• Jane Austen (Persuasion)
• Charlotte Bronte (Shirley)
• Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights)
• Anne Bronte (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
• Charles Dickens (Bleak House)
• Thomas Hardy (Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Return of the Native, Mayor of Casterbridge)

Damn the French!

• The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas. Tale of revenge…
• The Knight of Maison-Rouge, Alexandre Dumas. French Revolution, *Marie Antoinette.
• Les Miserables, Victor Hugo. Strong in themes of justice, endurance, and love.
• The Toilers of the Sea, Victor Hugo. Woes of the illiterate working-class, irony and love…