Query: novels set in 1770 that are about anything except for war
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Cecilia (Burney novel)
Greenhorn on the Frontier
Blackbird House
A Tale of Two Cities
Immanuel's Veins
Barnaby Rudge
The Fiery Cross (novel)
The Many Hands
The Fifth of March
Evidence from documents: Cecilia (Burney novel): Title page from the first edition of the first volume of ''Cecilia''
'''''Cecilia''''', subtitled ''Memoirs of an Heiress'', is the second novel by English author Frances Burney, set in 1779 and published in 1782. The novel, about the trials and tribulations of a young upper-class woman who must negotiate London society for the first time and who falls in love with a social superior, belongs to the genre of the novel of manners. A panoramic novel of eighteenth-century London, ''Cecilia'' was highly successful with at least 51 editions.
Greenhorn on the Frontier: It is set in 1770s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Blackbird House: . A raging storm in 1778 sees John Hadley and his sons lost at sea.
A Tale of Two Cities: In 1775
Immanuel's Veins: In 1772, the Cantemir family is placed in the safe-keeping of Toma Nicolescu by Catherine the Great.
Barnaby Rudge: The last production was a 1960 BBC production; prior to that, silent films were made in 1911 and 1915.
Dolly Varden as painted by William Powell Frith, 1842
Gathered around the fire at the Maypole Inn, in the village of Chigwell, on an evening of foul weather in the year 1775
The Fiery Cross (novel): '''The Fiery Cross''''' is the fifth book in the ''Outlander'' series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. Centered on time-travelling 20th-century doctor Claire Randall and her 18th-century Scottish Highlander warrior husband Jamie Fraser, the books contain elements of historical fiction, romance, adventure and fantasy.
The Many Hands: The book opens with the mysterious arrival of a baby in Edinburgh, 1773. The scene shifts to the city fifteen years earlier.


The Doctor and Martha are confronted by the walking dead, first a solitary figure which attacks a stagecoach containing Benjamin Franklin, then by an army of the creatures rising from the putrid waters of the Nor' Loch.
The Fifth of March: '''''The Fifth of March''''' is a 1993 novel about the Boston Massacre (of March 5, 1770, pre-Revolutionary War) by historian and author Ann Rinaldi, who was also the author of many other historical fiction novels such as ''Girl in Blue'' and ''A Break with Charity''.