Dillwyn to Gaskell | A Guide to Victorian Authors

I feel like a burglary is in a way the slightly more conventional Victorian novel so maybe that's the more accessible one to start with but to be honest I think they're all great and you could start with any of them

a dark night's work is a great Nolla that is really rich and dramatic

I've read all of them I really like the Sherlock Holmes stories especially the short stories more than the novels

then I would put in fourth place Adam beid which I didn't hugely get on with

there's Cranford there's my lady Lugo there's a dark night's work there's the mor Cottage there's Miss Harrison's confession Lois the witch cousin Phyllis the grey woman the poor CLA so many amazing shorter Works

I would probably recommend not to start with crownford because although I love it a lot and it's very funny it is quite episodic and doesn't have much of a plot

I really liked Daniel donda that's definitely my favorite of her books probably the only of her books that I would say I actually sort of actively like and I do think it's really good and really worth a read

I have read two of her collections of short stories Keynotes from 1893 and discords from 1894 these two are often published together and they are great short stories

Gloriana is a novel about a feminist Revolution and thematically it is this amazing super radical feminist novel but plot-wise it's a sensation novel with so much drama and betrayal and it's just absolutely amazing like it is both like so empowering and also such a good time I cannot recommend Gloriana enough

penguin Classics have an addition called Gothic tales with a lot of her shorter Works that are on the more kind of Gothic ghostly side and some of them are really great to start with

I've read all of them I really like the Sherlock Holmes stories especially the short stories more than the novels

my favorite is Jill and Jill is the most like subversive it is about a upper class young woman who runs away from home because she's bored decides to become a servant and is very much in unrequited love with the woman that she works for and Jill is just like everything a Victorian woman wasn't supposed to be and it's awesome

I have read two of her collections of short stories Keynotes from 1893 and discords from 1894 these two are often published together and they are great short stories

there's Cranford there's my lady Lugo there's a dark night's work there's the mor Cottage there's Miss Harrison's confession Lois the witch cousin Phyllis the grey woman the poor CLA so many amazing shorter Works

her five major novels in no particular order are Mary Barton North and South Ruth Sylvia's lovers and wives and daughters

I respect Middle March a lot I can see the why it's really important I find it very interesting I don't know that I love it I wouldn't recommend starting with it

there's Cranford there's my lady Lugo there's a dark night's work there's the mor Cottage there's Miss Harrison's confession Lois the witch cousin Phyllis the grey woman the poor CLA so many amazing shorter Works

there is my flirtations from 1892 which is a short to delightful episodic super accessible Victorian work in which basically the narrator recounts the tales of 13 men who she flirted with and it's just very fun

there's Cranford there's my lady Lugo there's a dark night's work there's the mor Cottage there's Miss Harrison's confession Lois the witch cousin Phyllis the grey woman the poor CLA so many amazing shorter Works

North and South is a great place to start with Elizabeth gasal it's really accessible it's got a great love story and a lot of social criticism it's a wonderful industrial novel

if you're a fan of Thomas Hardy you will love Sylvia's lovers and Ruth

I've read all of them I really like the Sherlock Holmes stories especially the short stories more than the novels

then I would probably Place Silas Mana in the middle now I read silus Mana as a teenager and I don't remember it very well at all

I also really liked her novel The Story of a modern woman from 1894 about a young woman trying to support herself independently first as an artist and then as a writer

I really enjoyed it when I read it I don't remember it very well I would like to read more by him at some point in the future Cil looks interestingly at poverty and kind of class division

I would also say possibly don't start with Sylvia's lovers because there's quite a lot of heavy dialect in it which can make it a bit less accessible

I've read all of them I really like the Sherlock Holmes stories especially the short stories more than the novels

she also has a few short story collections there's the gray woman and other tales and round the and some of the novelas and long short stories that I just mentioned are in some of these short story collections in general I have just loved absolutely everything I've ever read by Elizabeth gasal

I really like the Sherlock Holmes stories especially the short stories more than the novels although the H of the baskill is pretty great

I would say that it's sort of like half biography and half collection of letters and it's not that accessible so don't start with the life of Charlotte Bronte it's really interesting but start with her novels

in last place I would put the Mill On The Floss which is my least favorite book ever probably I despise Mill On The Floss with My Soul

there's Cranford there's my lady Lugo there's a dark night's work there's the mor Cottage there's Miss Harrison's confession Lois the witch cousin Phyllis the grey woman the poor CLA so many amazing shorter Works

the Mystery of clumber which is one of his other mystery Noels from the 1880s which I didn't especially love

I've read three of her books and loved all of them so there's the Rebecca rer from 1880 there's a Burgery from 1883 and there is Jill from 1884

I've read all of them I really like the Sherlock Holmes stories especially the short stories more than the novels

I especially enjoyed the semi-attached couple which is about a newly married couple who aren't quite getting on very well and I just thought that was a really great novel

I've read all of them I really like the Sherlock Holmes stories especially the short stories more than the novels

I've read all of them I really like the Sherlock Holmes stories especially the short stories more than the novels

the young Pretenders from 1895 which is a delightful children's book that is mostly like just fun and silly but also has one serus scin that works really well

the female detective from 1864 which is a really interesting collection of short stories about a female detective I enjoyed this I don't think they're kind of the greatest detective stories ever but they were really interesting

I enjoyed both of these novels I think I especially enjoyed the semi-attached couple

it didn't hugely Jael with the writing style and it is a very anti-semitic novel there is a lot of anti-Semitism in Victorian literature you will find it in a lot of novels in the background but it is very much in the foreground in Trilby and that makes it quite an uncomfortable read

my absolute favorite books by Elizabeth gaso would be north and south and wives and daughters which are two of my absolute favorite books of all time