Charles Palliser's books include The Quincunx, The Unburied, and Rustication. One of his top ten neo-Victorian novels--books that "don’t merely use the 19th-century setting but exploit readers’ knowledge of the fiction of that period"--as shared at the Guardian:Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
This takes the form of a journal kept by a young servant-girl working for a kindly doctor in late