Contents -- Introduction -- Louisa May Alcott -- The Inheritance -- Little Men -- Little Women -- An Old Fashioned Girl -- Jane Austen -- Emma -- Lady Susan -- Love and Freindship [sic] -- Mansfield Park -- Northanger Abbey -- Persuasion -- Pride and Prejudice -- Sense and Sensibility -- Aphra Behn -- The History of the Nun -- or, The Fair Vow-Breaker (Isabella) -- Oroonoko -- or, The Royal Slave -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- Aurora Floyd -- The Captain of the Vulture -- The Cloven Foot -- Eleanor's Victory -- Henry Dunbar. The Story of an Outcast -- John Marchmont's Legacy -- Joshua Haggard's Daughter -- Lady Audley's Secret -- Run to Earth -- Sir Jasper's Tenant -- The Trail of the Serpent -- or the Secret of the Heath -- Wyllard's Weird -- Anne Bronte -- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre -- Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights -- Rhoda Broughton -- Nancy (Sweet Nancy) -- Frances Hodgson Burnett -- Editha's Burglar -- Esmeralda (Young Folks' Ways) -- A Lady of Quality -- That Lass O'Lowrie's. A Lancashire Story -- Little Lord Fauntleroy -- The Pretty Sister of Jose -- The Little Princess -- The Secret Garden -- Agnes and Egerton Castle -- The Pride of Jennico -- Marie Corelli -- The Sorrows of Satan -- or The Strange Experience of one Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire -- Sophie Cottin -- Elizabeth -- or, The Exile of Siberia -- Maria S. Cummins -- The Lamplighter -- Countess d'Aulnoy (D'Anois) -- The Bee and the Orange Tree -- The Benevolent Frog -- The Blue Bird -- Fair One with the Golden Locks -- Fortunio -- The Golden Branch -- Gracieuse and Percinet -- The Green Snake (Island of Jewels) -- The Hind in the Wood -- King of the Peacocks -- Once Upon a Time There Were Two Kings -- Prince Dorus -- Prince Sprite (Invisible Prince) -- Riquet with the Tuft -- The White Cat -- Yellow Dwarf -- Madame de Genlis -- Siege of Rochelle.

Zuma -- Mademoiselle de la Force -- The Good Woman -- Madame de Villeneuve -- Beauty and the Beast -- Maria Edgeworth -- Row of Ballynavogue -- Mrs. Edwards -- Archie Lovell -- Ought We to Visit Her? -- George Eliot -- Adam Bede -- Daniel Deronda -- Middlemarch -- Mill on the Floss -- Silas Marner -- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell -- Cranford -- Lizzie Leigh -- Mary Barton -- Wives and Daughters -- Mrs. S.C. Hall -- Lights and Shadows of Irish Life (Groves of Blarney) -- Stories of Irish Life (The Last Life) -- Tales of Woman's Trials -- The Whiteboy -- Lady Morgan -- Florence Macarthy -- Countess Murat -- Young and Handsome -- Mrs. Amelia Alderson Opie -- Father and Daughter -- The Ruffian Boy -- Baroness Emmuska Orczy -- The Emperor's Candlesticks -- The Scarlet Pimpernel -- Ouida -- Chandos -- A Dog of Flanders -- Idalia -- Moths -- Signa -- Two Little Wooden Shoes -- Under Two Flags -- Wanda -- Sydney Owensen, see Lady Morgan -- Jane Porter -- The Field of Forty Footsteps -- The Scottish Chiefs -- Ann Radcliffe -- The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne -- The Italian -- The Mysteries of Udolpho -- The Romance of the Forest -- A Sicilian Romance -- Clara Reeve -- The Old English Baron -- George Sand -- Little Fadette (Fanchon) -- Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein -- or The Modern Prometheus -- Mrs. Frances Sheridan -- Eugenia and Adelaide -- The History of Nourjahad -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Elizabeth Phipps Train -- A Social Highwayman -- Mrs. Frances Trollope -- The Widow Barnaby -- Mrs. Humphry Ward -- Eleanor -- Susan Bogert Warner -- The Wide, Wide World -- Mrs. Henry Wood -- East Lynne -- Sources Consulted -- Index of Proper Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.