A Recommendation for Every Year of the Victorian Period
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- #Victober
In which I recommend many a Victorian novel . . .
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Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book where religion is a component of the story
Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian book that plays with form in some way
Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian work that was originally serialised
Ros’s challenge: Experience Victorian drama: read, watch or listen to a Victorian play
Group challenge: Read a Victorian work by Wilkie Collins and/or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Group Read: The Doctor’s Wife, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Books Mentioned
1837: Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
1838: Oliver Twist, Dickens
1839: Deerbrook, Harriet Martineau
1840: Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy, Frances Trollope
1841: Barnaby Rudge, Dickens
1842: American Notes, Dickens
1843: A Christmas Carol, Dickens
1844: Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens
1845: Night and Morning, Edward Bulwer Lytton
1846: Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, The Bronte sisters
1847: Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
1847: Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
1848: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë
1848: The Half Sisters, Geraldine Jewsbury
1849: Shirley, Charlotte Brontë
1850: Olive, Dinah Mulock Craik
1851: London Labour and the London Poor, Henry Mayhew
1852: Basil, Wilkie Collins
1851-53: Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
1853: The Heir of Redclyffe, Charlotte Mary Yonge
1854: Hard Times, Charles Dickens
1855: North and South, Gaskell
1856: Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1857: The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, Mary Seacole
1858: My Lady Ludlow, Gaskell
1859: The Semi-Detached House, Emily Eden
1860: The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
1861: East Lynne, Ellen Wood
1862: Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
1863: The House by the Church-yard, J. Sheridan Le Fanu
1864: The Small House at Allington, Anthony Trollope
1865: Our Mutual Friend, Dickens
1866: Wives and Daughters, Gaskell
1867: Last Chronicle of Barset, Trollope
1868: The Moonstone, Collins
1869: Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
1870: Man and Wife, Collins
1871: Desperate Remedies, Thomas Hardy
1872: Carmilla, J. Sheridan Le Fanu
1873: The Twilight Stories/Tales of Christmas Eve, Rhoda Broughton
1874: Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy
1875: The Way We Live Now, Trollope
1876: Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
1877: The American Senator, Trollope
1878: The Return of the Native, Hardy
1879: The Egoist, George Meredith
1880: The Rebecca Rioter, Amy Dillwyn
1881: Dr Wortle’s School, Trollope
1882: Wooden Tony & The Wooden Doll, Lucy Clifford
1883: A Struggle for Fame, Charlotte Riddell
1883: Hester, Margaret Oliphant
1884: Jill, Amy Dillwyn
1885: After London, or Wild England, Richard Jefferies
1886: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
1887: A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle
1888: The Romance of a Shop, Amy Levy
1889: The Nether World, George Gissing
1890: News From Nowhere, William Morris
1891: A Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
1892: Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900, Florence Dixie
1893: The Odd Women, Gissing
1894: The Case of Rebellious Susan, Henry Arthur Jones
1895: The Young Pretenders, Edith Henrietta Fowler
1896: A Shropshire Lad, A.E. Housman
1897: The Beth Book, Sarah Grand
1898: The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
1899: Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
1900: Love and Mr Lewisham, Wells
1901: Kim, Rudyard Kipling
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Thank you, Katie! A wonderful and very useful video which took me over an hour to watch as I had to keep adding your recommendations to my classics spreadsheet and then look to the next year and try and guess what you might have picked🙃
I'm only up to the mid seventeenth century in my mega classic reading project (which I started back in 2015) but I am so looking forward to the Victorian era which I expect to be my favourite. 😀
Thank you for this lovely start to Victober! Great recommendations
"Margaret 🐘" 😂 😂😂
Yay for victober 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks for the recommendations and for including my two favourite books ever 😊
Thank you Katie, this is gold. I'm ashamed to say I've read just 4 books this year. But I share your passion for Victorian literature and am determined to read your recommendation for 1861 - it's been on my shelf for years!
This is a great list. I am fascinated by industrial/class novels as - a long, long time ago - I was going to do my thesis on 'Fiction as a Historical Source with Specific Reference to the Preston Cotton Strike of 1853-54' which is the model for the strikes in both North and South and Hard Times (and Dickens covered it as a journalist for Household Words) so there's some really interesting recommendations there. I often jokingly refer to North and South as 'Pride and Prejudice with Chimneys'. But excellent video. Bonus points for honesty on the years where you've not read much or anything.
Gracious heavens, that was brisk. Thanks Katie; I am of course inconsolable about your omission of Vanity Fair, but 1847 was a busy year.
Wow, so many wonderful novels to explore. I’m currently reading The Way we live Now by Trollope and loving it. Happy VICTOBER 😎
Plenty of wonderful recommendations here! I’ve read only 13 of these books, currently reading the 14th, which is not bad considering I’m not British or even an English mother tongue reader. Victober is a great opportunity to focus on the period.
1841 Barnaby Rudge. A very young Joan Hickson who later starred in BBC Miss Marple. She altogether a different kind of person here (as Mrs. Varden).
Said who wrote the book Orientalism also wrote an introduction to Kim. It's on the internet if people are interested.
the way i knew 1891 was going to be the picture of dorian gray lol
Great video and I've added a couple to my tbr to check out, thank you!
Wow that was a whirlwind. And also fabulous. Thank you 😊
I have, so so so so many books I want to read now!
Thank you for these recommendations!
Awww….no Villette?
My thoughts exactly! The BBC did a great series on that book (8.5 on IMDB), but sadly it was never released on tape or disc.
Oh I love Villette, but picking just one book for every year is very hard, and I tried to prioritise having a range of authors. Villette came out in 1853 and I went for The Heir of Redclyffe - I don't love it as much as Villette, but it's the only thing I've read by Charlotte Mary Yonge. I love Villette a lot more than Shirley, but Shirley was my only option for 1849!
This is such a good idea for a recommendations video! Thanks so much Katie, I'm going to read Deerbrook, the introduction of the book is already very interesting, at the beginning it was rejected because it was a novel about the middle - class😗