This is for students in my eighteenth-century British fiction course who want reading recommendations beyond the syllabus.

If you liked Evelina (by Frances Burney) and liked OR hated Pamela (by Samuel Richardson):

  • The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Haywood
  • Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
  • A Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbald
  • The Wild Irish Girl by Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan)
  • Cecilia by Frances Burney
  • Journals and Letters by Frances Burney (Penguin edition)
  • Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (abridgement published by Broadview is a reasonable option here)

If you liked Robinson Crusoe (by Daniel Defoe):

  • Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
  • Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • Roxana by Daniel Defoe
  • Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

If you liked Tom Jones ( by Henry Fielding):

  • Amelia by Henry Fielding
  • Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
  • Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
  • The Adventures of David Simple by Sarah Fielding

If you liked The Castle of Otranto (by Horace Walpole):

  • A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe
  • The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
  • The Victim of Prejudice by Mary Hays
  • The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
  • The Monk by Samuel Lewis
  • Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

If you liked Rasselas (by Samuel Johnson):

  • Candide by Voltaire
  • Mary, A Fiction by Mary Wollstonecraft
  • The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
  • Millenium Hall by Sarah Scott

If you liked Tristram Shandy (by Laurence Sterne):

  • A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
  • The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie
  • The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
may 11 2011 ∞
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