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What about "Secret Garden" and "Just So Stories"? I know technically they're not Victorian (although "Just So Stories" almost would have made it), but they do have the feeling and are by authors who did publish a substantial amount of work while Queen Victoria was alive. "Secret Garden" in particular could just as well have been published pre-1900 ...

We just started this list at my "Victorians" group. Feel free to continue it. But because the majority of any art form is tripe, we would like the list to reflect only the BEST in this category.

Yeah, I didn't put Secret Garden, or indeed the first Anne of Green Gables books, because they were just outside the cutoff date, and I was being strict with myself. I hated that Just-So Stories was out by only a year! Regretfully, my childhood absolute favorite by Kipling is also out - Puck of Pook's Hill.

I learned how to add books, and made a few entries.

We don't have to be so strict about the dates. Someone else will probably add them anyway

I see someone has added Grimm's fairy tales as well now, though. THEY were actually first published in 1812 ... which even with a lenient approach is definitely Regency, not Victorian. I still love them to bits, but isn't that a bit too far outside the range after all?

Make-Believe Summer: A Victorian Idyll - Victorian paintings, and a recently written 'story' to connect them in a book. I'm not sure if this qualifies, but I wanted to mention it in case it's precisely what someone browsing here was searching for. :)