Misc texts to get to

• 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)