19th Century British Novels
Dublin Core
Title
19th Century British Novels
Description
The Gomatos Collection contains Romantic and Victorian-era British novels (at least one in a serialized format), as well as materials related to such novels, like the 20th century lithographs illustrating Jane Eyre.
Collection Items
Bleak House
Bleak House is one of Dickens’ most famous novels. Bleak House centers around a legal dispute known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Readers are introduced to a panoply of characters, each of whom is shown to have some connection to the case in one way or…
Frankenstein : or, The Modern Prometheus
Originally printed in a series of three volumes in 1818, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a fictional tale of a scientist, named Victor Frankenstein, who creates life by using a mixture of science and alchemy. The unnamed creature flees from his…
Jane Eyre - Covers, Endpapers, & Full page Proof Lithographs
Jane Eyre - Covers, Endpapers, & Fullpage Proof Lithographs is a collection of lithographs that were inspired by Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre. The book contains numerous lithographs that illustrate certain scenes from the novel, in total there…
Cranford
Cranford is a collection of satirical stories about life in the countryside in Victorian-era England. It was initially published in 1853 as a full novel, though before this it was published serially in Household Words, which was edited by Charles…