Christine is brought up by her itinerant musician father, whose death she mourns endlessly.

Thomas Hardy (1840 1928) was a naturalist and writer, whose fiction sits on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution and is filled with an imminent sense of nostalgia for the coming transformation of the British countryside.

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is the love story between the good shepherd Gabriel Oak and the proud heiress Bathsheba Everdene.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a novel in three parts, written as a letter from Gilbert Markham to his brother-in-Law.

In the third book in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series, Anne of the Island, our protagonist leaves her teaching work in Avonlea in order to study for her B.A. at Redmond College.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz chronicles the adventure of Dorothea in the land of Oz.

Miles Franklin wrote My Brilliant Career as a romance to entertain her friends.

The Marvelous Land of Oz is the second book in Baum's Oz series.

Ozma of Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series.

Anne of Avonlea continues the story of Anne Shirley (heroine of Anne of Green Gables).

Sara Crewe's young but doting father sends her to a London boarding school when she is seven.

The Professor was the first novel Charlotte Bronte wrote, but was only published posthumously.

The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin.

Liza of Lambeth (1897) narrates Liza's last four months alive.

Charles Darwin is the English naturalist whose work laid the foundation for evolutionary biology and theory.

According to the great horror writer H.P. Lovecraft The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils.

Published in 1901, M. P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud is an early last man science fiction novel.

Lady Audley's Secret was one of the first and most successful sensation novels of the late 19th century. A young gentleman of leisure, Robert Audley, is spurred into action when his friend Geroge Talboys goes missing from Audley Court.

Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy follows a young Englishman, Frank Osbaldistone, to Scotland, where he travels to retrieve a debt.

You, my love, will be poor, so as to be more like all other women. In order for us to live together I shall work all day and so be your servant.