A great list, Miriam! I love Mr. Harding so much and appreciated The Warden after reading the entire series. When I read The Warden a second time it was so much more meaningful.
Ooo! First sip of coffee of the day-that’s a sacred moment!! 😂😂 I think your honest admissions at the beginning of the video are shared by many people, and I appreciated your vulnerability and honesty, Miriam! A terrific, friendly, and hopefully persuasive (!) video!!
I just love how you talk about the books you love! Can't believe we both started with Oliver Twist! I am also very conflicted about Dickens but am forever grateful for Oliver Twist.
I loved this video!!! My first Victorian classic that i know of.....which i didn't know (or was told by my teacher but forgot😅) was A Tale of Two Cities. I can't remember if we read Great Expectations or David Copperfield in high school or excerpts. I tried to LISTEN to Jane Eyre in 2019 i think and ended up DNFing it. I wasn't ready to embrace the Victorian love.😂 Then it was Nov 2021 that i read Wuthering Heights with a group on Booktube. That kicked it off for me. I read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall then went back and read Jane Eyre. I decided to join Kate's patreon in 2023 and got into Gaskell and Trollope and Hardy then. I had to read The Warden twice but loved it more the 2nd time and now i love Victorian lit So much. I feel like Jane Austen is harder to read now vs most Victorian lit. I'm so glad you stopped with your self-limiting thinking and dived into the VicLic. I wish more would do the same. ❤
What a great list! The COVID lockdown played a huge role in my love of Vic Lit too! 😂😅 I've read most of my Vic Lit since 2020. I did read Trollope's Barsetshire series in 2015, and I consider that series as my real entrance into Vic Lit. I loved it! I totally agree that I felt too dumb to read classics too! How interesting is that?
I know I have read Oliver Twist but I remember almost nothing about it, so i really need to re-read it. I haven't read Trollope yet but I want to! Wuthering Heights is my least favorite Bronte. But I do love me some Jane Eyre!
I have to reread Jane Eyre, the one time I read it I didn’t have super strong feelings for it. I think you would enjoy Trollope! His writing style is so delightful, his characters also feel so realistic and authentic.
I love that you loved Wuthering Heights! I've loved that book for so long and have many different editions, except the one you have, which is so lovely. I read Jane Eyre in my 7th grade English class, loved it. Read Wuthering Heights the following summer and many other times since, it's definitely my favorite of the Brontes. I also enjoy Elizabeth Gaskell works, especially North and South. Charles Dickens too, my favorite being A Christmas Carol. I have been wanting to read Trollope, have a few of his books, got to get started. Great video ☺📚❤
Trollope is wonderful. You need to read all of his Barchester novels (The Warden is the first) and the Palliser novels (also referred to as his political novels). Characters from one novel can show up in other novels.
I LOVED this video!! 🥰 Thank you Miriam for sharing your passion for Victorian classics. The first few I read was Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Windfell Hall and Wuthering Heights. All Bronte’s! So, I need to branch out with other authors. Lol. And I love every suggestion you recommended! Also, I have to agree about the reading experience of Wuthering Heights. I didn’t like the story really because the characters were horrible. But I rated it 5 stars for the amazing reading experience of the book! 🙌🏻
I love that you started with the Brontes!! Yessss! Wuthering Heights was one of the best reading experiences I’ve had!! Can’t wait to reread it 😍 thanks so much for watching and commenting ❤️❤️❤️
My reading month has been terrible, I have so much turbulence and financially stressful things happening in my life, sadly i am unable to focus on getting lost in a book. I haven't read too many victorian books yet! I have 50 classics sitting on my shelf ready to be read when I can calm down! I have been reading the hound of the baskervilles and have been unable to get into it, due to my mind wandering, but i can say it is a solid book. I really want to read wuthering heights, i have a really nice copy sitting on my shelf. The story/tragedy and genius of the brontes will never not be intriguing!
