If I love a period novel...

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such as Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights, what else will I enjoy? What are Tue must read ones?

Hardy is perfect for bookish 14 year olds, and appalling for grown women.

That's me told.

Sorry Marian. I loved him as a teen but he just annoys me now. I do feel sad that I'll never get that intensity of emotion from him again that I did when first reading him, but I just want to slap everybody in his books whenever I try to re-read them now.

Especially Susan.

Georgette heyer there are some threads here last one was sylvester

Maybe I just want to recapture my 14 year old self

I WISH I'd known about The Bell Jar when I was 14 - I'd have bloomin' loved it.

:)

Oh wow some fab suggestions here, thank you all

I suppose what I love the most is just the way of life back then. How simple and easy it was. Well, not easy but ykwim. No mobile phones, cars, central heating. I love the vocabulary and just the general way of life. How jovial the children are playing mindless games that teenagers these days wouldn't be seen dead playing.

I do love a strong female lead. P&P is my all time fave - so far anyway. And i love Mr Darcy. The arrogance, the pride. So misunderstood!

And it's so nice to come to this thread to take my mind off Pet Sematary that I am 90% of the way through and have foolishly read at bedtime

I love Gaskell. North and South is fantastic - good strong female lead. Wives and daughters is also great, although Mrs Gaskell died before finishing it (which came as a bit of a shock when I first read it!)

YY to Georgette Heyer if you're after something slightly lighter - Venetia and Frederica are the ones I'd recommend to start out with.

Anna Karenina is one of my favourite books.

D H Lawrence is one of my favourite authors.

second lady Audleys secret, wilkie Collins (moonstone, woman in white), austin, Jane Eyre. maybe some sherlock Holmes.

going down the more gothic route dracula and frankenstien

Charles dickens I think is a little less accessible and requires more concentration

This is a cozy Victorian murder with almost pastiche parody of various period novels. Might enjoy?

I loved Sarah Walters Fingersmith and Affinity

Lady Audleys Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddock. Tip top.

sorry I'm replying a few days late but no one has mentioned Howards End by EM Forster and I think you'd love it

I had to read Thomas Hardy for CSYS English. (Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Far From the Madding Crowd). I'm not a fan. The general consensus in our class of 16 year olds was that the characters were all a bit dull and pathetic and needed a good shake.