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Readers who finished Jane Austen by Carol Shields and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century, English, and Biography & Autobiography.

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Horses Their Life in Pictures — Beatrice Michel

Horses Their Life in Pictures

Beatrice Michel

Themes: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century • English

Sherlock Holmes in the Midlands — Paul Lester

Sherlock Holmes in the Midlands

Themes: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century • English

Said and Done — Roger McGough

Themes: English • Biography & Autobiography

A Million Tears The tears of war and peace / Paul Henke — Paul Henke

A Million Tears The tears of war and peace / Paul Henke

Themes: English • Biography & Autobiography

Dick Francis A Racing Life — Graham Lord

Dick Francis A Racing Life

Themes: English • Biography & Autobiography

Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution — McLaren, Peter

Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution

Themes: English • Biography & Autobiography

siegfried_sasoon — j-roberts

siegfried_sasoon — j-roberts

Themes: English • Biography & Autobiography

STRING TOO SHORT TO BE SAVED Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm — Donald Hall

STRING TOO SHORT TO BE SAVED Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm

Themes: English • Biography & Autobiography

As Nature Made Him — John Colapinto

As Nature Made Him

Themes: English • Biography & Autobiography

The Hacienda My Venezuelan Years — Lisa St Aubin de Terán

The Hacienda My Venezuelan Years

Lisa St Aubin de Terán

Themes: English • Biography & Autobiography

Edith Sitwell A Unicorn Among Lions — Victoria Glendinning

Edith Sitwell A Unicorn Among Lions

Victoria Glendinning

Themes: English • Biography & Autobiography

A. Philip Randolph — Kersten, Andrew E.

A. Philip Randolph

Kersten, Andrew E.

Themes: English • Biography & Autobiography

Gilchrist on Blake : The Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist — Richard Holmes (ed)

Gilchrist on Blake : The Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist

Richard Holmes (ed)

Themes: English • Biography & Autobiography

Lucia Joyce To Dance in the Wake — Carol Loeb Shloss

Lucia Joyce To Dance in the Wake

Carol Loeb Shloss

Themes: English • Biography & Autobiography

A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors: Containing Over Thirty-Seven Thousand Articles — Samuel Austin Allibone

A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors: Containing Over Thirty-Seven Thousand Articles

Samuel Austin Allibone

Themes: English • Biography & Autobiography

Philip Larkin A Writer’s Life — Andrew Motion

Philip Larkin A Writer’s Life

Themes: English • Biography & Autobiography

English cyclopaedia, a new dictionary of universal knowledge — Charles Knight

English cyclopaedia, a new dictionary of universal knowledge

Themes: English

A new general English dictionary; peculiarly calculated for the use and improvement of such as are unacquainted with the learned languages. Originally begun by the late Reverend Mr. Thomas Dyche — Thomas Dyche

A new general English dictionary; peculiarly calculated for the use and improvement of such as are unacquainted with the learned languages. Originally begun by the late Reverend Mr. Thomas Dyche

Themes: English

Concise Oxford English Dictionary — Catherine Soanes

Concise Oxford English Dictionary

Catherine Soanes

Themes: English

Happily Ever After at the Dog & Duck — Jill Steeples

Happily Ever After at the Dog & Duck

Themes: English

A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary And Expositor Of The English Language — John Walker

A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary And Expositor Of The English Language

Themes: English

Way To Pass National Eng 4 — Carol Vorderman

Way To Pass National Eng 4

Carol Vorderman

Themes: English

Schrader on Schrader — Paul Schrader

Schrader on Schrader

Themes: English

Webster’s Condensed Dictionary of the English Language, With Copious Etymological Derivations, Accurate Definitions, Pronunciation, Spelling, and Appe — Noah Webster

Webster’s Condensed Dictionary of the English Language, With Copious Etymological Derivations, Accurate Definitions, Pronunciation, Spelling, and Appe

Themes: English

If Jane Austen by Carol Shields is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century, English, Biography & Autobiography and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Beatrice Michel, Paul Lester, Roger McGough, Paul Henke, and others.

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