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#Victober
In which we announce Victober...
Victober is a month-long readathon celebrating Victorian literature (British and Irish literature published and/or written between 1837 and 1901.)
Victober Goodreads group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
My top is from Pixie Hallows on Etsy: etsy.com/shop/PixieHallows
-------- COHOSTS AND THEIR ANNOUNCEMENTS/ RECOMMENDATIONS------------
@katehowereads : youtube.com/watch?v=IGWgG8DKcus&ab_channel=KateHowe
Katie @katiejlumsden: youtube.com/watchv=bD7nXOosUpQ&ab_channel=BooksandThings
@bookswithpetra : youtu.be/dZdO1ERQ8yo
Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 : youtu.be/QLlSe3O0Jts
------------------- CHALLENGES -------------------------
Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian work with chronic illness or disability representation
Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian Bildungsroman/coming of age story
Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian short story
Petra’s challenge: Read a Victorian book and watch a screen adaptation of it
Ros’s challenge: Read a work of Victorian poetry, long or short
------------- GROUP READ -----------------------
The Mayor of Casterbridge! We will read 2 chapters a day from October 1st - 23rd
-------------- SHORT STORY RECOMMENDATIONS ----------------------
-The Victorian Short Fiction Project: https://vsfp.byu.edu/
-Stories of Courtship: gutenberg.org/files/15381/15381-h/15381-h.htm
(Includes: Angela by William Schwenk Gilbert, The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne by Anthony Trollope, Anthony Garstin's Courtship by Hubert Crackanthorpe, A Little Grey Glove by George Egerton, The Woman Beater by Israel Zangwill)
-Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages Libravox Recording: archive.org/details/troubledmarriages_1406_librivox
(includes The Bronckhorst Divorce Case by Rudyard Kipling, Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy, A Poor Stick by Arthur Morrison, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and The Prize Lodger by George Gissing)
-Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell (including Disappearances, The Old Nurse's Story, Lois the Witch, The Poor Clare, etc)
-The Signal Man by Charles Dickens
-The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
-The Canterville Ghost, Happy Prince, and Other Short Stories by Oscar Wilde (Also includes: The Nightengale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, The Remarkable Rocket, A House of Pomegranates, The Young Kind, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and His Soul, The Star-child, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Sphinx Without a Secret, The Model Millionaire)
-In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan LeFanu (including Green Tea, Carmilla, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in Le Dragon Volant)
-The Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell
-Christmas Storms and Sunshine by Elizabeth Gaskell
-The Lifted Veil Women's 19th C. Stories (including The Lifted Veil by George Eliot, The Green Dwarf by Charlotte Bronte, The Fatal Marriage by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The China Bowl by Charlotte Mew)
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Let's be friends!
Blatantlybookish@gmail.com
goodreads.com/blatantlybookish
instagram.com/misa1404
#Victober
In which we announce Victober...
Victober is a month-long readathon celebrating Victorian literature (British and Irish literature published and/or written between 1837 and 1901.)
Victober Goodreads group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
My top is from Pixie Hallows on Etsy: etsy.com/shop/PixieHallows
-------- COHOSTS AND THEIR ANNOUNCEMENTS/ RECOMMENDATIONS------------
@katehowereads : youtube.com/watch?v=IGWgG8DKcus&ab_channel=KateHowe
Katie @katiejlumsden: youtube.com/watchv=bD7nXOosUpQ&ab_channel=BooksandThings
@bookswithpetra : youtu.be/dZdO1ERQ8yo
Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 : youtu.be/QLlSe3O0Jts
------------------- CHALLENGES -------------------------
Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian work with chronic illness or disability representation
Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian Bildungsroman/coming of age story
Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian short story
Petra’s challenge: Read a Victorian book and watch a screen adaptation of it
Ros’s challenge: Read a work of Victorian poetry, long or short
------------- GROUP READ -----------------------
The Mayor of Casterbridge! We will read 2 chapters a day from October 1st - 23rd
-------------- SHORT STORY RECOMMENDATIONS ----------------------
-The Victorian Short Fiction Project: https://vsfp.byu.edu/
-Stories of Courtship: gutenberg.org/files/15381/15381-h/15381-h.htm
(Includes: Angela by William Schwenk Gilbert, The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne by Anthony Trollope, Anthony Garstin's Courtship by Hubert Crackanthorpe, A Little Grey Glove by George Egerton, The Woman Beater by Israel Zangwill)
-Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages Libravox Recording: archive.org/details/troubledmarriages_1406_librivox
(includes The Bronckhorst Divorce Case by Rudyard Kipling, Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy, A Poor Stick by Arthur Morrison, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and The Prize Lodger by George Gissing)
-Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell (including Disappearances, The Old Nurse's Story, Lois the Witch, The Poor Clare, etc)
-The Signal Man by Charles Dickens
-The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
-The Canterville Ghost, Happy Prince, and Other Short Stories by Oscar Wilde (Also includes: The Nightengale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, The Remarkable Rocket, A House of Pomegranates, The Young Kind, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and His Soul, The Star-child, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Sphinx Without a Secret, The Model Millionaire)
-In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan LeFanu (including Green Tea, Carmilla, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in Le Dragon Volant)
-The Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell
-Christmas Storms and Sunshine by Elizabeth Gaskell
-The Lifted Veil Women's 19th C. Stories (including The Lifted Veil by George Eliot, The Green Dwarf by Charlotte Bronte, The Fatal Marriage by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The China Bowl by Charlotte Mew)
✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧
Let's be friends!
Blatantlybookish@gmail.com
goodreads.com/blatantlybookish
instagram.com/misa1404
