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Across Literary Figures, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Modern, and European — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Jane Austen by Helen Lefroy.

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Mad World Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead — Paula Byrne

Mad World Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

George Orwell’s Perverse Humanity Socialism and Free Speech — Glenn Burgess

George Orwell’s Perverse Humanity Socialism and Free Speech

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Narnian The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis — Alan Jacobs

The Narnian The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Haunted Wood A History of Childhood Reading — Sam Leith

The Haunted Wood A History of Childhood Reading

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Diary of Samuel Pepys A Selection — Samuel Pepys

The Diary of Samuel Pepys A Selection

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Victorians Undone Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum — Kathryn Hughes

Victorians Undone Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Jane Austen Illusion and Reality — Christopher Brooke

Jane Austen Illusion and Reality

Christopher Brooke

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

England in the Age of Dickens 1812-70 — Jeremy Black

England in the Age of Dickens 1812-70

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Churchill and Orwell The Fight for Freedom — Thomas E. Ricks

Churchill and Orwell The Fight for Freedom

Thomas E. Ricks

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp — H. Davies

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Thomas Hardy Half a Londoner — Mark Ford

Thomas Hardy Half a Londoner

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Dracula Secrets Jack the Ripper and the Darkest Sources of Bram Stoker — Neil R. Storey

The Dracula Secrets Jack the Ripper and the Darkest Sources of Bram Stoker

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Charles Dickens The Man, the Novels, the Victorian Age — Lucinda Hawksley

Charles Dickens The Man, the Novels, the Victorian Age

Lucinda Hawksley

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Dinner with Joseph Johnson Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age — Daisy Hay

Dinner with Joseph Johnson Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Vera Brittain and the First World War The Story of Testament of Youth — Mark Bostridge

Vera Brittain and the First World War The Story of Testament of Youth

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Wyndham Lewis An Anthology of His Prose — E. W. F. Tomlin

Wyndham Lewis An Anthology of His Prose

E. W. F. Tomlin

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Jane Austen at Home A Biography — Lucy Worsley

Jane Austen at Home A Biography

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Uncommon Reader A Life of Edward Garnett — Helen Smith

The Uncommon Reader A Life of Edward Garnett

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The World in Thirty-eight Chapters, Or, Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life — Henry Hitchings

The World in Thirty-eight Chapters, Or, Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life

Henry Hitchings

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Soul of the Age The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare — Jonathan Bate

Soul of the Age The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Agatha Christie — Cathy Cook

Agatha Christie

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Straight Acting The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare — Will Tosh

Straight Acting The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Samuel Johnson A Biography — Peter Martin

Samuel Johnson A Biography

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Crichel Boys Scenes from England’s Last Literary Salon — Simon Fenwick

The Crichel Boys Scenes from England’s Last Literary Salon

Themes: Literary Figures • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

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