. Read Blackmore's _Lorna Doone_ and describe it (as in the question
above). What are the romantic elements in the story? How does it compare
with Scott's romances in style, in plot, in interest, and in truthfulness
to life?

CHRONOLOGY
_Nineteenth Century_
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HISTORY | LITERATURE
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| 1825. Macaulay's Essay on Milton
| 1826. Mrs. Browning's early poems
1830. William IV | 1830. Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
1832. Reform Bill |
| 1833. Browning's Pauline
| 1833-1834. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
| 1836-1865. Dickens's novels
1837. Victoria (_d_. 1901) | 1837. Carlyle's French Revolution
| 1843. Macaulay's essays
1844. Morse's Telegraph | 1843-1860. Ruskin's Modern Painters
1846. Repeal of Corn Laws |
| 1847-1859. Thackeray's important novels
| 1847-1857. Charlotte Bronte's novels
| 1848-1861. Macaulay's History
| 1853. Kingsley's Hypatia
| Mrs. Gaskell's Cranford
1854. Crimean War |
| 1853-1855. Matthew Arnold's poems
| 1856. Mrs. Browning's Aurora Leigh
1857. Indian Mutiny |
| 1858-1876. George Eliot's novels
| 1859-1888. Tennyson's Idylls of the King
| 1859. Darwin's Origin of Species
| 1864. Newman's Apologia
| Tennyson's Enoch Arden
| 1865-1888. Arnold's Essays in Criticism
1867. Dominion of Canada |
established | 1868. Browning's Ring and the Book
| 1869. Blackmore's Lorna Doone
1870. Government schools |
established |
| 1879. Meredith's The Egoist
1880. Gla