Books and Things 38.8K subscribers · Oct 21, 2020

My Favourite Victorian Novels

Reviews25

Bleak HouseCharles Dickens
Loved it

it is a really fascinating novel really powerful with fantastic characters and really interesting themes it is at its heart in many ways a social critique novel and i love so many things about it

Dombey and SonCharles Dickens
Loved it

i love so many things about this book it has some of the most moving scenes in all of dickens and some of the most complicated and interesting characters

Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë
Loved it

i love jane eyre so much it is a truly fantastic novel i think it is beautiful i think it is clever i think the dialogue in it is just so good

Jude the ObscureThomas Hardy
Loved it

this is such an amazing novel i think it's one of the most interesting novels i've read in terms of writing about class and sort of the lack of opportunities for particular people within the victorian period

Mary BartonElizabeth Gaskell
Loved it

it's a truly fantastic book i love the way it explores industrialization and the life of the working classes in manchester in the victorian period it's got wonderful characters a really cracking plot and yeah just highly recommend this one

OliveDinah Mulock Craik
Loved it

it is such an amazing novel and it is a brilliant exploration of disability in the victorian period but it's also a fantastic coming of age story

it is a fascinating exploration of upper class society and kind of hedonism in the late victorian age and it's also just really witty it's such a powerful novel and definitely one i recommend

The egoistGeorge Meredith
Loved it

once you do manage to get through the surface it is truly brilliant and also one of the most like powerful and interesting explorations of gender and gender power dynamics within the victorian period

The nether worldGeorge Gissing
Loved it

i've read the netherworld twice and both times i just absolutely adored it i think it is such an incredible novel about class and money and struggles and the difficulty of life for so many people in the victorian period

this book is so good and it's even better on a reread and it's one of those books that i read as a teenager forgot how much i loved it reread it again a few years ago and was just blown away