Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Bronte Sisters...?
I am a huge Jane Austen fan and to my delight have recently discovered Elizabeth Gaskell. What other authors of the same sort of feel should I check out?
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Fanny Burney or 'Frances Burney'. Definately look her up, I just bought some of her books actually and they're exactly what I was looking for (same as you, fan of gaskell, austen etc looking for more). Perhaps buy the book 'Evelina'. You can have a look at the link below;
http://www.booktopia.com.au/fiction/frances-burney...
Georgette Heyer has written over 50 regency novels with the same general feel as Austen. I haven't personally read any but I keep hearing good things about her work.
Also If you wan't to go down the sequal route which is generally a bad idea, you should read 'Mr Knightlys Diary' and 'Mr Darcys Diary' by Amanda Grange If you haven't already. They're actually very good unlike the rest of the 'sequals'.
You could also try George Eliot and Thomas Hardy perhaps, but they tend to focus on the middle-to-lower classes.
Fanny Burney and Maria Edgeworth are two authors who were contemporaries of Jane Austen and whose books are a little like hers in style, though nothing like as good.
Georgette Heyer's novels are great fun, they are nothing like Jane Austen's really, they are romances mostly set in the Regency period, but they do have attractive, spirited heroines, entertaining plots, and plenty of humour, which makes them very enjoyable to read.
'Cold Comfort Farm' by Stella Gibbons features a heroine who is very strong-minded, and sorts out everyone's lives for them. A bit like Emma, only she usually gets things right rather than wrong. The book contains a number of references to Austen's works. It is a book that might amuse you.
i admire Persuasion, my 2d famous of Austen's books after satisfaction and Prejudice, so i might fairly bypass with that one. it truly is an superb tale of love lost and finally, after many trials, regained. i replaced into on no account truly waiting to get into Jane Eyre however, yet fairly the two are properly worth a study.
You may be able to get a good idea by referring to the period-drama timeline on http://www.perioddramas.com/
This site lists popular period/costume dramas according to when the story was set. So, you can look for other stories that are set in the same time period as your favourites. The details page for each story will tell you the author.