Welcome to the Novel Collection website of Glasgow University Library's Special Collections. It was created with the Chancellor’s Fund of Glasgow University, and is designed primarily for students and researchers to show the richness and potential of the collection. The primary focus of the collection is the fiction of the long nineteenth century, but some items were published before 1800, and the Collection also extends into the interwar years. It includes many works which are outside the mainstream canon of nineteenth century fiction, and are of great interest to critics and historians of the period’s popular, religious and social literature.

a three-decker novel

Find out more about the collection and its strengths:

• Introduction and background to the novel collection

• Mrs Humphry Ward

• Mary Shelley and her Circle

• Scottish Fiction

• Silver Fork Novels

• Imagined Geographies

You can also search a dedicated catalogue of the collection:

• Novels Catalogue

We hope you enjoy using this website and finding out about the novels collection at Glasgow University Library. Please pass on any comments or suggestions to special@lib.gla.ac.uk.
 

some of the novels in the Special Collections bookstack

Students are encouraged to visit Special Collections to consult this material in person. For further general advice about using the collections, please contact the Special Collections reading room.
 

Introduction - Mrs Humphry Ward - Mary Shelley - Scottish Fiction - Silver Fork - Imagined Geographies

Novels pages created October 2006