Short answers, pulled from the story.
Beowulf dates to between the 8th and early 11th centuries and is preserved in the Nowell Codex. The only surviving manuscript of this great work is a single, fragile codex generally placed close to the year 1000.
Layamon wrote Brut, which adapted the Norman-French of Wace to produce the first English-language work to present the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. It was also the first historiography written in English since the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
The Reformation inspired the production of vernacular liturgy which led to the Book of Common Prayer of 1549. This work has a lasting influence on literary language.
The Victorian era occurred from 1837 to 1901 and the novel became the leading literary genre in English during this period. Charles Dickens emerged on the literary scene in the late 1830s and soon became probably the most famous novelist in the history of English literature.
Wilkie Collins wrote the epistolary novel The Moonstone which is generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. The text does not specify the exact publication date but places it in the late 19th century alongside other works by authors like Rudyard Kipling and H. G. Wells.