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The picture of Dorian Gray

2010
A graphic novel based on the Oscar Wilde classic, in which an incredibly handsome young man in Victorian England retains his youthful appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.

Finding out about Victorian towns

1982
Presents many features of life in the towns of Victorian England, often as written down by the people of the time.

A little princess

2005
Sara Crewe, a wealthy girl attending a boarding school in London, is banished to the attic and made the servant of the cruel headmistress after her father dies penniless, but with help from a secret friend, her life changes in wonderful ways.

Rebel fire

2012
In 1868, teenaged Sherlock Holmes discovers that his American tutor is hunting a notorious killer who was supposedly killed by the United States government, but who is apparently alive and well in Surrey, England.

Persons of consequence

Queen Victoria and her circle
1979

Clockwork prince

Book 2 of the Infernal Devices series
2013
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, sixteen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.

Victorian Babylon

people, streets and images in nineteenth-century London
2000
Examines the link between London's transformation into a modern, organized city in the 1860s and the emergence of new types of production and consumption of visual culture.

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