Nineteenth Century Europe. For news on the latest reviews, author interviews and additions to this website, see the blog. The British and Irish in the 1. Century. Mysteries: 1. Century Britain. Novels by and Inspired by Jane Austen.
Mysteries Inspired by Jane Austen. The European Continent and Mediterranean in the 1. Century. Mysteries: 1. Century European Continent. Nineteenth century Europe featured the English Regency period, which gave rise to the "Regency romance" genre. 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.
From 1. 83. 7- 1. England's Queen Victoria presided over an era known for the expansion of the British Empire and rigid social rules that masked a surge in poverty and crime. 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. George Mac. Donald Fraser's popular Flashman series about a British soldier is set in the British Empire period. For novels set during the time of Napoleon, see the Napoleonic Era page.
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. The British and Irish in the 1. Century. Click on the title for more information from Powell's Books or another online source, or if you're outside the U. S., try The Book Depository.
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Leila Aboulela, The Kindness of Enemies (2. Scotland researching the life of the Muslim leader in the Caucasus who led the anti- Russian resistance in the nineteenth century; part of the novel is set in nineteenth- century Russia. Peter Ackroyd, The Case Book of Victor Frankenstein (2. Percy Bysshe Shelley and Victor Frankenstein, creator of the Frankenstein monster, were students together at Oxford. Louise Allen, The Dangerous Mr. 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. Louise Allen, The Outrageous Lady Felsham (2.
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Ravenhurst (2. 00. Those Scandalous Ravenhursts series. Louise Allen, The Notorious Mr. 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. Louise Allen, The Piratical Miss Ravenhurst (2. Jamaica who is kidnapped by pirates; #6 in the Those Scandalous Ravenhursts series.
Karin Altenberg, Island of Wings (2. British couple who go to St. 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. Evelyn Anthony, Victoria and Albert (1. Victoria), about the young Queen Victoria and her marriage to Prince Albert. Aileen Armitage, Conflict of Interest (2. Shadow of Dungeon Wood under the name Aileen Quigley), about a mill town in Yorkshire in 1. Industrial Revolution. Gaynor Arnold, Girl in a Blue Dress (2.
Charles Dickens) and her memories of their troubled marriage. Alison Atlee, The Typewriter Girl (2. Victorian London who seizes her opportunity for a job at a seaside resort, offered to her by the builder of the resort's pleasure fair. Watch Taking A Chance On Love 4Shared.
Review. Jane Ashford, Married to a Perfect Stranger (2. 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.
Carmel Mc. Murdo Audsley, Ours, Yours and Mines (2. Ayrshire Scotland from the mid- 1. Martine Bailey, The Penny Heart (2. A Taste for Nightshade in the U.
S.), about a young wife whose husband married her for her money, and a slum girl who has vowed revenge after being deported to Australia for swindling the young wife's husband. Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie (1. British physician who volunteers to serve as a medical officer in the Crimean War. Lori Baker, The Glass Ocean (2. New World. Mary Balogh, First Comes Marriage (2. Regency romance about a young viscount who has promised to find a wife by Christmas and three very different sisters; #1 in the Huxtable series.
Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction (2. Regency romance about a young baron who makes a wager while in his cups that he will succeed in seducing a wealthy and exceptionally virtuous young woman; #2 in the Huxtable series. Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love (2. Regency romance about a woman tricked into a betrothal who gives her fiancé an ultimatum; #3 in the Huxtable series. Mary Balogh, Seducing an Angel (2. Regency romance about a young woman wrongly branded a murderess and driven into destitution who comes to London to find a wealthy man she can tempt into taking her as his mistress; #4 in the Huxtable series. Review. Mary Balogh, The Arrangement (2.
Regency romance about a gentleman and a young woman who agree to a marrage of convenience. Joanna Barnden, Running Against the Tide (2.
London shipping magnate's daughter who falls in love with an apprentice lighterman in 1. Jonathan Barnes, The Somnambulist (2. London. Julian Barnes, Arthur and George, nineteenth century author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses his insights as a writer of detective stories to help a man wrongly convicted of a crime. Andrea Barrett, Servants of the Map, a collection of short stories set mostly in the early nineteenth century. Review. Andrea Barrett, Voyage of the Narwhal (1.
Arctic in search of a lost ship. Susan Barrett, Fixing Shadows (2. Kate Beaufoy, Another Heartbeat in the House (2. London woman in 1.
Ireland, where she finds the memoir of a woman who lived in the house a century before. Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams, a young Irishman journeys from famine- stricken Ireland to England, Wales and across the ocean to America. Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been (2. Alice Liddell, the real girl who inspired Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Review. James Benmore, Dodger (2. Charles Dickens' character The Artful Dodger, who returns to London from an Australian penal colony in search of treasure.
M. M. Bennetts, May 1. Regency about a man who must marry the bride designated in his late father's will or lose his fortune. Review. A. L. 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. Rachel Billington, Maria and the Admiral (2. Maria Graham, living in Chile in 1. Admiral Thomas Cochrane arrives there on his way to a military campaign in Brazil.
Review at The Independent. Carol Birch, Jamrach’s Menagerie (2. Review. Jessica Blair, Stay With Me (2. Tay Rail Bridge. Jill Blee, Brigid, set during the nineteenth century Irish potato famine. Faye L. 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.
Clare Boylan, Emma Brown: A Novel From the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Brontë, about a plain young woman enrolled at a ladies' boarding school who turns out not to be the heiress she claimed to be; based on a fragment by Charlotte Brontë. John Boyne, This House is Haunted (2. Dickensian ghost story about a young woman who takes a job as governess in 1. Norfolk. Paula Brackston, The Winter Witch (2.
Welsh village. James Bradley, The Resurrectionist (2. Melvyn Bragg, Maid of Buttermere (1. John Hatfield, a bigamist, and the lovely and unsuspecting shepherdess, Mary Robinson, whom he married in England's Lake District in 1. Anne Brear, The Day Embroidered (2.