Your last reason was so interesting - I had never thought of it before! But I definitely have experienced that reading more Victorian Literature begets more love for Victorian Literature. Happy Victober, Katie!
Thanks Kate :) I'm pretty sure you I partially stole this video idea from you when did a video of the reasons why you love Victorian literature a year or two ago. So much love for Victorian literature :)
I have been looking forward to Victober so much this year. I often find Victorian literature to be comforting -- even though the period and novels were anything but. I think its because though the problems described in the books were quite serious and real they are often problems in which we have seen advances if not solutions. This gives me hope that we can overcome the seemingly intractable problems of today.
Thanks! I find it comforting too - I wonder if it's because I read lots of it as a teenager so I find it nostalgic like other people find their old childhood favourites :)
take a shot every time she says victorian haha but love this!! and ur enthusiasm for this!! you have singlehandedly ignited my love and interest for victorian literature
Me too! Honestly Katie I didn't think much about reading Victorian literature apart from the few I've read already (think 'Jane Eyre' namely), until I listened to your videos and subscribed. Now I'm reading 'Shirley' with everyone for our readalong and really enjoying it. Thank you
I found you when I searched for historical fictions recommendations on TH-cam and I want to say I LOVE YOU! I’m so delighted to find you, you are such a gorgeous and amazing girl and I love your reading taste🥰
So many of the reasons you give are my own reasons for loving classics and Victorian lit, but I didn't know how to express it or analyze my feelings until you said it. haha! Thank you for expressing it so well, and for helping me to understand my own reading tastes a little better too!
I finally got into Elisabeth Gaskell so i am reading crandford. i started it in sept. and now on chapter 3. then my load book from the library is north and soth . i got no father than chapter 4 in the north and south novel.that i am going to read it again. once it comes in at my library. classic novels that i love to read are great to get an idea on how people lived, worked,and how the classes differ.
All your loves for Victorian literature I’m seeing as I read Trollope’s Can You Forgive Her? From other videos I get the impression that, while you love the Victorians, you’re very modern and contemporary in your reading tastes. Keep up the fine work, Katie! Talking about important things (literature) in a genial yet compelling way!
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I agree with ALL that u said! 💛 I want to do MA in Victorian Literature because I teach people to write SAT’s in my country, and I think that these books help to develop a “social sense”, afterall, the authors talk about all those society issues! Great video 🥰
Seriously, you have been an enormous force for spreading the love of Victorian literature all over the world. I always thought of myself as a fairly knowledgeable reader (for an American), and you have broadened my knowledge so incredibly much. Thank you. Victober is a brilliant idea, and a brilliant month.
I agree with you, I always find it hard to explain the plots and maybe that's why I avoid the blurb when reading classics because I've been spoiled a few times!
Such a great introduction into Victober! I completely agree with everything you said. I love the way Victorian novels make you fall in love with them often in a slow, subtle way. You slowly get to know characters, and maybe feel a little bored. And then you reach a point where suddenly you just absolutely love it!
Thank you for affirming some of the countless reasons Victorian literature is the BEST. And I'm American, lol. Another huge reason I adore Vic lit is that there is often an underlying positive, spiritual current that counters the rigid religious morals and stereotypes. For example, Thomas Hardy consistently demonstrates a mystic, universal, dare I say yogic?, force that just fills my soul. ❤❤❤ Even dark, gothic lit has some beautiful spiritual insight that transcend the confines of religion, imo. Thank you for your wonderful insight!
I love how passionately you talk about Victorian Literature! You are the booktuber that I relate the most to , since you love Dickense ,Gaskell , Hardy and Brontës alot ... i am so happy to have known your channel ❤
You've really inspired me to read more Victorian literature. Your love for Victoria literature really shines through in this video and it was so lovely to watch and hear about.
This video literally gave me chills because I agree with all of it!! This is my first Victober and I’m so excited (I actually commissioned a pfp of me in Victorian dress)!!
That last one, ‘i love it i read it so i love it so i read it’ 😂. I love how excited you are in this video! Makes me excited as well, I haven’t read much beyond the Brontë sisters, but that’s going to change this month! 🍁📖
Happy Victober! I am delighted that you love Victorian literature so much and that you chose to share your reasons with us today. Your enthusiasm is palpable and fills me with joy at the thought of exploring it more. I have never considered my own love of Victorian literature. Perhaps it's something I'll understand when I have read more, since currently I still think I've not explored enough outside of Dickens.
This is my first Victober and I am excited. I have gotten away from reading classics lately (except for Jane Austen) and I am eager to get back to Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, and Elizabeth Gaskell in particular.
YES. Just YES to every single thing you said! I was going to film a video like this, but I'm pretty sure you just expressed all the same reasons better than I ever could.
I haven't had a chance to pick up a book yet today but this video has me SO excited to get stuck into my TBR! I really enjoy the way some Victorian novels really take their time to get into the plot too, and I don't think I would have realised this if I hadn't read a lot of Victorian literature last October as I don't think I would have picked up on that style without reading a lot at once to see the pattern. I love the writing too and find it very funny, though I am not sure how much of that is intended and how much is reading it through a 21st Century lens but I enjoy it either way! Great video 😊
Hi Kate, such a delight to hear your love for Victorian literature! I love it too! Super excited it's my first victober. I've chosen and started yesterday - Hardy's 'under the greenwood tree' and 'the mayor of casterbridge' , must say I'm so enjoying them already! Have fun with your reads!😘
This will be my first Victober as a Booktuber , I began with "The Star" by H G Wells on audiobook... which seems a rather unVictorian way of accessing it...maybe I should have found it on a wax cylinder or something... "Little Dorritt" is waiting on my shelf for me to finish the wonderful "Dombey and Son". I also hope to read some of the writings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, even if Dickens was critical of their work (interestingly his daughter Kate Dickens, a painter herself, posed for John Everett Millais on a number of occasions). I need to read Elizabeth Gaskell sometime. Thanks for the inspiration, now I have to go and take Diogenes for a walk...
Your love of Victorian lit is circuitous for sure. 🤗📚 Thank you for sharing. I'm fairly a new reader to Victorian lit. I've read some Dickens, Stevenson, Bronte's, H.G. Wells and I'm sure a few others. But the many popular books on booktube I do not think I've read. I think I'm more familiar with American authors of this time period. Now that I think of it, I don't think many booktubers discuss. hmm 🤔
The 19th century was the century where the novel came into its own, largely driven by rising literacy rates and a growing middleclass who could afford to buy them. Also improved printing and publishing technology I assume helped. You get some of the very first children's books too like Alice in Wonderland, Treasure Island and the Jungle Book.
Hello. How are you? From the video you can see your passion for Victorian reading. I have in the reading list: Miss Austen by Gill Hornby, The mill on the Floss by George Eliot, The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Have you read any of these books?
I've read all of those by The Song of the Lark - I really enjoyed Miss Austen and The Woman in White, but I'm not really a fan of The Mill on the Floss.
Happy Victober!!! 13 is the perfect spooky number. As an Indian, I don't think much about British society at the time, we were colonised by them at the time. The books are good though!
Woke up this morning with a squeel***it’s Victober! Better than Christmas. There’s a 5 year old bay mare racehorse called Betsey Trotter 🐎. Hope she gets a run this month.
Hi I missed your videos!!! Can you give me recommendations on books similar to Jane Eyre or any book written by Charlotte Bronte (I absolutely loved Vilette and Shirley too)? I've read some Victorian books after finishing her books and nothing comes close or does it for me quite like Charlotte Bronte... I'm scared I will never feel about a book the way I felt about the ones written by her
Have you read North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and The tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë? Charlotte also wrote The professor, but it isn't as good as Jane Eyre or Shirley. I haven't read Villette yet, maybe I'll read it this month.
