Books and Things | Victober Reading Sprints and Mid-Month Check-In @katiejlumsden | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 days ago.
Join some of the Victober hosts for reading sprints and Victorian literature chats!
Join some of the Victober hosts for reading sprints and Victorian literature chats!
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#Victober
In which we announce Victober!
Victober is a month-long readathon hosted by me and several other wonderful booktubers, all about celebrating Victorian literature. (Victorian literature is British and Irish literature published and/or written between 1837 and 1901.)
Victober Discord server: https://discord.gg/CzmtyGAnwJ
Victober tops are from Pixie Hallows on Etsy: https://tinyurl.com/9469u4yd
*The Other Hosts*
@katehowereads https://youtu.be/xJ8xftaK7rA?si=P3GV5e1SUq6UY9p3
@BlatantlyBookish https://youtu.be/DDj47C04psg
@bookswithpetra https://youtu.be/jlUkLBdQR8k
@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 https://youtu.be/ocr29HvFj8c
*Challenges*
Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian work featuring a stranger/outsider
Katie’s challenge: Read a piece of Victorian ‘New Woman’ fiction
Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian work by an author who is new to you
Petra’s challenge: Read a Victorian first-person narrative
Ros’s challenge: Read a Victorian work in which class features strongly
Group Read: The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
Schedule:
1 October: chapters 1–4
2: 5–7
3: 8–10
4: 11–13
5: 14–16
6: 17–19
7: 20–23
8: 24–27
9: 28–30
10: 31–33
11: 34–36
12: 37–39
13: 40–42
14: 43–46
15: 47–50
16: 51–53
17: 54–56
18: 57–59
19: 60–62
20: 63–65
21: 66–69
22: 70–73
23: 74–76
24: 77–79
25: 80–82
26: 83–85
27: 86–88
28: 89–91
29: 92–94
30: 95–97
31: 98–100
*Books Mentioned*
The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope: https://tinyurl.com/yfv5a2mk
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë: https://tinyurl.com/2e9b5anr
Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barret Browning: https://tinyurl.com/4njtaamj
The Half Sisters, Geraldine Jewsbury: https://tinyurl.com/5n8t9j4p
Gloriana or the Revolution of 1900, Lady Florence Dixie (1892): https://tinyurl.com/2a6dmr8m
The Odd Women, George Gissing (1893): https://tinyurl.com/4mmt3h7z
Hester, Margaret Oliphant (1883): https://tinyurl.com/5n8tb7tw
The Romance of a Shop, Amy Levy (1888): https://tinyurl.com/bdvabj9h
The Story of a Modern Woman, Ella Hepworth Dixon (1894): https://tinyurl.com/37e7fbbx
Jill, Amy Dillwyn (1884): https://tinyurl.com/42nsyuc3
Esther Waters, George Moore (1894): https://tinyurl.com/3v6duvp7
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy (1896): https://tinyurl.com/27kac32e
The Woodlanders, Thomas Hardy (1887): https://tinyurl.com/nwyhw4av
A Romance of the Moors, Mona Caird (1891): https://tinyurl.com/yc54s8y3
The Woman Who Did, Grant Allen (1895): https://tinyurl.com/mup8n4ca
The Egoist, George Meredith (1879): https://tinyurl.com/ys84sm4n
Women Who Did, Stories by Men and Women: https://tinyurl.com/545d4h6r
Keynotes and Discords, George Egerton (1893/1894): https://tinyurl.com/3tu4sf9a
The Yellow Book: https://vsfp.byu.edu/index.php/journal/the-yellow-book/
A Thief in the Night, Marion Hepworth Dixon: https://vsfp.byu.edu/index.php/title/a-thief-in-the-night/
A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde (1893): https://tinyurl.com/4edsfwfw
The Case of Rebellious Susan, Henry Arthur Jones (1894): https://tinyurl.com/4npyzda8
Mrs Warrens Profession, George Bernard Shaw (1893): https://tinyurl.com/2p9kske
The Second Mrs Tanqueray, Arthur Wing Pinero (1892): https://tinyurl.com/4ktd8e2n
Red Pottage, Mary Cholmondeley (1899): https://tinyurl.com/yc89c4vz
The Beth Book, Sarah Grand (1897): https://tinyurl.com/45pf5wsp
Both recommended by @aliteraryprincess8325
Daughters of Danaus, Mona Caird (1894): https://tinyurl.com/bdekvpxx
The Wing of Azrael, Mona Caird (1889): https://tinyurl.com/4ydndxm6
Diana of the Crossways, George Meredith (1885): https://tinyurl.com/54u7p5kh
A Sunless Heart, Edith Johnstone (1894): https://tinyurl.com/mrxny6cz
Miss Brown, Vernon Lee (1884): https://tinyurl.com/2s49r2tn
A Struggle for Fame, Charlotte Riddell (1883): https://tinyurl.com/d7y4zvws
The Woman Who Didn’t, Victoria Cross (1895): https://tinyurl.com/264j6dep
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James (1881): https://tinyurl.com/y6jpkjhh
Afternoon, Ouida (1883): https://tinyurl.com/2hxjc2h4
Candida, George Bernard Shaw (1898): https://tinyurl.com/57hf5d2f
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