Books sets in Victorian London (not Dickens)

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I love Dickens I should hasten to add, but have read them all. I’m looking for fiction set in Victorian London. I read many Victorian authors at University but would love any suggestions in case I have missed some, even those written by modern day authors .

Also Liza of Lambeth, Somerset Maugham which I’ve never finished but the London slums descriptions are very evocative.
Kate Greenville’s Secret River is set on NSW but starts in London and is Victorian era- one of my favourite books.

Vanity Fair?

Ha! I was just about to post exactly the same. Am off to hunt it out from the bookshelves right now. Some great suggestions in this thread.

@highlandcoo it's definitely more than 20 years since I read it! My friends and I were absolutely obsessed with it when it was first published.

Wonderful book, but set immediately after World War II.

The Quincunx is marvellous.

My favourite Wilkie Collins novel is The Moonstone.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Has anyone mentioned George Eliot? Daniel Deronda and Middlemarch are my favourites. Middlemarch is set a few years before Queen Victoria ascended to the throne, admittedly.

George Reynolds
Harrison Ainsworth

Both Dickens's contemporaries.
Wordsworth Classics have the original The String of Pearls, which is Sweeney Todd and set in London.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g I was going to say Daniel Deronda (which is mainly set in London).

What about The Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde? Late Victoriana and very readable, my 15yo read it recently and loved it.

I have the wrong one then! I meant the Ruby in the Smoke! Gah!

I love Middlemarch. I keep meaning to re-read it but it’s a big commitment. It’s set in the Midlands though, not London.

Me too. I must get around to it sometime.

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