classic novels where the depiction of rural, pastoral England is a notable feature
created by bethniamh
last updated February, 2026
Howards End
E.M. Forster
Middlemarch
George Eliot
The Darling Buds of May
H.E. Bates
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons
Adam Bede
The Go-Between
L.P. Hartley
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders
The Rainbow
D.H. Lawrence
Precious Bane
Mary Webb
Lorna Doone
R.D. Blackmore
The Mill on the Floss
Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Tess of the DâUrbervilles
Far From the Madding Crowd
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë
Emma
Sense and Sensibility
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Persuasion
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
Ronald Blythe
Tom's Midnight Garden
Philippa Pearce
Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith
Pride and Prejudice
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