Books 2010

Having finally started keeping a proper list of everything I read, I can now publish the roll of honour for 2010.  I have included only books read from cover to cover, so much of the frightful theory texts with which I have grappled has been excluded.  An asterisk denotes a re-read.

1. The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope
2. Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women by Jenny Hartley
3. The Heart of Jane Warner by Florence Marryat
4. Moths by Ouida
5. The Hampstead Mystery by Florence Marryat
6. Love’s Conflict by Florence Marryat *
7. Hidden Depths by Felicia Skene
8. Ouida: The Passionate Victorian by Eileen Bigland
9. Esther Waters by George Moore
10. Gup by Florence Marryat *
11. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon by Pam Hirsch
12. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert *
13. The Spirit World by Florence Marryat *
14. Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
15. Open! Sesame! by Florence Marryat
16. How They Loved Him by Florence Marryat
17. Life and Letters of Captain Marryat by Florence Marryat
18. Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
19. The Girls of Feversham by Florence Marryat
20. Peeress and Player by Florence Marryat
21. Woman Against Woman in Victorian England: A Life of Eliza Lynn Linton by Nancy Fix Anderson
22. Diana Tempest by Mary Cholmondeley
23. A Fatal Silence by Florence Marryat
24. Captain Marryat by Tom Pocock
25. The Heir Presumptive by Florence Marryat
26. A Little Stepson by Florence Marryat
27. Mystical Vampire: The Life and Works of Mabel Collins by Kim Farnell
28. Villette by Charlotte Brontë *
29. A Moment of Madness and Other Stories by Florence Marryat
30. Blindfold by Florence Marryat
31. City and Suburb by Charlotte Riddell
32. A Superfluous Woman by Emma Brooke
33. Good-bye, Sweetheart! by Rhoda Broughton
34. Spiders of Society by Florence Marryat
35. The Nobler Sex by Florence Marryat *
36. Driven to Bay by Florence Marryat
37. The Silver Domino by Marie Corelli
38. Henry Dunbar by Mary Elizabeth Braddon *
39. The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland by Eliza Lynn Linton
40. A Lucky Disappointment and Other Stories by Florence Marryat
41. Consuming Passions by Judith Flanders
42. Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope
43. Body Parts by Hermione Lee
44. The Beth Book by Sarah Grand
45. Tom Tiddler’s Ground by Florence Marryat
46. A Scarlet Sin by Florence Marryat
47. Dear Faustina by Rhoda Broughton
48. Persuasion by Jane Austen
49. The Blackest Streets by Sarah Wise
50. The Claverings by Anthony Trollope
51. There is No Death by Florence Marryat *
52. Walter Goring by Annie Thomas
53. Realities by Eliza Lynn Linton
54. George Geith of Fen Court by Charlotte Riddell
55. The Dream that Stayed by Florence Marryat
56. Why Did She Love Him? by Florence Marryat
57. Beautiful For Ever: Madame Rachel of Bond Street by Helen Rappaport
58. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
59. Wyllard’s Weird by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
60. Mount Eden by Florence Marryat
61. Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith
62. With Cupid’s Eyes by Florence Marryat
63. Gentleman and Courtier by Florence Marryat
64. Frances Power Cobbe by Sally Mitchell
65. False Colours by Annie Thomas
66. The Master Passion by Florence Marryat
67. Parson Jones by Florence Marryat
68. The Half Sisters by Geraldine Jewsbury
69. A Daughter of the Tropics by Florence Marryat
70. Elizabeth Robins by Angela V. John
71. The Magnificent Mrs Tennant by David Waller
72. Reviewing Sex by Nicola Diana Thompson
73. Victorian Sensation Fiction by Andrew Radford
74. Mudie’s Circulating Library and the Victorian Novel by Guinivere Griest
75. The Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird
76. Heart and Science by Wilkie Collins
77. Linda Tressel by Anthony Trollope
78. Edging Women Out by Gail Tuchman & Nina Fortin
79. Fanny Kemble by Rebecca Jenkins
80. The Evil Genius by Wilkie Collins
81. In Haste and in Leisure by  Eliza Lynn Linton
82. The Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat *
83. Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope
84. A Mummer’s Wife by George Moore
85. A Drama in Muslin by George Moore
86. Matilda Betham-Edwards by Joan Rees
87. The American Senator by Anthony Trollope
88. The Legacy of Cain by Wilkie Collins
89. Vice Versâ by F. Anstey
90. East of Suez by Alice Perrin
91. Footprints in the Snow by Dora Russell
92. Transition by Emma Brooke
93. Not While She Lives by Mrs Alexander Fraser
94. Cometh up as a Flower by Rhoda Broughton *
95. Notable Women Authors of the Day by Helen C. Black
96. Born in Exile by George Gissing
97. The Letters of Annie S. Swan by Annie S. Swan
98. John Strange Winter: A Volume of Personal Record by Oliver Bainbridge
99. A Blameless Woman by John Strange Winter
100. Darling Madame by Gillian Kersley
101. A Waif’s Progress by Rhoda Broughton
102. Wives and Property in Victorian England by Lee Holcombe
103. Life of Edna Lyall by J M Escreet
104. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess by Maureen Peters
105. We Two by Edna Lyall
106. Marriage, Wife-beating and the Law in Victorian England by Maeve Doggett
107. Salem Chapel by Margaret Oliphant
108. Bluestockings by Jane Robinson
109. My Life by Annie S. Swan
110. Adrienne Hope by Matilda Hay
111. Kept in the Dark by Antony Trollope
112. Mid-Victorian Memories by Matilda Betham-Edwards
113. Recommended to Mercy by Mrs Houstoun
114. Memories of Victorian London by L B Walford
115. Derrick Vaughan, Novelist by Edna Lyall
116. A Husband of No Importance by Rita
117. The Autobiography of a Slander by Edna Lyall
118. The Story of a Penitent Soul by Adeline Sergeant
119. Her World Against a Lie by Florence Marryat *
120. Recollections of a Scottish Novelist by L B Walford
121. Comin’ Thro’ the Rye by Helen Mathers
122. The New Othello by Iza Duffus Hardy
123. Which Shall it Be? by Mrs Alexander
124. He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
125. Myths of Sexuality by Lynda Nead
126. Miss Harrington’s Husband by Florence Marryat *
127. My Literary Life by Eliza Lynn Linton
128. The First Violin by Jessie Fothergill
129. Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith *
130. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë *
131. The War Workers by E M Delafield
132. Feminizing Venereal Disease by Mary Spongberg
133. Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins *
134. Her Lord and Master by Florence Marryat *
135. How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
136. Wild Romance by Chloë Schama
137. Uncommon Arrangements by Katie Roiphe
138. Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
139. Wee Wifie by Rosa Nouchette Carey
140. Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform by Paul McHugh
141. Vera Nevill by Mrs Lovett Cameron
142. The Light that Failed by Rudyard Kipling
143. Let the Flowers Go: A Life of Mary Cholmondeley by Carolyn Oulton
144. The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
145. Iva Kildare by L B Walford
146. Under the Lilies and Roses by Florence Marryat *
147. The New Magadalen by Wilkie Collins
148. A Little Rebel by Mrs Hungerford
149. Bleak Houses by Lisa Surridge
150. Jezebel’s Daughter by Wilkie Collins
151. The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope
152. The Blessed Day’s of Anaesthesia by Stephanie Snow
153. Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
154. The Wing of Azrael by Mona Caird
155. Love Well the Hour: The Life of Lady Colin Campbell by Anne Jordan
156. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins *
157. Gallia by Ménie Muriel Dowie
158. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
159. Firmin by Sam Savage
160. The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins