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!

The woman in white - Wilkie Collins

Affinity is Victorian I think, but recommend it anyway.

'The Cost of Sugar' by Cynthia McLeod is about the sugar trade in 18th century Suriname seen through the eyes of two sisters.

Actual authors from this period who wrote great stories - Elizabeth Gaskell and Mary Braddon

Sorry
my brain read 1700 - 1900 for sone reason.

If crime fiction or spin offs are your thing, I can strongly recommend both Anne Perry for a serious approach, or Elizabeth Peters for something more light hearted!

Oh hang on, the title does say 19th century!

Basically all of Jennifer Donnelly’s non-fairytale books. A gathering light is brilliant - it’s set in rural NY in the late 1800s. These shallow graves takes place in Manhattan in the same period. The Rose series - Tea Rose, Summer Rose, Winter Rose - take place in London right at the time of the ripper killings.

Antonia Hodgson’s Jack Hawkins books, starting with the Devil in the Marshalsea are all set in London in the mid-1700s.

Sarah Waters - Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.

Moonlight and the Pearler's daughter - set in Western Australia in the 1880s.
Lily by Rose Tremain is set in London mid 1800s.
Dictionary of Lost words although that is technically set at the very start of the 20th century.
I've enjoyed all these in recent months

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions, have added them to my wishlist!

I really liked The Mad Women's Ball by Victoria Mas.

Glad to see This Thing of Darkness still being recommended on here, i was on a thread years ago where it was recommended and it is an absolutely brilliant read!

His Bloody Project yGraeme Macrae Burnet. Set in 1700s, reads like fact not fiction.

The Horatio Hornblower series by CS Forester

The other Bennett sister by Janice Hadlow

Agree with the suggestion of Golden Hill which is absolutely brilliant.

I've recently very much enjoyed Death In A Scarlet Gown by Lexie Conyngham - set in very early 19th century Scotland, first in a crime series, and plan to read the rest soon.

I've liked some by Jude Morgan too.

Yeah it was me that was wrong 😳

Wide Sargossa Sea by Jean Rhys is a prequel to Jane Eyre.

I really enjoyed The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag, Im not usually a fan of period fiction but it was beautiful.

Susan Howatch, Penmarric (19th century Cornwall) and Cashelmara (19th century Ireland).

How to curate all these suggestions?!

I was going to suggest Affinity!

The TV adaptation of Affinity was also excellent, as an aside.

Yes, I think I saw that.

I think it's the sexiest of her novels.

Do you mean sexy in the marketing way?

hopefully that won't put posters off reading it, it's a brilliant novel with Victorian Spiritualism as the star.

Tipoing the Velvet - now that was sexy, especially the TV version with Keeley Hawkes. I'm not a lesbian but I think everyone with a pulse would fancy her in that!

the TV adaptation of Affinity stayed with me..I have the DVD. The bit when Margaret narrates "Selina...when the thread goes slack, will you feel it?" Oh, I felt every word of that.

and so well edited. Often when you've loved the book, the film or TV show is a disappointment, but not here.

Emma Donahue