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Adventure in time of Louis XV.
Macmillan & Co.
MEMOIRS OF A PHYSICIAN — Dumas (translation)
Louis XV.-XVI. (1770-74)
J. M. Dent & Co.
THE QUEEN'S NECKLACE — Dumas (translation)
Court of Louis XVI. (1784-5)
J. M. Dent & Co.
THE COUNTESS EVE — J. H. Shorthouse
Burgundy, 1785
Macmillan & Co.
IN EXITU ISRAEL — S. Baring-Gould
Church and State in France, 1788-9
Macmillan & Co., 1870
THE KING WITH TWO FACES — M. E. Coleridge
Gustavus III. of Sweden
E. Arnold
MANY WAYS OF LOVE — F. Whishaw
Russia, time of Catharine II.
J. M. Dent & Co.
A FORBIDDEN NAME — F. Whishaw
Russia, time of Catharine II.
Chatto & Windus
THE TURKISH AUTOMATON — Sheila E. Braine
Russia, time of Catharine II.
Blackie & Son
THE PRIDE OF JENNICO — Agnes & Egerton Castle
Moravia, 1771
Macmillan & Co.
REDGAUNTLET — Scott
Time of George III.
A. & C. Black
GUY MANNERING — Scott
Time of George III.
A. & C. Black
KATERFELTO — G. J. Whyte-Melville
Time of George III. (Exmoor).
W. Thacker & Co. and Ward, Lock, & Co.
THE ORANGE GIRL — Walter Besant
Time of George III.
Chatto & Windus
*THE ROCK OF THE LION — M. E. Seawell
Time of George III.
Harper & Brothers
* Deals with the Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783.
BARNABY RUDGE — Dickens
Time of George III. (Gordon Riots)
Chapman & Hall
THE MAID OF SKER — R. D. Blackmore
Time of George III.
Sampson Low & Co.
MISS ANGEL — Miss Thackeray
Art (Reynolds & Angelica Kauffmann)
Smith, Elder, & Co.
THE FATAL GIFT — F. Frankfort Moore
The Sisters Gunning
Hutchinson & Co.
A NEST OF LINNETS — F. Frankfort Moore
R. B. Sheridan, Johnson, &c.
Hutchinson & Co.
THE SURGEON'S DAUGHTER — Scott
Fifeshire, Isle of Wight, and India (1780)
A. & C. Black
THE CASTLE INN — Stanley Weyman
English Manners, late Eighteenth Century
Smith, Elder, & Co.
THE TONE KING — Heribert Rau (trans.)
Mozart
Jarrold & Sons
THE VIRGINIA COMEDIANS — J. E. Cooke
Virginia, 1763-5
D. Appleton & Co., 1854
ALICE OF OLD VINCENNES — Maurice Thompson
Fort Vincennes (Clark's Conquest)
Cassell & Co.
THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS — Daniel P. Thompson
American Revolution
B. B. Mussey & Co., Boston. Revised edition, 1848
*LIONEL LINCOLN — Fennimore Cooper
American Revolution
Geo. Routledge & Sons
* "Lionel Lincoln" treats of Boston in the time of Bunker Hill (1775); "The Spy" of Hudson River district 1782); and "The Pilot" of Paul Jones (1779).
THE SPY — Fennimore Cooper
American Revolution
Geo. Routledge & Sons
THE PILOT — Fennimore Cooper
American Revolution
Geo. Routledge & Sons
RICHARD CARVEL — Winston Churchill
American Revolution
Macmillan & Co.
HUGH WYNNE — S. Weir Mitchell
American Revolution (Washington)
Macmillan & Co.
A GREAT TREASON — Mary A. M. Hoppus
American Revolution (Benedict Arnold)
Macmillan & Co.
A SOLDIER OF VIRGINIA — Burton Eghert Stevenson
American Revolution
Duckworth & Co.
PHILIP WINWOOD — R. N. Stephens
American Revolution
Chatto & Windus
LOVE LIKE A GIPSY — Bernard Capes
American Revolution
Constable & Co.
JANICE MEREDITH — P. L. Ford
American Revolution
Constable & Co.
THE TORY LOVER — Sarah Orne Jewett
American Revolution (Paul Jones)
Smith, Elder, & Co.
CARDIGAN — R. W. Chambers
American Revolution
Constable & Co.
*THE FORAYERS and EUTAW — W. G. Simms
American Revolution
W. J. Widdleton, New York
* The two last of a series covering the American War period.
