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If you loved The Awakening by Nancy A. Walker, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Historical & Comparative, 19th Century, Linguistics, and Modern.

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Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition ‘a fling at the slave trade’ — G. White

Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition ‘a fling at the slave trade&#8217

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë — Robert Miles

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

Thomas Hardy’s Pastoral An Unkindly May — Indy Clark

Thomas Hardy’s Pastoral An Unkindly May

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

Jane Austen: Emma — David Lodge

Jane Austen: Emma

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine — D. Wynne

The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

The Politics of Jane Austen — E. Neill

The Politics of Jane Austen

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland — Benjamin Colbert

Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland

Benjamin Colbert

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel — T. Carens

Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

A Jane Austen Companion A Critical Survey and Reference Book — F B Pinion

A Jane Austen Companion A Critical Survey and Reference Book

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

Reading Jane Austen — M. Scheuermann

Reading Jane Austen

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

The City of Translation Poetry and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Colombia — José María Rodríguez García

The City of Translation Poetry and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

José María Rodríguez García

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

The Brontes Interviews and Recollections — Harold Orel

The Brontes Interviews and Recollections

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915 — O. Clayton

Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

Romancing Jane Austen Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending — A. Tauchert

Romancing Jane Austen Narrative, Realism, and the Possibility of a Happy Ending

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

Mastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing — J. Taylor

Mastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

The History of Science Fiction — Adam Roberts

The History of Science Fiction

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend The Quest for Knowledge — Katie Garner

Romantic Women Writers and Arthurian Legend The Quest for Knowledge

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

Romanticism and the Museum — E. Peacocke

Romanticism and the Museum

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

Keats and Romantic Celticism — C. Gallant

Keats and Romantic Celticism

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

Consumption and Literature The Making of the Romantic Disease — C. Lawlor

Consumption and Literature The Making of the Romantic Disease

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

Villette, Charlotee Brönte — Pauline Nestor

Villette, Charlotee Brönte

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

Dickens and the Grown-Up Child — M. Andrews

Dickens and the Grown-Up Child

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

Charlotte Brontë — Carl Plasa

Charlotte Brontë

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

Encounters in the Victorian Press Editors, Authors, Readers — L. Brake

Encounters in the Victorian Press Editors, Authors, Readers

Themes: Historical & Comparative • 19th Century • Linguistics

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for The Awakening by Nancy A. Walker — spanning Historical & Comparative, 19th Century, Linguistics and featuring authors such as G. White, Robert Miles, Indy Clark, David Lodge, and others.

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