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Editorial note — POETICAL WORKS.

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Some authors on this list were either not named at all, or identified only as “Author of...”: see following lists. Most were identified only by last name, usually but not always with “Miss” or “Mrs.” if female.

Author Titles

Aguilar, Grace The Mother’s Recompense

Allan-Olney, Mary Estelle Russell

Andersen, Hans Christian (“Andersen”) The Improvisatore Only a Fiddler, &c.

Auerbach, Berthold The Professor’s Lady

Baker, William M. (“Baker (Wm.)”) Inside New Timothy

Bell (“Currer, Acton, Ellis”) see under Bronte

Bell, Martin (“Mrs. Bell”) Julia Howard

Benedict, Frank Lee Miss Van Kortland My Daughter Elinor

Betham-Edwards, Matilda Kitty

Black, William (“W. Black”) Kilmeny A Daughter of Heth Monarch of Mincing-Lane In Silk Attire Love or Marriage?

Blackmore, R. D. Cradock Nowell

Blagden, Isa Nora and Archibald Lee

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (“M. E. Braddon”, “Miss Braddon”) Aurora Floyd Birds of Prey Bound to John Company Charlotte’s Inheritance Dead-Sea Fruit Eleanor’s Victory Fenton’s Quest John Marchmont’s Legacy

Bremer, Fredrika (“Miss Bremer”) Brothers and Sisters The H—— Family The Home New Sketches of Every-day Life The Midnight Sun The Neighbors Nina Parsonage of Mora The President’s Daughters

Bronte, Anne [aka Acton Bell] Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Bronte, Charlotte [aka Currer Bell] Jane Eyre Shirley Villette The Professor

Bronte, Emily [aka Ellis Bell] Wuthering Heights

Brooks, Shirley (“Brooks”) Silver Cord Sooner or Later The Gordian Knot

Brunton, Mary Self-Control

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George (“Bulwer”) A Strange Story Alice; or, The Mysteries The Caxtons Devereux The Disowned Ernest Maltravers Eugene Aram Godolphin Harold The Last Days of Pompeii The Last of the Barons Leila Lucretia My Novel Night and Morning Paul Clifford Pelham Pilgrims of the Rhine Rienzi What will he do with It? Zanoni

Bulwer, Robert (“Owen Meredith”) The Ring of Amasis

Burbury, E. J. (“Mrs. Burbury”) Florence Sackville

Campbell, Harriette (“Miss Campbell”) Self-Devotion

Flygare-Carlèn, Emilie (“Miss Carlen”) The Brothers’ Bet Ivar; or, The Skjuts-Boy Lover’s Stratagem

Clarke, Charles (“Clarke”) The Beauclercs, Father and Son

Cleghorn, Elizabeth (“Mrs. Gaskell”) Cousin Phillis Cranford. A Dark Night’s Work Mary Barton Moorland Cottage My Lady Ludlow North and South Right at Last, &c. Sylvia’s Lovers Wives and Daughters

Clyde, Alton Under Foot

Collins, Mortimer The Vivian Romance

Collins, Wilkie Antonina Armadale Man and Wife Moonstone No Name Queen of Hearts Woman in White

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock (“Miss Mulock”) Agatha’s Husband Avillion, and other Tales A Brave Lady Christian’s Mistake John Halifax The Head of the Family A Life for a Life Mistress and Maid A Noble Life Nothing New The Ogilvies Olive Two Marriages The Unkind Word and Other Stories The Woman’s Kingdom

Craik, Georgiana M. Mildred

Curtis, G. W. Trumps

Curtis, Harriot F. Jessie’s Flirtations

De Bawr, Mme. The Maid of Honor

De Beauvoir, Roger (“De Beauvoir”) Safia

De Forest, John William (“De Forest”) Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty

Douglas, Ann Jane Dunn (“Mrs. George Cupples”) The Green Hand. A "Short Yarn"

