley"" is often called the first historical novel. He had a major worldwide influence. His success led to a publishing boom in Scotland. Major figures that benefited included James Hogg, John Galt, John Gibson Lockhart, John Wilson and Susan Ferrier. In the mid-nineteenth century major literary figures that contributed to the development of the novel included David Macbeth Moir, John Stuart Blackie, William Edmondstoune Aytoun and Margaret Oliphant. In the late"
"well-known author was children's writer Arthur Ransome, who penned the ""Swallows and Amazons"" series. James Herriot, the best selling author of over 60 million copies of books about his experiences of some 50 years as a veterinarian in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, the town which he refers to as Darrowby in his books (although born in Sunderland), has been admired for his easy reading style and interesting characters. Poets include Ted Hughes, W. H. Auden, William Empson, Simon Armitage and Andrew Marvell. Three well known sculptors emerged in the 20th century; contemporaries Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, and Leeds-raised eco artist"
"His most famous novel is """" (1826), the second book of the ""Leatherstocking Tales"" pentalogy. ""The Last of the Mohicans"" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. ""The Scarlet Letter"" (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is perhaps the most famous 19th-century American historical novel. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. In French"
"the best-selling novel of the 19th century (and the second best-selling book of the century after the Bible). This abolitionist novel focused on the evils of slavery and was inspired by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act two years before, which punished those who aided runaway slaves. The book was highly controversial and fanned the debate over slavery in the country. The response to Stowe's novel in the American South was one of outrage. To counter Stowe's novel, Southern writers produced a number of pro-slavery books, the vast majority of them novels. In 1852 alone, eight anti-Tom novels were"
"novel warrants. “Zofloya has no pretension to rank as a moral work. As a work of imagination or entertainment it will be read with some interest from the immediate incidents and the manner in which they are treated. Its merits as a whole or entire composition are very slender.” Zofloya Zofloya; or, The Moor: ""A Romance of the Fifteenth Century"" is an 1806 English Gothic novel by Charlotte Dacre, writing as Rosa Matilda. It was her second novel. It was published in three parts, and later collected into a single volume. It was highly criticised during its publication, due to"
"way of four important works of history/historical fiction from the 19th and 20th centuries: John Galt's ""The Spaewife"" (1823); Sir Walter Scott's ""Tales of a Grandfather"" (1828); Dante Gabriel Rossetti's ""The King's Tragedy"" (in ""Ballads and Sonnets"", 1881); and Nigel Tranter's ""Lion Let Loose"" (1967). While the chronicle covers James I's reign as a king, it focuses on his murder and its aftermath in detail. James was stabbed to death, in a conspiracy led by Sir Robert Graham and the brothers Christopher and Robert Chambers, on the night of February 20–21, 1437, at Blackfriars, Perth. According to ""The Dethe"", he"
"Zofloya Zofloya; or, The Moor: ""A Romance of the Fifteenth Century"" is an 1806 English Gothic novel by Charlotte Dacre, writing as Rosa Matilda. It was her second novel. It was published in three parts, and later collected into a single volume. It was highly criticised during its publication, due to its provocative subject matter and racial and religious themes. Zofloya opens with the adulterous actions of the mother, Laurina di Cornari, and continues to portray the repercussions of her sinful actions throughout the novel. Victoria de Loredani is the beautiful, spoiled daughter of the Marchese di Loredani and his"
"to the hand loom weaving. There is also a version called the Oldham Weaver in Mary Barton, by Mrs Gaskell in 1848. Bibliography Four Loom Weaver Four Loom Weaver (Roud 1460), probably derived from ""The Poor Cotton Weaver"" is a 19th-century English lament on starvation. One source also names it Jone o Grinfilt though this title usually refers to different lyrics and score, which is about the naiveté of country folk. Actually, it is very similar to Jone o'Grinfilt Junior which can be found in John Harland's ""Ballads and Songs of Lancashire"" (1875 pp. 169–171). According to Axon website (Axon)"
"the first and most influential of which was John Polidori's ""The Vampyre"" (1819), featuring the vampire Lord Ruthven. Lord Ruthven's exploits were further explored in a series of vampire plays in which he was the antihero. The vampire theme continued in penny dreadful serial publications such as ""Varney the Vampire"" (1847) and culminated in the pre-eminent vampire novel in history: ""Dracula"" by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. Over time, some attributes now regarded as integral became incorporated into the vampire's profile: fangs and vulnerability to sunlight appeared over the course of the 19th century, with Varney the Vampire and Count"
