Neo Victorian


Possession
Fingersmith
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 Children's Book
The Asylum
In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat WintersThe Seer of Shadows by AviPicture the Dead by Adele GriffinAffinity by Sarah WatersThe Lost History of Dreams by Kris Waldherr
Spirit Photography
26 books — 9 voters

Fingersmith by Sarah WatersPossession by A.S. ByattThe Crimson Petal and the White by Michel FaberThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaTipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Best neo-victorian novels
118 books — 208 voters
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri ManiscalcoThe Name of the Star by Maureen JohnsonRipper by Amy Carol ReevesRipper by Stefan PetruchaA Taste for Monsters by Matthew J. Kirby
Jack the Ripper in YA Fiction
15 books — 22 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
145 books — 84 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
83 books — 48 voters

Gary Inbinder
“ She wore a loose-fitting purple velvet Pre-Raphaelite gown, and her abundant dark-brown hair flowed down her back and shoulders to her waist. As she drew near, I noticed her warm brown eyes peeping at me beneath lush, un-plucked brows, her smiling red lips and smooth, un-powdered cheeks almost begging for kisses. She possessed a beauty much different from Daisy, more like a wildflower in the unspoiled earth than a prize-winning rose in a formal garden. However, her Pre-Raphaelite fashion might h ...more ”
― Gary Inbinder, The Flower to the Painter

“ 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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