@@laura0104 Hi María thank you so much for replying! I've read everything by all the Bronte sisters except The Professor (everyone says it's not that good) I haven't read North and South, but it has been on my wish list, and now that you recommend it I'll be sure to make it the next one I read, I'll try to start it this weekend!!! Thank you again for replying, have a beautiful day!!! ❤️
@@laura0104 Also, you should read Vilette! It's a very somber and melancholy book, but I loved it a lot. Charlotte describes heartache and unrequited love in such a gut wrenching way, it's unparallelled
I highly recommend Olive by Dinah Mullock Craik if you like Jane Eyre, and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. I also recommend The Half Sisters by Geraldine Jewsbury, and Jill by Amy Dillwyn.
Picking apart social problems--any modern authors you would nominate for carrying on this tradition, Katie? That might make a great discussion after this month 🤔
Omg 😮 wow 😮 I have never ever agreed with someone so much who agrees with me 100 percent as you are I really enjoyed this amazing video please stay safe love 💖 John from Australia xxx
The very name Eustacia Vye -- stands alone. But I agree about the immensity of a really really really good plot, that lives up to the language of its making. But then I love Shakespeare. I know a doppelgänger for you. Face, chin, devotion, depth.
YES to historical context! I've probably found the nonfiction analysis of 19th c British history to be more helpful, and add layers to my reading of Victorian novels. I think I'd be helpless and clueless without that helping step up! :)
Your last reason was so interesting - I had never thought of it before! But I definitely have experienced that reading more Victorian Literature begets more love for Victorian Literature.
Happy Victober, Katie!
Thanks Kate :) I'm pretty sure you I partially stole this video idea from you when did a video of the reasons why you love Victorian literature a year or two ago. So much love for Victorian literature :)
I have been looking forward to Victober so much this year. I often find Victorian literature to be comforting -- even though the period and novels were anything but. I think its because though the problems described in the books were quite serious and real they are often problems in which we have seen advances if not solutions. This gives me hope that we can overcome the seemingly intractable problems of today.
Thanks! I find it comforting too - I wonder if it's because I read lots of it as a teenager so I find it nostalgic like other people find their old childhood favourites :)
Yeah like Zola's 'Nan'.
I love how passionate you are about it, you truly inspired me to read more about it
take a shot every time she says victorian
haha but love this!! and ur enthusiasm for this!! you have singlehandedly ignited my love and interest for victorian literature
Thanks very much :)
Me too! Honestly Katie I didn't think much about reading Victorian literature apart from the few I've read already (think 'Jane Eyre' namely), until I listened to your videos and subscribed. Now I'm reading 'Shirley' with everyone for our readalong and really enjoying it. Thank you
I found you when I searched for historical fictions recommendations on TH-cam and I want to say I LOVE YOU! I’m so delighted to find you, you are such a gorgeous and amazing girl and I love your reading taste🥰
Thanks, hope you enjoy Victober!
So many of the reasons you give are my own reasons for loving classics and Victorian lit, but I didn't know how to express it or analyze my feelings until you said it. haha! Thank you for expressing it so well, and for helping me to understand my own reading tastes a little better too!
Ha thank you :)
I finally got into Elisabeth Gaskell so i am reading crandford. i started it in sept. and now on chapter 3. then my load book from the library
is north and soth . i got no father than chapter 4 in the north and south novel.that i am going to read it again. once it comes in at my library.
classic novels that i love to read are great to get an idea on how people lived, worked,and how the classes differ.
Gaskell is so great - hope you enjoy North and South this time around!
And thats why i love this channel!. This makes me smile alot - this channel has further fueled my (fairly new) love of VL. Happy Victober!! : )))
Thanks very much :)
All your loves for Victorian literature I’m seeing as I read Trollope’s Can You Forgive Her? From other videos I get the impression that, while you love the Victorians, you’re very modern and contemporary in your reading tastes. Keep up the fine work, Katie! Talking about important things (literature) in a genial yet compelling way!
