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
The Essex Serpent
Jack Maggs
Alias Grace
Mary Reilly
The Asylum
The Children's Book
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
54 books — 69 voters
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
196 books — 344 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
40 books — 26 voters
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba BrayClockwork Angel by Cassandra ClareClockwork Princess by Cassandra ClareClockwork Prince by Cassandra ClareRebel Angels by Libba Bray
Victorian Paranormal YAs
146 books — 84 voters

Jackaby by William  RitterThe Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora GossThe Diviners by Libba BrayA Taste for Monsters by Matthew J. KirbyLong Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough
YA Paranormal Historical Mysteries
29 books — 7 voters
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean RhysBrontë’s Mistress by Finola AustinThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeAlways Emily by Michaela MacCollThe Taste of Sorrow by Jude Morgan
Brontës in Fiction
77 books — 51 voters

A.S. Byatt
I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem.
A.S. Byatt, Possession

You'll call me heartless for thinking such thoughts. Maybe I was: a cavity yawned in my ribs, where once I'd felt a heart beat back. ...more
Laura Purcell, The Corset

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