Uploaded September 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Hello!

I'm going to take part in Victober! Whoop Whoop!

If you want to buddy read let me know @OlyBliss on twitter and Instagram

For those that are not familiar with Victober, it has been running fro the last three year and is hosted by four wonderful women and is a celebration of Victorian fiction. Here are details of the challenges and the books I will be exploring over October.

Victober is a month-long readathon, from 1st-31st October, in which everybody reads Victorian literature!

Victober Goodreads Group: tinyurl.com/y7pfkfn2

Ange, Beyond the Pages: https://www.youtube.co/watch?v=T3MMp...
Kate Howe: youtu.be/z5fFUPDZdhc
Lucythereader: youtu.be/Za2gTU2u7sY
---Challenges--- 1. Ange’s challenge: Read a book by one of the hosts’ favourite Victorian authors (Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell or Thomas Hardy)
2. Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book with a proper noun (i.e., a place name or person’s name) in the title
3. Katie’s challenge: Read a book from the first ten years of the Victorian period and/or a book from the last ten years of the Victorian period (i.e., 1837-1847 or 1891-1901)
4. Lucy’s challenge: Read a Victorian book written by a woman anonymously or under a pseudonym
5. General challenge: Read a Victorian book and watch a screen adaptation of it Bonus: Group readalong: Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell

Books Mentioned:

Oscar Wilde- A picture of Dorian Gray and his book of fairy tales including the story of the happy prince (also mention of the importance of being Ernest)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Yellow Book (with Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady") by Vernon Lee
North and South and Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell