What to read after Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre?

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MrsFogi · 26/01/2015 21:21

I'm half way through Jane Eyre (so don't post any spoilers!) and read WH before that. I could not bear/understand these at school but am gripped this time around. So….what am I going to enjoy next?

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Wolfiefan · 26/01/2015 21:47

I live Austen.
Another vote also for Wilkie Collins.

simonettavespucci · 26/01/2015 21:45

I love Jane Eyre!

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier - excellent and highly influenced by JE
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys - JE retold from another angle (trying not to give anything away there)
Northanger Abbey - this is Austen but it's messing around with gothic cliches and is very funny
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins (as above). Also The Moonstone, also Wilkie Collins, both gothic classics.

Egog · 26/01/2015 21:43

Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

Heartbreakingly good.

bumpertobumper · 26/01/2015 21:41

I missed out on those two, and a few others of that ilk at school so last year read them in succession.
while I enjoyed them at the time, they are now a bit blurry about which bits/who was in which book (unless i really think about it) as they are all of a certain time and type.
my advice would be to mix them up with some other genres in between.

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LadyGlen · 26/01/2015 21:37

Middlemarch. Cracking novel.

Or Persuasion.
Little Dorrit would be another contender. The Warden and Barchester Towers are also good reads.

Can you tell that I'm just listing my favourite 19th Century novels?

cosmicglittergirl · 26/01/2015 21:33

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte.
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins.
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens.
The Mill on the Floss, George Elliot.

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