De Mille, James (“De Mille”) Cord and Creese The Cryptogram The Dodge Club

De Vigny, Alfred (“De Vigny”) Cinq-Mars

De Witt (Madame) A French Country Family Motherless

Dickens, Charles (“Dickens”) Hard Times

Drury, Anna H. Misrepresentation

Dumas, Alexandre (“Dumas”) Amaury Ascanio Chevalier d’Harmental The Regent’s Daughter

Dupuy, Eliza A. (“Miss Dupuy”) Country Neighborhood

Eastlake, Lady Elizabeth Rigby Livonian Tales

Edgeworth, Maria (“Edgeworth”) Novels Frank Harry and Lucy Moral Tales Popular Tales Rosamond

Edwards, Amelia B. Barbara’s History Debenham’s Vow Half a Million of Money Hand and Glove The Ladder of Life Miss Carew My Brother’s Wife

Edwards, Annie A Point of Honor

Eiloart, Elizabeth (Mrs. C. J.) (“Mrs. Eiloart”) The Curate’s Discipline From Thistles—Grapes?

Eliot, George Adam Bede Felix Holt, the Radical The Mill on the Floss Romola Scenes of Clerical Life Silas Marner

Ellis, Sarah (“Mrs. Ellis”) Look to the End

Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone (“Miss S. Ferrier”) Marriage

Francillon, Robert Edward (“R. E. Francillon”) Earl’s Dene

Fullom, Stephen Watson (“Fullom”) The Daughter of Night

Gardiner, Harriet Anne Frances (“Countess D’Orsay”) Clouded Happiness

Gaskell (Mrs.) see under Cleghorn

Gibbon, Charles For Lack of Gold

Goddard, Julia Baffled

Gore, Catherine Grace Frances (Moody) (“Mrs. Gore”) The Banker’s Wife The Birthright Peers and Parvenus The Queen of Denmark The Royal Favorite Self

Grattan, Thomas Colley (“T. C. Grattan”) A Chance Medley

Greenwood, Frederick Margaret Denzil’s History

Greenwood, James The True History of a Little Ragamuffin

Grey, Elizabeth Caroline (“Mrs. Grey”) The Bosom Friend The Gambler’s Wife The Young Husband

Hall, Anna Maria (Mrs. S. C.) (“Mrs. Hall”) The Whiteboy Midsummer Eve Woman’s Trials

Hamilton, Mrs. Charles Granville (“G. C. H.”) Constance Lyndsay

Hamley, Edward Bruce Lady Lee’s Widowhood

Hannay, James (“Hannay”) Singleton Fontenoy, R. N.

Hannay, David (“D. Hannay”) Ned Allen

Hardy, Mary (McDowell) Duffus (“Lady Hardy”) Daisy Nichol Which is the Heroine?

Harwood, Isabella [aka Ross Neil] The Heir Expectant Kathleen Raymond’s Heroine

Henningsen, Charles Frederick The white slave

Hofland (Mrs.) The Czarina Daniel Dennison, &c. The Unloved One

Housekeeper, M. R. My Husband’s Crime

Howitt, Mary The Author’s Daughter

Howitt, William Jack of the Mill

Hubback (Mrs.) The Wife’s Sister

Hughes, Arthur Tom Brown’s School Days Tom Brown at Oxford

Hugo, Victor The Toilers of the Sea

Hunt, Leigh The Foster-Brother

Inchbald, Elizabeth (“Mrs. Inchbald”) A Simple Story

Jackson, Henry A Dangerous Guest A First Friendship Gilbert Rugge

James, George Payne Rainsford (“James”) Agincourt Agnes Sorel Aims and Obstacles The Ancient Régime Arabella Stuart Arrah Neil Attila Beauchamp The Castle of Ehrenstein Charles Tyrrel The Club Book The Commissioner The Convict Corse de Lion Darnley De L’Orme The Desultory Man The False Heir The Fate Forest Days The Forgery The Gentleman of the Old School The Gipsy Gowrie Heidelberg Henry Masterdon Henry Smeaton Henry of Guise The Huguenot The Jacquerie John Marston Hall The King’s Highway The Last of the Fairies Leonora d’Orco A Life of Vicissitudes The Man at Arms Margaret Graham Mary of Burgundy Morley Ernstein The Old Dominion The Old Oak Chest One in a Thousand Pequinillo Philip Augustus Richelieu The Robber Rose d’Albret Russell Sir Theodore Broughton The Smuggler The Stepmother The String of Pearls Thirty Years Since Ticonderoga A Whim and its Consequences The Woodman

