19th-Century Timeline

For purposes of my own interest, this page lists books that I've reviewed published from 1800 to 1914.  I find it interesting to see how disparate texts are juxtaposed. (Serialized works or collections of short stories are listed by the year of their last installment. Works with elements of what we might now call science fiction or fantasy are preceded by an asterisk.) More to be filled in as I review it!

1801
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth

1816
*"Darkness" by Lord Byron (in The End of the World: Classic Tales of Apocalyptic Science Fiction)

1818
*Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley 

1827
*The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century by Jane Loudon

1830
A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy by John F.W. Herschel

1831
*"Transformation" by Mary Shelley (in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Secret Sharer, Transformation: Three Tales of Doubles)

1836
*The Partisan Leader: A Tale of the Future by Nathaniel Beverly Tucker

1837
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens

1839
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau

1841
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
The Old Curiosity Shop: A Tale by Charles Dickens

1843
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation by John Stuart Mill
Martin Chuzzlewit, Nos. I–III, IV, V–VII, VIII, IX, X–XII by Charles Dickens

1844
*"Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (in The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF)
Martin Chuzzlewit, Nos. XIII–XVIII, XIX by Charles Dickens

1845
Zoe: A History of Two Lives by Geraldine Jewsbury 

1846
Dombey and Son, Nos. I–III by Charles Dickens [serialization discussion]

1847
Tancred; or, The New Crusade by the Earl of Beaconsfield
Dombey and Son, Nos. IV, V–VII, VIII–X, XI–XII, XIII–XIV, XV by Charles Dickens

1848
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Half Sisters by Geraldine Jewsbury
Dombey and Son, Nos. XVI, XVII–XIX by Charles Dickens

1849
*The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe

1850
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography by Charles Kingsley 
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 

1852
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne 

1853
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 
Comte's Philosophy of the Sciences: Being an Exposition of the Principles of the Cours de Philosophie Positive of Auguste Comte by George Henry Lewes
Of the Plurality of Worlds: A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1853; Plus Previously Unpublished Material Excised by the Author Just Before the Book Went to Press; and Whewell's Dialogue Rebutting His Critics, Reprinted from the Second Edition by William Whewell
Hypatia by Charles Kingsley
Bleak House by Charles Dickens

1855
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Glaucus; or, The Wonders of the Shore by Charles Kingsley

1857
Two Years Ago—Vol. I by Charles Kingsley
Two Years Ago—Vol. II by Charles Kingsley
Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot by Philip Henry Gosse
The Frozen Deep by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins
The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

1858
Dr Thorne by Anthony Trollope 

1859
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
*The Diamond Lens and Other Stories by Fitz-James O'Brien
Adam Bede by George Eliot
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

1861
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
East Lynne by Ellen Wood

1863
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
*The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Charles Kingsley

1864
Cousin Phillis and Other Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob by George Eliot

1866
*Charles Dickens' Christmas Ghost Stories
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Armadale by Wilkie Collins

1868
The Essays of “George Eliot”: Complete: Collected and Arranged
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 

1871
The Rose and the Key by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

1872
*In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
Middlemarch by George Eliot [reread]

1873
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy

1874
English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture by Francis Galton
Scientific London by Bernard H. Becker

1876
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

1877
That Lass o' Lowrie's by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The New Republic, or Culture, Faith, and Philosophy in an English Country House by W. H. Mallock

1879
Haworth's by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews by John Tyndall
Lynton Abbott's Children by Florence Fenwick Miller
*The Begum's Millions by Jules Verne
Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings by George Eliot
Wooers and Winners; or, Under the Scars: A Yorkshire Story by Mrs. G. Linnæus Banks
The Egoist by George Meredith

1880
A Fair Barbarian by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Jezebel's Daughter by Wilkie Collins

1881
Science and Culture and Other Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
*Mizora: A World of Women by Mary E. Bradley Lane
The Creed of Science: Religious, Moral, and Social by William Graham
The Professor's Wife: A Story by Leonard Graham

1882
*The Twentieth Century by Albert Robida
*The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope
Two on a Tower: A Romance by Thomas Hardy 
*"Into the Sun" and "Plucked from the Burning" by Robert Duncan Milne (in The End of the World: Classic Tales of Apocalyptic Science Fiction)

