1. Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians.

    The eminent man whose biography this comes from is Cardinal Manning, but the man described here is the less eminent W.G. Ward.

  2. Benjamin Disraeli, Sibyl.

    The Sibyl being a prophetess.

  3. Coleridge, The Devil's Thoughts.

    This appears to have been written without the aid of any mind-altering substances at all.

  4. Arthur Schopenhauer, Aphorismen zu Lebensweisheit.

    Died in 1860.

  5. Colette, Le blé en herbe.

    Colette is the author of Gigi, made improbably into a musical featuring the song mentioned in the clue.

  6. Dodie Smith, I capture the castle.

    Chess players say "rook", not "castle", but never mind.

  7. Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Written under the pseudonym "Acton Bell".

  8. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper.

    Oscar Wilde is supposed to have said that his wallpaper was killing him and one of them had to go.

  9. Dante, La vita nuova.

    Dante wrote (not here) in terza rima.

  10. Kathleen Raine, Passion.

    Kathleen Raine lost Gavin Maxwell's favourite otter.