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* even better - Confessions of a Thug (1839) - Sutherland says best novel about Indian life before Kim | * even better - Confessions of a Thug (1839) - Sutherland says best novel about Indian life before Kim | ||
* Eliza Lynn Linton, The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland (1885) —novel about the mid-Victorian literary scene. Linton also an acquaintance of Eliot’s (Ashton 50) | * Eliza Lynn Linton, The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland (1885) —novel about the mid-Victorian literary scene. Linton also an acquaintance of Eliot’s (Ashton 50) | ||
| + | * Victoria Cross, Anna Lombard (1901) -- new woman novel set in India and Burma | ||
Revision as of 09:29, 23 January 2019
- Real Life in London, 1821 Pierce Egan
- Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life (documentary narration)
- The Wreck of the Golden Mary, Household Words Xmas 1856 (ditto)
- The Heir of Redclyffe (tractarian)
- Griffith Gaunt, Charles Reade, 1866 (controversial for sexual frankness)
- Thomas Miller, Godfrey Malvern: Or, the Life of an Author (1843) (literary London, illus. Phiz)
- A City Girl, Margaret Harkness, 1888 (Broadview 2017 ed incl Engels correspondence about its realism)
- Phoebe Junior, Margaret Oliphant, 1876 (see Schaffer 2011 abt its treatment of paper)
- Vice Versa, F. Anstey, (1882) (comic body switch)
- Ten Thousand a Year (1841) (v successful comic novel)
- Ann Radcliffe, Gaston de Blondeville (1803) - fictionalized editorial practices by editor/narrator (cf Piper 2009)
- The Broad Arrow, Caroline Leakey, 1859 —transportation to Australia, child murder (might be interesting with Olive Schreiner)
- Philip Meadows Taylor, Tara (1863) — first of multipart chronicle of Indian colonialism
- even better - Confessions of a Thug (1839) - Sutherland says best novel about Indian life before Kim
- Eliza Lynn Linton, The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland (1885) —novel about the mid-Victorian literary scene. Linton also an acquaintance of Eliot’s (Ashton 50)
- Victoria Cross, Anna Lombard (1901) -- new woman novel set in India and Burma
