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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 — 137,687 ratings — published 1848 — 2077 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
	Brontë’s Mistress 3.57 avg rating — 1,192 ratings — published 2020 — 10 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: Sometime This Century, Samantha Silva (2026)

Welcome back to my Neo-Victorian Voices series, in which I blog about novels set in the 1800s but written in the 2000s. This month, I’m writing about Samantha Silva’s Sometime This Century (2026)—and I haven’t had this much fun reading Regency-Era time travel since I reviewed Kathleen A. Flynn’s The Jane Austen Project back in 2017!In her author’s note, Silva tells readers that this novel was

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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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