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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