- At home with Jane Austen, Kim Wilson
- Jane Austen, Carol Shields
- The life of Charlotte Brontë, by Elizabeth C. Gaskell ; with an introduction by Clement Shorter
- Geraldine Jewsbury, her life and errors, by Susanne Howe
- Graham Greene, by John Atkins
- Samuel Butler, the incarnate bachelor
- Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings, by Constance Hill; with illustrations by Ellen G. Hill and reproductions of portraits ..
- The mirror of the sea, Joseph Conrad
- Memories of Charles Dickens, with an account of Household words and All the year round, and of the contributors thereto, by Percy Fitzgerald
- The real Jane Austen, a life in small things, Paula Byrne
- Jane Austen at home, a biography, Lucy Worsley
- The invisible woman, the story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, Claire Tomalin
- A writer's recollections, by Mrs. Humphry Ward ..
- Something in the blood, The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula, David J. Skal
- Darling Madame, Sarah Grand and devoted friend, by Gillian Kersley
- Samuel Butler, 1835-1902, by P. N. Furbank
- George Gissing, classicist, by Samuel Vogt Gapp..
- The Brontës, [wild genius on the moors: the story of a literary family], Juliet Barker
- George Eliot, the last Victorian, Kathryn Hughes
- Charles Dickens, Jane Smiley
- Tea with Jane Austen, Kim Wilson
- Jane's fame, how Jane Austen conquered the world, Claire Harman
- Lady Caroline Lamb, a free spirit, Antonia Fraser
- Jane Austen at home, Lucy Worsley
- The Brontë myth, Lucasta Miller
- The monsters, Mary Shelley and the curse of Frankenstein, Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler