A Cosy Candlelit Reading Vlog 🕯 | Charlotte Perkins Gilman & Mona Caird
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2020
- I hope you enjoy this cosy reading vlog! It was worth straining my eyesight for. I had a lovely evening reading two short stories about the "New Woman" - The Yellow Drawing Room, and The Yellow Wallpaper.
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The Yellow Wallpaper is superb. We studied it in a humanities module in my first year at uni. When you analyze it line by line you see how the husband controls the woman in totally the wrong way. Mental health has come along way since.
Well, now I have to go and read everything Mona Caird ever wrote. I had things to do this evening, thanks a bunch 😂😂😁
Omg I love your bedroom!!!
Definitely going to read some Mona Caird now! Thank you for highlighting her voice!! 🥰
Lucy, I find such a perpetual joy in your reading vlogs. It is so unfortunate that Mona Caird’s writing is no longer in print. I hope to download her stories from Archive. I have lately been reading extensively and straining my eyes. Writing does not cause eye strain, for I can weave stories through my thoughts. I endeavor to read The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman because it is a story about passion and fervor. I am determined to read stories from the perspectives of these valiant women. It is wonderful that you are developing an interest in short fiction. You have read quite a few short stories from the Victorian Era and Edwardian Period that I desire to read. I have recently been analyzing symbolism in literature. In your novel, The Paper and Hearts Society, books symbolize comfort and happiness. I love you
"I can weave stories through my thoughts" - a wonderful description, I love it! And yes, books definitely do symbolise comfort and happiness in The Paper & Hearts Society. And friendship too!
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That is how I feel towards creating my own stories. Your books are all about finding comfort in friendship and I love that.
This was such a lovely video!
I really enjoyed this reading vlog!
Loved this! So cosy, and made me so excited for cosy autumn days reading!! xx
Such a cosy reading vlog! Also I've never heard of Mona Caird - will have to look her up! x
I love the atmosphere on your channel!I'll definitely be trying reading by candlelight!
What a great book recommendation! It now lives on my Kindle, waiting for me to crack open the cover.
Loved this style of video and the side by side look at the two stories! I read The Yellow Wallpaper last year and really enjoyed it, but that Mona Caird excerpt you read has me on my way to read her work immediately! Thanks for the recommendation ;)
Oh I loved seeing a vlog from you! Would love you to do more reading vlogs 👍
I Really enjoyed this video, it felt so cosy and just like I was sat having a chat with a friend about books ☺️ I was so pleased that you enjoyed The Yellow Wallpaper, I feel it’s a really important book addressing some really important issues. I first read it a couple of years after suffering from postnatal depression and it felt incredibly powerful, and almost a little scary.
Such a great video! I really want to read those stories! By the way: a yellow wall(paper) would be lovely on the wall behind your bed.
i loved this ❤️❤️
Ahh, thank you, Lauren! 💕
I'm very grateful you exist 😊
And I'm very grateful that you would leave such a kind comment!
Enjoyed the vlog 💜💜💜
beautiful vlog
What a lovely reading vlog, Lucy! What you were saying about the colour yellow is so interesting. If you've seen the original cover for Dracula then you'll know that is also bright yellow. In that case, yellow was also used to align the book with more experimental and disreputable forms of literature. Can't wait for Victober!
Oh, I didn't know that about Dracula! There was The Yellow Book too, which is supposedly the book Oscar Wilde was carrying when he was arrested.
I can't wait for Victober either!
Thank you Lucy: liked the more off the cuff style, and guinea pigs are always a bonus. Dogs too. :-)
It's been a very long time since I read The Yellow Wallpaper, but it stuck with me and has long enjoyed quite a reputation as something of a one off. Actually, I gained a fresh insight into it some years ago by contracting pneumonia (not recommended) and had all the fun of a few days of delirium. This is not an experience I'd care to try to describe, but Charlotte Perkins Gilman did so exceedingly well. It's one of those works of fiction which permits of several readings, and that's the really literal one!
There is nothing like reading by candlelight, it's so relaxing. I found a vintage copy of Shirley by Charlotte Bronte this week and I couldn't pass it up. Definitely made me think of you.
I am honoured to be associated with Shirley!
I loved this vlog, have put this book in my book list.
Hope you enjoy it!
It’s fun to imagine that the narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper moved in to the house in The Yellow Drawing Room
Great video!
So cosy with your doggy snuggled next to you with the candles and book. I want a dog soooooo badly. I've already named him. Alfie. Haha. ONE DAY.
Cosy, except he decided to lick the page and made it all soggy, haha!
You look cute in braids!
Ahh! I'm coming to this late, but I'm so excited to see Schreiner included here! I love The Buddhist Priest's Wife, and I just finished editing a new edition of her important work Dreams for Broadview Press (on page proofs now!). If you liked The Buddhist Priest's Wife, give Dreams a try. It's a wonderful utopian work that was extremely important to the women's suffrage movement!
Your 60 year old self is calling from the future - USE A BOOK LIGHT! Your older vision will thank you.
I think you will definitely like the Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy, I’m on book 4😻
Love from İstanbul
I feel lonely cuz I’m early and have no comments to read😂
Always interesting to see how people read. I can never stay comfortbale in the same position for long. Oh, and if you like, click 'LIKE'
You might like Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West. We analyzed the plot at uni. Many interpretations of what was going on.
I do have a copy of The Return of the Solider - I shall have to move it up my TBR, thank you!
You have a beautiful mind!
I hope you did an evening skincare routine before heading off to sleep. Your older self will thank you greatly for taking extra care of your skin now.