Series 2 of the Johnny Ludlow Series by Victorian novelist Mrs Henry (Ellen) Wood was published in 1896 and contains 29 stories. Some are considered detectve fiction, but all give insight into rural life during victorian times.
Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Dinah Mulock, Catherine Crowe, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rosa Mulholland, Amelia B. Edwards, Rhoda Broughton, Mrs Henry Wood, Vernon Lee, Charlotte Riddell, Margaret Oliphant, Lanoe Falconer, Louisa Baldwin, Violet Hunt, Mary Cholmondeley, Ella D'Arcy, Gertrude Atherton, Willa Cather & Mary E. Wilkins Freeman