Nineteenth Century Europe. For news on the latest reviews, author interviews and additions to this website, see the blog. Jane Austen wrote during this time, and a number of modern authors have borrowed her characters to create a distinct new Jane- Austen- inspired genre of historical fiction. In both the British Isles and the European Continent, the Industrial Revolution brought impressive advances in technology, made fortunes for many, and trapped others in lives of oppressive drudgery. The 1. 84. 5 Irish Potato Famine (not limited to Ireland) caused enormous suffering and a surge in emigration. For novels set during the time of Napoleon, see the Napoleonic Era page. Emily Dickinson is one of America’s greatest and most original poets of all time. She took definition as her province and challenged the existing definitions of. Fraser gave Flashman a lifespan from 1822 to 1915 and a birth-date of 5 May. Flashman's first and middle names were created for the character as. Novels of Nineteenth Century Europe. For news on the latest reviews, author interviews and additions to this website, see the blog. Jump to: The British and Irish in. Flush with mining money, Perth frequently scores top billing on lists of the world's most liveable cities. This vibrant capital of Western Australia defies. Specializing in rare books, out-of-print books, used books, secondhand books, and other hard-to-find books. The Jane Austen genre and some classic Regency romance novels (specifically Georgette Heyer's) are listed below; for a more complete listing of Regency romances, consult a website devoted to historical romance. Ryder (2. 00. 8), historical romance about a British agent assigned to smuggle out of Napoleon's France a French noblewoman with an English son; #1 in the Those Scandalous Ravenhursts series. Ravenhurst (2. 00. Those Scandalous Ravenhursts series. Hurst (2. 00. 9), historical romance about an aristocratic young woman who falls in love with a theatre owner who doesn't believe in love; #5 in the Those Scandalous Ravenhursts series. Kilda in the Hebrides to serve as missionaries in 1. Review at The Daily Mail. Lyn Andrews, Maggie May (2. Liverpool burdened with the name her father gave her, that of a notorious prostitute. Review. Jane Ashford, Married to a Perfect Stranger (2. Musical Compositions Inspired by Lewis Carroll Welcome! I have collected here all Carrollian compositions that have come to my knowledge. If you know some more or can. Perth to Broome, Darwin or Sydney. Fly from Perth to Broome or get there driving north from Ningaloo. Here at the gateway to the Kimberley, you can buy pearls in. Dive the Ningaloo Marine Park, which protects a 260km fringing reef off Western Australia's mid north coast. Snorkel through coral lagoons in Coral Bay, swim with the. Regency romance about a couple reunited two years after their honeymoon is disrupted when the husband is sent on a secret two- year government mission. Review. Mary Balogh, The Arrangement (2. Regency romance about a gentleman and a young woman who agree to a marrage of convenience. Review. Andrea Barrett, Voyage of the Narwhal (1. Arctic in search of a lost ship. Review. James Benmore, Dodger (2. Charles Dickens' character The Artful Dodger, who returns to London from an Australian penal colony in search of treasure. Bennetts, May 1. 81. Regency about a man who must marry the bride designated in his late father's will or lose his fortune. Berridge, Into the Valley of Death (2. British soldier who clashes with his incompetent superiors, who may be under an evil influence, during the Crimean War. Review at The Independent. Carol Birch, Jamrach’s Menagerie (2. Review. Jessica Blair, Stay With Me (2. Tay Rail Bridge. Booth, Trades of the Flesh (2. London who wishes to change her trade after she meets a surgeon and begins helping him find corpses for dissection, an activity as dangerous as prostitution. Review. Gerri Brightwell, The Dark Lantern (2. Byatt, Possession, a literary novel about two young scholars in contemporary Britain researching a pair of Victorian writers and their love affair. Beaton), a Regency romance about two spinster sisters left destitute after they fail to receive an inheritance, who open a school for refining unruly young women and arranging marriages for them, and their first charge; #1 in the School for Manners series. Beaton), a Regency romance about two spinster sisters who run a school for refining unruly young women and arranging marriages for them, and their charge who refuses all suitors until she meets a rake; #2 in the School for Manners series. Beaton), a Regency romance about two spinster sisters who run a school for refining unruly young women and arranging marriages for them, and their charge who refuses to marry after a man woos her and vanishes; #3 in the School for Manners series. Beaton), a Regency romance about two spinster sisters who run a school for refining unruly young women and arranging marriages for them, and their clumsy, freckled charge; #4 in the School for Manners series. Beaton), a Regency romance about two spinster sisters who run a school for refining unruly young women and arranging marriages for them, and their amazingly refined charge whose boorish parents are the reason she can't find a husband; #5 in the School for Manners series. Beaton), a Regency romance about two spinster sisters who run a school for refining unruly young women and arranging marriages for them, and their charge who seems more intent on finding matches for them than on her own prospects; #6 in the School for Manners series. Review. Clare Clark, The Great Stink (2. London sewers in the mid- nineteenth century. Review. Lindsay Clarke, The Chymical Wedding (1. Review. Amy Corwin, Smuggled Rose, historical romance about a woman living in obscurity in Dover after being ruined by a scandal, who makes a hazardous living by receiving smuggled goods, including roses. Costain, The Tontine, about financial schemes in nineteenth century England. In an Adventure with Scientists (2. Charles Darwin's ship in the mistaken belief it was carrying treasure and agrees to help Darwin save his brother from an evil bishop; #1 in the Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab (2. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Moby Dick), the humorous tale of a pirate captain who buys a new ship on credit and decides to capture the notorious White Whale for the reward offered by Ahab; #2 in the Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists (2. Karl Marx; #3 in the Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon (2. Helena instead, just as the defeated Napoleon Bonaparte is sent there; #4 in the Pirates! In an Adventure with the Romantics (2. Lake Geneva, where they encounter Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Shelley's fianc! Delderfield, God Is an Englishman, a former soldier sets out to raise a fortune after returning from the Crimea and India; #1 in the Swann Family Saga. Delderfield, Theirs Was the Kingdom, #2 in the Swann Family Saga. Delderfield, Give Us This Day, #3 in the Swann Family Saga. Dinely, The Death of Lyndon Wilder and the Consequences Thereof (2. Review. Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn, a young woman faces danger in nineteenth century Cornwall. Review or Author Interview. Charles Elford, Black Mahler (2. Samuel Coleridge- Taylor, a London man of mixed white and black African parentage who struggles for acceptance in Victorian England and becomes a composer; self- published. Review at the Boston Globe. John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, a literary novel about a love affair in Victorian England, with alternative endings. Navy; #3 in the Flashman series. Forster spent in India, which inspired his novel A Passage to India. Griggs, Distant Thunder, (2. British colonials in India who goes to England determined to get revenge on the man who assaulted and killed his mother, but whose plans are disrupted by falling in love. Review. Jane Harris, Gillespie and I (2. Review at the Guardian. William Harrison, Burton and Speke (1. The Mountains of the Moon in movie tie- in editions), about the expedition to Africa of Sir Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke to find the source of the Nile. Review. Kate Hewitt, Far Horizons (2. Scottish Highlands who wish to marry but are separated when he goes to Canada to establish himself so he can gain her father's permission; first published under the pen name Katharine Swartz; #1 in the planned Emigrants trilogy. Review. Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy (1. Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about an independent young woman who returns from her tour of the Continent and begins managing her relatives' lives, inspiring a plan to find her a husband. Review. Georgette Heyer, The Toll- Gate (1. Regency romance that is also a mystery, about a military officer who stumbles across a case of murder when he takes pity on a boy collecting tolls on a rainy night. Review. Georgette Heyer, Sprig Muslin (1. Regency romance from the queen of the genre, about a long- bereaved bachelor who finally decides to marry out of duty and chooses an apparently unremarkable spinster. Pickwick (2. 01. 5), about Robert Seymour, the illustrator of Dickens' Pickwick Papers. Walsh, The Bad Times (2. Irish Potato Famine. Wells looking back on his life and his relationships. Mac. Avoy, The Grey Horse, historical fantasy about a horse who becomes a man; set in late nineteenth century Ireland during the risings against the English. Michener, The Journey, about four English aristocrats and their Irish servant who cope with disaster as they search for gold in 1. Canada. Review or Author Interview. Jude Morgan, A Little Folly (2. Regency romance about a brother and sister who finally escape their father's stifling influence when he dies, when the brother embarks on an affair with a married woman, and the sister rejects the man her father wanted her to marry. Dick; Or, The Tenth Book (2. French journalist who discovers a memoir describing the final days of English novelist Charles Dickens. Review. David Park, The Poets' Wives (2. English poet William Blake, early twentieth- century Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, and a fictional Irish poet of the present, and the sacrifices they make for their husbands. Review. Arthur Quiller- Couch and Daphne du Maurier, Castle Dor (1. Breton onion- seller and a recently wed woman in nineteenth- century Cornwall who are compelled to relive the experiences of their past lives as Tristan and Isolde; begun by Arthur Quiller- Couch and completed by Daphne du Maurier after his death. Review. Eve Silver, Dark Desires, gothic romance set in London during the 1. Rawlinson and his work in the Middle East from 1. Review. Gillian Slovo, An Honourable Man (2. British doctor and his wife who are separated when he volunteers for an 1. Khartoum to rescue General Gordon. George, The Wheel of Fortune (2. English woman forced into an unhappy marriage which results in scandal; self- published. Stuart, The Valiant Sailors, about a nineteenth century First Lieutenant in the British Navy who must cope with a despotic and possibly insane ship captain; #1 in the Phillip Hazard series. Stuart, Brave Captains, about a British naval officer fighting on the plains of Balaclava during the Charge of the Light Brigade; #2 in the Phillip Hazard series.
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