A successful novel that was also converted into a play with the help of the author's husband, Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Lady of Quality (1896) presents the story of the English gentry at the end of the seventeenth century. Taking historical events as the backdrop for her work, Burnett creates a protagonist who is determined to have her own way.

Lady Baltimore is the classic novel of post-Civil War Charleston life, in the process of healing of wounds of war through Southerners. Written at the turn of century it evokes the enduring charm of old Charleston in contrast ot the values of "the breathless, competing North."