Ten top nineteenth-century novels

Joanna Trollope was an English writer. Some of her best known works include The Rector's Wife (her first #1 bestseller), A Village Affair, Other People's Children, and Marrying the Mistress. She was awarded the OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honors List for services to literature.

In February 2000 at the Guardian she tagged ten top nineteenth-century novels, including:

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

This has everything - joy, grief, success, failure, wealth, poverty, comedy, tragedy - and above all, atmosphere by the bucketload.

Read about the other entries on the list.

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--Marshal Zeringue