Class issues in love, marriage, family


"It is very difficult to say what is the social figment of rank by which we hold so dearly." (My Faithful Johnny, 1880.)

In Victorian times there was a great deal of movement up and down the social ladder - even more than in our own time. In the following stories, people from different classes come together and encounter difficulties, comic or serious.


Agnes
Novel1865
May
 Novel1873
Mrs Arthur
Novel1877
Within the Precincts
Novel1878
Harry Joscelyn
 Novel1881
Lady Jane   [The Duke's Daughter]
Novel1882
The Son of His Father
Novel1886
The Second Son
Novel1887
Joyce
Novel1887
The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow
Novel1889
The Cuckoo in the Nest
Novel1891
A Girl of the Period
Short Fiction1892
The Whirl of Youth
Short Fiction1893
Old Mr Tredgold, a Story of Two Sisters
Novel1895

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