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Night and Day
Katharine Hilbery weighs family expectations and her own ambitions as her relationships with Ralph Denham and William Rodney change. Virginia Woolf follows courtship, work and friendship through London households.
Alice Adams
Alice Adams hopes to enter a wealthier social circle and win the affection of Arthur Russell. Her efforts to disguise her family’s circumstances expose the distance between appearances and the life she actually leads.
Betty Zane
Betty Zane lives on the Ohio frontier, where settlement life, rival affections and danger bring her into conflict and action. Zane Grey joins a developing romance to the defence of Fort Henry.
My Lady Nobody: A Novel
Ursula Rovers enters the wealthy van Helmont family through marriage and encounters divided loyalties, inherited expectations and questions of duty. Maartens follows the relationships of a Dutch household as its fortunes change.
The Green Mouse
An eccentric inventor’s ideas about attraction bring a succession of unlikely couples together. Robert W. Chambers mixes romantic misunderstandings, comic encounters and speculative inventions in linked stories about people whose carefully arranged lives take unexpected turns.
The Children of the Abbey: A Tale
Amanda and Oscar Fitzalan grow up amid uncertain family fortunes and the consequences of an earlier generation’s choices. Regina Maria Roche follows the siblings through separated households, disputed inheritances, romantic attachments and the secrets surrounding a ruined abbey.
Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
The arrival of the beautiful conjuror Zuleika Dobson unsettles the undergraduate world of Oxford. Max Beerbohm follows the extravagant passions she inspires, turning courtship, aristocratic pride and university customs into an elaborate social comedy.
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest
Abel recalls his journey into the forests of Venezuela and his encounter with Rima, a young woman whose life is closely bound to the woodland around her. W. H. Hudson combines a love story with descriptions of the forest, its inhabitants and the isolation of his travellers.
Soldiers of Fortune
An American mining engineer’s work in a South American republic draws him into local rivalries and the lives of two very different women. Richard Harding Davis connects romance with engineering projects, dangerous alliances and the decisions facing outsiders far from home.
Mistress Wilding
Anthony Wilding’s marriage and loyalties become entangled with the Duke of Monmouth’s rebellion. Rafael Sabatini follows courtship, jealousy, concealed plans and sudden reversals in an English historical romance set during the struggle of 1685.
The Flirt
Cora Madison’s ambitions and romantic manoeuvres unsettle her family and the people attracted to her. Booth Tarkington follows the consequences of flirtation, social expectations and competing attachments in a story of an American household under increasing strain.
The Eustace Diamonds
The young widow Lizzie Eustace insists that a valuable diamond necklace belongs to her, while her husband’s family and their lawyers dispute her claim. Anthony Trollope follows the resulting entanglement of courtship, property, social ambition and carefully managed appearances.
Blix
A young San Francisco journalist and an independent-minded young woman find their friendship changing as they explore the city together. Frank Norris follows newspaper work, practical jokes, daily adventures and the uncertain boundary between companionship and romance.
Wives and Daughters
Molly Gibson’s quiet life changes when her widowed father remarries. Elizabeth Gaskell follows Molly, her stepsister Cynthia and the neighbouring Hamley family through friendship, courtship, misunderstandings and the demands of family loyalty.
The Tracer of Lost Persons
A specialist in tracing missing people becomes the link between a series of personal mysteries and romantic encounters. Robert W. Chambers follows clients pursuing elusive strangers, forgotten meetings and people whose identities have become difficult to establish.
Castle Richmond
Two Irish families face a disputed inheritance, concealed family history and competing romantic attachments during the Great Famine. Anthony Trollope connects the fortunes of the Fitzgeralds and Desmonds with the responsibilities and uncertainties of their surrounding community.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
An accusation against an impoverished country clergyman draws together several households in Barsetshire. Anthony Trollope follows the inquiry alongside courtships, marriages, questions of duty and the final developments in his sequence of Barsetshire novels.
Maid Marian
Thomas Love Peacock retells the story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian through woodland adventure, courtship and comic disputes. Sherwood Forest becomes the setting for encounters between outlaws, churchmen and officials, with songs and dialogue woven into the narrative.
Sheilah McLeod: A Heroine of the Back Blocks
Sheilah McLeod’s life in the Australian back country brings her into a story of loyalty, romance and danger. Guy Boothby follows the people around her through changing fortunes and the pressures of a remote frontier community.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
June Tolliver’s relationship with John Hale crosses the boundaries of a mountain community divided by family feuds. John Fox Jr. follows their attachment through changes brought by education, outside investment and competing loyalties in the Appalachian country.
Miss or Mrs.?
Natalie Graybrooke’s arranged engagement is complicated by another attachment and the increasingly anxious conduct of her intended husband. Wilkie Collins follows a tightly connected sequence of family decisions, hidden plans and romantic complications.
Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time
A young doctor’s return to England brings him into a household shaped by competing affections, inheritance expectations and scientific ambitions. Wilkie Collins connects the romance of Ovid Vere and Carmina with the conduct of medical researchers and the choices of their families.
Stella Fregelius: A Tale of Three Destinies
An inventor’s relationship with a young woman changes the course of his work and personal life. H. Rider Haggard connects a romance with questions of communication, memory and attachments that continue to shape the people left behind.