A Victorian wedding My second foray into Mrs Oliphant has been to read the 1892 The Marriage of Elinor – a full-length novel abou...

The 2008 BBC adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbevilles (1891) has gone down in my family folklore. Gemma Arterton as Tess...

In some ways antithetical to the sensation fiction I often write about on this blog, Yonge’s quiet, restrained and domestic novel - the ...