By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
The 1890s saw pioneering works of science fiction, detective fiction, and Gothic horror all published, by some of the greatest English, Scottish, and Irish writers of the age. In the United States, too, novelists addressed social issues, sometimes in comic ways, while social realism continued to play an important role in fiction of the decade. Below, we introduce nine of the greatest 1890s novels.