Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

6 best books like Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady (Kate Summerscale): Bonechiller, Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England, A House of Ghosts, Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child, Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles, The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends

Bonechiller

Author

Graham McNamee

WELCOME TO NOWHERE.

Danny's dad takes a job as caretaker at a marina on the shore of a vast, frozen lake in Harvest Cove, a tiny town tucked away in Canada's Big Empty. If you're looking for somewhere to hide, this is it.

It's the worst winter in years. One night, running in the dark, Danny...

Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England

Author	James Ruddick
ISBN	0802139744

In 1875 the beautiful widow Florence Ricardo married the handsome and successful young attorney Charles Bravo, hoping to escape the scandals of her past. But Bravo proved to be a brutal and conniving man, and the marriage was far from happy. Then one night he suddenly collapsed, and three days later...

A House of Ghosts

Author

W.C. Ryan

Winter 1917. As the First World War enters its most brutal phase, back home in England, everyone is seeking answers to the darkness that has seeped into their lives.
At Blackwater Abbey, on an island off the Devon coast, Lord Highmount has arranged a spiritualist gathering to contact his two sons...

Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

Author	Laura Cumming
ISBN	1501198718

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village—and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades.

In the...

Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles

Author	Francine Prose
ISBN	0060575603

“Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatrical revelation, sensual or spiritual, and frequently both.” — Boston Sunday Globe

In Caravaggio, New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose (Goldengrove, Reading like a Writer)...

The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends

Author	Humphrey Carpenter
ISBN	0395276284

Overall, it’s worth reading if you are studying Lewis. He does talk about the other men (for example, there were also some interesting details about Warnie and John Wain that I hadn’t seen before). But it’s half an Inklings discussion, and half a biography of C. S. Lewis. The author admits this...