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Wilkie Collins' Poor Miss Finch is highly recommended. His description of a woman who gains sight after a lifetime of blindness matches almost exactly reports from Oliver Sacks a century later! The book is quite funny, and the free Librivox audio edition is narrated by a woman who is blind herself.
Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers is one that folks have commented could easily be set now with its emphasis on spending on credit, financial bubbles, etc.
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