Catherine Peters

Desperate Housewife

Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World: A Story of Love, Work, Friendship, and Marriage

By Kathy Chamberlain

Anne Sebba

Rank & Style

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

By Anne de Courcy

John Banville

Scoundrel Manages to Keep his Secrets

Wainewright The Poisoner

By Andrew Motion

Robert Woof

Convivial Study

Tennyson: A Biography

By Peter Levi

Dominic Green

Victorians in Togas

Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity

By Elizabeth Prettejohn & Peter Trippi (edd)

John Sutherland

Body Language

Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

By Kathryn Hughes

Justin Beplate

Coming out of the Coffin

Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula

By David J Skal

Jessica Mann

Working Girl

Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick

By Diane Atkinson

Alan Bell

Remembered Chiefly For His ‘Wife’s’ Novels

G H Lewes: A Life

By Rosemary Ashton

Frank McLynn

Not Enough Selection

Darwin

By Adrian Desmond & James Moore

John Bayley

Boz’s Little Bit

The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens

By Claire Tomalin

Anne Clark Amor

Most Artists is Very Dissipated

Ruskin on Turner

By Dinah Birch

The Victorian Painter’s World

By Paula Gillett

Janet Barron

Same Mephitic Odours

The Letters of Edith Wharton

By RWB Lewis & Nancy Lewis

Elizabeth Longford

Six of the Best

Eminent Victorians

By A N Wilson

Gillian Tindall

Great Scott

Gothic for the Steam Age: An Illustrated Biography of George Gilbert Scott

By Gavin Stamp

Kathryn Hughes

Hasty Scrawls

Harriet Martineau, Selected Letters

By Valerie Sanders (ed)

Kingsley Amis

Doctor’s Dilemma

Kipling the Poet

By Peter Keating

John Bayley

Reader, I Felt it …

Forms of Feeling in Victorian Literature

By Barbara Hardy