"in part nonsense."" The railway running through Ashby-de-la-Zouch was known as the Ivanhoe line between 1993 and 2005, in reference to the book's setting in the locality. Ivanhoe Ivanhoe is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1819 (all first editions carry the date of 1820, however, it was released at the end of December 1819) in three volumes and subtitled ""A Romance"". At the time it was written it represented a shift by Scott away from fairly realistic novels set in Scotland in the comparatively recent past, to a somewhat fanciful depiction of medieval England. It"
"gained credit for renewing interest in the Middle Ages. Many well-known writers from the United Kingdom published historical novels in the mid 19th century, the most notable include Thackeray's ""Vanity Fair"", Charles Dickens's ""A Tale of Two Cities"", George Eliot's ""Romola"" and Charles Kingsley's ""Westward Ho!"" and ""Hereward the Wake"". ""The Trumpet-Major"" (1880) is Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, and is set in Weymouth during the Napoleonic wars; when the town was then anxious about the possibility of invasion by Napoleon. In the United States, James Fenimore Cooper was a prominent author of historical novels who was influenced by Scott."
"is mirrored in other novels that were more highly popularised in the beginning of the 19th century. Jane Austen's novels are perhaps the most recognisable works in the genre. Because of Austen's works, the novel of manners is mostly associated with the early 19th century. The rise in the importance of social behaviour had not gone unnoticed by one Horace Walpole, the widely credited inventor of Gothic fiction. Walpole's knowledge of Chesterfield and the importance of manners perhaps influenced not only his work but carried over into other authors' novels dubbed ""Gothic"" as well. Walpole wrote what is generally accepted"
"The outstanding literary figure of the early nineteenth century was Walter Scott, whose ""Waverley"" is often called the first historical novel. He had a major worldwide influence. His success led to a publishing boom in Scotland. Major figures that benefited included James Hogg, John Galt, John Gibson Lockhart, John Wilson and Susan Ferrier. In the mid-nineteenth century major literary figures that contributed to the development of the novel included David Macbeth Moir, John Stuart Blackie, William Edmondstoune Aytoun and Margaret Oliphant. In the late nineteenth century, a number of Scottish-born authors achieved international reputations, including Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur"
"Charlotte, is another major nineteenth century novel that has gothic themes. Anne's second novel ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848), written in realistic rather than romantic style, is mainly considered to be the first sustained feminist novel. Later in this period George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), published ""The Mill on the Floss"" in 1860, and in 1872 her most famous work ""Middlemarch"". Like the Brontës she published under a masculine pseudonym. In the later decades of the Victorian era Thomas Hardy was the most important novelist. His works include ""Under the Greenwood Tree"" (1872), ""Far from the Madding Crowd"" (1874),"
"Walpole, it was further developed by Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford and Matthew Lewis. The genre had much success in the 19th century, as witnessed in prose by Mary Shelley's ""Frankenstein"" and the works of Edgar Allan Poe as well as Charles Dickens with his novella, ""A Christmas Carol"", and in poetry in the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Lord Byron. Another well known novel in this genre, dating from the late Victorian era, is Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"". The name ""Gothic"", which originally referred to the Goths, and then came to mean ""German"", refers to the (pseudo)-medieval"
"Fragment of a Novel ""Fragment of a Novel"" is an unfinished 1819 vampire horror story written by Lord Byron. The story, also known as ""A Fragment"" and ""The Burial: A Fragment"", was one of the first in English to feature a vampire theme. The main character was Augustus Darvell. John William Polidori based his novella ""The Vampyre"" (1819), originally attributed in print to Lord Byron, on the Byron fragment. The vampire in the Polidori story, Lord Ruthven, was modelled on Byron himself. The story was the result of the meeting that Byron had in 1816 with Percy Bysshe Shelley where"