2:10 Oliver Twist is definitely on my tbr. I grew up reading the Illustrated Classics, so I feel like I’ve always had a level of familiarity with Dickens’ work. The first Victorian classic that I read that was *not* an Illustrated Classic was - to the best of my knowledge - A Tale of Two Cities… which I tore my way through. I keep meaning to return to Dickens, but other than A Christmas Carol, I haven’t gotten very far. I need to rectify that, especially with Oliver Twist. As for other classics, I honestly don’t know. They’ve always kind of sort of been available to me. So I didn’t end up building them up in my head as being better literature because they were as available as any other book in my house… we might have even had more classics than not. Some books I need to revisit as an adult, because I know that I didn’t fully appreciate them as a child, or I’ve never read the book outside of the Illustrated Classics edition (such as Oliver Twist). I am in the process of collecting Oxford World Classics to rectify this oversight. 9:23 How could I forget Sherlock Holmes! Probably my most often read and reread Victorian literature over the years. ❤ 12:34 Standing as I am will Anne of Windy Poplars in one hand (Sherlock Holmes is in the other), your reference to kindred spirits cracked me up. 😄 Thanks for a fun video!
'Jane Eyre' - I read it aged 11ish, I loved it. 'North and South' sometime later and the last Victorian novel that I thought was brilliant was 'Heart of Darkness' .
Hi Miriam, I just loved this so much! I fell in love with Victorian literature with Jane Eyre in my early twenties, and loved it but do remember reading The Woman in White as a teen because it was on my parent’s bookshelf @nd I liked it so much. My first Dickens was The Pickwick Papers which I really loved too. I have read some Sherlock Holmes and was surprised how easy it was too. I read and didn’t care for Wuthering Heights but want to try it again. I appreciated the book but didn’t like the characters. I just read The Tennant of Wildfell Hall and really loved that. Now I am reading Dr. Thorne, so moving along with that series. I just love the discussion of Victorian classics, and I ordered Dynover Terrace at your recommendation, and also read and enjoyed Frankenstein at your suggestion. Thank you.😊😊😊
My reaction to Wuthering Heights was the same! It was not at all what I had expected based on everything I had heard. A co-worker read it at the same time and we had a great time discussing our shock over everything awful thing the characters did.
Love this video for many reasons! Can personally relate to what you said early on. The crazy thing with me is that I've always been drawn to Victorian Litature & couldn't figure why or didn't realize it. 😂 I love George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, George Gissing, the Brontës & Thomas Hardy. Happy Victober! 🎉 🙂 🩷
I've only read Silas Marner by Eliot and wasn't the biggest fan but I'm hoping to start Middlemarch in December! Happy Victober to you as well! Can't believe the month is almost over...
Hello, I just found your channel, and I'm glad I did. I really like historical books and historical mysteries and love all things Sherlock Holmes. I read all genres of books other than horror, explicit. You gave a good list, and some I want to check out. Happy reading 📚 😊
I fell in love with Jane Eyre and A Christmas Carol in my childhood so I guess they would be my introduction to Victorian literature. I also read the Palliser series, Three Men in a Boat and Cranford back in the day and loved them.
I’m looking forward to the Palliser series! Just have to finish the Barsetshire books and I plan on reading a few standalones before starting Palliser.
Your videos inspired me to read classics. All the intimidations you had are exactly what I am feeling now, but I am slowly realizing that I CAN read Victorian literature and classics in general. I recently finished The Woman in White and I had the SparkNotes opened just in case, but I was baffled at how much I truly comprehended😂. I tried to read The Warden months ago, but the first few pages were daunting with all the background and I had no idea what was going on. But - I am going to give it another try! Lovely video as always.❤️
That’s amazing!! 😍😍 Sparknotes is a life saver!! I honestly still feel like I don’t fully understand all the church politics in the Barsetshire series.. the great thing is even though there’s that political aspect to the books, they’re truly about the characters and their relationships! Thanks so much for watching and commenting ❤️
I enjoyed your video so much! Jane Eyre is my all-time favorite, but I love Dickens and Trollope’s Barsetshire series as well… and of course, Jane Austen:)
Hi Miriam 🤗 amazig video! Unfortunately I am not really able to participate in vitctober this year, but definitely wanna read at least Jane Eyre by the end of the year! I´ve tried Dicken´s books several times but just couldn´t get into them for some reason... maybe I´ll give it another try 🤭
He can be tough to get into that’s for sure! I’ve only really loved a couple of his books so far… I have a few more to read so we’ll see what I think of his later works!
Wonderful video Miriam.😊 I can’t be certain, but the first classic book I read was Northanger Abbey. I completely fell in love with Jane Austen’s writing. My first Victorian classic was Wuthering Heights. I was completely and utterly blown away. To know that Emily Bronte had only one book published saddened me so much. I adore all the Bronte sisters, but like you, I feel a huge connection with Emily. In life, she was a solitary type person who loved her animals and the moors that she lived on. I feel that as well. She holds a special place in my heart as far as authors go. I haven’t read Oliver Twist yet. I have a thing about abuse of children, and the first few pages has someone kicking their dog. UGH! I will read it though. 😊😊. We have already discussed Mr Trollope. You know how I feel about him. 😀😀😀😀😻📚
Thank you so much! Northanger Abbey is such a fun story!! And yesss it’s so sad she only ever had one novel published… EB was so gifted! I need to try her poetry.
I am not a classics reader either. I did read them in high school years ago. I read David Cooperfield and Tale of Two Cities which I liked. I just finished reading The Warden and I liked that one too. I have to get over the feeling that classics are harder to read. It is almost like a foreign language sometimes, but I would like to read more.
I completely understand! It did take me several books to finally find a rhythm with classics - the language was definitely the hardest part! I’ll be honest there are still classics I struggle to get into because of the way they’re written, and I often have to reread passages to try and understand what’s being said! But on the other hand there are definitely some wonderful and accessible classics out there! ❤️
Great video. Have you tried any George Eliot yet? I would suggest Silas Marner (short!) and The Mill on the Floss as good introductions to her work. And if you fancy trying something in the mystery/thriller genre, you can’t do better than Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White or The Moonstone.
I've only read Silas Marner and it wasn't a favourite, but I'm hoping to start Middlemarch in December! I might read The Mill on the Floss in November. I love Wilkie Collins!! Love The Woman in White and have read a few others of his.
Oh my goodness the name chart for Wuthering Heights is such a good idea 😂 why do they all have the same names!? I’ve still never read a Charles Dickens - I don’t know why his books kind of intimidate me 😬
Haha! It was super helpful! Dickens is definitely hit or miss, but I still find myself drawn to his work! Though I’m still intimidated before I start one! 😅
Hi Miriam! I'd agree that the romance in Wuthering Heights is all about the landscape and rich, evocative sense of place. It's just so gorgeous. The actual relationship in the story is textbook dysfunctional and abusive! Not romantic at all.
As Dickens was writing on paper he was acting out the different voices in front of a large mirror in his room. His wife must have been annoyed at the noise! There's a video on YT somewhere of touring his London apartment museum and they show the big mirror.
I never really see much discussion on Thomas Hardy, he was able to write on the injustices of the Victorian era and not be obvious about it. He was a true feminist. *Tess of the D'urbervilles* was the 1st I read by him. 2nd *Jude the Obscure* Both are easy to read, yes, I'm giving Dickens the side eye on "readability"...
I read Tess last month and adored it! I actually really disliked Jude 🤭🤭 But I’m definitely coming to appreciate Hardy more. I want to reread The Mayor of Casterbridge and Far From the Madding Crowd.
See i was trying to read can you forgive her by Trollope, and i liked it but mannnn was it dry. Likedownton abbey without the thrill lol/suspense music to go with it
there seems to be this unusual paradigm online where you are either a Jane Eyre person or a Wuthering Heights person, but rarely both. anyone else notice this?
I’ve noticed!! I’m definitely more on the Wuthering Heights side although I did enjoy Jane Eyre! I just didn’t adore it the way so many do. But I do hope that changes when I reread it!