I agree with ALL that u said! 💛 I want to do MA in Victorian Literature because I teach people to write SAT’s in my country, and I think that these books help to develop a “social sense”, afterall, the authors talk about all those society issues! Great video 🥰
Thanks :)
I just found this via Instagram by complete accident! How fabulous! I'm a massive Victorian fan too. Dickens is my hero. 😍
I love it for its wit and the beauty of the language!
Very good reasons :)
Seriously, you have been an enormous force for spreading the love of Victorian literature all over the world. I always thought of myself as a fairly knowledgeable reader (for an American), and you have broadened my knowledge so incredibly much. Thank you. Victober is a brilliant idea, and a brilliant month.
Thanks very much, Hannah!
I feel the same way about the period! The crossover is so fun and amazing, isn't it?
I agree with you, I always find it hard to explain the plots and maybe that's why I avoid the blurb when reading classics because I've been spoiled a few times!
Me too! The plots are so great.
Such a great introduction into Victober! I completely agree with everything you said. I love the way Victorian novels make you fall in love with them often in a slow, subtle way. You slowly get to know characters, and maybe feel a little bored. And then you reach a point where suddenly you just absolutely love it!
Thanks :) Victorian literature is so great.
Thank you for affirming some of the countless reasons Victorian literature is the BEST. And I'm American, lol. Another huge reason I adore Vic lit is that there is often an underlying positive, spiritual current that counters the rigid religious morals and stereotypes. For example, Thomas Hardy consistently demonstrates a mystic, universal, dare I say yogic?, force that just fills my soul. ❤❤❤ Even dark, gothic lit has some beautiful spiritual insight that transcend the confines of religion, imo. Thank you for your wonderful insight!
I love how passionately you talk about Victorian Literature! You are the booktuber that I relate the most to , since you love Dickense ,Gaskell , Hardy and Brontës alot ... i am so happy to have known your channel ❤
Thanks Ellan! Dickens, Gaskell, Hardy and the Brontes are all so wonderful.
I agree with every single one of these reasons!
What a lovely video! Your enthusiasm is infectious and this was a perfect way to kick off Victober 😍 x
Thanks Gemma :)
🤫There’s a rumor going around that Katie really loves to read Victorian novels, especially in October 😄 📚📚📚👀 Happy Victober 2020!
Escandalo!!
Happy Victober!
You've really inspired me to read more Victorian literature. Your love for Victoria literature really shines through in this video and it was so lovely to watch and hear about.
Thanks very much :)
My best friend and I are doing a Bleak House buddy read for the month! Reading Lady Anna at the moment as well. :)
Hope you enjoy them both :)
This video literally gave me chills because I agree with all of it!! This is my first Victober and I’m so excited (I actually commissioned a pfp of me in Victorian dress)!!
Oh how fun - enjoy your Victorian dress and Victober!
That last one, ‘i love it i read it so i love it so i read it’ 😂. I love how excited you are in this video! Makes me excited as well, I haven’t read much beyond the Brontë sisters, but that’s going to change this month! 🍁📖
Thanks :) Hope you enjoy Victober!
Your enthusiasm is infectious.
I love the last point, I feel this is true of a lot of things, that's that aren't even bookish.
Thanks guys!
I love Victorian literature so much and you are a big reason why! Thanks so much for the knowledgable enthusiasm that you bring to booktube ❤️
Thanks so much, Meghan :)
Happy Victober!
I am delighted that you love Victorian literature so much and that you chose to share your reasons with us today. Your enthusiasm is palpable and fills me with joy at the thought of exploring it more.
I have never considered my own love of Victorian literature. Perhaps it's something I'll understand when I have read more, since currently I still think I've not explored enough outside of Dickens.
Thanks, Charlie!
This is my first Victober and I am excited. I have gotten away from reading classics lately (except for Jane Austen) and I am eager to get back to Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, and Elizabeth Gaskell in particular.
Trollope, Wilkie Collins and Gaskell are so great!
