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• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
• Small Island by Andrea Levy
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
• Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie
• Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
• A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement, Autumn by Anthony Powell
• Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
• Mariana by Monica Dickens
• The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
• Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey
• Moving Finger by Agatha Christie
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
• Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
• The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
• Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie
• Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
• Crooked House by Agatha Christie
• The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
• The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
• The Mating Season by P. G. Wodehouse
• Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh
• The Hollow by Agatha Christie
• N or M? by Agatha Christie
• The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie
• Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
• Traitor's Purse by Margery Allingham
• The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
• Death of a Peer by Ngaio Marsh
• A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor
• Death and the Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh
• Good Evening Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie… by Mollie Panter-Downes
• Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
• Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
• Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
• Full Moon by P. G. Wodehouse
• Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh
• That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
• The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
• At Mrs Lippincote's by Elizabeth Taylor
• Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
• The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin
• Swing, Brother, Swing by Ngaio Marsh
• Final Curtain by Ngaio Marsh
• The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
• Faro's Daughter by Georgette Heyer
• Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
• Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
• Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski
• A House in the Country by Jocelyn Playfair
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie
• An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler
• The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels by Nancy Mitford
• Coroner's Pidgin by Margery Allingham
• One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes
• Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
• The Friendly Young Ladies by Mary Renault
• Joy in the Morning by P. G. Wodehouse
• The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
• The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
• Saplings by Noel Streatfeild
• More Work for the Undertaker by Margery Allingham
• Death at the Bar by Ngaio Marsh
• To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found the Bishop's… by Connie Willis
• Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
• Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker
• The Holiday by Stevie Smith
• Eggs, Beans and Crumpets by P. G. Wodehouse
• The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
• The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
• All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot
• Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
• A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement, Winter by Anthony Powell
• The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer
• The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 1934-1952 by Dylan Thomas
• The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh
• Selected Poems by W. H. Auden
• The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier
• Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
• The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
• To Love and Be Wise by Josephine Tey
• The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer
• A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
• A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement, Spring by Anthony Powell
• West With the Night by Beryl Markham
• Why I Write by George Orwell
• Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
• Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier
• Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth
• Collected Poems / Philip Larkin by Philip Larkin
• The Screwtape Letters (with Screwtape Proposes a Toast) by C. S. Lewis
• A Presumption of Death by Jill Paton Walsh
• Austerity Britain: 1945-51 by David Kynaston
• Collected Poems by W. H. Auden
• The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
• Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front 1939-1942 by Joyce Dennys
• Clea by Lawrence Durrell
• Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
• Love Lies Bleeding by Edmund Crispin
• The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
• Any Human Heart by William Boyd
• Officers and Gentlemen by Evelyn Waugh
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
• Number9Dream by David Mitchell
• In the Teeth of the Evidence by Dorothy L. Sayers
• A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
• The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
• Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
