19th Century
Not Quite A Lady
In girlhood, bearing a child in secret was the price Lady Charlotte Hayward paid for her seduction by an unscrupulous…
Never Deceive A Duke
Never Deceive a Duke is Carlyle’s second Neville family novel. Gareth Lloyd, part-owner of Neville Shipping, finds himself saddled with…
Old Friends and New Fancies
Subtitled An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen, this book does exactly what it says on the cover:…
Lady Beware
The Company of Rogues began when twelve schoolboys banded together for mutual protection. They grew up to fight Napoleon and…
Lady of Lincoln
Lady of Lincoln revolves around life in the close of Lincoln Cathedral, and although I could find no specific date…
Web of Love
The Battle of Waterloo prominently features in this tale of grief and love as young Ellen Simpson helps her husband’s…
A Slave No More: Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
John Washington, a 24-year-old Virginia slave, escaped to Union army lines in 1862. Seventeen-year-old Wallace Turnage ran away five times…
The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe & the Birth of Modern Warfare
World War I was not, according to David Bell, the first total war. During the age of Napoleon wars devastated…
Where Soldiers Lie
In this coming-of-age novel set during the Mutiny of 1857, John Wilson gives the reader an unblinking look at a…
The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj
There was a time when the mention of India, and specifically England’s administration of the Subcontinent, was a matter of…
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