Uploaded September 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Victober hosts and announcement videos:

Ange: youtu.be/T3MMp2rkw1Q
Katie: youtu.be/gRavImuUH_0
Kate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5fFU...
Lucy: youtu.be/Za2gTU2u7sY

Challenges:
Ange: Read a book by one of the hosts favourite Victorian authors (Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bronte)
Kate: Read a Victorian book with a proper noun in the title
Katie: Read a book that was published in the first ten years of the Victorian era and/or published in the last ten years of the Victorian era
Lucy: Read a Victorian book written by a woman anonymously or with a pseudonym
Group: Read a Victorian novel and watch a screen adaptation

Group Readalong: Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Check out the Victober Goodreads Group

Books Mentioned:

Charlotte Brontë : Jane Eyre published by Word Cloud Classics and the Folio Society.

Charlotte Riddell: Haunted Houses published by British Library Tales of the Weird Press.
Charlotte Riddell: A Struggle for Fame (Recovered Voices #1) published by Tramp Press

Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel and Other Stories published by Wordsworth editions

Various authors collected by Michael Sims: Dracula’s Guest - A connoisseur’s collection of Victorian vampire stories. published by bloomsbury

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