This is such a fantastic video! It’s so fun to hear you gushing about these books. I really want to read The Warden next year!
Thanks so much Jen!❤️
A great list, Miriam! I love Mr. Harding so much and appreciated The Warden after reading the entire series. When I read The Warden a second time it was so much more meaningful.
Yes! I found it more meaningful when I reread it as well!!
I love Mr. Harding, too. He is so nice, unassuming, and selfless.
Ooh, I loved Mr Harding too! I could scarcely bear to read The Last Chronicle. Looking forward to rereading The Warden
Ooo! First sip of coffee of the day-that’s a sacred moment!! 😂😂 I think your honest admissions at the beginning of the video are shared by many people, and I appreciated your vulnerability and honesty, Miriam! A terrific, friendly, and hopefully persuasive (!) video!!
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Thank you so much Darryl!! I really appreciate that!
Ahhh that first sip is just perfection daily!! ☕
Yesss ☕️❤️
I just love how you talk about the books you love! Can't believe we both started with Oliver Twist! I am also very conflicted about Dickens but am forever grateful for Oliver Twist.
Thanks so much, Kate! ❤️ I’m conflicted about him too.
Same! I’m not a huge fan of short stories, but I have been reading all of Sherlock this year, and I LOVE them!
Yess! They’re just so good!!
Love your classics journey sister! Now you’re the classics queen 🎉
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I loved this video!!! My first Victorian classic that i know of.....which i didn't know (or was told by my teacher but forgot😅) was A Tale of Two Cities. I can't remember if we read Great Expectations or David Copperfield in high school or excerpts.
I tried to LISTEN to Jane Eyre in 2019 i think and ended up DNFing it. I wasn't ready to embrace the Victorian love.😂
Then it was Nov 2021 that i read Wuthering Heights with a group on Booktube. That kicked it off for me. I read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall then went back and read Jane Eyre. I decided to join Kate's patreon in 2023 and got into Gaskell and Trollope and Hardy then. I had to read The Warden twice but loved it more the 2nd time and now i love Victorian lit So much. I feel like Jane Austen is harder to read now vs most Victorian lit.
I'm so glad you stopped with your self-limiting thinking and dived into the VicLic. I wish more would do the same. ❤
Thanks so much Penny!!❤️❤️ I agree about Austen being harder!!!
And rereading the warden made it even more special for me as well ❤️❤️
What a great list! The COVID lockdown played a huge role in my love of Vic Lit too! 😂😅 I've read most of my Vic Lit since 2020. I did read Trollope's Barsetshire series in 2015, and I consider that series as my real entrance into Vic Lit. I loved it! I totally agree that I felt too dumb to read classics too! How interesting is that?
I know I have read Oliver Twist but I remember almost nothing about it, so i really need to re-read it. I haven't read Trollope yet but I want to! Wuthering Heights is my least favorite Bronte. But I do love me some Jane Eyre!
Sorry this was supposed to be a separate comment not a reply. 😂😂😂
That’s awesome!! lol sometimes I still feel dumb 🤣🤣🤣
LOL
I have to reread Jane Eyre, the one time I read it I didn’t have super strong feelings for it. I think you would enjoy Trollope! His writing style is so delightful, his characters also feel so realistic and authentic.
The cozy vibes 🧡
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I love that you loved Wuthering Heights! I've loved that book for so long and have many different editions, except the one you have, which is so lovely. I read Jane Eyre in my 7th grade English class, loved it. Read Wuthering Heights the following summer and many other times since, it's definitely my favorite of the Brontes. I also enjoy Elizabeth Gaskell works, especially North and South. Charles Dickens too, my favorite being A Christmas Carol. I have been wanting to read Trollope, have a few of his books, got to get started. Great video ☺📚❤
Thank you so much! ❤️ I hope you enjoy Trollope! He’s so wonderful… quite readable, realistic characters, he had a good sense of humour too!
This was wonderful Miriam and I need to try Trollope. Thank you for sharing!! 🥰
Thanks so much! ❤️
Trollope is wonderful. You need to read all of his Barchester novels (The Warden is the first) and the Palliser novels (also referred to as his political novels). Characters from one novel can show up in other novels.
