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Title: Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff), 1842-1900 Mann, James Saumarez, 1851-
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
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oo often declining in its political disquisitions tothe level of a mere Radical pamphlet, yet by the animation andgraphic power of its narrative deserved at least some measureof the popularity which it obtained (p. (j(i,S). In 1856 H. H.iMilman (1791-1868; afterwards Dean of St. Pauls), a disciple,imitator, and editor of Gibbon, published the History of LatinChristianity, the worthiest of his works; and in the sameyear appeared the first volume of tliat history of England, fromtiie Fall of Woisey to the Defeat of the Armada, which, when LITERATURE. 387 1865) completed in 1869, was to establish the position of JamesAnthony Froude (1818-94) as one of the greatest prose writersof the Victorian Age. And, lastly, it was in the middle of thisperiod that Carlylo entered upon that herculean labour whichwas to engage, and indeed for all practical purposes to exhaust,the energies of his latter years, the Life of Frederick the Great.Passing from historic to imaginative jiro.se, we find no abate-
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iV. .M. TIIACKEEAY, BY SAMUEL LAURENCE.(National rDftrait Gallery.) ment of the brilliancy of achievement which signalised this Novelists,remarkable period of the mid-century in every department ofKterature. Between 1840 and 186.5 there flourished no fewerthan seven novelists, of whom two, Dickens and Thackeray,rank as undisputed classics; two others, Charlotte Bronte andGeorge Eliot, have in the opinion of many established theirclaim to that title: while the remaining three, Charles Reade,Charles Kingsley, and Mrs. Gaskell, without exactly attainingclas.sic rank, undoubtedly achieved a nearer approach theretothan was to be accomplished by any later Engli.sh novelist for 388 TEE RULE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS. 11846 Thackeray, well-nigh another generation. But the eleven years from1846 to 1S57 are isrincipally famous a.s the Howering time ofThackerays genius. The first year of the period witnessed thecommencement of his masterpiece, Vanity Fair; in the lasthe began The Virginians, a talc of

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