Froude"s _Jane Welsh Carlyle_, 2 vols.
T. and A. Carlyle"s _New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle_.
Cook"s _The Life of John Ruskin_, 2 vols.
Ruskin"s _Praeterita, Scenes and Thoughts of My Past Life_.
Benson"s _Ruskin: A Study in Personality_.
Earland"s _Ruskin and his Circle_.
Harrison"s _John Ruskin_. (E.M.L.)
Birrell"s _Life of Charlotte Bronte_.
Foster"s _Life of d.i.c.kens_ (abridged and revised by Gissing).
Kitton"s _d.i.c.kens, his Life, Writings, and Personality_.
Gissing"s _Charles d.i.c.kens: A Critical Study_.
Chesterton"s _Charles d.i.c.kens_. Hughes"s _d.i.c.kens as an Educator_.
Philip"s _A d.i.c.kens Dictionary_.
Melville"s _William Makepeace Thackeray_, 2 vols.
Trollope"s _Thackeray_. (E.M.L.)
Merivale and Marzials"s _Life of Thackeray_. (G.W.)
Mudge and Sears"s _A Thackeray Dictionary_.
Cross"s _George Eliot"s Life as Related in her Letters and Journals_.
Browning"s _Life of George Eliot_. (G.W.) Stephens"s _George Eliot_.
(E.M.L.)
Cook"s _George Eliot: A Critical Study of her Life, Writings, and Philosophy_.
Olcott"s _George Eliot: Scenes and People in Her Novels_.
Hamilton"s _Robert Louis Stevenson_.
Balfour"s _The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson_, 2 vols.
_The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson_, edited by Sidney Colvin.
Raleigh"s _Robert Louis Stevenson_. Hamerton"s _Stevensoniana_.
j.a.pp"s _Robert Louis Stevenson_.
Hamerton"s _George Meredith: His Life and Art in Anecdote and Criticism_.
_Letters of George Meredith_, 2 vols.
Sturge Henderson"s _George Meredith_.
Bailey"s _The Novels of George Meredith: A Study_.
Trevelyan"s _The Poetry and Philosophy of George Meredith_.
Beach"s _The Comic Spirit in George Meredith_.
Lionel Johnson"s _The Art of Thomas Hardy_.
Macdonell"s _Thomas Hardy_.
Abercrombie"s _Thomas Hardy: A Critical Study_.
Saxelby"s _Thomas Hardy Dictionary_.
Phelps"s _Essays on Modern Novelists_ (Hardy, Kipling, Stevenson).
Benson"s _Walter Pater_. (E.M.L.)
Paul"s _Matthew Arnold_. (E.M.L.)
Saintsbury"s _Matthew Arnold_.
_Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett_.
Griffin and Minchin"s _The Life of Robert Browning_.
Chesterton"s _Robert Browning_. (E.M.L.)
Sharp"s _Life of Browning_. (G.W.)
Symons"s _An Introduction to the Study of Browning_.
Foster"s _The Message of Robert Browning_.
Orr"s _A Handbook to the works of Robert Browning_.
_Alfred, Lord Tennyson, A Memoir_, by his son.
Benson"s _Alfred Tennyson_ (the best brief work).
Lyall"s _Tennyson_. (E.M.L.)