- Struck on the Head by the Bard; or how John Ridd came upon Shakespeare's Works
- R. D. Blackmore and Sir Walter Scott
- Lorna Doone's home and Happy Valley from Johnson's Rasselas
- Sophocles (Alice Lorraine a modern Antigone)
- R. D. Blackmore and Charles Kingsley
- Mrs. Braddon and Wilkie Collins (the sensation novel)
- John and Pip meet their beloveds — Lorna Doone and Great Expectations
- W. M. Thackeray (against his approach to the historical novel)
- Contemporary reception
Last updated 7 May 2006
Last modified 8 June 2007