'Notable Women Authors of the Day' began life as a series of interviews published in the popular ...

First published in 1888, Robert Elsmere was probably the biggest-selling novel of the nineteenth ...

First published anonymously in 1892, Weeds marked a significant departure from the humour that ma...

Dorothea's Daughter is a stunning new collection of short stories based on novels by Jane Austen,...

Harriet Brandt is the daughter of a mad scientist and a mixed-race voodoo priestess. Brought up o...

'The Angel of the Revolution' is part of a relatively new literary genre, the British speculative...

In a career spanning over 50 years, Morley Roberts wrote hundreds of short stories and was one of...

Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) was the author of Three Men in a Boat, one of the best-loved books i...

First published in 1887, Gissing intended Thyrza to 'contain the very spirit of London working-cl...

A collection of short ghost stories by Victorian writer Rhoda Broughton.Includes: 'The Truth, the...

At the Midland Supply Depôt in the England of the First World War, a group of young women are bus...

Following the tragic death of his parents, the Earl of Cairnforth inherits his title at just a fe...

'The most thoroughly sensual tale I have read in English for a long time,' complained Geraldine J...

St John Aylott's life is in turmoil. With his social status already under threat, even his virtuo...

Aristocratic Jessamine Halliday, suffering a 'splenetic seizure' brought on by high breeding, is ...

Her Father's Name is the sensational story of Leona Lacoste, a pistol-toting young woman who emba...

First published in 1891, 'The Light that Failed' is Rudyard Kipling's semi-autobiographical first...

Critical edition of Eliza Lynn Linton's semi-autobiographical novel in which she adopts a male pe...

Ghost stories have always provided a popular source of entertainment, thrilling readers with tale...

Elizabeth Siddall is best known as the muse and model for many Pre-Raphaelite artists and as the ...

Dame Clara Butt (1872-1936) was one of the most celebrated singers of the Victorian and Edwardian...

A collection of short ghost stories by Victorian writer Charlotte Riddell.Includes: Walnut-Tree H...

Nelly Ambrose is an East End seamstress with ideas above her station. Discontented with her relia...

Against the vivid background of the political and social upheavals of the mid-1880s, in 'Demos' G...

Written when the New Woman novel was at the height of its popularity, Helbeck of Bannisdale depic...

First published in 1882, All Sorts and Conditions of Men chronicles daily life in the East-end di...

Eugen Sandow (1867-1925) was a Victorian strongman who was colossally famous in his day and posse...

In his 1852 novel Basil, Wilkie Collins' narrator concludes that 'those ghastly heart-tragedies l...

First published in 1864, Henry Dunbar includes all the classic ingredients of a sensation novel, ...

Professor Aldwyn wakes from a nap to discover that he is actually dead. During life he was a rati...

First published in 1892, Grania is the story of a fisherman's daughter from the Islands of Aran, ...

First serialised between 1866 and 1867 by the Newsagents' Publishing Company and Edwin J. Brett, ...

Reminiscent of the Brontës' Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Millicent Garrett Fawcett'...

A Mummer's Wife tells the story of Kate Ede, a bored Midlands housewife unhappily married to an a...

First published in 1897, The Beth Book - Being a Study from the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclur...

First published in 1907 The Convert was based on Elizabeth Robins' hugely successful play, Votes ...

Albert Smith is one of the most famous Victorians of whom you've probably never heard. During his...

Shipwrecked as a young girl, middle-class Lilly Dawson is kidnapped by smugglers and forced to wo...

The First Adman reveals the untold story of how modern advertising was pioneered 200 years ago by...

In this, his first published novel, George Gissing establishes the hallmarks of his life-long lit...

Spanning the years 1870-1881, Evenings at Home in Spiritual Séance documents the everyday, yet as...

Originally published in 1901, 'East of Suez' was Alice Perrin's first collection of short stories...

First published in 1882, Vice Versâ shows the disastrous consequences of having one's wishes gran...

The spirited memoir of Harvey Teasdale (1817-1904) tells the story of a wilful child who became a...

In this beautifully written study, Carolyn Lambert explores the ways in which Elizabeth Gaskell c...

Although best-known as a Pre-Raphaelite painter, Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919), was a prolific wri...