Diana of the Crossways
10 best books like Diana of the Crossways (George Meredith): The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Wagner the Werewolf, Vendetta or the Story of One Forgotten, The Lancashire Witches, The Female Detective, A Group of Noble Dames, The Nether World, The Necromancer, or The Tale of the Black Forest, The Sundering Flood, Deerbrook
The Diary of a Provincial Lady
| Author | E.M. Delafield |
| ISBN | 0860685225 |
Behind this rather prim title lies the hilarious fictional diary of a disaster-prone lady of the 1930s, and her attempts to keep her somewhat ramshackle household from falling into chaos: there's her husband Robert, who, when he's not snoozing behind The Times, does everything with grumbling recluctance;...
| Author | George W.M. Reynolds |
| ISBN | 1840225300 |
Only one of the following 19 things does NOT happen in WAGNER, THE WEHR-WOLF - can you guess which one?
1. A Christian Italian in Turkey renounces his faith and becomes a Muslim to win the heart of a beautiful woman!
2. A werewolf battles a giant python!
3. Skeletons in a closet - LITERAL skeletons!
4....
| Author | Marie Corelli |
| ISBN | 1564599388 |
What a great story. Wouldn't recommend this book to anyone going through marital problems but would recommend it to anyone else. Fabio and Nina are a young couple with a daughter living in Italy in the 1860s. Fabio gets cholera and dies...or at least they thought so. He is placed in the family above ground...
| Author | William Harrison Ainsworth |
| ISBN | 1592240631 |
Ainsworth's last masterpiece, The Lancashire Witches proved a best-seller in its day and influenced many contemporary authors. The Lancashire Witches begins in the 16th century, in Lancashire, England. When a Cistercian monk, Borlace Alvetham, is falsely accused of witchcraft and condemned...
| Author | Andrew Forrester |
| ISBN | 0712358781 |
In 1864, the British writer James Redding Ware (1832–c.1909), under the pseudonym Andrew Forrester, published The Female Detective, introducing readers to the first professional female detective character, G., and paving the way for the more famous female detectives of the early twentieth...
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
| ISBN | 1406924660 |
(I wonder if Agatha Christie read this book. It certainly reminded me of one of her books - a group of people swap mystery stories one evening?) Hardy gets his people together to swap stories about notable women. I like this method a lot, it gives a theme and continuity to the stories - something I miss in...
| Author | George Gissing |
| ISBN | 0192837672 |
The Nether World (1889), generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels, is a highly dramatic, sometimes violent tale of man's caustic vision shaped by the bitter personal experience of poverty. This tale of intrigue depicts life among the artisans, factory-girls, and slum-dwellers,...
| Author | Karl Friedrich Kahlert |
| ISBN | 0979233224 |
"The hurricane was howling, the hailstones beating against windows, the hoarse croaking of the raven bidding adieu to autumn, and the weather-cock's dismal creaking joined with the mournful dirge of the solitary owl..." "The Necromancer" consists of a series of interconnected stories, all centering...
| Author | William Morris |
| ISBN | 0345032616 |
At about the 2/3 mark I started to reconsider what this was about. It is clearly in the vein of a chivalrous romance, its events and adventures unspooling as though from a storyteller's tongue, all sort of strung together and barely contained by the basic frame of Osberne's courtly romance with Elfhild...
| Author | Harriet Martineau |
| ISBN | 0141439394 |
When the Ibbotson sisters, Hester and Margaret, arrive at the village of Deerbrook to stay with their cousin Mr. Grey and his wife, speculation is rife that one of them might marry the local apothecary, Edward Hope. Although he is immediately attracted to Margaret, Hope is ultimately persuaded to marry...
| Author | Mrs. Oliphant |
| ISBN | 0192804111 |
Hester tells the story of the aging but powerful Catherine Vernon, and her conflict with the young and determined Hester, whose growing attachment to Edward, Catherine's favorite, spells disaster for all concerned.
Catherine Vernon, jilted in her youth, has risen to power in a man's world...
| Author | H.G. Wells |
| ISBN | 0141441054 |
Young, impoverished and ambitious, science student Mr Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his life his strictly regimented existence is thrown into chaos by the resurgence of old passion....
The Daisy Chain, Or, Aspirations: A Family Chronicle
| Author | Charlotte Mary Yonge |
| ISBN | 1893103226 |
I enjoyed this book from first to last page and found it very spirituality enriching. It was marketed for young as well as old and I so agree, being in my early 50's, it was a wonderful read. There are so many books I wished I read as a young person and this is one. I rarely read modern books, so I can't really comment...
| Author | Sarah Grand |
| ISBN | 0472065084 |
An interesting mess with syphilis and cross-dressing. Grand uses three heroines to explore issues like marriage, outlets for women's abilities and sexual morality. Part of the messiness is because the novel ends up like a jigsaw puzzle with Grand juggling the different strands and partly it's because...
| Author | Amy Levy |
| ISBN | 1551115654 |
Reuben Sachs is a short novel written by a young British Jewish woman (she was in her 20s) in the 1880s, that consciously sets out to enlarge or correct the picture of the British Jewish community set out by George Eliot in Daniel Deronda. Amy Levy seems to have felt that George Eliot painted a picture that...
| Author | Anthony Trollope |
| ISBN | 0140438076 |
THE BERTRAMS (1859) by Anthony Trollope is an unusual novel of world travel, in addition to the typical subjects of matrimony and money, social strata, couples and relationships, by the author whose best-known work (such as the Barsetshire novels) is normally set in England. This one has the flavor...
The Semi-Attached Couple and the Semi-Detached House
Born the daughter of Lord Auckland in 1797, Emily Eden was a witty nineteenth-century aristocrat whose two delightful novels were first presented to an admiring world one hundred and fifty years ago. These matching masterpieces satirize the social world Eden knew, loved, and laughed at. Like Jane...
