7 Top 19th century books like The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson

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The Life of Charlotte Brontë

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Angus Easson

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

'It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.'Patrick Bronte E…

If you liked the 19th century plot in The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, Angeline Goreau

1. Agnes Grey

By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more

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  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • classics
"Dakle,"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"No one cares for the exterior."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"But, God knows best, I concluded."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"If you require perfection, you never will"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

Cover of American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee by Karen Abbott

2. American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee

By: Karen Abbott

4.12

Format: None pages,

With the critically acclaimed Sin in the Second City, bestselling author Karen Abbott "pioneered si… read more

Similar categories in Karen Abbott's American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee book and Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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3. The Life of Charlotte Brontë

By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Angus Easson

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

'It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.'Patrick Bronte E… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë book and Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë

  • classics
  • history
  • biography
  • 19th century
  • biography memoir
  • victorian
  • nonfiction
Cover of Villette by Charlotte Brontë, A.S. Byatt, Μαρία Λαϊνά, Ignes Sodre

4. Villette

By: Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Bronte's final novel … read more

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  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • classics
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5. The Professor

By: Charlotte Brontë

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and con… read more

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  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • classics
Cover of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, Stevie Davies

6. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more

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  • 19th century
Cover of A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni

7. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

By: Rob Goodman , Jimmy Soni

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon--the … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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8. Phantastes

By: George MacDonald

3.48

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

"I was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the penultimate chapter of Phantastes. C.S. L… read more

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  • classics
Cover of Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw

9. Caesar and Cleopatra

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.84

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

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  • 19th century
  • classics

10. Shirley

By: Charlotte Brontë , Lucasta Miller , None , Jessica Cox

4.26

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre,which earned her lifelong notoriety as a mora… read more

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11. My Life

By: Bill Clinton

3.74

Format: 1056 pages, Paperback

An exhaustive, soul-searching memoir, Bill Clinton's My Life is a refreshingly candid look at the f… read more

Similar categories in Bill Clinton's My Life book and Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
"I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself."

-Bill Clinton, My Life

"The idea that power was an end in itself, rather than a means to provide the security and opportunity necessary for the pursuit of happiness, seemed to him stupid and self-defeating." (about Senator …"

-Bill Clinton, My Life

"I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can’t be judged by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh j…"

-Bill Clinton, My Life

12. The Brontës

By: Juliet Barker

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Brontes is an engrossing and intimate chronicle of an astonishingly creative family. "Anyone fa… read more

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13. Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson

By: S.C. Gwynne

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of the prizewinning New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Mooncomes a thri… read more

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14. The Brontë Myth

By: Lucasta Miller

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Following the Bronte sisters through their many reincarnations at the hands of biographers, Lucasta… read more

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15. Tesla: Man Out of Time

By: Margaret Cheney

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this "informative and delightful" (American Scientist) biography, Margaret Cheney explores the b… read more

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16. Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart

By: Claire Harman

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking biography that places an obsessive, unrequited love at the heart of the writer's l… read more

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17. The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn

By: Alison Weir

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in May 1536 was unpr… read more

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18. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • classics
"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

19. Jane Austen: A Life

By: Claire Tomalin

3.87

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English-… read more

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Cover of FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History by Steven Lomazow

20. FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

By: Steven Lomazow

4.33

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

THE HIDDEN ILLNESSES THAT SHAPED FDR’S LIFE AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Conventional wisdo… read more

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"Researching this book has been a voyage of discovery and it is a privilege to present an unexpurgated medical biography of the most consequential American of the twentieth century."

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life from a physician’s perspective. It tells a harrowing story of heroic achievement by a great leader determined to impart his vision of freedom …"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shoc…"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

Cover of Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel by Claudia   Clark

21. Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

By: Claudia Clark

4.28

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

One of the great political friendships of the modern world, as told through key moments that shaped… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Clark's Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel book and Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"As she had done when she introduced the US president in Berlin, she addressed him publicly with the informal du for the first time since the NSA controversy in 2013."

-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

"Let me make two remarks. First I concentrate on the task ahead for 2016. I’m quite busy with that—thank you very much. And I’m looking with great interest in the American election campaign.’ For the …"

-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

"Obama’s next words captured the attention of the world and the amusement of those present. As he wagged his finger at the crowd, he scolded, ‘So stop it, all of you. I know you have to find something…"

-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

"In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the p…"

-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

7 must-read classics books like The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson

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Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Life of Charlotte Brontë

Elizabeth Gaskell , Angus Easson

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Villette

Charlotte Brontë , A.S. Byatt , Μαρία Λαϊνά , Ignes Sodre

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Professor

Charlotte Brontë

3.50

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13 Top fiction books like The Professor by Charlotte Brontë

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Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

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The Moorland Cottage (Hesperus Classics)

Elizabeth Gaskell

3.73

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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn

3.89

Transform Your Habits

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

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