Neo Victorian


Fingersmith
Possession
The Crimson Petal and the White
Tipping the Velvet
Affinity
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
The Meaning of Night (The Meaning of Night, #1)
Wide Sargasso Sea
Angels and Insects
Jack Maggs
The Essex Serpent
Alias Grace
Mary Reilly
The Children's Book
The Asylum
The Woman in Black by Susan         HillThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Little Stranger by Sarah WatersThe Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. JamesThis House Is Haunted by John Boyne
Historical Ghost Fiction
203 books — 351 voters
Death of an Officer by Mark   EllisThe Séance by John HarwoodAffinity by Sarah WatersThings Half in Shadow by Alan FinnThe House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine Howe
Victorian Spiritualism Fiction
122 books — 97 voters

Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris PriestleySerafina and the Black Cloak by Robert  BeattyThe Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan AikenTales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth by Chris PriestleyA Drowned Maiden's Hair by Laura Amy Schlitz
Middle Grade Victorian Gothic Fiction
45 books — 31 voters
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba BrayStalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri ManiscalcoThe Madman's Daughter by Megan ShepherdThis Dark Endeavor by Kenneth OppelRebel Angels by Libba Bray
YA Gothic Historical Fiction
70 books — 53 voters

Fingersmith by Sarah WatersThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsDracula by Bram StokerAlias Grace by Margaret AtwoodThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Victorian Asylums
55 books — 70 voters
Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierDuke of Midnight by Elizabeth HoytSlightly Wicked by Mary BaloghThe Companion by Ann GrangerA Lady for a Duke by Alexis  Hall
Lady's Companions
41 books — 27 voters

Existence as a society wife must be akin to standing in a bog. That slow, sinking sensation. I would be dragged down day by day, grow vacuous and preoccupied with frivolity like those around me. I should begin to resemble Papa or - God forbid - Mrs Pearce. At least with David I may strive to be a better person, practical and helpful to my fallen creatures.
Laura Purcell, The Corset

Grief is a violent emotion, a sort of acid that eats away at the best parts of us.
Laura Purcell, The Corset

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