- Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
- Madison, James
- Madness in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Malthus, Thomas Robert
- Manfred, George Gordon (Noel), Lord Byron
- Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
- Manzoni, Alessandro
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake
- Martí, José
- Martineau, Harriet
- Martínez de la Rosa, Francisco de Paula (Berdejo Gómez y Arroyo)
- Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Mathilda, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Maupassant, (Henri René Albert) Guy de
- Mérimée, Prosper
- Merriman, Brian
- Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand
- Mickiewicz, Adam
- The Mill on the Floss
- Mill, Harriet Taylor
- Mill, John Stuart
- Miller, Hugh
- Milnes, Richard Monckton
- The Minister's Black Veil
- The Monk, M. G. Lewis
- Montagu, Elizabeth
- Moodie, Susanna
- Moore, Thomas
- More, Hannah
- Mowatt, Anna Cora