Jeaffreson, John Cordy (“Jeaffreson”) Isabel Live it Down Not Dead Yet Olive Blake’s Good Work

Jerrold, Douglas William The Chronicles of Clovernook

Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor (“Miss Jewsbury”) Constance Herbert Zoe

Johnstone, Charles Frederick Recollections of Eton

Jolly, Emily Caste

Kingsley, Charles (“Kingsley”) Alton Locke Yeast: a Problem

Kingsley, Henry Hetty Stretton

Knowles, James Sheridan (“Knowles”) Fortescue

Knox, Isa Craig In Duty Bound

Lajetchnikoff The Heretic

Lamartine, Alphonse de (“Lamartine”) Genevieve

Lawrence, George (“Geo. Lawrence”) Anteros Brakespeare Breaking a Butterfly Guy Livingstone Maurice Dering Sans Merci Sword and Gown

Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan (“J. S. Le Fanu”) All in the Dark Guy Deverell A Lost Name The Tenants of Malory Uncle Silas

Lee, Holme [aka Harriet Parr] Annis Warleigh’s Fortunes Kathie Brande Mr. Wynyard’s Ward Sylvan Holt’s Daughter

Lever, Charles James (“Lever”) Barrington The Bramleighs of Bishop’s Folly The Daltons A Day’s Ride The Dodd Family Abroad Fortunes of Glencore Gerald Fitzgerald Luttrell of Arran The Martins of Cro’ Martin Maurice Tiernay One of Them Roland Cashel Sir Brooke Fossbrooke Sir Jasper Carew That Boy of Norcott’s Tony Butler

Lewes, George Henry (“G. H. Lewes”) Three Sisters and Three Fortunes

Liès, Eugène The Female Minister

Linton, Elizabeth Lynn (“Mrs. E. Lynn Linton”) Sowing the Wind Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg

MacDonald, George Alec Forbes of Howglen Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood Guild Court

Marlitt, Eugenie (“E. Marlitt”) Countess Gisela

Marryat, Florence Her Lord and Master

Marsh-Caldwell, Anne (“Mrs. Marsh”) Adelaide Lindsay Aubrey Castle Avon Emilia Wyndham Evelyn Marston Father Darcy The Heiress of Haughton Lettice Arnold Mordaunt Hall Norman’s Bridge Ravenscliffe The Rose of Ashurst Time, the Avenger The Triumphs of Time The Wilmingtons

Masterman, G. J. Belial

McCarthy, Justin H. My Enemy’s Daughter The Waterdale Neighbors

Meinhold Sidonia the Sorceress

Melville, Herman (“Melville”) Mardi Moby-Dick Omoo Pierre Redburn Typee Whitejacket

Milman, Edward Augustus (“E. H. Milman”, “Captain Milman”) Arthur Conway The Wayside Cross

Monkland, Mrs. The Nabob at Home

More, Hannah Complete Works

Mühlbach, Luise (“L. Mühlbach”) Bernthal

Mulock see under Craik

Murray, Charles Augustus (“C. A. Murray”) The Prairie Bird

Murray, Hamilton Falkenburg

Neale (“Captain”) The Lost Ship

Norton, Hon. Caroline Stuart of Dunleath

Notley, Frances Eliza Millet [aka Francis Derrick] Beneath the Wheels

Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Wilson (“Mrs. Oliphant”) Agnes The Athelings Brownlows Chronicles of Carlingford John: a Love Story Katie Stewart Laird of Norlaw Last of the Mortimers Lucy Crofton Madonna Mary The Minister’s Wife Miss Marjoribanks Quiet Heart Perpetual Curate A Son of the Soil

Paalzow, Henriette Wach von The Citizen of Prague

Payn, James A Beggar on Horseback Bred in the Bone Carlyon’s Year Found Dead Gwendoline’s Harvest One of the Family Won—Not Wooed [title also published as Not wooed but won]

