Comprehensive Exam Portfolio

Non-Fiction

 Charles Lamb (1775-1834)                 
“On the Tragedies of Shakespeare” (1811)
“A Chapter on Ears” (1821)

William Hazlitt (1778-1830)               
Selections from The Spirit of the Age (1824)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1822)     
Selections from A Defense of Poetry (1821)

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)              
On Heroes and Hero Worship (1841)
“The N*gger Question” (1849)

William Dodd (1804-18??)
A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd, A Factory Cripple, Written by Himself (1841)

Mary Seacole (1805-1881)                 
The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857)

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)             
"The Negro Question" (1850)
The Subjection of Women (1869)

Mary Carpenter (1807-1877)             
“Reformatory Schools, for the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes, and for Juvenile Offenders” (1851)

Caroline Norton (1808-1877)             
“English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century” (1854)

Charles Darwin (1809-1882)              
Selections from On the Origin of Species (1859)
Selections from The Descent of Man (1874)
Autobiography (1887)

Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893)             
“On the Interpretation of Scripture” (1860)

Karl Marx (1818-1883)                                  
Selections from “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844” (1844)
Selections from “The German Ideology” (1846)
The Communist Manifesto (1848)

John Ruskin (1819-1900)                   
Selections from Modern Painters (1843-60)
Selections from Seven Lamps of Architecture (1847)
Selections from The Stones of Venice (1851)
Selections from Unto This Last (1860)

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)             
Selections from The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844)

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)      
“Cassandra” (1848)

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)             
Culture and Anarchy (1868)

Mary Smith (1822-1889)                    
Autobiography of Mary Smith, Schoolmistress and Nonconformist: A Fragment of a Life (1892)

Francis Power Cobbe (1822-1901)     
“Wife-Torture in England” (1878)

Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897)          
Autobiography (1899)

Emily Davies (1830-1921)                 
“Some Account of a Proposed New College for Women” (1868)

Elizabeth Oakley (1831-1900)            
Autobiography (1882)

Elizabeth Johnston (1835-c.1874)
Autobiography of Ellen Johnston, "The Factory Girl" (1867)

Leslie Stephen (1832-1904)                
“An Agnostic’s Reply” (1876)

William Morris (1834-1896)              
“Art Under Plutocracy” (1884)
“The Society of the Future” (1887)
“How I Became A Socialist” (1894)

Eleanor Marx (1855-1898)    
“The Woman Question” (1886)

Mary Kingsley (1862-1900)               
Travels in West Africa (1897)
 

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