Good Victorian fantasy novels?!?

Question

Does anyone know any good victorian fantasy novels. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Try reading: Doomed Queen Anne by Caroline Meyers. It's a "partly" true story and is very interesting. It falls under Drama/Romance category, but I got hooked to the book and couldn't take my eyes off of it until I finished. Highly Recommended for those Victorian age lovers.

Answer 2

Fantasy by Victorians, or fantasy about Victorians?

For the former, check out Wilkie Collins--The Woman in White is a good one, and though not really a fantasy, The Moonstone has many fantastic elements. The classic, or course, is Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray...

Fantasy about Victorians: Wow there's a lot. Though a bit earlier than the Victorian era, I heartily recommend Susannah Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, about some grumpy magicians in the early 1800's; and Freedom and Necessity by Emma Bull and Steven Brust, a novel about poilitics, relationships, and fairies.

Answer 3

The turn of the Screw (Henry James), The woman in white (Wilkie Collins), Uncle Silas(Sheridan Le Fanu) are all good. But for fantasy adventure that really captures the spirit of the Victorians as the conqueror, try 'She", by H.R. Haggard.

Answer 4

If you mean Victorian writers, here are a few:

George MacDonald
"The works of George MacDonald have been widely influential, especially in the realms of fantasy and children’s literature. C.S. Lewis spoke of MacDonald as his “master”, and stated that he had “never written a book in which I did not quote from him”. More recently, Regius Professor Stephen Prickett has described MacDonald as “possibly the greatest writer of fairy tales of the Victorian or any other period”."
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.5308

Edward Lear
http://www.csulb.edu/~csnider/edward.lear.html

Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass)

E Nesbit (books to read here)
http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/Nesbit/

Charles Kingsley
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REkingsley.htm

Lord Dunsany
http://www.dunsany.net/18th.htm
"The Book of Wonder": http://www.sff.net/people/DoyleMacdonald/l_wonder.htm

E R Eddison "The Worm Ouroboros"
http://www.swordandsorcery.org/wormouroboros.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ring/two/index.htm (The book)
http://ww2.wizards.com/books/Wizards/?doc=main_classicworm

I hope this is the sort of thing you're looking for...

Answer 5

Well I found some on this site
http://www.locusmag.com/index/b335.html

Here are other links you want to try
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/10/AR2006081001321.html
http://www.victorianweb.org/courses/73syllabus.html
http://www.teleologic.com/crghome/fan1.html