Looking for recommendations of fiction set in 18th and 19th century

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Hi can anyone recommend books set in the 1700s/1800s? I've read several in the last few years, authors include:

Sarah Perry
Jane Harris
Stacey Halls
Georgette Heyer

I've also read Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, Longbourn and Wakenhyrst. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks!

Mary Stewart
Catherine Cookson

Is it any particular type of fiction?

The Crimson Petal and the White (Michel Faber)
Music and Silence (Rose Tremain)

Both beautifully written.

www.waterstones.com/blog/laura-shepherd-robinson-on-her-favourite-novels-set-in-the-18th-century

Some of these sound good

I've been reading the Poldark series

The Colour by Rose Tremain is one of my favourites.

Blood Sugar and Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd Robinson - one on the slave trade and one on prostitution and the art scene in Georgian London - both very well written with a murder mystery plot.

Laura Purcell is pretty good. Gothic horror.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and the ladies of grace adieu, both by Susannah Clarke are a brilliant pastiche of late 18th/early 19th c novels, I love them.

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The All True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Gillespie and I by Jane Harris

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Anything by Dickens? Or do you mean modern books set in those eras, rather than writers of the time?

A Bachelor's Establishment - amusing quirky regency romance by Jodi Taylor (originally under a nom de plume as Isabella Barclay, but I think generally under her own name now).

This - absolutely!!

Norah Lofts. No one does hardship like her!

Burial Rites. It’s the best book I’ve ever written and is about the last woman to be hanged in Iceland in 1800s.

I loved Evelina by Fanny Burney

This.

Also Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Golden Hill by Francis Spufford. One of my top books last year (I was late getting round to it - it was published in 2016). It's set in New York in the 1740s.

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel, about the French Revolution.

Come over to the 50 Books thread and it won’t be long before someone urges you to read Harry Thompson's This Thing of Darkness - it’s a thread favourite. It’s based on the story of Robert FitzRoy and the voyage of the Beagle.

Have you also read Georgette heyer's detective stuff?

It's quite like the romances (light social comedy) but with detectives in.

Precious Bane by Mary Webb

Thanks to everyone for your replies, you've given me some great suggestions.

Bigfatliar no particular type of fiction but thanks for the Cookson recommendation, I remember my DF talking about one of her books a while ago so I'll look into that.

That's a great list FuncaMunca I've heard of a couple of them but didn't realise their time settings match what I'm looking for.

DisplayPurposes I read Gillespie and I a few years back and while it was good, I found it really disturbing! Jane Harris is great, I hope she brings more books out.

Terpischore I tend to lurk a lot on the 50 book thread and while I get loads of ideas I'm not ready to join! This Thing Of Darkness was one of my standout reads off the back off the thread though.

I can second this suggestion, it's a brilliant book, very well written.

William Golding's To The Ends Of The Earth trilogy, which starts with Rites Of Passage, is superb.

Love these

also, "Affinity" by Sarah Waters.