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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Title Tag: Setting: West Indies

Description: The following novels are set in or contain characters from the West Indies.

  1. Michael Scott.  The Cruise of the Midge.  2 vol.  Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1836.
  2. Edward Lanzer Joseph.  Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a Creole.  3 vol.  London: Saunders and Otley, 1838.
  3. Charlotte Brontë.  Jane Eyre: An Autobiography.  3 vol.  London: Smith, Elder, 1847.
  4. Theodora Elizabeth Lynch.  The Cotton-Tree: or, Emily, the Little West Indian. A Tale for Young People.  1 vol.  London: Hatchard, 1847.
  5. Harriet Ward.  Helen Charteris: A Novel.  3 vol.  London: Bentley, 1848.
  6. William Makepeace Thackeray.  Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero.  1 vol.  London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
  7. Theodora Elizabeth Lynch.  The Family Sepulchre: A Tale of Jamaica.  1 vol.  London: Seeley, 1848.
  8. James Fenimore Cooper.  Captain Spike: or, The Islets of the Gulf.  3 vol.  London: Bentley, 1848.
  9. Lt. Col. Henry Senior.  Charles Vernon, a Transatlantic Tale.  2 vol.  London: Longman, 1849.
  10. Theodora Elizabeth Lynch.  Maude Effingham: A Tale of Jamaica.  1 vol.  London: Seeley, 1849.
  11. Dinah Marie Craik.  Olive: A Novel.  3 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1850.
  12. Angus Bethune Reach.  Leonard Lindsay: or, The Story of a Buccaneer.  2 vol.  London: David Bogue, 1850.
  13. Michel Maxwell Philip.  Emmanuel Appadocca: or, Blighted Life. A Tale of the Boucaneers.  2 vol.  London: C. J. Skeet, 1854.
  14. Henry Augustus Wise.  Captain Brand, of the "Centipede": A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies.  1 vol.  London: Trübner, 1860.
  15. E. J. W..  Constance Mordaunt: or, Life in the Western Archipelago.  2 vol.  London: Saunders and Otley, 1862.
  16. William George Hamley.  Captain Clutterbuck's Champagne: A West Indian Reminiscence.  1 vol.  Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1862.
  17. Theodora Elizabeth Lynch.  Rose and her Mission: A Tale of the West Indies.  1 vol.  London: Hamilton, 1863.
  18. Theodora Elizabeth Lynch.  Years Ago: A Tale of West Indian Domestic Life of the Eighteenth Century.  1 vol.  London: Jarrold and Son, 1865.
  19. George John Whyte-Melville.  Cerise: A Tale of the Last Century.  3 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1866.
  20. Wilkie Collins.  Armadale.  2 vol.  London: Smith, Elder, 1866.
  21. Wilkie Collins.  The Moonstone: A Romance.  3 vol.  London: Tinsley Brothers, 1868.
  22. Élie Berthet.  The Wild Man of the Woods: A Story of the Island of Sumatra.  1 vol.  London: Seeley, 1868.
  23. Mrs. Graham Branscombe.  Edith Vavasour.  3 vol.  London: Hurst and Blackett, 1876.
  24. Ebenezer Rogers.  A Modern Sphinx: A Novel.  3 vol.  London: John Maxwell, 1881.
  25. Brook John Knight.  The Captain's Story: or, Jamaica Sixty Years Since.  1 vol.  London: R. T. S., 1883.
  26. Robert Louis Stevenson.  Treasure Island.  1 vol.  London: Cassell, 1883.
  27. Grant Allen.  In All Shades: A Novel.  3 vol.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1886.
  28. William Joseph Cosens Lancaster.  The Rover's Secret: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba.  1 vol.  London: Blackie, 1888.
  29. Augusta Zelia Fraser.  A Study in Colour.  1 vol.  London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894.
  30. George Alfred Henty.  The Queen's Cup: A Novel.  3 vol.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1897.
  31. William Joseph Cosens Lancaster.  A Pirate of the Caribees.  1 vol.  London: Griffith and Farran, 1898.