I recently left a comment on blog that reviewed Michael Cox’s novel The Meaning of Night. The blogger liked the book very much and so do I. The Meaning of Night is set in Victorian England. This seems to be a popular setting for many readers and I thought it might be helpful to those of you looking for books set in this time period to list them here!
The Meaning of Night: A Confession by Michael Cox
The Glass of Time: A Novel (sequel to The Meaning of Night) by Michael Cox
The Observations by Jane Harris
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Dectective by Kate Summerscale
Count Magnus & Other Ghost Stories by Montague Rhodes James
The Haunted Dolls’ House and Other Ghost Stories by Montague Rhodes James
These are all great books and I highly recommend each and every one. They are all fiction, with the exception of Kate Summerscale’s book.
If you have any to add to the list, please leave a comment! I would love to hear from you.
For the real thing – books written BY Victorians, you might like to glance at my latest book: ‘Victorian Writers and Poets’, published August 2010.
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