Pickering, Ellen (“Miss Pickering”) The Grandfather The Grumbler

Ponsonby, Lady Emily The Discipline of Life Mary Lyndsay Pride and Irresolution

Prittie, Kate Charlotte (“Mrs. Maberly”) The Lady and the Priest Leontine

Reade, Charles The Cloister and the Hearth Foul Play Griffith Gaunt Hard Cash It is Never Too Late to Mend Love Me Little, Love Me Long Peg Woffington and Other Tales Put Yourself in His Place Terrible Temptation White Lies

Riddell, Charlotte Eliza Lawson (“Mrs. J. H. Riddell”) [Mrs. Joseph H. Riddell, aka F. G. Trafford] A Life’s Assize Maxwell Drewitt Phemie Keller The Race for Wealth

Robinson, Emma The Gold Worshipers The Maid of Orleans

Robinson, Frederick William (“F. W. Robinson”) Carry’s Confession Christie’s Faith For Her Sake Mattie: A Stray No Man’s Friend Poor Humanity Stern Necessity True to Herself

Rowcroft, Charles The Bush-Ranger

Sala, George Augustus Quite Alone

Saunders, John Abel Drake’s Wife Martin Pole Bound to the Wheel Hirell

Savage, M. W. My Uncle the Curate

Sedgwick, Catharine Maria (“Miss Sedgwick”) Hope Leslie Live and Let Live Married or Single? Means and Ends Poor Rich Man and Rich Poor Man Stories for Young Persons Tales of Glauber Spa Wilton Harvey and Other Tales

Sedgwick, Susan Anne Livingston Ridley (“Mrs. Sedgwick”) Walter Thornley

Sewell, Elizabeth Missing (“Miss Sewell”) Amy Herbert

Sheppard, Elizabeth Sara Auchester, Charles. A Memorial

Sherwood, Mary Martha (“Mrs. Sherwood”) Works Henry Milner Lady of the Manor Roxobel

Sinclair, Catherine (“Miss Sinclair”) Sir Edward Graham

Skene, Felicia The Tutor’s Ward

Smith, Horace (“H. Smith”) Adam Brown, the Merchant Arthur Arundel Love and Mesmerism

Smythies, Harriet M. G. (Mrs. Gordon) The Breach of Promise The Jilt

Spindler The Jew

Steele, Anna Caroline (Wood) (“Mrs. A. C. Steele”) So Runs the World Away

Stephenson, Eliza Tabor Nature’s Nobleman Meta’s Faith Jeanie’s Quiet Life Rachel’s Secret St. Olave’s

Sue, Eugène (“Sue”) Arthur The Commander of Malta De Rohan

Temme, Jodocus Donatus Hubertus (“Temme”) Anna Hammer

Anne Isabel Thackeray (Ritchie) (“Miss Thackeray”) The Village on the Cliff

Thackeray, William Makepeace (“Thackeray”) The Adventures of Philip Denis Duval The Great Hoggarty Diamond Henry Esmond Lovel the Widower The Newcomes Pendennis Vanity Fair The Virginians

Thomas, Annie [later Cudlip] False Colors Called to Account Denis Donne The Dower House On Guard Only Herself Played Out Playing for High Stakes Theo Leigh Walter Goring

Thomson, A. T. (“Mrs. Thomson”) Lady of Milan

Tieck, Ludwig (“Tieck”) The Elves, &c.

Trollope, Frances Milton (“Mrs. Trollope”) Petticoat Government

Trollope, Anthony Barchester Towers The Belton Estate Bertrams Can You Forgive Her? Castle Richmond The Claverings Doctor Thorne Framley Parsonage He Knew He was Right Last Chronicle of Barset Miss Mackenzie Phineas Finn Orley Farm Rachel Ray Ralph the Heir Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite Small House at Allington The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson Three Clerks Vicar of Bullhampton The Warden

