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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Title Tag: Character: Alcoholic

Description: The following novels feature characters who are alcoholics.

  1. Anne Brontë.  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.  3 vol.  London: T. C. Newby, 1848.
  2. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell.  Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life.  2 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1848.
  3. Charles Dickens.  Bleak House.  1 vol.  London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
  4. Charles Dickens.  Hard Times: For These Times.  1 vol.  London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854.
  5. George Eliot.  Scenes of Clerical Life.  2 vol.  Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1858.
  6. Charles Dickens.  A Tale of Two Cities.  1 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1859.
  7. Anonymous.  The Redland Papers: or, Trials of a Loving Heart. A Romance.  1 vol.  London: General Publishing Company, 1869.
  8. Mary Elizabeth Braddon.  The Golden Calf: A Novel.  3 vol.  London: John Maxwell, 1883.
  9. Mary Elizabeth Braddon.  Ishmael: A Novel.  3 vol.  London: John Maxwell, 1884.
  10. George Moore.  A Mummer's Wife.  1 vol.  London: Vizetelly, 1885.
  11. Thomas Hardy.  The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character.  2 vol.  London: Smith, Elder, 1886.
  12. George Gissing.  The Nether World: A Novel.  3 vol.  London: Smith, Elder, 1889.
  13. Emily Morse Symonds.  The Career of Candida.  1 vol.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1896.
  14. Arthur Morrison.  A Child of the Jago.  1 vol.  London: Methuen, 1896.
  15. Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock.  The Mystery of Jamaica Terrace.  1 vol.  London: Chatto and Windus, 1896.
  16. Edwin William Pugh.  The Heritage.  1 vol.  London: Sands, 1901.