First published in the Forum in 1894 and 1895, these essays attempt a mature estimate of the chief prose writers of the first half of Victoria’s reign. After a chapter on the characteristics of the period, Harrison weighs Carlyle, Macaulay, Disraeli, Thackeray and his own illustrations, Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Kingsley, Trollope and George Eliot.
Judicious criticism by a contemporary who knew the age at first hand, for readers of the Victorian novel. Download the free EPUB.