15 Top classics books like My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell

Cover of My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell

My Lady Ludlow

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Lady Ludlow is absolute mistress of Hanbury Court and a resolute opponent of anything that might di…

If you liked the classics plot in My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell , here is a list of 15 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

Similar categories in Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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 The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, Verlyn Klinkenborg, None, Michelle Dean

2. The Return of the Soldier

By: Rebecca West , Verlyn Klinkenborg , None , Michelle Dean

3.70

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

  • classics
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"L'indifferenza significa che gli occhi non hanno più bisogno di cercarsi, le mani di protendersi; né le labbra di unirsi, perché è un'unione in cui non ci si accorge più della separazione dei corpi."

-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

"Perché mai la vita moderna ha generato orrori al cui confronto le vecchie tragedie sembrano spettacoli per bambini? Forse perché l'umanità in cerca di avventura ha cambiato troppo il mondo esterno ch…"

-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

"So I went out alone into a soft day, with the dispelled winter lurking above in high dark clouds under which there ran quick fresh currents of air, and broken shafts of insistent sunshine that spread…"

-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

"Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical city. The skin dries and the throat parches as though one were living in the heat of the desert; water…"

-Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

Cover of Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3) by Anthony Trollope, Ruth Rendell

3. Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

By: Anthony Trollope , Ruth Rendell

4.14

Format: 557 pages, Paperback

A recent cover reprint for this ISBN can be found here and an older one here. Son of a bankrupt … read more

Similar categories in Anthony Trollope's Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3) book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart."

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall."

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the …"

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for sh…"

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

Cover of The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2) by James Fenimore Cooper

4. The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

By: James Fenimore Cooper

3.70

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans … read more

Similar categories in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2) book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?"

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

"Do my brothers know the name of this favored people?"

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

"Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!"

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

"Indijanac je stvorenje što ćete ga prije osjetiti nego vidjeti."

-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

Cover of La familia de Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela, Alan Hoyle

5. La familia de Pascual Duarte

By: Camilo José Cela , Alan Hoyle

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Family of Pascual Duarte is the story of Pascual Duarte--a Spanish peasant born into a brutal w… read more

Similar categories in Camilo José Cela's La familia de Pascual Duarte book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

  • fiction
Cover of The Professor by Charlotte Brontë

6. 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

Similar categories in Charlotte Brontë's The Professor book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

  • classics
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov

7. The Three Sisters

By: Anton Chekhov

3.06

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, The Three Sistersprobes the lives and dreams of … read more

Similar categories in Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Helen Small, Stephen Wall

8. Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens , Helen Small , Stephen Wall

4.00

Format: 1021 pages, Paperback

A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs ove… read more

Similar categories in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

"We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

"[...] this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

"[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay."

-Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

Cover of O Nariz by Nina Guerra, Filipe Guerra, Nikolai Gogol

9. O Nariz

By: Nina Guerra , Filipe Guerra , Nikolai Gogol

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

<<O Nariz, um conto do absurdo, claro, mas de um absurdo de dois bicos: age sobre o trivial, mas ta… read more

Similar categories in Nina Guerra's O Nariz book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

10. Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

3.87

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more

Similar categories in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I was quiet, but I was not blind."

-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Cover of Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, Edmund White

11. Daniel Deronda

By: George Eliot , Edmund White

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

George Eliot's final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Derondacontrasts the moral laxity of… read more

Similar categories in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell

12. My Lady Ludlow

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Lady Ludlow is absolute mistress of Hanbury Court and a resolute opponent of anything that might di… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

13. 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

Similar categories in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

Cover of Adam Bede by George Eliot, Joanna Trollope, Hugh Osborne

14. Adam Bede

By: George Eliot , Joanna Trollope , Hugh Osborne

3.82

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

The story of a beautiful country girl's seduction by the local squire and its bitter, tragic sequel… read more

Similar categories in George Eliot's Adam Bede book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"She hates everything that is not what she longs for."

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

"Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds"

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

-George Eliot, Adam Bede

15. The Small House at Allington (Chronicles of Barsetshire #5)

By: Anthony Trollope , Julian Thompson

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

The Small House at Allingtonis the fifth book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester series. As with all … read more

Similar categories in Anthony Trollope's The Small House at Allington (Chronicles of Barsetshire #5) book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

16. The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1)

By: Herman Wouk

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Like no other masterpiece of historical fiction, Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II is the… read more

Similar categories in Herman Wouk's The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1) book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

17. The Mayor of Casterbridge

By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

'I've not always been what I am now' In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

Cover of The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton

18. The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

By: Anthony Trollope , David Skilton

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in p… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Trollope's The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

  • classics
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It is much less difficult for the sufferer to be generous than for the oppressor."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her;--he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking."

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

"They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!"

-Anthony Trollope, The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

Cover of Emily's Quest (Emily, #3) by L.M. Montgomery

19. Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)

By: L.M. Montgomery

4.12

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Emily knows she's going to be a great writer. She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart,… read more

Similar categories in L.M. Montgomery's Emily's Quest (Emily, #3) book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Don’t let a three-o’clock-at-night feeling fog your soul."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)

"Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)

"Oh, I am—I am lonely—with the loneliness of unshared thought."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)

"It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other."

-L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)

Cover of Expiación by Elizabeth von Arnim

20. Expiación

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Todo el mundo adora a Milly, la mujer de Ernest Bott. Y es que es la esposa encantadora, amable, d… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth von Arnim's Expiación book and Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow

  • historical
  • classics
  • fiction
  • british literature

7 must-read historical books like My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell

Transform Your Habits

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Return of the Soldier

Rebecca West , Verlyn Klinkenborg , None , Michelle Dean

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)

James Fenimore Cooper

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

3.87

View all the books

11 must-read fiction books like Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Helen Small, Stephen Wall

Transform Your Habits

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Transform Your Habits

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey

4.28

None

Anthony Trollope

None

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.