LORD MACAULAY (THOMAS BABINGTON). 1800-1859. Barrister; Edin burgh Reviewer; M.P.; Member of the Supreme Council of India; Cabinet Minister; poet; essayist; historian; peer. Milton (in the Edinburgh Review,' 1825); Lays of William IV. as- 1830 Ancient Rome (1842); His- faculty is amazing.' cends the The Reform Bill, Total Abolition of Slavery, WRITERS. WORKS. CONTEMPORARY DE- CADES. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY. 1811-1863. Novelist; writer in 'Punch'; artist. CHARLES DICKENS. 1812-1870. Novelist. Third French Re- The Paris Sketch-Book Franco-Prussian 1870 William I. of Prussia made ROBERT BROWNING. 1812 Poet. JOHN RUSKIN. 1819 Art-critic; essayist; teacher; literary man. GEORGE ELIOT. 1819-1880. Novelist; poet; essayist. Assassination of 1880 Modern Painters (1843-60); Scenes of Clerical Life (1858); bellion, 1882-83. War in the Sou- Murder of Gor- Spanish Gypsy (1868); Le- New Reform Bill, 1885. |