This posts lists examples of large families of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century fiction presented by Niall Feruson in The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848.
List
Thackeray's Newcomes [link]
Trollope's Pallisers [link]
Galsworthy's Forsytes [link]
Tolstoy's Rostovs [link] War and Peace
Mann's Buddenbrooks [link]
Not Dostoevsky's Karamazovs [link] The Brothers Karamazov
Reference
From The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 by Niall Feruson, p. 7. [amazon]
