Literature & Authors
The century that gave us Sherlock Holmes, Dracula and Alice — meet the writers who invented modern storytelling.
Charles Dickens
The Victorian era's defining novelist — and its fiercest chronicler of poverty and injustice.
The Brontës
Three sisters from a Yorkshire parsonage who wrote two of the most passionate novels ever published.
Oscar Wilde
The wittiest man in London — until Victorian morality put him on trial.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The doctor who created Sherlock Holmes — and then tried to kill him off.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A sickly Scotsman who wrote the definitive adventure story and the definitive split-personality tale.
Bram Stoker
A Dublin theatre manager whose 1897 novel gave the world its most famous vampire.
Lewis Carroll
An Oxford mathematician who fell down the rabbit hole and invented Wonderland.
Alfred Tennyson
Poet Laureate for 42 years — the official voice of the Victorian age.