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  • 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
  • AR Wallace, The Malay Archipelago (1868)
  • F. C. Burnand, Mokeanna; Or, The White Witness. Punch 44 (28 Feb. 1863) [parody of sensation fiction with illustrations by Du Maurier, Millais et al.]