Most Read This Week In 19th Century

Novels or collections of stories set during the 19th century.

The 19th century (January 1, 1801 – December 31, 1900) was the century marked by the collapse of the Spanish, First and Second French, Chinese, Holy Roman and Mughal empires. This paved the way for the growing influence of the British Empire, the Russian Empire, the United States, the German Empire, the Second French Colonial Empire and the Empire of Japan, with the British boasting unchallenged dominance after 1815.

Most Read This Week Tagged "19th Century"

In the Great Quiet
The Lotus Shoes
It Girl
Into a Golden Era (Timeless, #7)
An American Beauty
The Paris Express
When the Jessamine Grows
The Surgeon's Daughter (Nora Beady, #2)
The Last Labyrinth
Crow Mary
The Sea Child
The Marriage Method (The Crinoline Academy, #2)
Venetian Vespers
The House Is on Fire
Highcliffe House (Proper Romance Regency)
Finding Margaret Fuller
The Children's Blizzard
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
The Last of Earth
North Sun: Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
Murder at Somerset House (Wrexford & Sloane, #9)
Loyalty
The Hidden City (Charles Lenox, #12)
The Turnglass
Silence of Deceit (Bow Street Duchess Mystery #3)
Land
River Sing Me Home
Where the Heart Should Be
Daughters of Nantucket
Penance for the Dead (Bow Street Duchess Mystery #4)
The Girl from Greenwich Street
Godmersham Park
Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)
The Thread Collectors
Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Tough Luck
Treat Them as Buffalo
How to Dodge a Cannonball
The Girls of Good Fortune
All We Were Promised
The Ravenswood Witch
The Rush
Fagin the Thief
Love Practically (The Penn-Leiths of Thistle Muir, #1)
The Famine Orphans
A Bakery in Paris
A Lady of Conscience (Somerset Stories, #5)
Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
The Romantic
A Heart Sufficient (The Penn-Leiths of Thistle Muir, #4)
Murder at the Seven Dials (Bow Street Duchess Mystery #1)
Booth
Appointment in Bath (Somerset Stories, #4)
Six Weeks by the Sea
The Tiffany Girls
The Shape of Darkness
The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish (Hecate Cavendish #1)
What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19)
This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, A Life
Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
O Som do Rugido da Onça
Sharpe's Assassin (Sharpe, #21)
The Whitechapel Widow (Emma Langley Victorian Mystery #1)
The Other Princess
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang
Sing, Wild Bird, Sing
Adjacent But Only Just (The Penn-Leiths of Thistle Muir, #2)
A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
Of Manners and Murder (Dear Miss Hermione Mystery, #1)
Circus of Wonders
乙嫁語り 15 [Otoyomegatari 15] (A Bride's Story, #15)
The Manual for Good Wives
The Glowing Hours
Kingscastle
The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
Mrs Van Gogh
A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
The Sweet Blue Distance
Marmee
All the Pretty Places
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation
The Secret of Bow Lane (A Below Stairs Mystery #6)
The Naming of the Birds (Inspector Cutter Mystery, An)
The Other Side of Mrs. Wood
Dangerous Women
The Invincible Miss Cust
Night Wherever We Go
Spitting Gold
The Beholders
The Queen of Fives
An Extravagant Death (Charles Lenox, #11)
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
Mademoiselle Eiffel
Monet: The Restless Vision
Kniven i ilden (Die Eismeertrilogie, #1)
The Other March Sisters
Bitter Passage
The Tumbling Girl (Variety Palace Mysteries #1)

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.
Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Nigel Seed
You know sir. When we get home nobody is going to believe this. How the hell could anybody be that brave? It makes no sense.” “You’re right, but we’ll know. Everybody who has stood and watched a Dervish charge is never going to forget it.
Nigel Seed, No Road to Khartoum

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