Beyond Dickens: Suggested Readings
The Victorian Age was replete with a rich tapestry of authors, playwrights, painters, poets, and other artists and artistes of all kinds; it thus provides a never-ending wealth of new material for our understanding and interpretation of this singular age.
To locate leads as to the whereabouts and activities at the Dickens Fair of such luminaries as, Poe, Kipling, and others, all one must do is pay a visit to the Adventurers’ Club, where, cheek-by-jowl with the age’s literary celebrities, one may chance upon many other famous characters of the time!
Here is just a sample of online reading resources for some of the noteworthy authors of the time:
- Jules Verne
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Jules_Verne/ - E.A. Poe
http://www.literaturepage.com/authors/edgar-allan-poe.html - Rudyard Kipling
http://www.readcentral.com/author/Rudyard-Kipling - Charlotte Brontë
http://www.readcentral.com/mobile/book/Charlotte-Bronte/Read-Jane-Eyre-an-Autobiography-Online - Emily Brontë
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Emily_Bronte/ - Mary Shelley
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Mary_Wollstonecraft_Shelley/
Other interesting books of note:
