London in Fiction - 19th Century Fiction

19th Century Fiction

  • Many of Charles Dickens's most famous novels are at least partially set in London, including Oliver Twist (1838), The Old Curiosity Shop (1840), A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), A Tale Of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1861), Our Mutual Friend (1865), and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870).
  • William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (1847)
  • Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) (1872)
  • Henry James - The Princess Casamassima (1886), A London Life (1888), What Maisie Knew (1897), In the Cage (1898)
  • Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
  • Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
  • H. G. Wells - The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898)
  • Somerset Maugham - Liza of Lambeth (1897)
  • Bram Stoker's - Dracula (1897) comes to London in order to seduce Mina Harker.
  • Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Holmes live at 221B Baker Street - a fictional address since Baker Street was much shorter in Victorian times. The Docklands area plays a large part in The Sign of Four.
  • George Gissing's novels are almost exclusively set in London, including The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891) and The Odd Women (1893).
  • Irishman George Moore also wrote an "English" novel mainly set in London, Esther Waters (1894).

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