I LOVED this video!! 🥰 Thank you Miriam for sharing your passion for Victorian classics. The first few I read was Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Windfell Hall and Wuthering Heights. All Bronte’s! So, I need to branch out with other authors. Lol. And I love every suggestion you recommended! Also, I have to agree about the reading experience of Wuthering Heights. I didn’t like the story really because the characters were horrible. But I rated it 5 stars for the amazing reading experience of the book! 🙌🏻
I love that you started with the Brontes!! Yessss! Wuthering Heights was one of the best reading experiences I’ve had!! Can’t wait to reread it 😍 thanks so much for watching and commenting ❤️❤️❤️
My reading month has been terrible, I have so much turbulence and financially stressful things happening in my life, sadly i am unable to focus on getting lost in a book. I haven't read too many victorian books yet! I have 50 classics sitting on my shelf ready to be read when I can calm down! I have been reading the hound of the baskervilles and have been unable to get into it, due to my mind wandering, but i can say it is a solid book. I really want to read wuthering heights, i have a really nice copy sitting on my shelf. The story/tragedy and genius of the brontes will never not be intriguing!
I’m so sorry to hear that. 🙁 I pray you are able to feel peace and find joy in reading! And that’s so true about the Brontes!!
2:10 Oliver Twist is definitely on my tbr.
I grew up reading the Illustrated Classics, so I feel like I’ve always had a level of familiarity with Dickens’ work. The first Victorian classic that I read that was *not* an Illustrated Classic was - to the best of my knowledge - A Tale of Two Cities… which I tore my way through. I keep meaning to return to Dickens, but other than A Christmas Carol, I haven’t gotten very far. I need to rectify that, especially with Oliver Twist.
As for other classics, I honestly don’t know. They’ve always kind of sort of been available to me. So I didn’t end up building them up in my head as being better literature because they were as available as any other book in my house… we might have even had more classics than not. Some books I need to revisit as an adult, because I know that I didn’t fully appreciate them as a child, or I’ve never read the book outside of the Illustrated Classics edition (such as Oliver Twist). I am in the process of collecting Oxford World Classics to rectify this oversight.
9:23 How could I forget Sherlock Holmes! Probably my most often read and reread Victorian literature over the years. ❤
12:34 Standing as I am will Anne of Windy Poplars in one hand (Sherlock Holmes is in the other), your reference to kindred spirits cracked me up. 😄
Thanks for a fun video!
I love that! 😍 I love the Anne series!!
Wuthering Heights is an absolute favorite of mine, and I read Oliver Twist earlier this year for the first time. I fell in love with it, as well. ❤
'Jane Eyre' - I read it aged 11ish, I loved it. 'North and South' sometime later and the last Victorian novel that I thought was brilliant was 'Heart of Darkness' .
North and South is amazing!! I haven’t read Heart of Darkness yet.
@@miriamelizabethreads I really recommend it, I love the tone: cynicism about the European colonialism and it's short of a Victorian classic.
I’m also new(ish) to Victorian literature so I really appreciate your list. Thank you!
Thanks so much!
A Christmas Carol is my first Victorian tale. Mom would read it to us on Christmas Eve before the midnight service. ❤
I love that! Great memories 😊
Sherlock Holmes was my first introduction to Victorian fiction and I fell head over heels in lovs
Hi Miriam, I just loved this so much! I fell in love with Victorian literature with Jane Eyre in my early twenties, and loved it but do remember reading The Woman in White as a teen because it was on my parent’s bookshelf @nd I liked it so much. My first Dickens was The Pickwick Papers which I really loved too. I have read some Sherlock Holmes and was surprised how easy it was too. I read and didn’t care for Wuthering Heights but want to try it again. I appreciated the book but didn’t like the characters. I just read The Tennant of Wildfell Hall and really loved that. Now I am reading Dr. Thorne, so moving along with that series. I just love the discussion of Victorian classics, and I ordered Dynover Terrace at your recommendation, and also read and enjoyed Frankenstein at your suggestion. Thank you.😊😊😊
I’m so glad you enjoyed Frankenstein and I really hope you love Dynevor Terrace!!❤️
My reaction to Wuthering Heights was the same! It was not at all what I had expected based on everything I had heard. A co-worker read it at the same time and we had a great time discussing our shock over everything awful thing the characters did.
