Logging you in...
British Genre
Books in the British genre:
Miss Mouse and Her Boys: A Story for Girls (1897)
An only girl of nine is introduced to five boy cousins. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.
Author(s):
Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
More Beasts (for Worse Children): Verses (1897)
Author(s):
Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s):
Basil T. Blackwood
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1897)
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Thomson
Persuasion (1897)
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
C. E. Brock
The Queen and Mr. Punch (1897)
The reign of Queen Victoria as depicted in editorial cartoons in the pages of Punch. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Toby, M.P.
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
John Leech
Linley Sambourne
John Tenniel
Et al
Sporting Society or Sporting Chat and Sporting Memories (1897)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
The Castle Inn (1898)
A “Regency Romance” albeit set in the eighteenth century. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Stanley J. Weyman
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Cranford (1898)
Author(s):
Mrs. Gaskell
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Thomson
Dream Days (1898)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Charles Robinson
Emma (1898)
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, fancies her self a match-maker, but after her first effort, she can’t seem to do anything right.
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
C. E. Brock
Evelina or The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance Into the World (1898)
A novel in letters from the turn of the nineteenth century. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Frances Burney
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq (1898)
Author(s):
William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels (1898)
A collection of folk tales, legends ghost stories, and poems, many with a humorous twist. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Thomas Ingoldsby
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Mansfield Park (1898)
Sir Thomas Bertram considers he is bestowing a great favor on Fanny Price when he takes her into his home, but in the end finds himself in her debt.
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
C. E. Brock
No Thoroughfare (1898)
Author(s):
Wilkie Collins
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
A. Jules Goodman
Northanger Abbey (1898)
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
C. E. Brock
Pagan Papers (1898)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
None
Pride and Prejudice (1898)
When Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy refuses to dance with her, Elizabeth Bennett is confirmed in her prejudice that he is filled with pride. On further acquaintance she is forced to revise her opinion.
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
C. E. Brock
Rupert of Hentzau (1898)
Author(s):
Anthony Hope
Illustrator(s):
Charles Dana Gibson
Somebody’s Luggage (1898)
This was the Christmas number of “All the Year Round” for 1862. Dickens wrote several of the pieces.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Et al
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
A. Jules Goodman