YES. Just YES to every single thing you said! I was going to film a video like this, but I'm pretty sure you just expressed all the same reasons better than I ever could.
Ha thanks :) Would love to see that video from you anyway though!
I haven't had a chance to pick up a book yet today but this video has me SO excited to get stuck into my TBR!
I really enjoy the way some Victorian novels really take their time to get into the plot too, and I don't think I would have realised this if I hadn't read a lot of Victorian literature last October as I don't think I would have picked up on that style without reading a lot at once to see the pattern.
I love the writing too and find it very funny, though I am not sure how much of that is intended and how much is reading it through a 21st Century lens but I enjoy it either way! Great video 😊
Hope you enjoy Victober!
Hi Kate, such a delight to hear your love for Victorian literature! I love it too!
Super excited it's my first victober. I've chosen and started yesterday - Hardy's 'under the greenwood tree' and 'the mayor of casterbridge' , must say I'm so enjoying them already!
Have fun with your reads!😘
Thanks! Hope you enjoy Hardy - he's great.
This will be my first Victober as a Booktuber , I began with "The Star" by H G Wells on audiobook... which seems a rather unVictorian way of accessing it...maybe I should have found it on a wax cylinder or something... "Little Dorritt" is waiting on my shelf for me to finish the wonderful "Dombey and Son". I also hope to read some of the writings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, even if Dickens was critical of their work (interestingly his daughter Kate Dickens, a painter herself, posed for John Everett Millais on a number of occasions). I need to read Elizabeth Gaskell sometime. Thanks for the inspiration, now I have to go and take Diogenes for a walk...
Hope you enjoy your first Victober :) Gaskell is so great!
I caught the bug too - happy Victober ;)
And to you :)
Your love of Victorian lit is circuitous for sure. 🤗📚 Thank you for sharing. I'm fairly a new reader to Victorian lit. I've read some Dickens, Stevenson, Bronte's, H.G. Wells and I'm sure a few others. But the many popular books on booktube I do not think I've read. I think I'm more familiar with American authors of this time period. Now that I think of it, I don't think many booktubers discuss. hmm 🤔
Thanks :)
This is such a great overview of the Best Qualities in Victorian Lit for Modern Readers! I'm linking for my TBR video with Victober reads 👏🏼👒
Thanks :)
Aww your enthusiasm is really contagious. Love it!
Thanks :)
Happy Victober! I'm so excited about, I've just introduced my brother to Victorian literature and I think he's hooked 😅
That's great!
The 19th century was the century where the novel came into its own, largely driven by rising literacy rates and a growing middleclass who could afford to buy them. Also improved printing and publishing technology I assume helped. You get some of the very first children's books too like Alice in Wonderland, Treasure Island and the Jungle Book.
It was the film The French Lieutenants Woman that introduced me to the Victorian Period.
I must read that some time.
Happy Victober!!
And to you, Lil :)
Nice video. Lots of things interesting and thoughtful, and also enthusiasm! : ) nice
I love your videos so much, and your enthusiasm for Victorian literature. And I totally relate. Thank you for sharing. 😀💝💖
Thanks :)
I am a dabbler in Victoriana, but I'm a skeptic too, regarding it. I respect your views.
Yay Victober is finally here! I agree with all your reasons for loving Victorian literature 😀
Thanks Tom :)
Love your enthusiasm about this topic!
Thanks you :)
Happy Victober!! :) My favourite time of year :)
Thanks :)
"I love therefore I read; I read therefore I love." You go, Katie!! Britain's reigning Ambassador of Literature
Ha thanks!
Victober has started 🎉 I am rereading Wuthering heights by Emily Bronte, I haven't read this in over 10 years I think.
Wuthering Heights is so great - I'm rereading it this year too.
Hello. How are you? From the video you can see your passion for Victorian reading. I have in the reading list: Miss Austen by Gill Hornby, The mill on the Floss by George Eliot, The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Have you read any of these books?
