Families Genre
Books in the Families genre:
Turnabout Twins
Author(s):
Barbara Hazard
Illustrator(s):
None
Oliver Twist (1838)
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
George Cruikshank
Masterman Ready: or The Wreck of the Pacific (1841)
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
Allen Robert Branston
Wives and Daughters (1866)
Author(s):
Mrs. Gaskell
Illustrator(s):
George du Maurier
The Story of a Bad Boy (1870)
Author(s):
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
The Peterkin Papers (1880)
Author(s):
Lucretia P. Hale
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
Daddy Darwin’s Dovecot: A Country Tale (1884)
Author(s):
Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
The Last of the Peterkins with Others of Their Kin (1886)
In these further adventures of a muddleheaded family, the Lady from Philadelphia again comes to their aid.
Author(s):
Lucretia P. Hale
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia (1893)
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s):
Gordon Browne
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1897)
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Thomson
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
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
His First and Last Appearance (1900)
This story tells of the fates and fortunes of the Lachance family.
Read online at archive.org
Author(s):
Francis J. Finn, S.J.
Illustrator(s):
None
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1901)
After being sent to the country “to learn to be good”, the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Reginald Birch
Five Children and It (1902)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Et al
The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
The Railway Children (1906)
The Story of the Amulet (1906)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
The Terrible Twins (1913)
A pair of twins, brother and sister, terrorize the community of Little Deeping, to say nothing of the cats. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s):
Hanson Booth
The Poppy Seed Cakes (1924)
A collection of short stories about two not-very-good children told by Aunt Katushka.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margery Clark
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
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