1883
Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time by Wilkie Collins [reread]
Through One Administration by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
Deucalion: Collected Studies of the Lapse of Waves, and the Life of Stones by John Ruskin

1884
*Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, With Illustrations by the Author, A Square by Edwin A. Abbott

1885
The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson
*After London, or Wild England by Richard Jefferies

1886
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
*"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson (in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Secret Sharer, Transformation: Three Tales of Doubles)
Demos: A Story of English Socialism by George Gissing 

1887
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Dreams to Sell by May Kendall 
St. Bernard's: The Romance of a Medical Student by Æsculapius Scalpel
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

1888
The Man who would be King and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling
*"The Battle of the Swash, and The Capture of Canada" by Samuel Barton (in The Empire of the Future)
*Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy 
*"For the Ahkoond" by Ambrose Bierce (in The End of the World: Classic Tales of Apocalyptic Science Fiction)

1889
Little Lord Fauntleroy: A Drama in Three Acts, Founded on the Story of the Same Name by Frances Hodgson Burnett
*New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future by Mrs. George Corbett

1890
Wessex Tales: That Is to Say, The Three Strangers, A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four, The Melancholy Hussar, The Withered Arm, Fellow-townsmen, Interlopers at the Knap, The Distracted Preacher by Thomas Hardy 
*The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition by Oscar Wilde
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
In Darkest England, and The Way Out by General Booth
*Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Ignatius Donnelly
*Gloriana; or, The Revolution of 1900 by Lady Florence Dixie

1891
*The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
*The Year of Miracle: A Tale of the year One Thousand Nine Hundred by Fergus Hume
*The Doings of Raffles Haw by A. Conan Doyle
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
*News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance by William Morris
*A Plunge into Space by Robert Cromie

1892
Born in Exile by George Gissing
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by A. Conan Doyle

1893
*James Ingleton: The History of a Social State, A.D. 2,000 by "Mr. Dick"
*The Great War of 189—: A Forecast by Rear-Admiral P. Colomb, Colonel J. F. Maurice, Captain F. N. Maude, Archibald Forbes, Charles Lowe, D. Christie Murray and F. Scudamore
Evolution & Ethics by Thomas Henry Huxley
*Looking Within: The Misleading Tendencies of "Looking Backward" Made Manifest by J. W. Roberts
*Hartmann the Anarchist; or, The Doom of the Great City by E. Douglas Fawcett
*The Angel of the Revolution, or A Tale of the Coming Terror by George Griffith

1894
*6,000 Tons of Gold by H. R. Chamberlain
*The English Revolution of the Twentieth Century: A Prospective History by Henry Lazarus
*The Outlaws of the Air by George Griffith
A Yellow Aster by Iota
*The Azrael of Anarchy by Gustave Linbach

1895
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 
*Zalma by T. Mullett Ellis
*The British Barbarians: A Hill-Top Novel by Grant Allen
*Marmaduke, Emperor of Europe: Being a Record of Some Strange Adventures in the Remarkable Career of a Political and Social Reformer Who Was Famous at the Commencement of the Twentieth Century by X
*The Time Machine by H. G. Wells [reread]
*Stella and An Unfinished Communication: Studies of the Unseen by C. H. Hinton 
*"The Crack of Doom" by Robert Cromie (in The End of the World: Classic Tales of Apocalyptic Science Fiction)

1896
A Lady of Quality: Being a most curious, hitherto unknown history, as related by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff but not presented to the World of Fashion through the pages of The Tatler, and now for the first time written down by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Works of Christina Rossetti
*The Next Crusade by Robert Cromie
*The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
*The Final War: A Story of the Great Betrayal by Louis Tracy

