Victorians! discussion

Please post your nominations here. One nomination per person and per author.
Nomination thread will be up for one week or when we reach eight nominations. If possible, please include the link to the book you've nominated.

Eligible nominations should be written and published in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901.

Link to Titles Read within 3 years:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I nominate The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens.

I nominate Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope

I nominate The Half Sisters by Geraldine Jewsbury, a lesser known female Victorian author.

I nominate The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill. One of the first locked-room mystery novels.

The Big Bow Mystery
It's fairly short.

Nominations are shaping up nicely with 2 well-known and two lesser-known authors.

ConnieD wrote: "I nominate The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill. One of the first locked-room mystery novels."

Thank you for this suggestion! I picked up the Kindle version for free (US) so I can read it even if it doesn't win :)

I nominate The Story of Lilly Dawson by Catherine Crowe. Crowe was a renowned authoress in the mid-19th Century but isn’t read much today.

I nominate Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy

Published 1871 Pages 512.

As of today we have 6 nominations...

The Old Curiosity Shop
Dr. Wortle's School
Desperate Remedies
The Half Sisters
The Big Bow Mystery
The Story of Lilly Dawson

Nominations will be open for one more day.

I nominate The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire simply a thrilling work!

This nomination thread is closed. The poll will be available this weekend and will remain open for a week.