If you are a current undergraduate offer holder, you may find the below reading suggestions and resources useful.
We fully understand that everyone will have differing amounts of time and resources available for extra reading: these are recommendations, and absolutely not essential.
Reading suggestions
Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Villette
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
William Thackeray, Vanity Fair
All of these are available as free downloads at:
Bibliomania
Project Gutenberg
You might also enjoy the British Library’s Discovering Literature site, particularly
https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians
https://www.bl.uk/medieval-literature where you’ll find resources to explore about Beowulf and Old English.