1897
His Grace of Osmonde: Being the portions of that nobleman's life omitted in the relation of his Lady's story presented to the World of Fashion under the title A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett
*The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
*The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
*The Invasion of New York; or, How Hawaii Was Annexed by J. H. Palmer
*When All Men Starve: Showing How England Hazarded Her Naval Supremacy, and the Horrors Which Followed the Interruption of Her Food Supply by Charles Gleig
The Beth Book by Sarah Grand
Advice for a Young Investigator by Santiago Ramón y Cajal
*The Beetle by Richard Marsh
The Octave of Claudius by Barry Pain 
*"The Star" by H. G. Wells and "The Thames Valley Catastrophe" by Grant Allen (in The End of the World: Classic Tales of Apocalyptic Science Fiction)

1898
*The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace
*"A Corner in Lightning" by George Griffith (in The End of the World: Classic Tales of Apocalyptic Science Fiction)

1899
*The Great Pirate Syndicate by George Griffith
*The Surprising Adventures of The Magical Monarch of Mo And His People by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by Frank Ver Beck

1900
*"The Struggle for Empire: A Story of the Year 2236" by Robert William Cole (in The Empire of the Future)
*The Sack of London by the Highland Host: A Romance of the Period, Narrated by Jingo Jones, M.P.
*His Wisdom the Defender by Simon Newcomb 
*The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and W. W. Denslow [read aloud]
Love and Mr Lewisham by H. G. Wells
Stringtown On the Pike: A Tale of Northernmost Kentucky by John Uri Lloyd

1901
*The Three Days' Terror by J. S. Fletcher
*The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel
*The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells
*Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought by H. G. Wells
*The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale, Founded Upon The Mysteries Of Electricity And The Optimism Of Its Devotees. It Was Written For Boys, But Others May Read It by L. Frank Baum
*Dot and Tot of Merryland by L. Frank Baum

1902
*The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark

1903 
*A Woman against the World by George Griffith
The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service by Erskine Childers
*"The Land Ironclads" by H. G. Wells (in The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF)
*The Sorceress of the Strand and Other Stories by L. T. Meade
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
*The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum

1904
*The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an account of the further adventures of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman and also the strange experiences of the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Animated Saw-Horse, and the Gump; the story being A Sequel to The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, pictured by John R. Neill
*In the Closed Room by Frances Hodgson Burnett
*The Stolen Submarine: A Tale of the Russo-Japanese War by George Griffith
*The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth by H. G. Wells
Trixy by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

1905
*"With the Night Mail" by Rudyard Kipling (in The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF)
*A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells
*Queen Zixi of Ix; or, the Story of the Magic Cloak by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by Frederick Richardson

1906
*In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells
*John Dough and the Cherub: A Whimsical Wonder-Story in which is Described the Marvelous Creation of John Dough, the Gingerbread Man; his meeting with the Incubator Baby called Chick the Cherub: their Adventures in the Isle of Phreex, the Land of Mifkets, Pirate Island and Hiland and Loland by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill

1907
*Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill
The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett 
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse

1908
*"Legions of the Dawn" by Allan Reeth (in Fictions of a Feminist Future)
*Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill
*The Iron Heel by Jack London

1909
Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells
Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells
Septimus by William J. Locke
*The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill
*"The Machine Stops" by E. M. Forster (in The End of the World: Classic Tales of Apocalyptic Science Fiction)

1910
*"The Secret Sharer" by Joseph Conrad (in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Secret Sharer, Transformation: Three Tales of Doubles)
*The Sleeper Awakes by H. G. Wells
The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells
The History of Mr Polly by H. G. Wells
*The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill

1911
Floor Games by H. G. Wells
*"The Affairs of John Bolsover" by Una L. Silberrad (in Fictions of a Feminist Future)
The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
*The Sea Fairies by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill [read aloud]

1912
*Sky Island: Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill [read aloud]
Marriage by H. G. Wells 
*"The Scarlet Plague" by Jack London (in The End of the World: Classic Tales of Apocalyptic Science Fiction)

1913
T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett
*The Lost World and Other Thrilling Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle
Little Wars: A Game for Boys, from Twelve Years of Age to One Hundred and Fifty and for That More Intelligent Sort of Girls Who Like Boys' Games and Books by H. G. Wells
*Little Wizard Stories of Oz by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill [read aloud]
*The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill [read aloud]

1914
*The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells
A Lady and Her Husband by Amber Reeves
Dubliners by James Joyce
*Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill