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| 1850 |
| | | Alfred Tennyson's elegy for a friend, In Memoriam, captures perfectly the Victorian mood of heightened sensibility | |
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| 1852 |
| | | London physician Peter Mark Roget publishes his dictionary of synonyms, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases | |
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| 1854 |
| | | Within six weeks of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimea, Tennyson publishes a poem finding heroism in the disaster | |
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| 1855 |
| | | Tennyson publishes a long narrative poem, Maud, a section of which ('Come into the garden, Maud') becomes famous as a song | |
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| 1855 |
| | | English author Anthony Trollope publishes The Warden, the first in his series of six Barsetshire novels | |
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| 1857 |
| | | In Tom Brown's Schooldays Thomas Hughes depicts the often brutal aspects of an English public school | |
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| 1859 |
| | | Charles Darwin puts forward the theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species, the result of 20 years' research | |
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| 1859 February |
| | | English author George Eliot wins fame with her first full-length novel, Adam Bede | |
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| 1859 |
| | | In On Liberty John Stuart Mill makes the classic liberal case for the priority of the freedom of the individual | |
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| 1859 |
| | | Samuel Smiles provides an inspiring ideal of Victorian enterprise in Self-Help, a manual for ambitious young men | |
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