Genre Information At the Circulating Library

Genre: Historical Novel: 18th Century

Description: The following novels are set in the 18th century or depict figures from the eighteenth century.

  1. Anonymous.  Villiers: A Tale of the Last Century.  3 vol.  London: Whittaker, 1835.
  2. Thomas Andrew James.  Count Cagliostro: or, The Charlatan. A Tale of the Reign of Louis XVI.  3 vol.  London: Edward Bull, 1838.
  3. Charles Dickens.  Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty.  1 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1841.
  4. Charles Ollier.  The Ferrers: A Romance of the Reign of George II.  3 vol.  London: Bentley, 1841.
  5. William Harrison Ainsworth.  Saint James's: or, The Court of Queen Anne.  3 vol.  London: John Mortimer, 1844.
  6. Robert Folkestone Williams.  Maids of Honour: A Tale of the Court of George I.  3 vol.  London: Henry Colburn, 1845.
  7. Robert Folkestone Williams.  Strawberry Hill: A Historical Novel.  3 vol.  London: Henry Colburn, 1847.
  8. Anonymous.  Narragansett: or, The Plantations, a Story of 177-.  3 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1860.
  9. Peter Paradox.  The Land of the Kelt: A Tale of the Days of '98.  3 vol.  London: Saunders and Otley, 1860.
  10. William Harrison Ainsworth.  The Lord Mayor of London: or, City Life in the Last Century.  3 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1862.
  11. Isabella Banks.  God's Providence House: A Story of 1791.  3 vol.  London: Bentley, 1865.
  12. Edward Peacock.  Ralf Skirlaugh, the Lincolnshire Squire.  3 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1870.
  13. William Harrison Ainsworth.  The South Sea Bubble: A Tale of the Year 1720.  1 vol.  London: John Dicks, 1871.
  14. Sir Arthur Helps.  Ivan de Biron: Or, the Russian Court in the Middle of the Last Century.  3 vol.  London: Isbister, 1873.
  15. Henrietta Keddie.  Lady Bell: A Story of the Last Century.  3 vol.  London: Strahan, 1873.
  16. William Harrison Ainsworth.  Preston Fight: or, The Insurrection of 1715.  3 vol.  London: Tinsley Brothers, 1875.
  17. Anne Isabella Ritchie.  Miss Angel.  1 vol.  London: Smith, Elder, 1875.
  18. William Harrison Ainsworth.  Beau Nash: or, Bath in the 18th Century.  3 vol.  London: Routledge, 1879.
  19. Lt.-Gen. Sir Ed Bruce Hamley.  Trasenden Hall: When George III was King.  3 vol.  Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1882.
  20. Augusta de Grasse Stevens.  Old Boston: A Romance of the War of Independence.  3 vol.  London: Sampson Low, 1884.
  21. Robert Louis Stevenson.  Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751.  1 vol.  London: Cassell, 1886.
  22. Mary Popham Blyth.  Antoinette: A Tale of the Ancien Régime.  2 vol.  London: Bentley, 1888.
  23. Robert Louis Stevenson.  The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale.  1 vol.  London: Cassell, 1889.
  24. Robert Louis Stevenson.  Catriona: A Sequel to Kidnapped, Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour.  1 vol.  London: Cassell, 1893.
  25. Vernon Lee.  Ottilie: An Eighteenth Century Idyl.  1 vol.  London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893.
  26. Vernon Lee.  Penelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh Coast in the Eighteenth Century.  1 vol.  London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903.

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