"Early Victorian Novelists" is composed of critical essays written by Lord David Cecil, a well-read critic who also wrote a number of other books of critical essays. The essays discuss Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Mrs. Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, and George Eliot. Cecil makes a few comparisons between these writers and some of the modern British writers of his time, such as Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley, and notes differences in novel-writing then and now.
