is traditionally called the Victorian age. Victorian is a
descriptive term for the time when Victoria was Queen of England, from 1837 to 1901. The Victorian period of England is known as a time of industrial progress, colonial expansion, and public fastidiousness in morals. The Victorian period in the United States had many of the same characteristics.Poets: A. Tennyson, the Brownings, A. Swinburne, R. Kipling,
W. Henley
Limericks: E. Lear
Novelists: W. M. Thackeray, Ch. Dickens, the Brontës, G. Eliot, A. Trollope, Th. Hardy, R. Stevenson
Books for children: L. Carroll
Science fiction: H. G. Wells
Horror stories: B. Stoker
Detective fiction: Conan Doyle
Drama: B. Shaw, O. Wilde