Pride and Prejudice question

Elizabeth Gaskell She writes in the 1850's but she is sort of the nitty gritty side of that time period where women are still looking for good matches but so much else is going on.

The Brontë sisters, Mary Elizabeth Brandon, Henry James, Thomas Hardy and Goëthe.

Brontë sisters are amazing! Jane Eyre is a masterpiece!

For something similar (though hardly the same!) to the enjoyment I get from Austen, I recommend Middlemarch by George Eliot, Possession by A.S. Byatt, Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, and Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky. Be aware that the latter two are extremely sad, though well worth it. I also love Patrick O'Brian's books, which, while very, very different, offer a kind of unexpurgated, male vision of the world she was writing about, and are delightful for their own sakes.

Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South is similar to Pride and Prejudice, but with more political debate about worker's rights. I also love George Eliot, but the endings are not as simple and happy as Jane Austen's. Another of my favourite authors is Charles Dickens. Georgette Heyer's books are set in the same time and always have happy endings, but the writing style is very different.

Dorothy Dunnett is fantastic, one of my favorites.

The Brontë sisters, and Wilkie Collins is amazing as well.

The Brontë sisters :)

Next to Austen one of my favorite classic authors is Wilkie Collins. They are not similar but still amazing!

I read mostly nonfiction (history) but my absolute favorite writer is Steinbeck. I also love Dickens, Twain, Hemingway, Beckett, and Faulkner.

I love Jane, but i also enjoy going farther back into british history and read Sharon Kay Penman, wonderful author and her history is good too.

I would definitely recommend George Eliot. She's a little challenging at times - especially for a non-native speaker, but I love her style and the in-depth analysis of her characters, she gives.

There is also Edith Wharton. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH is a fantastic novel about society and class and the position of women. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE is wonderful. Wharton is American and writing about New York and east coast high society. But these two books seem very "British." Her novel set in New England, ETHAN FROME is very far removed from Austen and Henry James. It's a country novel, but beautiful and heartbreaking. Like Austen she writes, for the most part, about society and marriage and manners. I think HOUSE OF MIRTH is my favorite.

Henry James! Start with THE EUROPEANS! It's short and wonderful and witty and ends splendidly, like a Shakespeare comedy, or, more apt, like an Austen novel! Then try one of his denser books, THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY. He is an amazing writer and gives such depth and dimension to his female characters. He writes about manners and culture and society, like Austen, but a main focus of his is comparing Americans and Europeans with wisdom and wit.

I second Georgette Heyer! Her books are really something special.

I also like Elizabeth Gaskell (love North and South and Cranford), Amy Tan, Dickens, Willa Cather (O' Pioneers is one of my favorite books), Bronte sisters (Jane Erye and Wuthering Heights) so many books, so little time.

George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Maeve Binchy, P.G. Wodehouse, Amy Tan are my other favorites.

I love, love, love Anthony Trollope. He was a few decades after Austen, but also wrote wonderful character-driven novels.

for a modern auther I like rosamond pilcher and mONICA dICKENS THEY BOTH WRITE ABOUT CHARACTERS THAT are interesting and carry the plot no sex or food but you learn how different people act in situations whle learning about different times or places

I loved Jane Eyre! I also read Elizabeth Gaskell's books, they are absolutely amazing. In fact, I like her work more than Jane Austen's, although I loved her writing too.

Speaking of 19th century literature, I'd pick Alexandre Dumas and Charlotte Brontë.

Thackeray and his Vanity Fair - also a very good portrait of the time and people.

Jane Eyre, without a doubt.

I like to read Paulo Coelho,Rumi and Charlotte Bronte!
I also love the words of Oscar Wilde!

For modern authors I also enjoy Julianne Donaldson, she has written 'Edenbrooke' and 'Blackmoore'.

Julie Klassen is a great author. She intentionally writes books that are like Jane Austen. I like her because she has similar stories but she doesn't over do it.

I read a lot of 19th century authors, but I lean more toward Victorians -- Dickens, Gaskell, Brontë's, LeFanu etc. -- than anyone else writing as early as Jane Austen. She was exceptional.

I think Elizabeth Gaskell is a good comparison. Her books share an intimate quality with Austen's -- and yet, at the same time, she is as fearless as Dickens at exploring larger social issues.

If you love Jane Austen, read both of Katherine Reay's novels: "Dear Mr. Knightley" and "Lizzy and Jane". They are stand-alone fiction (not retellings of Austen's work) seasoned with occasional Austen references and quotes.

Charlotte and Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Louisa May Alcott etc.

The Brontë sisters! My fave is Emily.
I also like Fanny Burney, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Elliot, Virginia Woolf and many rather obscure 19th century books, like those by Ouida (Victorian pulp fiction, if you will). Other authors whose works I enjoy include Valdimir Nabokov, Georgette Heyer, Anne Rice (The older works only, though) and, going from there, quite some fantasy authors, like Brent Weeks, Roger Zelazny or China Miéville.