HORSE-SHOE ROBINSON — J. P. Kennedy
Virginia, 1780
R. Bentley, 1835
THE DUKE OF STOCKBRIDGE — E. Bellamy
Massachusetts (Shays' Rebellion)
Gay & Bird
ANGE PITOU — Dumas (translation)
French Revolution period
J. M. Dent & Co.
LA COMTESSE DE CHARNY — Dumas (translation)
French Revolution period (1789-94)
J. M. Dent & Co.
CHEVALIER DE MAISON ROUGE — Dumas (translation)
French Revolution period (1793)
J. M. Dent & Co.
*THE STORY OF A PEASANT — Erckmann-Chatrian (translation)
French Revolution period (1789-1815)
Ward, Lock, & Co.
* Collective title of the four tales—"The States-General" (1789),
"The Country in Danger" (1792), "Year One of the Republic" (1793),
and "Citizen Bonaparte" (1794-1815). Erckmann-Chatrian's "Madame
Therese" (translation) is another good story of this period (1792).
THE REDS OF THE MIDI — Felix Gras (translation)
French Revolution period
W. Heinemann
THE TERROR — Felix Gras (translation)
French Revolution period
W. Heinemann
THE WHITE TERROR — Felix Gras (translation)
French Revolution period
W. Heinemann
A TALE OF TWO CITIES — Dickens
French Revolution period
Chapman & Hall
L'AN '93 — Victor Hugo (trans.)
French Revolution period
J. M. Dent & Co.
MY LADY MARCIA — Eliza F. Pollard
French Revolution period
T. Nelson & Sons
THE ATELIER DU LYS — Miss Roberts
French Revolution period
Longmans, Green, & Co.
ON THE EDGE OF THE STORM — Miss Roberts
French Revolution period
Warne & Co.
CITOYENNE JACQUELINE — S. Tytler
French Revolution period
Chatto & Windus
LA VENDEE — Anthony Trollope
French Revolution period
Colburn, 1850
THE RED COCKADE — Stanley Weyman
French Revolution period
Longmans, Green, & Co.
MADEMOISELLE MATHILDE — Henry Kingsley
French Revolution period
Ward, Lock, & Co.
THE ADVENTURES OF FRANCOIS FOUNDER — S. Weir Mitchell
French Revolution period
Macmillan & Co.
*A STORM-RENT SKY — M. Betham Edwards
French Revolution period
Hurst & Blackett
* This striking tale deals with Danton's career. In "A Romance of Dijon" (Black) and "The Dream-Charlotte" (Black) Miss Betham Edwards has depicted earlier phases of the Revolution; the last- named novel takes us away from the Capital, to show us how the forces of the time affected the simple folk of Normandy.
THE ADVENTURES OF THE COMTE DE LA MUETTE — Bernard Capes
French Revolution period
W. Blackwood & Sons
OUR LADY OF DARKNESS — Bernard Capes
French Revolution period
W. Blackwood & Sons
THE RED SHIRTS — Paul Gaulot. (trans.)
French Revolution period
Chatto & Windus
A GIRL OF THE MULTITUDE — Anonymous
French Revolution period
Fisher Unwin
THE LITTLE SAINT OF GOD — Lady F. Cunningham
French Revolution period
Hurst & Blackett
ST. KATHERINE'S BY THE TOWER — Walter Besant
French Revolution period (England, 1793)
Chatto & Windus
AT THE SIGN OF THE GUILLOTINE — Harold Spender
Robespierre, 1794
Fisher Unwin
THE PARSON'S DAUGHTER — Emma Marshall
George Romney, the Painter
Seeley & Co.
THE MAID OF MAIDEN LANE — Amelia E. Barr
New York, 1791
Fisher Unwin
ARTHUR MERVYN — Charles Brocden Brown
Philadelphia, 1793 (yellow fever year)
H. Maxwell, Phil., 1799
ROPES OF SAND — R. E. Francillon
North Devon, 1793
Chatto & Windus
A BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS — Julian Corbett
Sussex Smugglers and French Conspirators
Methuen & Co.
THE WHITES AND THE BLUES — Dumas (translation)
Rise of Napoleon (1793-9)
J. M. Dent & Co.
THE CHOIR INVISIBLE — James Lane Allen
Kentucky, 1795
Macmillan & Co.
THE MILLS OF GOD — Elinor Macartney Lane
Virginia and England
D. Appleton & Co.
THE KING'S OWN — Marryatt
Mutiny at the Nore, 1797
J. M. Dent & Co.
ADMIRAL — Douglas Sladen
Nelson, 1798-9
Hutchinson & Co.
