Editing Wandering Jew (section)

====Britain====

In 1810, [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] wrote a poem in four cantos with the title ''The Wandering Jew'' but it remained unpublished until 1877.<ref>Percy Bysshe Shelley (1877) [posthumous, written 1810]. ''The Wandering Jew''. London: Shelley Society, Reeves and Turner.</ref> In two other works of Shelley, Ahasuerus appears, as a phantom in his first major poem ''[[Queen Mab (poem)|Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem]]'' (1813) and later as a hermit healer in his last major work, the verse drama ''[[Hellas (poem)|Hellas]]''.<ref>Tamara Tinker (2010), ''The Impiety of Ahasuerus: Percy Shelley's Wandering Jew'', revised ed.</ref>

[[John Galt (novelist)|John Galt]] published a book in 1820 called ''The Wandering Jew''.

[[File:The Wandering Jew.jpg|thumb|"The Wandering Jew", 1898 illustration by [[E. J. Sullivan]] for ''Sartor Resartus'']]
[[Thomas Carlyle]], in his ''[[Sartor Resartus]]'' (1833–34), compares its hero Diogenes Teufelsdröckh on several occasions to the Wandering Jew (also using the German wording {{lang|de|der Ewige Jude}}).

In Chapter 15 of ''[[Great Expectations]]'' (1861) by [[Charles Dickens]], the journeyman Orlick is compared to the Wandering Jew.

[[George MacDonald]] includes pieces of the legend in ''Thomas Wingfold, Curate'' (London, 1876).