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Charles Reade

British sensation novelist (1814-1884)

About Charles Reade

Best remembered today for the historical novel The Cloister and the Hearth, Reade also wrote a number of contemporary novels, many of which concerned the social issues of his day.

Charles Reade Novels Available at Mousehold Words

Griffith Gaunt (1865-66)
12 parts of 10,000-12,500 words each.

A classic sensation novel, which begins with the courtship of a proud Catholic woman by a jealous Protestant man and leads through a convoluted series of events to a dramatic courtroom ending.
A Perilous Secret (1844)
9 parts of 5,000-15,000 words each.

Reade's last novel, A Perilous Secret features a family feud, babies switched at birth, and a ripped-from-the-headlines catastrophe that places a heroine in peril. Unashamedly melodramatic, this is the blood-and-thunder Victorian serial at its most extravagant.

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