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Gay victorian novels

Queer historical fiction where nothing terrible happens
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I'm looking for books set before where the A or B plot follows queer characters who live, function, fall in passion etc. and where I am enhanced able to perceive what being gender non-conforming would look enjoy in this historical context and where NOTHING SUPER TERRIBLE HAPPENS TO THE CHARACTERS.


I just finished White Houses (Love story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok) by Amy Bloom and I really enjoyed it. I also enjoy Sarah Waters. I want to read more books with queer characters set in not-the-present-day where nothing particularly terrible happens to them because of their gender or sexual orientation, but where I am able to superior understand what entity gay/lesbian/queer/loving people of your own gender looked like in this time period.

I don't care what the time period is or the precise form that the not-straight-ness takes as long a) it's not now, b) nothing too terrible happens e.g. no sexual violence directed at the characters, c) the writing is pretty nice, d) the historical context matte

American

Colonial ()

F/F

Revolutionary Period ()

F/F

M/M

Antebellum Period ()

F/F

M/M

M/F

Civil War and Reconstruction ()

F/F

  • Grey Dawn by Nyri A. Bakkalian (/) &#; T

M/F/M

Industrialization ()

F/F

Progressive Era ()

F/F

M/M

Prohibition Era ()

F/F

M/M

M/M/F

The Cold War Era ()

F/F

M/M

M/F/F

Asian

European Colonial ()

F/F

  • The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan (, Singapore)

British

Middle Ages ()

F/F

  • All the Painted Stars by Emma Denny ()

M/M

Georgian ()

F/F

M/M

Regency ()

F/F

M/M

M/F

F/NB

M/X

X/X

F/F/M

M/M/F

  • Regency Menage by Nicola Davidson (Amz)

Victorian ()

F/F

M/M

M/F

Edwardian ()

F/F

M/M

WWI-WWII ()

F/F

M/M

M/NB

Post-WWII ()

M/M

Caribbean

Early 20th Century

F/F

French

Bourbon Restoration ()

F/X

  • The Anonymous Letters of C de Forestier by Felicia Davin

X/X

  • The Scandalous Letters of V and J by Felicia Davin

M/F/X

  • The Mischievous Letters of the Marquise de Q by Felicia Davin

The Ancient World

M/M

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The Gentleman&#;s Book of Vices: A Gay Victorian Historical Romance (Paperback)

By Jess Everlee

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Is their real-life love story doomed to be a tragedy, or can they rewrite the ending?

London,

Finely dressed and finely drunk, Charlie Price is a man dedicated to his vices. Chief among them is his explicit novel collection, though his impending marriage to a woman he can't adore will force his carefully curated collection into hiding.

Before it does, Charlie is determined to own one last hurrah: meeting his favorite author in person.

Miles Montague is more gifted as a smut writer than a shopkeep and uses his royalties to keep his flagging bookstore afloat. So when a cheerful dandy appears out of the mist with Miles's highly secret quill name on his pretty lips, Miles assumes the worst. But Charlie Price is no blackmailer; he's Miles's biggest fan.

A scribbled signature on a worn publication page sets off an affair as scorching as anything Miles has ever written. But Miles is clinging to a tro
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