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That period women-novelists gained strength working in a most romantic style often sticking to Gothic genre. Among them are: Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Persuasion and Emma), sisters Brontë: Emily (Wuthering Heights), Anne (Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) and Charlotte (Jane Eyre and Villette).

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At Victorian time the 1830s and 1840s saw the rise of social novel, also known as social problem or industrial novel. Charles Dickens is the brightest representative working in this genre: (Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Dombey and Son, Great Expectations, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, etc)

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Literary realism. Representatives: Elizabeth Gaskell (Mary Barton, North and South), George Eliot (the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans ) (Middlemarch), Thomas Hardy (Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure).

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Fantasy. Although pre-dated by John Ruskin 's The King of the Golden River in 1841, the history of the modern fantasy genre is generally said to begin with George MacDonald, the influential author of The Princess and the Goblin, and Phantastes. Wilkie Collins ' epistolary novel The Moonstone (1868), is generally considered the first detective novel in the English language, while The Woman in White is regarded as one of the finest sensation novels.

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Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.

The Lost World literary genre was inspired by real stories of archaeological discoveries by imperial adventurers. Henry Rider Haggard wrote one of the earliest examples, King Solomon's Mines, in 1885. Adventure novels, such as those of Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1850–94), are generally classified as for children (Treasure Island). But Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), which depicts the dual personality of a kind and intelligent physician who turns into a psychopathic monster after taking a drug intended to separate good from evil in a personality and The Suicide Club, present interest for adults first of all.

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