THE BATTLE OF THE STRONG — Gilbert Parker
Jersey, &c., end of Eighteenth Century
Methuen & Co.
IN PRESS-GANG DAYS — E. Pickering
Battle of the Nile, &c.
Warne & Co.
THE ANTIQUARY — Scott
Scotch Manners, last decade of Eighteenth Century
A. & C. Black
THE KING'S DEPUTY — H. A. Hinkson
Dublin in time of Grattan
Lawrence & Bullen
RORY O'MORE — S. Lover
Ireland (the '98 Rebellion)
Constable & Co.
KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN — Randal McDonnell
Ireland (the '98 Rebellion)
Fisher Unwin
TWO CHIEFS OF DUNBOY — J. A. Froude
Ireland (the '98 Rebellion)
Longmans, Green, & Co.
THE REBELS — M. McD. Bodkin
Ireland (the '98 Rebellion)
Ward, Lock, & Co.
UP FOR THE GREEN — H. A. Hinkson
Ireland (the '98 Rebellion)
Lawrence & Bullen
THE CROPPY — John and Michael Banim
Ireland (the '98 Rebellion)
Henry Colburn, 1828
THE INIMITABLE MRS. MASSINGHAM — Herbert Compton
Gretna Green & Botany Bay, 1799
Chatto & Windus
THE COMPANIONS OF JEHU — Dumas (translation)
Napoleon in Egypt (1799-1800)
J. M. Dent & Co.
THE MINISTER'S WOOING — Mrs. Beecher Stowe
American Manners (late Eighteenth to early Nineteenth Century.)
Sampson Low & Co.
LITTLE JARVIS — M. E. Seawell
American quarrel with France (Constellation cruises, 1798-1800.)
D. Appleton & Co.
THE HUNGARIAN BROTHERS — A. M. Porter
Vienna in the last decade of the Century
Warne & Co.
THE CHOUANS — Balzac (translation)
Brittany in 1800
J. M. Dent & Co.
RODNEY STONE — Conan Doyle
English Social Life, beginning of Nineteenth Century
Smith, Elder, & Co.
THE LORDS OF STROGUE — Lewis Wingfield
Ireland at the Union
Bentley, 1879
SWALLOW BARN — J. P. Kennedy
Virginian Life, beginning of Nineteenth Century
G. P. Putnam, 1851
BLENNERHASSETT — C. F. Pidgin
America—time of Aaron Burr
C. M. Clark Publishing Co., Boston
A SON OF THE REVOLUTION — Elbridge S. Brooks
America—time of Aaron Burr
Wilde & Co., Boston
THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY — E. E. Hale
America—time of Aaron Burr (1805-7)
Roberts, Boston
AT THE POINT OF THE BAYONET — G. A. Henty
Battle of Assaye, &c.
Blackie & Son
THE HOUR AND THE MAN — Harriet Martineau
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Cassell ("Red Library," 1886)
THE ADVENTURES OF A GOLDSMITH — M. H. Bourchier
France—Royalist Conspiracy under the Consulate
Elkin Mathews
PICCIOLA — X. B. Saintine (trans.)
Earlier Napoleonic period
Sampson Low & Co.
A BOY OF THE FIRST EMPIRE — Elbridge S. Brooks
Napoleon, Fouche, &c. (1806-15)
S. W. Partridge & Co.
WHEN GEORGE III. WAS KING — A. Sagon
Time of Nelson
Sands & Co.
SPRINGHAVEN — R. D. Blackmore
Time of Nelson (Trafalgar)
Sampson Low & Co.
*TRAFALGAR — B. Perez Galdos (trans.)
Time of Nelson (Trafalgar)
Trubner & Co., 1884
* One of the series (20 vols.), "Episodios Nacionales," dealing with the Spanish War of Independence.
AFLOAT WITH NELSON — Charles H. Eden
Time of Nelson (Trafalgar)
J. Macqueen
RUHE IST DIE ERSTE BURGERFLICHT and ISEGRIMM — Wilibald Alexis
Prussia—Invasion of Napoleon, &c.
Barthol, Berlin (1852 and 1854)
RAFAEL — Ernest Daudet (trans.)
Spain—Charles IV. and Napoleon
Sampson Low & Co.
