19th Century Titles

Dick Doyle's Journal

by Richard Doyle with illustrations by the author

In this portrait of the artist as a boy, Richard Doyle, soon to be a noted Punch artist and illustrator of Dickens, Thackeray, and Ruskin, records his first professional foray. His journal comes in words and lively pictures, recording his full engagement in the teeming cultural life of the London of 1840.

Edited by Juliet McMaster and others

Dick Doyle's Journal Volume 2

by Richard Doyle with illustrations by the author

In this second volume of the diary of Richard Doyle, who was soon to become the much-loved Punch graphic artist, we follow the talented fifteen-year-old in his energetic pursuit of art, music, and military reviews, through the vivid summer days of the London of 1840.

Edited by Juliet McMaster and others.

Branwell's Blackwood's Magazine

Charlotte Brontë's Albion and Marina

A romance about star-crossed lovers, Albion and Marina is a trial run by 14-year-old Charlotte Bronte for Jane Eyre. The story comes from early in the Glass Town sagas, and it launches her Byronic hero Arthur Wellesley on his notable poetic and erotic careers.

Edited by Juliet McMaster and others.

Charlotte Brontë's My Angria and the Angrians

Dashing Dukes, lovelorn ladies, and political intrigues, and mayhem among Brontë siblings, provides an introduction into the rich childhood world of the Brontës. This edition includes maps, a family tree, abundant literary and historical information, and lively illustrations.

Edited by Juliet McMaster and Leslie Robertson with others.

Charlotte Brontë's Tales of the Islanders

Volume 1 of Tales of the Islanders shows the light-hearted freedom of a child author unrestrained by social expectations or the literary conventions of the "adult" world of authorship and publication. Nurtured within a collaborative environment, this writing is an early thread of the childhood web of characters, countries and adventures that Charlotte Brontë wove, together with her brother and sisters.

Edited by Christine Alexander and others.

Charlotte Brontë's Tales of the Islanders Volume 2

Volume 2 of Tales of the Islanders continues the form of Charlotte Brontë's first volume: a narrative involving both political allegory and fairytale. Here we find, side by side, real and imaginary events creatively linked in writing that is both exuberantly playful and self-consciously literate.

Edited by Christine Alexander and others.

Charlotte Brontë's Tales of the Islanders Volume 3

Volume 3 of Tales of the Islanders shows the rich allusive quality of Charlotte Brontë's writing, as she weaves realistic references to corporal punishment, varieties of suicide, Japan china and Persian carpets (and much more!) into her imaginative adventures of the Duke of Wellington and his sons. In this volume we also see the young author experimenting with her role as narrator, occasionally tripping herself up as her imagination runs away with her, but always conscious of an audience and the literary conventions of book-making that she is keen to emulate.

Edited by Christine Alexander and others.

Charlotte Brontë's Tales of the Islanders Volume 4

In volume 4 of Tales of the Islanders the Brontës, disguised as three old washerwomen, confront the Duke of Wellington. Domesticity and the real world are left behind in favour of fantasy and otherworldly tales.

Edited by Christine Alexander and others.

George Eliot's Edward Neville

A swashbuckling narrative set in Chepstow Castle during the English Civil War. This fragment of a historical novel, with its equestrian hero confronting a time of civil and religious upheaval, and its dark villain proudly brooding in his castle prison, has its lasting appeal as the first fiction we have from the hand of the great novelist we know as George Eliot.

Edited by Juliet McMaster and others.

Iris Vaughan's The Diary of Iris Vaughan

Iris Vaughan's Diary, begun when Vaughan was only seven, is as much autobiography as Diary. It also gives a charming, keenly observed and brilliantly amusing picture of colonial Africa as Victorianism made way for the twentieth century.

Edited by Peter F. Alexander and Peter Midgley.