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| 1859 |
| | | French author Stendhal publishes his novel La Chartreuse de Parme ('The Charterhouse of Parma') | |
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| 1859 |
| | | Charles Dickens publishes his French Revolution novel, A Tale of Two Cities | |
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| 1860 |
| | | Charles Dickens begins serial publication of his novel "Great Expectations" (in book form 1861) | |
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| 1860 |
| | | George Eliot publishes The Mill on the Floss, her novel about the childhood of Maggie and Tom Tulliver | |
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| 1861 |
| | | Mrs Henry Wood publishes her first novel, East Lynne, which becomes the basis of the most popular of all Victorian melodramas | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Victor Hugo publishes his novel Les Misérables, an immensely complex story about the adventures of ex-convict Jean Valjean | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Oxford mathematician Lewis Carroll tells 10-year-old Alice Liddell, on a boat trip, a story about her own adventures in Wonderland | |
|  | Page from Carroll's manuscript for Alice
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| 1862 |
| | | Dostoevsky publishes Notes from the House of the Dead, a semi-autobiographical novel about life in a Siberian labour camp | |
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| 1863 |
| | | English author Charles Kingsley publishes an improving fantasy for young children, The Water-Babies | |
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| 1864 |
| | | Dostoevsky publishes Notes from Underground, the bitter memories of a retired civil servant that is often described as the first existentialist novel | |
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