Lesser Known Victorian Authors I Want To Try
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ต.ค. 2023
- In which I chat about some lesser known Victorian authors.... #victober
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I think you’ll love Deerbrook and East Lynne. Hester is standalone and a great place to start with Oliphant!
I loved this list and have read several you mentioned. I currently have Red Pottage in my queue. I enjoyed hearing snippets about each author, thank you!
I've also never read most of the authors you mentioned, but everyone talks so fondly of "Deerbrook"! I thought "Countess Kate" by Charlotte Mary Yonge was lovely. I read the first three books in the Carlingford chronicles (they were all included in one book in the edition I read.) I think I preferred "The Rector" and "The Doctor's Family" to "The Executioner". I don't really know if you can start from the fifth book in the series. I seem to remember the three I read were all connected in some ways, but I felt you could understand them by not reading them in order!
I started Charlotte Yonge with Daisy Chain, and its sequel (sorry can't remember the title). I also read The Heir of Redcliffe. I seem to remember that the Daisy Chain is the story of a family, and The Heir follows the young man of the title. I enjoyed all of them and think either would make a good introduction to her.
Miss Marjoribanks is a good place to start with Oliphant. The Chronicles of Carlingford don't necessarily need to be read in order (with maybe the exception of reading Salem Chapel before Phoebe, Junior, which I did not do 😆). Hester would be another great starting point.
Nice list, although I wouldn't think of H. Rider Haggard as a lesser known Victorian author. King Solomon's Mines is super well known, and there have been so many movies and tv adaptations of Haggard's work. The character of Allan Quartermane was even the inspiration for Indiana Jones! It's just that he is considered less of a "serious" author, I guess? And yes, he is rather dated now, but interesting to read because of the insight it gives into a certain mindset of the time. When it comes to Victorian adventure novels though, my absolute favourite is The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope from 1894. An English nobleman holidaying in the fictional European country of Ruritania gets caught up in a plot to overthrow the soon to be King, and there's swashbuckling and derring do, and a stellar game of identity switcheroo. There are several entertaining film adaptations, of which I prefer the 1952 version starring Stewart Granger.
From the rest of your list, I have only read Red Pottage, a book I quite enjoyed but can only vaguely remember now. The Beetle sounds really fun, so I have added that to my tbr!
I listened to The Semi-Detached House and The Semi-Attached Couple on Librivox a couple of years ago. I enjoyed the first more than the second, but they were both okay. They are not Jane Austen quality, but they are kind of fun. I will recommend the audio as well. Librivox narrators are hit or miss, but the narrator, Elizabeth Klett, is very good.
I bought a copy of Deerbrook this year and I thought I might read it this month, but I won't get to it. I do plan to read Red Pottage this month though. I have been trying to get to some lesser known authors for the past two years.
Thank you. I had not heard of Richard Marsh prior to your video so I have downloaded The Beetle. I am thinking I might do a Victorian horror TBR at some point next year.
This is a wonderful bookish video Marissa! I have not read any of the authors you’ve talked about. (Started the Heir of Radcliffe but ran out of time and had to set it aside)
The three novels that grabbed my attention are: Jill, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and The Beetle! I have never even heard of Mary Cholmondeley and am excited to read more about her too. Thank you❣️great job
I am in the middle of reading Hester for Victober this year, and have been greatly enjoying it so far. It would be a good place to try Margaret Oliphant so you can try out her style, but I haven't read anything else by her so I can't say how her series is.
East Lynne was written by an sensasional writer Mrs Henry Wood, another sensational writer from the era was Wilkie Collins who wrote the moonstone and the woman in white. I read East Lynne a year a go and it's one of my favourite Victorian novels. The plot is not really about a woman who gets seduced to leave her husband. I enjoyed the book so much that I am currently reading another novel by her called Danesbury House which I downloaded from the Gutenberg project. From your other books I have also read miss Marjoribanks, I didn't live it, it was okay. Bleak in comparison to East Lynne in my view. But remember sensational novels are "soap operas" with a lot of drama and so much fun.
I’m so excited about reading deerbrook in the second half of the month 😊 Thanks for this hun 💜
So fun to hear about the variety of authors that are often forgotten!
From this list I've read The Semi-attached Couple, which I liked a lot and Deerbrook, which I absolutely loved 🥰. I'm also in the middle of Jill (I'm sorry to say I'm not enjoying it) and I've also started Hester by Oliphant, but I paused it last month to read a Wilkie Collins and haven't go back to it yet 🫢. I hope you enjoy the rest of Victober!
East Lynne is the only one I have heard of by Wood and I own it also and really want to read it this year. I am sure I will run out of time yet again.
I think most of these are on my own list Marissa and the only reason I had already heard of them all is because of Katie and Kate! I’m currently reading Salem Chapel (#3)in the Chronicles of Carlingford and although I think you could read and enjoy them out of order, I kind of like recognizing odd characters from book to book. The only H. Rider Haggard I’ve read is She thirty years ago, I think I quite enjoyed it and it’s one of his best known works
Nice! Another obscure Victorian author on my radar is Ouida. I read about the first 50 pages of East Lynne and dnfed, but I'm thinking I should pick it up again. I've read Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, She, and Return of She. They are of the time in the colonial and sexist sense, but otherwise, great reads. 👍
I loved East Lynne, it's such a blast. It's among my favourite Victorian novels.
I am going to give Emily Eden a go as I didn’t even know she existed in this great time of writing thank you for sharing some amazing books 📚 prayers and blessings to you and your family love your Aussie family friend John ❤❤❤❤
FYI, Cholmondeley is pronounced ‘Chumley’ in English 😊
Thank you