Set England
What is a good book set hundreds of years ago in England?
I just feel like reading this kind of book. Could be 18th century or hundreds of years back from that. Could anyone recommend a good book?
Do you want to read classics, or just novels about times of yore?
For writers writing in past centuries, there are the Bronte sisters; Jane Austen writing at the end of the 18th and early 19th centuries; Fanny Burney in the 18th; Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe – and Samuel Pepys’ diary is quite fascinating as he writes during the restoration of Charles II, the Great Plague and Great Fire of London in the 17th century.
“Katherine” by Anya Seton is the story of the Katherine, sister-in-law of the poet Chaucer, and how she becomes the mistress of John of Gaunt in the 14th century. It’s a much-loved book.
If you like mysteries, Ellis Peters wrote the Brother Cadfael books; he’s a Welsh monk in an English monastery, and they’re set in the 12th century.
There are loads of romances by modern authors set in the 18th century, Regency times and Victorian era. Probably the very best Regency romance author (apart from Jane Austen) is Georgette Heyer; she also wrote a few books set in other times.
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