• The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
• There Came Both Mist and Snow by Michael Innes
• Private Enterprise by Angela Thirkell
• Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard
• The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
• They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
• Love Among the Ruins: A Novel by Angela Thirkell
• Cover Her Face by P.D. James
• Collected Poems, 1909—1962 by T. S. Eliot
• Green for Danger by Christianna Brand
• The Third Man by Graham Greene
• Lord Peter : The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Unconditional Surrender by Evelyn Waugh
• The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas
• A Haunted House and Other Short Stories by Virginia Woolf
• The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
• Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
• Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart
• Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
• Mary Poppins Opens the Door by P. L. Travers
• Palladian by Elizabeth Taylor
• Peace Breaks Out by Angela Thirkell
• Arabella by Georgette Heyer
• The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
• Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
• The Old Bank House by Angela Thirkell
• A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
• Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
• Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
• The Blessing by Nancy Mitford
• The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh
• La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith
• The complete poems and plays of T.S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot
• The Lord God Made Them All by James Herriot
• Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
• The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardam
• Casting Off by Elizabeth Jane Howard
• A Night of Errors by Michael Innes
• Collected shorter poems, 1927-1957 by W. H. Auden
• Henrietta Sees it Through: More News from the Home Front… by Joyce Dennys
• Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
• County Chronicle: A Novel by Angela Thirkell
• Buried for Pleasure by Edmund Crispin
• Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh
• The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
• Marling Hall: A Barsetshire Novel by Angela Thirkell
• Envious Casca by Georgette Heyer
• The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
• Penhallow by Georgette Heyer
• Farthing by Jo Walton
• Wicked Uncle by Patricia Wentworth
• Miss Silver Comes to Stay by Patricia Wentworth
• The Far Cry by Emma Smith
• The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
• Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
• Restless by William Boyd
• Quick Service by P. G. Wodehouse
• Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
• Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen
• Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
• The Watersplash by Patricia Wentworth
• The Traveller Returns by Patricia Wentworth
• The Book of Merlyn by T.H. White
• The Charioteer by Mary Renault
• The Complete Novels of George Orwell (Penguin Modern… by George Orwell
• Latter End by Patricia Wentworth
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
• Black Plumes by Margery Allingham
• Appleby's End by Michael Innes
• Not That Sort of Girl by Mary Wesley
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
• The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters by Charlotte Mosley
• Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George… by George Orwell
• Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
• Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett
• The Ballad and the Source by Rosamond Lehmann
• The Chinese shawl by Patricia Wentworth
• Northbridge Rectory by Angela Thirkell
• Pilgrim's rest by Patricia Wentworth
• Uncle Dynamite by P. G. Wodehouse
• Spies by Michael Frayn
• Growing Up by Angela Thirkell
• Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Time Must Have a Stop by Aldous Huxley
• The Outcast by Sadie Jones
• The Siege by Helen Dunmore
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp
• The clock strikes twelve by Patricia Wentworth
• The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen by Elizabeth Bowen
• Family Roundabout by Richmal Crompton
• Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin
• The Misses Mallett: The Bridge Dividing by E. H. Young
• The Case of William Smith by Patricia Wentworth
• Berlin Noir (March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German… by Philip Kerr
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
• The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
• To Serve Them All My Days by R. F. Delderfield
• The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
• The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield
• Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
• On the Side of the Angels by Betty Miller
• Spring Fever by P. G. Wodehouse
• Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark
• Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
• The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
• They were sisters by Dorothy Whipple
• Collected Stories (Everyman's Library) by Roald Dahl
• The Towers of Silence by Paul Scott
• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
• Third Year at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking… by Lewis Carroll
• Consequences by Penelope Lively
• The Journeying Boy by Michael Innes
• The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
• The Best of Wodehouse by P. G. Wodehouse
