Sarah Waterss Favourite Victorian Novels (Guardian UK)
Discover Sarah Waters's favourite Victorian novels as featured in The Guardian UK. Explore classic picks and timeless reads from one of the most celebrated authors of historical fiction.

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Jane Eyre 3/e
by Charlotte Brontë
The text reprinted in this new edition is that of the 1848 third edition text--the last text corrected by the author.
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
This Norton Critical Edition presents fully annotated the text of the 1897 First Edition.
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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
This Norton Critical Edition of Stevenson's enduringly popular and chilling tale is based on the 1886 First British Edition, the only edition set directly from Stevenson's manuscript and for which he read proofs. The text has been rigorously annotated for student readers and is accompanied by a textual appendix.

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The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins’ classic tale of murder, intrigue, madness, and mistaken identity ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME “There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road—there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven—stood thefigure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments.” Generally considered the first English sensation novel, The Woman in Whitefeatures the remarkable heroine Marian Halcombe and her sleuthing partner, drawing master Walter Hartright, pitted against the diabolical team of Count Fosco and Sir Percival Glyde. After more than a century since its publication, Wilkie Collins’s psychological thriller has never been out of print.