Novel Approaches

By London Review of Books

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Clare Bucknell, Thomas Jones and guests discuss a selection of 19th-century (mostly) English novels from Mansfield Park to New Grub Street, looking in particular at the roles played in the books by money and property. Novels covered: Mansfield Park (1814) by Jane Austen Crotchet Castle (1831) by Thomas Love Peacock Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë Vanity Fair (1847) by William Makepeace Thackeray North and South (1854) by Elizabeth Gaskell Aurora Leigh (1856) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Mill on the Floss (1860) by George Eliot Our Mutual Friend (1864) by Charles Dickens The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) by Anthony Trollope Washington Square (1880)/Portrait (1881) by Henry James Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) by Thomas Hardy New Grub Street (1891) by George Gissing 

Episode Date
‘New Grub Street’ by George Gissing
Dec 29, 2025
'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens
Dec 24, 2025
‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ by Thomas Hardy
Dec 01, 2025
‘Kidnapped’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
Nov 03, 2025
‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James
Oct 05, 2025
‘The Last Chronicle of Barset’ by Anthony Trollope
Sep 07, 2025
'Our Mutual Friend' by Charles Dickens
Aug 10, 2025
‘The Mill on the Floss’ by George Eliot
Jul 13, 2025
'Aurora Leigh' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Jun 15, 2025
‘North and South’ by Elizabeth Gaskell
May 18, 2025
'Vanity Fair' by William Makepeace Thackeray
Apr 20, 2025
‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Brontë
Mar 24, 2025
'Crotchet Castle' by Thomas Love Peacock
Feb 24, 2025
‘Mansfield Park’ by Jane Austen
Jan 28, 2025
Introducing ‘Novel Approaches’
Jan 05, 2025