John Galsworthy wrote a great series called "The Forsyte Saga" about a Victorian family passing bumpily into the 20th century. The first series is
here on mobilereads, and if you like it, the rest of the series is also available in the mobileread library. He won the Nobel Prize for this series.
I second issybird's suggestion of George Eliot. "
Middlemarch" is one of the great books of the era.