Book review: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (1871) When Alice steps through the looking-glass, the enters a world of
Novella review: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1898) The opening of this Victorian novella is that it’s someone listening to a friend
Essay review: An Accursed Race by Elizabeth Gaskell (1855) When I started reading this novella on my Kindle, I was expecting some sort of fictional
Novella review: Lois the Witch by Elizabeth Gaskell (1861) It’s 1691 and the orphaned Lois Barclay travels to live with her uncle and his family
Book review: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865) Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is, for most
Book review: Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes
Book review: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (Puffin Classics: The Essential Collection, 1994 [1847]) Mystery, hardship – and love Orphaned Jane Eyre, hated by her
Book review: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (Wordsworth Classics, 2008 [1848]) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent
Novella review: Lizzie Leigh by Elizabeth Gaskell (Manybooks.net/Project Gutenberg [1855]) Lizzie Leigh is a story about a family in the countryside somewhere, who carry a