Scallydandling about the books | Victober 2022 Announcement and Recommendations @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 | Uploaded September 2022 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Victober is back to encourage us to explore and enjoy Victorian literature. Take part by reading something written or published by a British or Irish author between 1837 and 1901.
Dive in deeper by joining the group read or following the challenges set by the hosts.
(Thumbnail photo is the Victorian clock tower in my local park in Brighton)
See the announcement videos by each host for recommendations for each challenge.
Katie @katiejlumsden youtu.be/bD7nXOosUpQ
Kate @katehowereads youtu.be/IGWgG8DKcus
Marissa @BlatantlyBookish youtu.be/JJgQnhHi5PU
Petra @bookswithpetra youtu.be/dZdO1ERQ8yo
The group read is The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The schedule is to read two chapters a day from 1st to 23rd October.
The Goodreads group will have a thread for the group read and more: goodreads.com/group/show/722891-victober-2022
Kate's challenge: read a Victorian work with chronic illness or disability representation
Katie's challenge: read a Victorian bildungsroman or coming of age novel
Marissa's challenge: read a Victorian short story
Petra's challenge: read a Victorian book and watch a screen adaptation
My challenge: read a work of Victorian poetry long or short
Recommendations and suggestions for the poetry challenge
Sources for poetry online
poetryfoundation.org - great for finding individual poems and information about poets
poetryarchive.org - audio recordings of poems, lots for free
theotherpages.org/poems - good for longer poems
Fun and nonsense
Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussycat The Dong With the Luminous Nose poetryfoundation.org/poems/44603/the-dong-with-a-luminous-nose
Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky
Hilaire Belloc The Bad Children's Book of Beasts poetryfoundation.org/poems/46688/the-frog-56d226a6b378b
Poetry by authors loved for their prose
Emily Bronte poetryfoundation.org/poets/emily-bronte
Charlotte Bronte On the Death of Anne Bronte poetryfoundation.org/poems/43710/on-the-death-of-anne-bronte
Robert Louis Stevenson A Child's Garden of Verse
Oscar Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol poetryfoundation.org/poems/45495/the-ballad-of-reading-gaol
George Eliot In A London Drawing Room poetryfoundation.org/poems/47459/in-a-london-drawingroom
Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush poetryfoundation.org/poems/44325/the-darkling-thrush
Nature and landscape
Matthew Arnold Dover Beach poetryfoundation.org/poems/43588/dover-beach
A E Housman A Shropshire Lad poetryfoundation.org/poems/44411/a-shropshire-lad-2-loveliest-of-trees-the-cherry-now
The big names
Alfred Lord Tennyson poetryfoundation.org/poems/45359/the-lady-of-shalott-1832
poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade
Elizabeth Barrett Browning poetryfoundation.org/poems/43742/sonnets-from-the-portuguese-43-how-do-i-love-thee-let-me-count-the-ways
Robert Browning poetryfoundation.org/poems/43768/my-last-duchess
Christina Rosetti poetryfoundation.org/poems/45000/remember-56d224509b7ae
poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market
Two poets you may not think of as Victorian
William Butler Yeats poetryfoundation.org/poems/55687/the-song-of-wandering-aengus
Gerard Manley Hopkins poetryfoundation.org/poems/44399/pied-beauty
Victober is back to encourage us to explore and enjoy Victorian literature. Take part by reading something written or published by a British or Irish author between 1837 and 1901.
Dive in deeper by joining the group read or following the challenges set by the hosts.
(Thumbnail photo is the Victorian clock tower in my local park in Brighton)
See the announcement videos by each host for recommendations for each challenge.
Katie @katiejlumsden youtu.be/bD7nXOosUpQ
Kate @katehowereads youtu.be/IGWgG8DKcus
Marissa @BlatantlyBookish youtu.be/JJgQnhHi5PU
Petra @bookswithpetra youtu.be/dZdO1ERQ8yo
The group read is The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. The schedule is to read two chapters a day from 1st to 23rd October.
The Goodreads group will have a thread for the group read and more: goodreads.com/group/show/722891-victober-2022
Kate's challenge: read a Victorian work with chronic illness or disability representation
Katie's challenge: read a Victorian bildungsroman or coming of age novel
Marissa's challenge: read a Victorian short story
Petra's challenge: read a Victorian book and watch a screen adaptation
My challenge: read a work of Victorian poetry long or short
Recommendations and suggestions for the poetry challenge
Sources for poetry online
poetryfoundation.org - great for finding individual poems and information about poets
poetryarchive.org - audio recordings of poems, lots for free
theotherpages.org/poems - good for longer poems
Fun and nonsense
Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussycat The Dong With the Luminous Nose poetryfoundation.org/poems/44603/the-dong-with-a-luminous-nose
Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky
Hilaire Belloc The Bad Children's Book of Beasts poetryfoundation.org/poems/46688/the-frog-56d226a6b378b
Poetry by authors loved for their prose
Emily Bronte poetryfoundation.org/poets/emily-bronte
Charlotte Bronte On the Death of Anne Bronte poetryfoundation.org/poems/43710/on-the-death-of-anne-bronte
Robert Louis Stevenson A Child's Garden of Verse
Oscar Wilde The Ballad of Reading Gaol poetryfoundation.org/poems/45495/the-ballad-of-reading-gaol
George Eliot In A London Drawing Room poetryfoundation.org/poems/47459/in-a-london-drawingroom
Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush poetryfoundation.org/poems/44325/the-darkling-thrush
Nature and landscape
Matthew Arnold Dover Beach poetryfoundation.org/poems/43588/dover-beach
A E Housman A Shropshire Lad poetryfoundation.org/poems/44411/a-shropshire-lad-2-loveliest-of-trees-the-cherry-now
The big names
Alfred Lord Tennyson poetryfoundation.org/poems/45359/the-lady-of-shalott-1832
poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade
Elizabeth Barrett Browning poetryfoundation.org/poems/43742/sonnets-from-the-portuguese-43-how-do-i-love-thee-let-me-count-the-ways
Robert Browning poetryfoundation.org/poems/43768/my-last-duchess
Christina Rosetti poetryfoundation.org/poems/45000/remember-56d224509b7ae
poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market
Two poets you may not think of as Victorian
William Butler Yeats poetryfoundation.org/poems/55687/the-song-of-wandering-aengus
Gerard Manley Hopkins poetryfoundation.org/poems/44399/pied-beauty
