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Finola Austin, also known as the Secret Victorianist on her award-winning blog, is an England-born, Northern Ireland-raised, Brooklyn-based historical novelist and lover of the 19th century. By day, she works in digital advertising.

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	The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, Finola Austin (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.04 avg rating — 139,017 ratings — published 1848 — 288 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Neo-Victorian Voices: The House of Two Sisters, Rachel Louise Driscoll (2025)

Welcome back to my Neo-Victorian Voices series in which I review books written in the twenty-first century but set in the nineteenth. This time I’m blogging about Rachel Louise Driscoll’s The House of Two Sisters (2025), published in the UK as Nephthys, which will appeal to fans of Victorian Egyptology.It’s 1892 and our British heroine, and hieroglyph expert, Clemmie has arrived in Cairo to

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“It was just as well dying was not easy. If it were, women and men would choose it oh so often, in each blinding rush of fresh pain. Instead we soldier through, thralls to that irrational master who bids us 'live,' clinging to the hope of waking to a brighter dawn.

[Lydia Gisborne Robinson]”
― Finola Austin, Brontë’s Mistress

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