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A biographical index to Landow's Victorian Web

Jorn Barger August 2002

This page is a spin-off from a critique of the hypertext design at George Landow's Victorian Web. The VWeb seems to offer hundreds of biographies, with no central index. I've included the pre-Victorian prime ministers, but omitted most of the Victorian painters, illustrators, actors, architects, sculptors, and designers.

pre-Victorians:

1575-1624: Jacob Boehme [bio]
1599-1658: Oliver Cromwell [bio]
1632-1704: John Locke [bio]
1633-1701: James II [bio]
1667-1745: Jonathan Swift [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1688-1744: Alexander Pope [bio] [VWeb]
1688-1772: Emanuel Swedenborg [bio]
1693-1768: Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of Newcastle [bio]
1708-1778: William Pitt (the Elder), Earl of Chatham [bio]
1709-1783: Samuel Johnson [bio] [VWeb]
1712-1770: George Grenville [bio]
1713-1792: John Stuart, third Earl of Bute [bio]
1730-1782: Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham [bio]

1732-1792: Frederick, Lord North [bio]
1735-1811: Augustus Henry Fitzroy, third Duke of Grafton [bio]
1737-1805: William Fitzmaurice/Petty, Earl of Shelburne [bio]
1738-1809: William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland [bio]
1744-1829: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck [bio]
1757-1844: Henry Addington, later Lord Sidmouth [bio]
1759-1806: William Pitt the Younger [bio]
1759-1834: William Wyndham, Lord Grenville [bio]
1762-1812: Spencer Perceval [bio]
1764-1823: Ann Radcliffe [VWeb]
1764-1845: Charles, Earl Grey [bio]
1768-1830: Joseph Fourier [bio]
1769-1832: Georges Cuvier [bio]
1769-1852: Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington) [bio]

1770-1827: George Canning [bio]
1770-1828: Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool [bio]
1770-1850: William Wordsworth [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1771-1832: Sir Walter Scott [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1772-1834: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1775-1817: Jane Austen [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1775-1847: Daniel O'Connell [bio]
1775-1851: Joseph Mallord William Turner [bio]
1778-1868: Henry Brougham [bio]
1779-1848: William Lamb, the 2nd Viscount Melbourne [bio]

1782-1859: Frederick Robinson, Viscount Goderich [bio]
1784-1856: William Buckland (geologist) [bio]
1784-1860: George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen [bio]
1784-1865: Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston [bio]
1785-1859: Thomas de Quincey [bio] [VWeb]
1788-1850: Sir Robert Peel [timeline] [VWeb]
1788-1858: George Combe, phrenologist [bio]
1791-1871: Charles Babbage [bio]
1792-1822: Percy Bysshe Shelley [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1792-1878: Lord John Russell [bio]
1794-1866: William Whewell [bio]
1795-1821: John Keats [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]

Victorians

1795-1881: Thomas Carlyle [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1797-1875: Charles Lyell [bio]
1798-1857: Auguste Comte [info]
1799-1869: Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby [bio] ditto
1800-1859: Thomas Babington Macaulay [timeline] [VWeb]
1801-1890: John Henry Cardinal Newman [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1802-1871: Robert Chambers [bio]
1802-1876: Harriet Martineau [bio]
1803-1873: Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1804-1865: Richard Cobden [bio]
1804-1881: Benjamin Disraeli [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1804-1892: Richard Owen [bio]

1805-1882: William Harrison Ainsworth [bio] [timeline] [links]
1806-1861: Elizabeth Barrett Browning [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1806-1872: Charles Lever [bio] [VWeb]
1806-1873: John Stuart Mill [bio] [VWeb]
1807-1873: Louis Agassiz [bio]
1808-1870: Michael W Balfe [bio] [VWeb]
1809-1882: Charles Darwin [bio]
1809-1892: Alfred Lord Tennyson [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1809-1898: William Ewart Gladstone [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]

1810-1865: Elizabeth Gaskell [bio] [VWeb]
1811-1833: Arthur Henry Hallam [timeline] [VWeb]
1811-1863: William Makepeace Thackeray [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1811-1889: John Bright [bio]
1812-1852: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin [bio] [VWeb]
1812-1870: Charles Dickens [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1812-1889: Robert Browning [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1814-1884: Charles Reade [VWeb]

1815-1882: Anthony Trollope [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1816-1855: Charlotte Bronte [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1818-1848: Emily Bronte [timeline] [VWeb]
1818-1883: Karl Marx [bio]
1818-1903: Alexander Bain [bio]
1819-1861: Arthur Hugh Clough [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1819-1875: Charles Kingsley [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1819-1876: Mary Ann 'Marion' Evans (George Eliot) [bio] [VWeb]
1819-1900: John Ruskin [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]

1819-1901: Queen Victoria [bio]
1820-1849: Anne Bronte [VWeb]
1820-1893: John Tyndall [bio]
1820-1903: Herbert Spencer [bio]
1822-1888: Matthew Arnold [bio] [timeline] [works] [VWeb]
1823-1913: Alfred Russel Wallace [bio]
1824-1879: John Lucas Tupper [bio]
1824-1889: Wilkie Collins [bio] [VWeb]
1824-1905: George MacDonald [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]

1826-1887: Dinah Mulock Craik [bio] [VWeb]
1827-1891: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon [bio]
1827-1910: William Holman Hunt [VWeb]
1827-1912: Joseph Lord Lister [bio]
1828-1882: Dante Gabriel Rossetti [bio] [VWeb]
1828-1909: George Meredith [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1829-1896: Sir John Everett Millais [bio] [VWeb]
1830-1894: Christina Rossetti [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1830-1903: Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 9th Earl of Salisbury [bio]
1831-1879: James Clerk Maxwell [bio]
1831-1891: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky [bio]
1832-1898: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) [bio] [works] [VWeb]

1833-1885: Charles George Gordon [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1833-1898: SIr Edward Burne-Jones [timeline] [VWeb]
1834-1894: William Morris [bio] [VWeb]
1834-1896: George Du Maurier [bio] [VWeb]
1835-1902: Samuel Butler [bio]
1836-1911: Sir William S Gilbert [timeline] [VWeb]
1836-1912: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema [bio]
1837-1909: Algernon Charles Swinburne [bio] [VWeb]
1839-1894: Walter Pater [timeline] [VWeb]
1840-1928: Thomas Hardy [timeline] [VWeb]
1842-1900: Sir Arthur Sullivan [bio]
1844-1889: Gerald Manley Hopkins [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1847-1929: Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery [bio]
1847-1931: Thomas Edison [bio]
1847-1933: Annie Besant [VWeb]

1850-1890: Robert Louis Stevenson [VWeb]
1853-1931: Hall Caine [bio] [VWeb]
1854-1900: Oscar Wilde [bio] longer [timeline] [VWeb]
1855-1924: Marie Corelli [VWeb] [works]
1856-1939: Sigmund Freud [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1857-1903: George Gissing [bio] [VWeb]
1857-1924: Joseph Conrad [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1865-1936: Rudyard Kipling [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1866-1945: Arthur Symons [VWeb]
1872-1898: Aubrey Beardsley [bio] [timeline] [VWeb]
1872-1956: Max Beerbohm [VWeb]

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