Historical fiction, Victorian era?

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I enjoy a bit of historical fiction (and read a fair bit of actual history too) but seem to have read an awful lot that is set in 16th century and thereabouts and fancied something different.

I quite fancy something set in the Victorian era, or even the very early 20th century at a push.

Can anyone suggest anything?
Thanks

Jack Maggs by Peter Carey is brill. Bit like if Dickens was writing today. Also The Secret River by Kate Grenville which is about convicts sent to Australia from London (disclaimer - may be late 18th c). The Luminaries I think is also 19th c - gold rush in NZ.

Oh yes, if you are branching out into Europe I would recommend Alexandre Dumas. I loved The Three Musketeers and adored The Count of Monte Christo.

I also liked the one book each the books that I have read by Thomas Hardy and Emile Zola, but I do like a bit of misery.

I second all reccomendations of The Crimson Petal and The White by Michel Faber - an absolutely fantastic, gripping novel which will keep you company for over a week (unless you gobble it all in one go, which is tempting.)

Arthur and George by Julian Barnes. Life after Life by Kate Atkinson. Both Edwardian.

As soon as i saw this thread title I 'ran' over to recommend The Crimson Petal and The White.

Brilliant book. Brilliant Brilliant

Sarah Waters Affinity and Fingersmith too

Kate Summerscale - The Suspicions of Mr Whicher is actually non-fiction but it reads like a novel. It gives a really good flavour of the era. Also her new one (which I haven't read) Mrs Robinson's Disgrace.

These are great. I've got a huge 'to read' list built up on Goodreads now

Have started the Emma Donoghue one that someone mentioned upthread, purely because it was available to borrow in ebook format from the library (they have a very poor selection of ebooks) and am enjoying it so far. Can't wait to read some of the other suggestions.

Victorian/ Edwardian writers/booksnot mentioned so far, I think,

Wilkie Collins, the moonstone, the woman in white
John Meade Faulkner The Nebuly Coat, the Lost Stradivarius, Moonfleet
Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
Meredith, the ordeal of Richard Feverel
Gissing New Grub Street
Elliot Silas Marner, Middlemarch
Trollope the warden, BarchesterTowers, can you forgive her
Frances Hodgson Burnett, the Making of a Marchioness, the Shuttle
Mrs Craik
Mrs Oliphant

Lady Audley's secret
East Lynne

Henry James. The Ambassadors, Washington Square
E M Forster Howard's End, A room with a view, A passage to India

Gorky, my childhood and apprenticeships (Russian soviet propaganda but great)
The great Russian interminable novels

Oh yes, definitely The Suspicions of Mr Whicher and Mrs Robinson's Disgrace. Both excellent.

George Gissing is a fantastic (and often overlooked) Victorian writer especially The Odd Women, The Nether World and Grub Street - he was called the English Emile Zola because his books are quite gritty.

A touch earlier than Victorian, but you might like The Devil in the White City. It alternates between story of a serial killer and the building of the Chicago World's Fair. It's fictionalised history. I really liked it.

Inheritance by Phyllis Bently