Culture - World Events

During the nineteenth century, there were books being written on a variety of subjects.  A brief list of books that were popular at the time that Fight Below the Battlements was made are listed below.  This list includes books that reflected the mood or greatly influenced the thinking of the time.

1846: Charles Dickens wrote Dombey and Son.

W.M. Thackeray wrote Vanity Fair -- a great spoof on polite society.

Emily Bronte wrote her classic novel Wuthering Heights, while her sister, Charlotte Bronte, was busy publishing Jane Eyre.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels affected much of world history by writing the Communist Manifesto.

In America, Herman Meville wrote Moby Dick, and across the ocean, in France, Flaubert wrote Mme Bovary.

R.W. Emerson, Walt Whitman, and H.D. Thoreau were also writing.