That’s awesome! I’m really looking forward to my reread of it.
Love this video for many reasons! Can personally relate to what you said early on. The crazy thing with me is that I've always been drawn to Victorian Litature & couldn't figure why or didn't realize it. 😂
I love George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, George Gissing, the Brontës & Thomas Hardy.
Happy Victober! 🎉 🙂 🩷
I've only read Silas Marner by Eliot and wasn't the biggest fan but I'm hoping to start Middlemarch in December! Happy Victober to you as well! Can't believe the month is almost over...
Such great books 😊
Hello, I just found your channel, and I'm glad I did. I really like historical books and historical mysteries and love all things Sherlock Holmes. I read all genres of books other than horror, explicit. You gave a good list, and some I want to check out. Happy reading 📚 😊
So glad you’re here! ❤️ Happy reading to you as well 🤗
Love A Christmas Carol 💚
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Love this! 😍♥️
I fell in love with Jane Eyre and A Christmas Carol in my childhood so I guess they would be my introduction to Victorian literature. I also read the Palliser series, Three Men in a Boat and Cranford back in the day and loved them.
I’m looking forward to the Palliser series! Just have to finish the Barsetshire books and I plan on reading a few standalones before starting Palliser.
Wonderful video look at Victorian literature. You had me at Dickens!
Your videos inspired me to read classics. All the intimidations you had are exactly what I am feeling now, but I am slowly realizing that I CAN read Victorian literature and classics in general. I recently finished The Woman in White and I had the SparkNotes opened just in case, but I was baffled at how much I truly comprehended😂. I tried to read The Warden months ago, but the first few pages were daunting with all the background and I had no idea what was going on. But - I am going to give it another try!
Lovely video as always.❤️
That’s amazing!! 😍😍 Sparknotes is a life saver!! I honestly still feel like I don’t fully understand all the church politics in the Barsetshire series.. the great thing is even though there’s that political aspect to the books, they’re truly about the characters and their relationships! Thanks so much for watching and commenting ❤️
I enjoyed your video so much! Jane Eyre is my all-time favorite, but I love Dickens and Trollope’s Barsetshire series as well… and of course, Jane Austen:)
Thanks so much! 🤗
Try Dickens' Hard Times. Mr Bounderby is a great comical villain.
Hi Miriam 🤗 amazig video! Unfortunately I am not really able to participate in vitctober this year, but definitely wanna read at least Jane Eyre by the end of the year! I´ve tried Dicken´s books several times but just couldn´t get into them for some reason... maybe I´ll give it another try 🤭
He can be tough to get into that’s for sure! I’ve only really loved a couple of his books so far… I have a few more to read so we’ll see what I think of his later works!
Wonderful video Miriam.😊 I can’t be certain, but the first classic book I read was Northanger Abbey. I completely fell in love with Jane Austen’s writing. My first Victorian classic was Wuthering Heights. I was completely and utterly blown away. To know that Emily Bronte had only one book published saddened me so much. I adore all the Bronte sisters, but like you, I feel a huge connection with Emily. In life, she was a solitary type person who loved her animals and the moors that she lived on. I feel that as well. She holds a special place in my heart as far as authors go. I haven’t read Oliver Twist yet. I have a thing about abuse of children, and the first few pages has someone kicking their dog. UGH! I will read it though. 😊😊. We have already discussed Mr Trollope. You know how I feel about him. 😀😀😀😀😻📚
Thank you so much! Northanger Abbey is such a fun story!! And yesss it’s so sad she only ever had one novel published… EB was so gifted! I need to try her poetry.
