Fathers and daughters -- Fiction books

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Charlotte Brontë

The work is an autobiographical‑style novel that follows the early life of an orphaned girl in England,…

Monte-Cristo's Daughter

Edmund Flagg

Monte‑Cristo’s Daughter is a sequel that continues the adventure of Edmond Dantès after the events of Dumas’s…

Emma

Jane Austen

Emma Woodhouse is introduced as a handsome, clever, and wealthy young woman whose life has been marked by…

The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1

Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1 is a work of psychological fiction that opens with an extensive portrait of…

Infatuation

Lloyd Osbourne

The novel follows Phyllis Ladd, an only child whose mother dies when she is twelve, thrusting her into a…

A Simple Story

Mrs. Inchbald

A Simple Story is an eighteenth‑century English novel that concentrates on a handful of intimate…

Bushy: A Romance Founded on Fact

Cynthia May Westover Alden

Bushy is a historical romance set against the harsh yet vivid backdrop of the Rocky Mountains in the…

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit is a sprawling Victorian novel that intertwines domestic concerns with a…

Silas Marner

George Eliot

Silas Marner is a domestic‑fiction tale set in early‑nineteenth‑century England, where the humble craft of…

Lucile Triumphant

Elizabeth M. Duffield

The novel is a youthful, wartime‑era tale that follows Lucile, a bright‑eyed, sport‑loving teenager, and her…

Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens

The novel is a Victorian domestic drama that centres on the Dombey family’s commercial empire and the fraught…

Father Goriot

Honoré de Balzac

Father Goriot is a French‑origin novel set in the early years of Louis XVIII’s reign, where the cramped,…

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy

The novel opens with a painstakingly detailed portrait of a rural couple and their infant daughter as they…

Mathilda

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The work is a short, highly personal novella by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, written in the summer of 1819…

Mary Barton

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton is a domestic narrative that intertwines love, family, and the stark…

Wives and Daughters

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters is a domestic novel that traces the growth of young Molly Gibson from…

The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2

Henry James

The second volume continues the intricate social drama that began in the first book, weaving together themes…

The Antiquary — Complete

Walter Scott

The Antiquary is Walter Scott’s third and final entry in a self‑described series of Scottish sketches, each…

Eugenie Grandet

Honoré de Balzac

The novel opens with a richly detailed portrait of a narrow, weather‑worn street in Saumur, where the…

The Golden Bowl — Complete

Henry James

The work is a psychological domestic drama that opens with a young American “Prince” wandering the streets of…

Washington Square

Henry James

Felix Holt, the Radical

George Eliot

The End of the Tether

Joseph Conrad

Erema; Or, My Father's Sin

R. D. Blackmore