 | The Illustrated Jane Eyre (Penguin Illustrated Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $7.44 The entertaining story of a governess, a gentleman, a marriage proposal and his occupied attic.
|
 | Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics) by Emily Brontë
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.74 The story of an orphaned young man, the girl who loves him and the decision she makes to marry another. The scorned lover takes his revenge.
|
 | Nathalie: Volume 1 by Julia Kavanagh
Buy new: $17.99 A young teacher from Provencal, an obsessed, deceitful suitor and how true love finally wins out. One story: two volumes.
|
 | Nathalie: Volume 2 by Julia Kavanagh
Buy new: $15.99 Marvelous romance with strong characters, suspense and great dialogue.
|
 | Grace Lee: Volume 1 by Julia Kavanagh
Buy new: $15.99 A romance and a struggle for individual freedom and recognition by one of the lovers. A delayed happy ending. Two Volumes.
|
 | Grace Lee: Volume 2 by Julia Kavanagh
Buy new: $17.99 One Love and two very stubborn lovers. Love revealed and delayed. Two volumes.
|
 | The Wanderer (Volume III) by Fanny Burney
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $6.99 Also known as Female Difficulties. This is a gigantic romance, watch for multi-volume editions. Story of Juliet, who is running from an unwanted marriage. She cannot reveal her identity so must depend on the kindness of strangers.
|
 | Walsingham (Broadview Literary Texts) by Mary Robinson
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $5.50 One man, one woman disguised as a man, lots of mischief and one fine romance.
|
 | The Semi-Attached Couple (Dodo Press) by Emily Eden
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $17.48 The story of a courtship, marriage and misunderstandings. A passionate husband, a confused wife and too many friends. House parties interfere with a young couple's knowledge of each other.
|
 | The Semi-Detached House (Dodo Press) by Emily Eden
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $23.91 Pregnant Lady Blanche's husband, Arthur, is off on a brief mission. Blanche doesn't want to stay with relatives so she rents a semi-detached villa. So... what about the neighbors?
|
 | Anne Hereford (Dodo Press) by Mrs. Henry Wood
Buy new: $37.99 / Used from: $29.12 A sensation novel of death, wills, young wives and mystery. A romance.
|
 | Marcella, Volume I (Dodo Press) by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $19.15 Idealistic young Marcella has a social conscience. She wants to improve conditions on her father's inherited estate. Can she do so and have a relationship with a young aristcrat?
|
 | Marcella, Volume II (Dodo Press) by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $19.49 Volume 2. See above.
|
 | Lady Rose's Daughter by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $35.49 Wonderful story of the illegitimate, unacknowledged granddaughter of a Lord. She is employed as a Companion to an irascible elderly Lady. She loves a ne'er-do-well with questionable intentions. A best seller in the early 20th Century.
|
 | Rutledge by Miriam Coles Harris
An American gothic romance, an unnamed orphan on her way to stay with her maternal Aunt is injured in a train wreck. Her escort, Mr Arthur Rutledge, arranges for her to stay at his country estate. Lots of adventures, a murderer, a suicide and various evil relatives.
|
 | North and South (Oxford World's Classics) by Elizabeth Gaskell
Buy new: $7.88 / Used from: $1.89 An English romance with conflict between the lifestyles of the industrial urban North and the rural South. The heroine, Margaret, is concerned with the harsh life of the working class laborers of stubborn John Thornton.
|
 | Moths (Broadview Edition) by Ouida Ouida
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $14.67 Moths by Ouida, edited by Natalie Schroeder. A "Silverfork" Society novel about Vere, her career flirt mother, and the unhappy marriage that takes Vere out of her mother's way. After many travails happiness.
|
 | Red As A Rose Is She: A Novel (1872) by Rhoda Broughton
Buy new: $38.65 / Used from: $37.24 Esther Craven has 2 worthy suitors. One aristocratic, one not. No sad, lingering end for the heroine this time.
|
 | The Clever Woman of the Family: Volume 1 by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Buy new: $23.99 Volume one of two. Romances of Rachel, her widowed cousin, Fanny, and her close friend, Ermine. Plus social issues and embezzlement.
|
 | The Clever Woman of the Family: Volume 2 by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Buy new: $23.99 Rachel Curtis and her courtship with soldier, Alick.
|
Listmania!
