swap_horiz Clarissa Alternatives

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The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins's 1859 sensation novel uses multiple character diaries and letters to unravel a complex plot of identity...

19TH Century Suspense Victorian English

8.6 Great

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The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins's 1868 novel is a pioneering work of detective fiction that utilizes a series of letters and journal entr...

19TH Century Detective Mystery English

8.4 Great

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë's 1848 novel uses an epistolary frame and a secret diary to depict a woman's courageous flight from an abusi...

19TH Century Gothic English Feminist

8.4 Great

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Evelina

Frances Burney's 1778 epistolary novel follows a young woman navigating the complexities of high society, credited with...

18TH Century Coming Of Age English Letters

7.5 Good

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Cecilia

Published in 1782, Frances Burney's novel Cecilia follows a young heiress navigating London society and is notable for i...

18TH Century English Courtship Burney

7.4 Good

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Camilla

*Camilla* is a 1796 epistolary novel by British author Frances Burney that explores the coming-of-age, romantic misunder...

18TH Century English Courtship Burney

7.4 Good

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Lady Susan

Jane Austen's early short epistolary novel centers on a manipulative widow seeking advantageous marriages, and it is not...

18TH Century English Courtship Austen

7.2 Good

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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

Tobias Smollett's 1771 humorous epistolary novel details a family's journey through Britain, widely considered the autho...

Travel 18TH Century Comedy English

7.1 Good

9

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

Samuel Richardson's 1740 epistolary novel follows a young maidservant resisting her master's advances, and it is widely...

18TH Century English Epistolary Richardson

6.7 Fair

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The Coquette

Hannah Webster Foster's 1797 novel The Coquette uses a series of letters to dramatize the true story of a woman's tragic...

18TH Century American Tragedy Seduction

6.4 Fair

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Lettres d'une Péruvienne

Françoise de Graffigny's 1747 French novel Lettres d'une Péruvienne critiques European society through the letters of an...

18TH Century French Philosophical Epistolary

6.4 Fair

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Lettres de la Marquise de M*** au Comte de R***

Crébillon fils's 1732 French novel Lettres de la Marquise de M*** au Comte de R*** chronicles a seduction entirely throu...

18TH Century French Epistolary Letters

6.4 Fair

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Shamela

Henry Fielding's 1741 satirical novel Shamela parodies Samuel Richardson's Pamela, using humorous letters to mock the or...

18TH Century Satire Parody English

6.4 Fair

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The History of Sir Charles Grandison

Samuel Richardson's 1753 epistolary novel is notable for presenting a male ideal of virtue and exploring complex romanti...

18TH Century English Epistolary Courtship

6.1 Fair

15

Julia de Roubigné

Henry Mackenzie's 1777 epistolary novel details the tragic decline of a French woman trapped in a loveless marriage, not...

18TH Century Tragedy Scottish Sentimental

6.1 Fair

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Hermsprong, or Man as He Is Not

*Hermsprong, or Man as He Is Not* is a 1796 epistolary novel by British author Robert Bage satirizing English convention...

18TH Century English Satirical Letters

6.0 Fair

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The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy

*The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy* is a 1751 epistolary novel by British author Eliza Haywood detailing the social...

18TH Century Romance English Letters

5.4 Mediocre

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Lettres de Mistriss Fanny Butlerd

Published in 1757, Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni's French novel Lettres de Mistriss Fanny Butlerd uses emotional correspondence...

18TH Century French Romance Epistolary

5.3 Mediocre

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Lettres de Milady Juliette Catesby

Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni's 1759 novel Lettres de Milady Juliette Catesby employs a letter format to explore themes of fema...

18TH Century French Romance Epistolary

5.3 Mediocre

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The Power of Sympathy

Written by William Hill Brown in 1789, The Power of Sympathy is widely recognized as the first novel published in the Un...

18TH Century American Early American Epistolary

4.8 Poor