Race and the Victorians

 

The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins

 

I've been trying to come up with a list of nineteenth century (UK only, I'm afraid) novels with black or Asian characters, as I'm taking a class on “Race and the Victorians” next term.

Remarkably, the internet has failed to provide – or I haven't searched effectively!

I've been canvassing friends, and so far we've got:

• The Moonstone
• The first Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre
• Arguably Heathcliff?
• H Rider Haggard
• Vanity Fair – I think there was a mixed race child at the school, or am I misremembering?
• Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four & The Man with the Twisted Lip
• Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Ivanhoe
• Rudyard Kipling's "white man's burden"
• Tattycoram in Little Dorrit, and Nipper in Dombey and Sons?
• Conrad's Heart of Darkness
• Robert Louis Stephenson short stories: Beach of Fales and The Isle of Voices.

If you think of any more, please stick them in the comments!

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