18 books like The Duchess

What to read after The Duchess — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Lady of the Rivers

The Lady of the Rivers Philippa Gregory · 2011 · ★ 4.0 The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her house­hold for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's… Shares History

Dead Men's Money Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself… Shares History

The Paris Apartment

The Paris Apartment Lucy Foley · 2020 · ★ 3.6 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up – to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? – he’s not… Shares Paris

The Awful Secret

The Awful Secret Bernard Knight · 2006 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares History with this book.

Frontier Stories Bret Harte · 1887 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares Social life and customs, History with this book.

Judith Paris Hugh Walpole · 1931 · 782p · ≈ 26h · Challenging Covering the years 1771 to 1822 and set partly in Revolutionary Paris, and partly in romantic Cumbria, Judith Paris is the story of the two very different men who love Walpole's most delightful heroine. Daughter of Francis Herries and Mirabell Starr, Judith was described on publication as "the most delightful of Walpole's heroines." As impetuous, impulsive and passionate as her father, she is… Shares Paris, Social life and customs, History

Harris's list of Covent-garden ladies: or, New Atalantis for the year 1764 E. J. Burford · 1764 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares Prostitution, History with this book.

Princesa Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque · 1994 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Princesa est l’un des récits pionniers de la littérature transgenre en Europe. Ce roman biographique de Fernanda Farías de Albuquerque retrace une vie marquée par la tentative fragile et impétueuse de dépasser les limites imposées, qu’elles soient territoriales, corporelles, identitaires ou linguistiques. De la campagne nordestine aux métropoles de Rio et São Paulo, la route de Fernando devenue… Shares Prostitution

Recipe For Treason

Recipe For Treason Andrea Penrose · 2012 England, 1814. Lady Arianna Hadley and her husband, the Earl of Saybrook, want nothing more than to savor a quiet life embellished by the occasional cup of the finest chocolate. However, when they receive orders to travel to Scotland and capture an elusive traitor, they feel their duty to the Crown must come first. In a laboratory in Scotland, they discover the corpse of a chemistry… Shares Aristocracy, History

The Cocoa Conspiracy

The Cocoa Conspiracy Andrea Penrose · 2011 · ★ 3.9 Lady Arianna Hadley, now the Countess of Saybrook, is settling into married life with her new husband. To celebrate his birthday, she finds the perfect gift: a rare volume of botanical engravings on Theobroma cacao—or chocolate. But she is forced to fight off a stranger who tries to steal it away. Arianna and Saybrook forget about the incident until they attend a gathering on a country estate,… Shares Aristocracy, History

The slave of the lamp Hugh Stowell Scott · 1891 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Shares Paris with this book.

Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding

Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding Rhys Bowen · 2018 · 291p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "In the days leading up to her wedding to Darcy O'Mara, Lady Georgiana Rannoch takes on the responsibilities of a grand estate, but proving she can run a household just may be the death of her in the new Royal Spyness Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service. If only Darcy and I had eloped! What I thought would be a simple wedding has been… Shares Aristocracy, History

David Copperfield Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 4.1 · 928p · ≈ 30h · Demanding It adds to the charm of this book to remember that it is virtually a picture of the author's own boyhood. It is an excellent picture of the life of a struggling English youth in the middle of the last century. The pictures of Canterbury and London are true pictures and through these pages walk one of Dickens' wonderful processions of characters, quaint and humorous, villainous and tragic. Nobody… Shares Orphans, Social life and customs, History

New-England tale Catharine Maria Sedgwick · 1822 · ★ 3.2 · 297p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women, each reprinted in its entirety, each with a foreword by General Editor Cathy N. Davidson, who places the novel in a historical and literary perspective. Written in 1822, A New-England Tale is the first of the many novels, tales, and short magazine pieces Catharine Sedgwick published… Shares Orphans, Social life and customs

David Copperfield [adaptation] Malvina G. Vogel · 1979 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A simplified edition of the autobiographical novel whose hero, an orphan boy in nineteenth-century England, successfully overcomes an unhappy childhood. Shares Orphans, Social life and customs, History

No Thoroughfare Charles Dickens · 1800 · ★ 3.6 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares Orphans, Social life and customs with this book.

Armourer's House Rosemary Sutcliff · 1951 · 235p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Orphans, History with this book.

Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden · 1997 · ★ 4.2 · 551p · ≈ 18h · Moderate A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a… Shares Prostitution, Social life and customs, History

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