I am not a classics reader either. I did read them in high school years ago. I read David Cooperfield and Tale of Two Cities which I liked. I just finished reading The Warden and I liked that one too. I have to get over the feeling that classics are harder to read. It is almost like a foreign language sometimes, but I would like to read more.
I completely understand! It did take me several books to finally find a rhythm with classics - the language was definitely the hardest part! I’ll be honest there are still classics I struggle to get into because of the way they’re written, and I often have to reread passages to try and understand what’s being said! But on the other hand there are definitely some wonderful and accessible classics out there! ❤️
I know the story of Oliver Twist, but I have never read it. I really need to.
This is such a great video! 🤎👏🏻 😃📚
Thanks so much!
Great video. Have you tried any George Eliot yet? I would suggest Silas Marner (short!) and The Mill on the Floss as good introductions to her work. And if you fancy trying something in the mystery/thriller genre, you can’t do better than Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White or The Moonstone.
I've only read Silas Marner and it wasn't a favourite, but I'm hoping to start Middlemarch in December! I might read The Mill on the Floss in November. I love Wilkie Collins!! Love The Woman in White and have read a few others of his.
Jane Eyre. The book I recommend to a reader as an introduction to Victorian classic literature.
It’s definitely a great intro!
Thank you so much for sharing your journey into classics! I'm absolutely still in the intimidated category. 🙃
❤️❤️❤️ I totally get it! I mean I’m intimidated by Confessions lol! But I do really want to read it especially since you enjoyed it.
@@miriamelizabethreads I hope you enjoy it! I'm just going to focus on one book outside my comfort zone at a time until I find my rhythm. 😍
I loved Oliver Twist and Christmas Carol
Oh my goodness the name chart for Wuthering Heights is such a good idea 😂 why do they all have the same names!? I’ve still never read a Charles Dickens - I don’t know why his books kind of intimidate me 😬
Haha! It was super helpful! Dickens is definitely hit or miss, but I still find myself drawn to his work! Though I’m still intimidated before I start one! 😅
I read a Christmas carol for the first time last year!
It’s such a great story!
Hi Miriam! I'd agree that the romance in Wuthering Heights is all about the landscape and rich, evocative sense of place. It's just so gorgeous. The actual relationship in the story is textbook dysfunctional and abusive! Not romantic at all.
Very true!
As Dickens was writing on paper he was acting out the different voices in front of a large mirror in his room. His wife must have been annoyed at the noise! There's a video on YT somewhere of touring his London apartment museum and they show the big mirror.
i love wuthering height too.
Nice video! Have you heard of the movie Enola Holmes? It is about the younger sister of Sherlock. There is also a sequel. Loved those movies!
I've seen the first one and really enjoyed it! I'll have to check out the sequel! :)
I really need to re-read Wuthering Heights.
I never really see much discussion on Thomas Hardy, he was able to write on the injustices of the Victorian era and not be obvious about it. He was a true feminist. *Tess of the D'urbervilles* was the 1st I read by him. 2nd *Jude the Obscure* Both are easy to read, yes, I'm giving Dickens the side eye on "readability"...
I read Tess last month and adored it! I actually really disliked Jude 🤭🤭 But I’m definitely coming to appreciate Hardy more. I want to reread The Mayor of Casterbridge and Far From the Madding Crowd.
That Wuthering Heights is a graphic novel... please open the pages for us to have a glimpse 😊
It actually doesn’t have any illustrations! The cover makes it look like it could be a graphic novel. 😊
@@miriamelizabethreads Cathy deceived me AGAIN !!! 😡
See i was trying to read can you forgive her by Trollope, and i liked it but mannnn was it dry. Likedownton abbey without the thrill lol/suspense music to go with it
there seems to be this unusual paradigm online where you are either a Jane Eyre person or a Wuthering Heights person, but rarely both. anyone else notice this?
I’ve noticed!! I’m definitely more on the Wuthering Heights side although I did enjoy Jane Eyre! I just didn’t adore it the way so many do. But I do hope that changes when I reread it!
It’s not wordiness or verbose, it’s descriptive!