• From London Far by Michael Innes
• The Day of the Scorpion by Paul Scott
• The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman
• School for Love by Olivia Manning
• Winter in Madrid by C. J. Sansom
• When the Wind Blows by Cyril Hare
• Portrait of a marriage by Nigel Nicolson
• The Rising of the Moon by Gladys Mitchell
• Going Solo by Roald Dahl
• The Once and Future King by T.H. White
• The Catherine Wheel by Patricia Wentworth
• Miss Silver Intervenes by Patricia Wentworth
• Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester
• Miracles by C. S. Lewis
• The Daffodil affair by Michael Innes
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Tragedy at Law by Cyril Hare
• The Foolish Gentlewoman by Margery Sharp
• Over to You [Anthology] by Roald Dahl
• The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
• Britannia Mews by Margery Sharp
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
• Miss Bunting by Angela Thirkell
• The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• The Headmistress: A Novel by Angela Thirkell
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
• The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky
• The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
• Random Harvest by James Hilton
• Miss Ranskill Comes Home by Barbara Euphan Todd
• Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived by Penelope Lively
• How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
• Five on Kirrin Island Again by Enid Blyton
• Money in the Bank by P. G. Wodehouse
• The Father Christmas Letters by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Key by Patricia Wentworth
• Curtain Up by Noel Streatfeild
• The Meaning of Treason by Rebecca West
• A Division of the Spoils by Paul Scott
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
• The Best of James Herriot: : Favorite Memories of a Country… by James Herriot
• Mr Rosenblum's List by Natasha Solomons
• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
• The King's General by Daphne du Maurier
• Collected Poems by John Betjeman
• The Prelude by William Wordsworth
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Ethel and Ernest by Raymond Briggs
• English History, 1914-1945 by A. J. P. Taylor
• He Who Whispers by John Dickson Carr
• A Vintage Affair: A Novel by Isabel Wolff
• The Dead of Winter by Rennie Airth
• Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
• Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• Danger point by Patricia Wentworth
• The Little Grey Men by BB
• Enigma by Robert Harris
• English Social History by G.M. Trevelyan
• The Complete Short Stories: Volume 2 by W. Somerset Maugham
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• The lady in the lake by Raymond Chandler
• Day by A. L. Kennedy
• Personal Pleasures by Rose Macaulay
• A Man of Parts by David Lodge
• Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier
• Because of the Lockwoods by Dorothy Whipple
• Sisters by a River by Barbara Comyns
• A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf
• The Willow Cabin by Pamela Frankau
• Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
• White Mischief by James Fox
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
• The Life to Come: And Other Stories by E. M. Forster
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• The World My Wilderness by Rose Macaulay
• Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
• Wait for Me!: Memoirs by Deborah Mitford Duchess of Devonshire
• Land Girls by Angela Huth
• Work Suspended and Other Stories by Evelyn Waugh
• Cheerfulness Breaks in by Angela Thirkell
• The Girl in the Cellar by Patricia Wentworth
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• The Weight of the Evidence by Michael Innes
• A Wreath of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor
• A London Child of the 1870s by Molly Hughes
• Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford
• Blackout by Connie Willis
• The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Richard Lancelyn Green
• City of the Mind by Penelope Lively
• A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• Testament of Friendship by Vera Brittain
• The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott
• First Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton
• Miracles of Life by J. G. Ballard
• The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
• The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The House at Tyneford: A Novel by Natasha Solomons
• Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of… by Nella Last
• The Case of the Constant Suicides by John Dickson Carr
• Striding Folly by Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Two Mrs. Abbotts by D. E. Stevenson
• British Society 1914-45 by John Stevenson
• Ha'penny by Jo Walton
• The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary
• Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
• The Duke's Daughter by Angela Thirkell
• When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
• A Good Death by Elizabeth Ironside
• A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of… by Sarah Helm
• How to Run Your Home Without Help by Kay Smallshaw
• Happy Returns by Angela Thirkell
• Never again : Britain, 1945-1951 by Peter Hennessy
• Olivia by Olivia
• The Man Who Never Was by Ewen Montagu
• Jill by Philip Larkin
• The Smoke by Tony Broadbent
• Two Days in Aragon by M. J. Farrell
• One Pair of Feet by Monica Dickens
• Tea with Mr Rochester by Francis Towers
• Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean
• The One from the Other by Philip Kerr
• London 1945: Life in the Debris of War by Maureen Walker
• Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties by Christopher Isherwood
• Till Death Do Us Part by John Dickson Carr
• Upper Fourth at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton
• With a Bare Bodkin by Cyril Hare
• The Picts and the Martyrs by Arthur Ransome
• Second Form at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton
• The Village by Marghanita Laski
• The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
• Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott
• All Clear by Connie Willis
• The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George… by George Orwell
• Boy / Going Solo by Roald Dahl
• The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd
• The Desert Generals by Correlli Barnett
• Farmer Giles of Ham by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck
• The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
• Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
• Catalina by W. Somerset Maugham
• Agent Zigzag : a true story of Nazi espionage, love, and… by Ben Macintyre
• Five Go Adventuring Again by Enid Blyton
• The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• Few Eggs and No Oranges by Vere Hodgson
• Night Soldiers by Alan Furst
• The Dark Labyrinth by Lawrence Durrell
• Bad blood by Lorna Sage
• Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood
• The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George… by George Orwell
• The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
• Coventry: A Novel by Helen Humphreys
• SS-GB by Len Deighton
• Jackdaws by Ken Follett
• The Edmund Crispin Treasury Volume 1 by Edmund Crispin
• Twenty-One Stories by Graham Greene
• The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
• The Soldier's Wife by Margaret Leroy
• Austerity Britain: 1945-48 A World to Build by David Kynaston
• Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
• Of Love and Hunger by Julian Maclaren-Ross
• To Bed with Grand Music by Marghanita Laski
• The Irregulars by Jennet Conant
• The Man Born to Be King by Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George… by George Orwell
• The Adventures of Milly-Molly-Mandy by Joyce Lankester Brisley
• Green Dolphin Country by Elizabeth Goudge
• Westwood by Stella Gibbons
• Sleep Has His House by Anna Kavan
• Missee Lee by Arthur Ransome
• Five Days in London: May 1940 by John Lukacs
• The Company of Strangers by Robert Wilson
• Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
• Resistance by Owen Sheers
• Collected Longer Poems by W. H. Auden
• A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. Ellory
• Concluding by Henry Green
• Essays by George Orwell
• Bed-Knob and Broomstick by Mary Norton
• Two Lives by Vikram Seth
• All Hallows' Eve by Charles Williams
• The Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot
• Great Northern? by Arthur Ransome
• Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier
• House-Bound by Winifred Peck
• The Provincial Lady in Wartime by E. M. Delafield
• The Avenue Goes to War by R. F. Delderfield
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales by Chris Baldick
• Hornet Flight by Ken Follett
• The Midnight Folk by John Masefield
• The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2C by M. H. Abrams
• Bodies in a Bookshop by R. T. Campbell
• The collected letters of C. S. Lewis, volume 2 : books,… by C. S. Lewis
• The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov
• A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson
• Auto da Fay: A Memoir by Fay Weldon
• Veronica at the Wells by Lorna Hill
• The Bafut Beagles by Gerald Durrell
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas
• The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Roald Dahl Omnibus: Perfect Bedtime Stories For… by Roald Dahl
• Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942 by Bodleian Library
• Eustace and Hilda: A Trilogy by L. P. Hartley
• Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection by Rosemary Sutcliff
• Hiroshima by John Hersey
• Wife to Mr. Milton by Robert Graves
• The Pocket Book of Verse: Great English and American Poems by M. E. Speare
• Diary of an Ordinary Woman by Margaret Forster
• The New Men by C. P. Snow
• The Emperor's Snuff-Box by John Dickson Carr
• The Island by Victoria Hislop
• Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 by Stephen E. Ambrose
• Testament of Experience by Vera Brittain
• Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton
• The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison
• Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre
• Fair Stood the Wind for France by H. E. Bates
• Assignment in Brittany by Helen MacInnes
• Death in Kashmir by M. M. Kaye
• The Land of Spices by Kate O'Brien
• Murder on the Yellow Brick Road by Stuart M. Kaminsky
• The Sea of Adventure by Enid Blyton
• Churchill; the struggle for survival, 1940-1965 by Lord Moran
• Autumn Term by Antonia Forest
• The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis
• The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: The Middle Years:… by Bertrand Russell
• An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
• No Highway by Nevil Shute
• The Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
• Half a Crown by Jo Walton
• The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
• South by Java Head by Alistair MacLean
• The Painted Garden by Noel Streatfeild
• The Information Officer by Mark Mills
• Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing
• Back Home by Michelle Magorian
• The Twins at St.Clare's (St Clare's) by Enid Blyton
• Winter by Len Deighton
• Beatrix Potter: The Extraordinary Life of a Victorian… by Linda Lear