Oscar Wilde October 16, 1854- November 30, 1900, Dublin, Ireland, the son of an eminent Dublin surgeon, stands out among the fraternity of Victorian dramatists.
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A circulating library, from Poetical Sketches of Scarborough,Rudolph Ackermann 1813 Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, probably the best-known and, to many people, the greatest English novelist of the 19th century. A moralist, satirist, and social reformer, Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama of English society. Florence Nightingale was born on 12 May YUL035170 at the Villa La Columbaia in Florence; she was named after the city of her birth. Queen Victoria, the daughter of the Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg, was born in 1819. She inherited the throne of Great Britain at the age of eighteen, upon the death of her uncle William IV in 1837, and reigned until 1901, bestowing her name upon her age. Jane Austen (1775-1817) The Great Charter Procession at Blackfriars, 1848. On 10 April 1848 crowds marched with their banners from various points in London to a huge Chartist demonstration organised by the National Charter Association on Kennington Common. Emily Brontė, 1818-1848
 
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