Trollope, Frances Eleanor Anne Furness Mabel’s Progress Veronica

Trollope, T. Adolphus Durnton Abbey Lindisfarn Chase A Siren

Warburton, Eliot (“Warburton”) Darien Reginald Hastings

Ward, R. Plummer (“Ward”) Chatsworth

White, Babington Circe

Wigram, W. Knox (“a Barrister”) Five Hundred Pounds Reward

Wiley, Calvin Henderson Alamance

Wilkinson, Janet W. (“Miss Wilkinson”) Hands not Hearts

Williams, Robert Folkestone (“F. Williams”) The Luttrells

Wills, William Gorman (“Wills”) Notice to Quit The Wife’s Evidence

Wright, Caleb E. Wyoming, A Tale

Wynne, Catherine Simpson Margaret’s Engagement

Yates, Edmund Black Sheep Kissing the Rod Land at Last Wrecked in Port

Zschokke, Heinrich (“Zschokke”) Veronica

Book Author

Aunt Margaret’s Trouble Frances Eleanor Trollope

Carlyon’s Year James Payn

Cecil Mrs. Gore

Doctor Jacob Matilda Betham-Edwards

A First Friendship Henry Jackson

Gilbert Rugge Henry Jackson

Lost Sir Massingberd James Payn

Mabel’s Progress Frances Eleanor Trollope

Mattie: a Stray F. W. Robinson

Olive Varcoe Frances Eliza Millet Notley (Francis Derrick)

Paul Massie Justin H. McCarthy

Rachel’s Secret Eliza Tabor (Stephenson)

Raymond’s Heroine Isabella Harwood (Ross Neil)

St. Olave’s Eliza Tabor (Stephenson)

Some titles have been used for many different books. In case of ambiguity, the one known to have been published by Harper & Brothers in or before 1872 was assumed.

Book Author

Alamance Calvin Henderson Wiley

Belial G. J. Masterman

Bound to John Company M. E. Braddon

The Breach of Promise Harriet M. G. (Mrs. Gordon) Smythies

Caste Emily Jolly

Charles Auchester. A Memorial by Elizabeth Sara Sheppard

The Chronicles of Clovernook Douglas William Jerrold

The Citizen of Prague Henriette Wach von Paalzow

The Discipline of Life Lady Emily Ponsonby

Estelle Russell Mary Allan-Olney

Falkenburg Hamilton Murray

The Female Minister Eugène Liès

A First Friendship Henry Jackson

The Gold Worshipers Emma Robinson

The Green Hand. A “Short Yarn” Mrs. George Cupples

In Duty Bound Isa Craig Knox

Jessie’s Flirtations Harriot F. Curtis

The Jilt Harriet M. G. (Mrs. Gordon) Smythies

Lady Lee’s Widowhood Edward Bruce Hamley

Livonian Tales Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake

The Maid of Honor De Bawr, Mme.

Full Title: The Maid of Honor; or, The Massacre of St. Bartholomew. A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

The Maid of Orleans Emma Robinson

Margaret Denzil’s History Frederick Greenwood

Margaret’s Engagement Catherine Simpson Wynne

Miss Van Kortland Frank Lee Benedict

My Daughter Elinor Frank Lee Benedict

My Husband’s Crime M. R. Housekeeper

My Uncle the Curate M. W. Savage

The Nabob at Home Mrs. Monkland

Nora and Archibald Lee Isa Blagden

A Point of Honor Annie Edwards

Pride and Irresolution Lady Emily Ponsonby

The Professor’s Lady Berthold Auerbach

Rachel’s Secret Eliza Tabor (Stephenson)

Raymond’s Heroine Isabella Harwood (aka Ross Neil)

Recollections of Eton. Charles Frederick Johnstone

The Regent’s Daughter Dumas

St. Olave’s Eliza Tabor (Stephenson)

Tales from the German

Full Title: Tales from the German, comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors

Tom Brown (both titles) Arthur Hughes

The True History of a Little Ragamuffin James Greenwood

The Tutor’s Ward Felicia Skene

Which is the Heroine? Lady Mary Duffus Hardy

The White Slave Charles Frederick Henningsen

Full Title: The white slave; or, The Russian peasant girl

Wyoming Caleb E. Wright

Full Title: Wyoming, A Tale

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