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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Title Tag: Genre: Documentary Novels

Description: The following novels are partially or completely composed of documents such as court reports, diaries, journals, letters, newspaper articles, or telegrams.

  1. Anne Brontë.  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.  3 vol.  London: T. C. Newby, 1848.
  2. Dinah Marie Craik.  A Life for a Life.  3 vol.  London: Hurst and Blackett, 1859.
  3. Wilkie Collins.  The Woman in White.  3 vol.  London: Sampson Low, 1860.
  4. Charles Warren Adams.  The Notting Hill Mystery.  1 vol.  London: Saunders and Otley, 1865.
  5. Wilkie Collins.  The Moonstone: A Romance.  3 vol.  London: Tinsley Brothers, 1868.
  6. Emily Faithfull.  Change upon Change: A Love Story.  1 vol.  London: Emily Faithfull, 1868.
  7. Robert Louis Stevenson.  Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  1 vol.  London: Longman, 1886.
  8. H. Rider Haggard.  She: A History of Adventure.  1 vol.  London: Longman, 1887.
  9. Bram Stoker.  Dracula.  1 vol.  London: Archibald Constable, 1897.
  10. Laurence Housman.  An Englishwoman's Love-Letters.  1 vol.  London: John Murray, 1900.