{"id":6609,"date":"2025-01-08T22:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/five-novels-set-in-the-eighteenth-century-ive-read\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:04:16","slug":"five-novels-set-in-the-eighteenth-century-ive-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=6609","title":{"rendered":"Five Novels Set in the Eighteenth Century I\u2019ve Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>The eighteenth century was a fascinating time in European history, a period which saw the development of the Enlightenment ideas that formed the modern Western world. Close to its end, the bloody convulsion of the French Revolution, sent shockwaves through the continent and beyond. <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32255\" src=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Little-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cover image for Little by Edward Carey\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Little-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Little.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\"\/>Several of the five novels below are set around the time of the Revolution, all with links to my reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the early life of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marie_Tussaud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madame Tussaud<\/a>, Edward Carey\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/alifeinbooks.co.uk\/2018\/10\/little-by-edward-carey-only-in-stature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Little<\/strong><\/em><\/a> takes us first to Switzerland then to Revolutionary Paris before its final Baker Street destination following orphan Anne-Marie Grosholtz who, aged six, attaches herself to Dr Curtius proving herself so adept at assisting in his wax modelling work that Berne\u2019s worthies begin to commission busts of themselves. Eventually, the bustling business gained from Marie\u2019s work at the Parisian court will be replaced by the grisly modelling of the Revolution\u2019s victims. When it\u2019s all over Marie is alone, but \u2013 sharp and resourceful as ever \u2013 she finds her own pragmatic way. Marie is an engaging narrator who unfolds her blood-soaked, heartrending story with sharp insight and a pleasingly sly wit, leading us through a life begun in poverty which ends as the proprietor of one of London\u2019s most visited attractions.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Grimwood\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/alifeinbooks.co.uk\/2013\/07\/white-truffles-in-winter-and-the-last-banquet-twp-lip-smacking-novels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>The Last Banquet<\/em><\/strong><\/a> follows another orphan with a particular talent. We first meet five-year-old Jean-<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-32256\" src=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Last-Banquet-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cover image for The Last Banquet by Jonathan Grimwood\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Last-Banquet-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Last-Banquet.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\"\/>Marie d\u2019Aumout in 1723, enthusiastically eating stag beetles, analysing their taste and describing it to himself. Rescued by the Duc d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans, he\u2019s set upon a path which will see him become Manager of the Menagerie for Louis XV and negotiating with Pasquale Pauli on the eve of the Corsican war for independence before retiring to his chateau to pursue his scientific and culinary curiosity, always attended by Tigris, the blind tiger he\u2019s reared from a cub. For Jean-Marie, the whole world\u2019s a pantry and continues to be so throughout his long life during which he consumes an astonishing variety of things. Having followed the trajectory of the Age of Reason, this vibrantly original novel ends in 1790, the year after the Revolution began.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning a few years later in 1793, Alix Nathan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/alifeinbooks.co.uk\/2019\/07\/the-warlow-experiment-by-alix-nathan-the-rights-of-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Warlow Experiment<\/strong><\/em><\/a> tells the story of an unmarried, childless <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20328\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Cover image for The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Warlow-Experiment-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Warlow-Experiment.jpg 261w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Warlow-Experiment-196x300.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20328\" src=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Warlow-Experiment-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cover image for The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Warlow-Experiment-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Warlow-Experiment.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\"\/>recluse, Herbert Powyss, and John Warlow, a semiliterate father of six who answers Powyss\u2019 advertisement for a man willing to be sealed underground in solitary confinement for seven years in exchange for fifty pounds a year for life as part of an experiment that Powyss is convinced will see his research recognised by the Royal Society. Needless to say, things do not go according to plan. Influenced by Thomas Paine\u2019s <em>Rights of Man<\/em>, Powyss\u2019 gardener decides it\u2019s time for the working man to rise up, leading to an act which will unleash a trail of destruction. In her author\u2019s note, Nathan explains her novel was sparked by a record in the Annual Register, dated 1797, indicating that such an experiment had reached its fourth year.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3669\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Cover image for Sedition by Katharine Grant\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Sedition-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Sedition.jpg 254w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Sedition-190x300.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3669\" src=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Sedition-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cover image for Sedition by Katharine Grant\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Sedition-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Sedition.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d assumed the title of Katharine Grant\u2019s bawdy, rollicking <a href=\"https:\/\/alifeinbooks.co.uk\/2014\/01\/sedition-a-rollicking-tale-of-love-lust-and-subversion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Sedition<\/em> <\/strong><\/a>referred to politics given that it\u2019s set five years after the beginning of the Revolution but it\u2019s more to do with the subversion of male authority. Five financiers hatch a plan to marry off their daughters by having them display their accomplishments on a new-fangled musical instrument called the piano. They commission the finest of craftsmen who, disgusted at the arrogance of the men, hatches a plan to ruin their daughters\u2019 reputations but in a delicious act of sedition, the tables are turned by the young women. A hugely enjoyable novel, liberally laced with a ribald, salacious wit underpinned with sufficient sobriety to save it from caricature. I read it over a decade ago but it\u2019s one that\u2019s stayed with me.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Arnott\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/alifeinbooks.co.uk\/2017\/02\/the-fatal-tree-by-jake-arnott-a-rollicking-tale-of-thieves-and-whores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Fatal Tree<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is a rip-roaring tale of thieves and whores, love and folly, corruption and redemption, much of it <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11142\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Cover image for The Fatal Tree by Jake Arnott\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/The-Fatal-Tree-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/The-Fatal-Tree.png 262w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/The-Fatal-Tree-196x300.png\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11142\" src=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/The-Fatal-Tree-196x300.png\" alt=\"Cover image for The Fatal Tree by Jake Arnott\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/The-Fatal-Tree-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/The-Fatal-Tree.png 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\"\/>told in flash, a gloriously vivid slang. In 1726 Edgeworth Bess is in Newgate Gaol, awaiting trial for possession of stolen goods which may lead her to Tyburn\u2019s gallows. The daughter of a servant, Bess is thrown out when she\u2019s caught in bed with her master\u2019s son, finding her way to London with only the guinea he\u2019s given her. She\u2019s soon installed in Mother Breedlove\u2019s bawdy academy where she learns how to please the punters and herself, attracting the attention of both Jonathan Wild, Thief-taker General, and Jack Sheppard, a carpenter\u2019s apprentice who puts his skills to use as an expert burglar. Alongside Bess\u2019 story, our narrator Billy \u2013 petty thief, scribbler and molly \u2013 tells his own tale, intertwining his narrative with hers as each moves towards a decisive conclusion. I\u2019m sure Arnott had a lot of fun writing this wonderfully atmospheric piece of storytelling, delving into the lives of spruce-prigs, twangs and buttock-brokers.<\/p>\n<p>What about you? Any eighteenth-century set novels you\u2019d recommend?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to explore more posts like this, I\u2019ve listed them <a href=\"https:\/\/alifeinbooks.co.uk\/category\/five-books-ive-read\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My five nineteenth-century set novels are <a href=\"https:\/\/alifeinbooks.co.uk\/2024\/09\/five-novels-set-in-the-nineteenth-century-ive-read\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-52859811-32254-677eb1250a0ec\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/?ver=14.2#blog_id=52859811&amp;post_id=32254&amp;origin=alifeinbooks.co.uk&amp;obj_id=52859811-32254-677eb1250a0ec&amp;n=1\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-52859811-32254-677eb1250a0ec\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eighteenth century was a fascinating time in European history, a period which saw the development of the Enlightenment ideas that formed the modern Western world. 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