"Byron's personal physician, John Polidori, who adapted an enigmatic fragmentary tale of his illustrious patient, ""Fragment of a Novel"" (1819), also known as ""The Burial: A Fragment"". Byron's own dominating personality, mediated by his lover Lady Caroline Lamb in her unflattering ""roman-a-clef"" ""Glenarvon"" (a Gothic fantasia based on Byron's wild life), was used as a model for Polidori's undead protagonist Lord Ruthven. ""The Vampyre"" was highly successful and the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century. ""Varney the Vampire"" was a landmark popular mid-Victorian era gothic horror story by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest, which first"
"(14th century), Thomas Malory (15th century), Sir Thomas More (16th century), John Bunyan (17th century) and John Milton (17th century). In the 18th century Daniel Defoe (author of ""Robinson Crusoe"") and Samuel Richardson were pioneers of the modern novel. In the 19th century there followed further innovation by Jane Austen, the gothic novelist Mary Shelley, the children's writer Lewis Carroll, the Brontë sisters, the social campaigner Charles Dickens, the naturalist Thomas Hardy, the realist George Eliot, the visionary poet William Blake and Romantic poet William Wordsworth. 20th-century English writers include the science-fiction novelist H. G. Wells; the writers of children's"
"Mandeville (novel) Mandeville, a tale of the seventeenth century (1817) is a three volume novel written by William Godwin. Orphaned at a young age due to his family’s involvement in the English colonization of Ireland, Charles Mandeville is brought up in England by his reclusive uncle Audley Mandeville. His sister, Henrietta, is brought up by family friends. Charles attends Winchester school, where he is falsely accused of possessing a subversive print of Charles I and becomes jealous of the most popular boy, Lionel Clifford. He later discovers that an unprincipled boy named Mallison was responsible. The stain on Charles’s reputation"
"The Oaken Throne The Oaken Throne is the second novel in the Deptford Histories Trilogy by Robin Jarvis (first published in 1993). Set hundreds of years before the Deptford Mice Trilogy in the Middle Ages, the story tells the tale of the squirrel maiden Ysabelle, daughter of the ruler of the Hazel Realm, Lady Ninnia, and Vespertilio (or Vesper), a young bat. The story begins in a ruined tower in London where the Bats live, and they are readying themselves to go to war to fight the squirrels. They believe that the Starwife, ruler of the black squirrels, has stolen"
"of the most popular novelist of the era was Sir Walter Scott, whose historical romances inspired a generation of painters, composers, and writers throughout Europe. Scott's novel-writing career was launched in 1814 with ""Waverley"", often called the first historical novel. Jane Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism. Her plots, in novels such as ""Pride and Prejudice"" (1813), ""Emma"" (1815), though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. The European Romantic movement reached America"
"The Castle of Otranto The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle – ""A Gothic Story"". The novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. The aesthetics of the book shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture. The novel initiated a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th and early 19th century, with authors such as Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe,"
"120 Journées de Sodome"" (1785), Poe's ""Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"" (1840), Mary Shelley, ""Frankenstein"" (1818), and E.T.A. Hoffmann, ""Die Elixiere des Teufels"" (1815), would later attract 20th-century psychoanalysts and supply the images for 20th- and 21st-century horror films, love romances, fantasy novels, role-playing computer games, and the surrealists. The historical romance was also important at this time. But, while earlier writers of these romances paid little attention to historical reality, Walter Scott's historical novel ""Waverley"" (1814) broke with this tradition, and he invented ""the true historical novel"". At the same time he was influenced by gothic romance, and"
"and the Weaver Poets of Ulster were influenced by literature from Scotland. In Wales the late 18th century saw the revival of the eisteddfod tradition, inspired by Iolo Morganwg. ""A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"" (1792), by Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. Major poets in 19th-century English literature included William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edward Lear (the limerick), Percy Shelley and Lord Byron. The Victorian era was the golden age of the realistic English novel, with Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily"
"Waverley Novels The Waverley Novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read novels in all of Europe. Because Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, the series takes its name from ""Waverley"", the first novel of the series released in 1814. The later books bore the words ""by the author of ""Waverley"""" on their title pages. The ""Tales of my Landlord"" sub-series was not advertised as ""by the author of ""Waverley"""" and thus is not always included as part of the Waverley"