TOM BURKE Of "OURS" — Charles Lever
French Wars (Consulate—Empire)
Downey & Co. and Geo. Routledge & Sons
THE AIDE-DE-CAMP — James Grant
Battle of Maida, 1806
Geo. Routledge & Sons
CHARLES O'MALLEY — Charles Lever
Peninsular War
Downey & Co. and Geo. Routledge & Sons
ALICE LORRAINE — R. D. Blackmore
Peninsular War
Sampson Low & Co.
THE ROMANCE OF WAR — James Grant
Peninsular War
Geo. Routledge & Sons
WITH MOORE AT CORUNNA and UNDER WELLINGTON'S COMMAND — G. A. Henty
Peninsular War
Blackie & Son
THE SUBALTERN — G. R. Gleig
Peninsular War
W. Blackwood & Sons
THE BIVOUAC — W. H. Maxwell
Peninsular War
Geo. Routledge & Sons
SONS OF THE SWORD — Margaret L. Woods
Peninsular War
W. Heinemann
WITH THE RED EAGLE — W. Westall
Austria, early Nineteenth Century
Chatto & Windus
A RED BRIDAL — W. Westall
Austria, early Nineteenth Century (Hofer.)
Chatto & Windus
WAR AND PEACE — Tolstoy (translation)
Napoleon's Russian Campaign
Walter Scott
KENNETH — Charlotte M. Yonge
Napoleon's Russian Campaign
Macmillan & Co.
THROUGH RUSSIAN SNOWS — G. A. Henty
Napoleon's Russian Campaign
Blackie & Son
SHIRLEY — Charlotte Bronte
The "Luddite" Riots
Smith, Elder, & Co.
FOREST FOLK — James Prior
The "Luddite" Riots
W. Heinemann
AN OCEAN FREE LANCE — Clark Russell
Privateering in 1812
Sampson Low & Co.
ST. RONAN'S WELL — Scott
Near Firth of Forth, 1812
A. & C. Black
D'RI AND I. — Irving Bacheller
America—War of 1812
Grant Richards
THE BIG BROTHER — G. C. Eggleston
America—War of 1812. Indian War, 1813
G. P. Putnam's Sons
IN THE YEAR '13 — Fritz Renter (trans.)
French occupation of Mecklenburg
Sampson Low & Co. (Tauchnitz edition, 1867)
UNCLE BERNAC — Conan Doyle
Napoleon and his time
Smith, Elder, & Co.
EXPLOITS OF BRIGADIER GERARD — Conan Doyle
Napoleon and his time
George Newnes
THE SHADOW OF THE SWORD — R. Buchanan
Napoleon and his time (Elba.)
Chatto & Windus
GRANTLEY FENTON — M. M. Blake
Napoleon and his time (Elba.)
Jarrold & Sons
VENGEANCE IS MINE — A. Balfour
Napoleon and his time (Elba.)
Methuen & Co.
FACE TO FACE WITH NAPOLEON and IN THE YEAR OF WATERLOO — O. V. Caine
Napoleon and his time
J. Nisbet & Co.
ONE OF THE 28th. — G. A. Henty
Napoleon and his time (Waterloo.)
Blackie & Son
THE BLOCKADE — Erckmann-Chatrian (translation)
Napoleon and his time
Ward, Lock, & Co.
*THE CONSCRIPT and WATERLOO — Erckmann-Chatrian (translation)
Napoleon and his time
Ward, Lock, & Co.
* These two books depict the period September, 1812-July, 1815.
STORIES OF WATERLOO — W. H. Maxwell
Napoleon and his time
Geo. Routledge & Sons
THE GREAT SHADOW — Conan Doyle
Napoleon and his time (Waterloo.)
J. W. Arrowsmith
ST. IVES — R. L. Stevenson
French prisoner in England, 1813—14
W. Heinemann
CHEAP JACK ZITA — S. Baring-Gould
The Fen Riots
Methuen & Co.
LES MISERABLES — Victor Hugo (trans.)
France, 1815
J. M. Dent & Co.
LAZARRE — Mrs. Catherwood
Son of Louis XVI. (France and America, 1795-1815)
Grant Richards
THE NAMELESS CASTLE — M. Jokai (trans.)
Daughter of Louis XVI. (Hungary in the Napoleonic period)
Jarrold & Sons
LORDS OF THE NORTH — Agnes C. Laut
Canada—Hudson Bay Company versus North-West Company
W. Heinemann
THE REVOLUTION IN TANNER'S LANE — Mark Rutherford
Nonconformity, early Nineteenth Century
Fisher Unwin
THE MANCHESTER MAN — Mrs. G. L. Banks
Manchester, early Nineteenth
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