Laurence Hope (1865-1904) was one of the most popular poets of the Edwardian era. Her poems deal mostly with the subject of ‘love’ – romantic, erotic, frustrated or forbidden…

First published in 1891, Peter Ibbetson was the first of three novels – with Trilby and The Martian – that George du Maurier wrote and illustrated in the last five years of his life…

Richard Jefferies’ final novel, Amaryllis at the Fair (first published in 1887) portrays the highs and lows of everyday rural life on a small, debt-ridden family farm…

Set on the Isle of Wight and based loosely on a diary of his friend Helen Corke, The Trespasser (first published in 1912) was D. H. Lawrence’s second novel…

Set in the author’s native Ireland, George Moore’s poignant and poetic novel (first published in 1905) delves deeply into the troubled, lonely soul of a rural parish priest…

Written with the author’s characteristic blend of humour and pathos, Cabbages and Kings (first published in 1904) is less a novel than a series of cleverly interwoven short stories…