I've read all of those by The Song of the Lark - I really enjoyed Miss Austen and The Woman in White, but I'm not really a fan of The Mill on the Floss.
I agree with you about Victorian literature being funny. Much of the dialogue is so funny.
Thanks - it's so funny!
I love Victorian literature so much and I so agree with you on all of these 😊
Thanks, Emily!
Happy Victober!!! 13 is the perfect spooky number. As an Indian, I don't think much about British society at the time, we were colonised by them at the time. The books are good though!
There are so many great Victorian books.
I bought the book novel of clara Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell Used
Woke up this morning with a squeel***it’s Victober! Better than Christmas.
There’s a 5 year old bay mare racehorse called Betsey Trotter 🐎. Hope she gets a run this month.
Ha what a great name!
Happy Victober! 🍁🌜🖤🥧🍂🕯📚
And to you!
YES to everything!
Thanks Faye :)
FASCINATING!!
Hi I missed your videos!!!
Can you give me recommendations on books similar to Jane Eyre or any book written by Charlotte Bronte (I absolutely loved Vilette and Shirley too)?
I've read some Victorian books after finishing her books and nothing comes close or does it for me quite like Charlotte Bronte... I'm scared I will never feel about a book the way I felt about the ones written by her
Have you read North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and The tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë? Charlotte also wrote The professor, but it isn't as good as Jane Eyre or Shirley. I haven't read Villette yet, maybe I'll read it this month.
@@laura0104 Hi María thank you so much for replying! I've read everything by all the Bronte sisters except The Professor (everyone says it's not that good)
I haven't read North and South, but it has been on my wish list, and now that you recommend it I'll be sure to make it the next one I read, I'll try to start it this weekend!!! Thank you again for replying, have a beautiful day!!! ❤️
@@laura0104 Also, you should read Vilette! It's a very somber and melancholy book, but I loved it a lot. Charlotte describes heartache and unrequited love in such a gut wrenching way, it's unparallelled
I highly recommend Olive by Dinah Mullock Craik if you like Jane Eyre, and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. I also recommend The Half Sisters by Geraldine Jewsbury, and Jill by Amy Dillwyn.
@@katiejlumsden Thank you so much Katie!! I'm writing everything down and will be reading everything you mentioned!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️😘😘
Loved this video 💜
Thanks :)
After watching this video I´m really motivated. It´s like I want to read every Victorian book on the face of the earth.
Ha thank you! :)
Picking apart social problems--any modern authors you would nominate for carrying on this tradition, Katie? That might make a great discussion after this month 🤔
It definitely isn't something done so much nowadays!
do you recommend any penny dreadfuls?
I loved this video!
Thanks Elli!
Feeling so Victobery now 📚
Thanks :)
Omg 😮 wow 😮 I have never ever agreed with someone so much who agrees with me 100 percent as you are I really enjoyed this amazing video please stay safe love 💖 John from Australia xxx
Thanks John!
Books and Things no worries 😉
I do love a Victorian narrator.
Me too!
The very name Eustacia Vye --
stands alone. But I agree about the immensity of a really really really good plot, that lives up to the language of its making.
But then I love Shakespeare.
I know a doppelgänger for you. Face, chin, devotion, depth.
Ha weird. Eustacia Vye is so interesting.
I wish she had talked at least a little bit about what kind of literature she likes and why. I felt her quite reticent about it. :)
Take a shot every time she says 'fascinating'...Joke! Don't you'll be dead by the end of the video.
*.* Katie rocks.
Ha thanks XD
two authors who you don't like....I'm guessing George Eliot and....Stevenson or Stoker?
Eliot and Stoker, I think! I have a mixed relationship with Stevenson - I didn't like Treasure Island but I am found of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Ear, Ear, KATIE!
:)
13 Reasons Why :-)
YES to historical context! I've probably found the nonfiction analysis of 19th c British history to be more helpful, and add layers to my reading of Victorian novels. I think I'd be helpless and clueless without that helping step up! :)
Yes, the historical context makes it so interesting!
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