Socio-economic Condition of Victorian Age and its Influence on Literature

The era of Queen Victoria's reign(1837-1901). The period is sometimes dated from 1832(the passage of the first Reform Bill).
A period of intense and prolific activity in literature, especially by novelists and poets, philosophers and essayists. Dramatic of any note are few. Much of the writing was concerned with contemporary social problems; for instance, the effects of the industrial revolution, the influence of the theory of evolution, movements of political and social reform.
The following are among the most notable British writers of the period: Thomas Love Peacock, Keble, Carlyle, William Barnes, Cardinal Newman, Alfred Tennyson, Disraeli, J.S. Mill, E B Browning, Charles Darwin, Thackeray, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens,Charlotte Bronze, Emily Bronze, Anne Bronze, George Eliot, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, George Meredith, Christina Rossetti, Lewis Carroll, William Morris, Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, Synge..


Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
J.A Cuddon