Victober, the most wonderful time of the year! 🎉 It's great that you decided to honour Jennifer and Alice. I'll definitely be reading Doyle and/or Collins. For you challenge, I might reread a play by Wilde, or maybe even try Mrs. Warren's Profession by Shaw.
Your challenge is so interesting! I really like the idea of watching a play or a film/tv adaptation. I've never actually read/seen anything by Pinero, Thomas, or Gilbert and Sullivan!
So happy to see the announcements Ros, especially when it’s 36 degrees and we can only dream of Autumn 😉 lovely to see Jennifer and Alice remembered too. I think I’ve read one Victorian play and that’s The Importance of Being Earnest but I’m reading Charley’s Aunt with Kate’s group so happy to hear you enjoyed it. As for female playwrights I remember Katie read Afternoon by Ouida last year and enjoyed it, I also found Marjorie Daw by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Alan’s Wife by Florence Bell published in 1883 and all three are available on Internet Archive which anyone with a screen can access for free. Not sure what I’ll get to, but the length of plays definitely makes them easier to slot into a no doubt bloated and unrealistic TBR! 😉
@@josmith5992 thank you for finding those. I tried a search on the Internet Archive but obviously messed up. I have added these to the description now.
I really liked this year’s prompts, especialy your special prompts ❤ It looks like I will read two books (one being the group read), two short stories for the special prompts and one Oscar Wilde play 🎉🎉
I love plays so this is a prompt after my own heart ❤️ I'm going to participate in the Charley's Aunt group read with Kate, but will be on the lookout for more pieces for this prompt 😃 Happy Almost-Victober 🥳
I do plan on reading The Turn of The Screw but I’m not sure if I’ll get to anything else that would fit. It’s sounds like a fantastic challenge though- and I’m very tempted to add Wilkie Collins or The Doctor’s Wife to my TBR too. 🤔😊
What a wonderful prompt! I shall peak around here to see if anything is being staged. Years ago, I read Charley’s Aunt with a group of young homeschoolers. What a hoot!
I just found out about Victober 2 days ago 😅so glad I came across the intro videos. I had planned anyway to reread Sherlock Holmes and Dracula but so excited to hear so many additional suggestions for books. I'm looking into reading a play and at some of Katie's suggestions. I think "modern" people forget or are just ignorant of the fact that religion was an integral part of the human experience and life since we began being humans. It's an extremely recent thing to see a society largely disinterested, estranged from religion and it's largely a Western phenomenon too. Africa and Asia outside China w their communist experiment are very different in that aspect.
You make such an interesting point about female Victorian playwrights, and one I hadn’t considered before. Many moons ago I did a theatre studies and writing degree and we did a module on 19th century playwrights so looked at the likes of Oscar Wilde and Henrik Ibsen, but I don’t recall one single female playwright of any nationality that we studied. Quite sad isn’t it. I am looking forward to delving into your challenge though- I love reading a play in conjunction with some of the hefty novels to break things up a bit xx
@@amandalavelle2638 I'm determined to find one at least to read by a woman playwright. I'm glad if this challenge brings a change of pace to people's Victober reading.
So happy to see the announcements of victober!! I look forward to it every year now. I love how you chose the group challenge to honor Alice and Jennifer. I will for sure read a Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle. Excited for the group read as well. For your challenge I am thinking of continuing with Oscar Wilde. I still have some of his plays yet to read. I will also look for my dvd of the Importance of being Earnest.
@@hildureinarsdottir3208 I am looking forward to listening to Stephen Fry read some Conan Doyle. I have only read Lady Audley's Secret by Braddon so I am pleased that The Doctor's Wife was the groupread choice.
Thank you for coming up with this challenge and for all the lovely suggestions! I love The Importance of Being Earnest and this video made me want to re-watch it! Though for the challenge itself I'm going to check out Charlie's Aunt, you made it sound like so much fun!
I actually didn't plan to participate this year, but your excitement is infectious! 😂 So I plan to pick up The Awakening and Other Stories by Kate Chopin although I'm fully aware that this choice is a cheat. 😉 But this book is sitting on my shelves for ages and at least it was written in English and published in the right period of time. 😏 And a re-read of some Sherlock Holmes is always an option too! 🕵🏻♂️
Thanks, Ros!🌷Your video has given me an idea for my ideal Victober TBR this year! Next to reading Cranford, which, so to hear from Katie, Kate and Marissa, could be a good fit for all three their prompts, I could watch (and also possibly read) a play a week. One by each of the four popular playwrights you mentioned. I’ll also be thinking about something to add by Collins and Conan Doyle for the Jennifer/Alice prompt. Very much looking forward to it all!
@@emmavd a play a week sounds delightful. I hope you find four good performances to watch. Another popular playwright to consider would be Dion Boucicault. Cranford is wonderful. A real favourite of mine.
Hey, Ros! Excited to be back for my 2nd year of Victober. 🤗 Thinking about the group read if I can get a copy through the library. I'd like to also read Armadale and The Hound of the Baskervilles.
@@katsnoveladventures1863 glad you're joining us again. I hope you can get The Doctor's Wife. It is available free as an ebook but perhaps you don't use them.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebooks Oh, that’s good to know, Ros. My library apps offer e-books and audiobooks, so if I can’t get a physical copy, I’ll check for e-book or audiobook. I can also check my FOTL Store this month and see if I can get a used copy. I loved the group read last year. I’m also thinking about watching one of the plays you mentioned instead of reading the play for your challenge. Thanks for the suggestions. 🥰
What a lovely surprise to end August with! I think I'll watch The Pirates of Penzance. I've never seen it, but I got a kick out of The Pirate Movie back in the '80s.
Your challenge is going to bring such lovely variety to our reading! I just remembered that Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a playwright but it looks like her plays are very hard to access 😢
@@katehowereads yes I thought I could read the play version of Lady Audley's Secret but it turns out she didn't really contribute to the adaptation. Her own plays seem to have rather sunk without trace.
Victober! Yay! But also how is it already halfway through September 2024 😅 Some interesting challenges for this year! Will try to pick some from everyone's suggestions! I love the idea to experience Victorian drama! Been a while since I read a play (or even gone to the theatre shamefully!). Will start crafting my tbr soon!
Yay! I love Victober! I have several books in mind (including Wilkie Collins) and I'm going to see if I can find a play to watch. Now to look for The Doctor's Wife! Update: I paused the video to order the book, lol.
I’ll just be peripheral this year, I’m thinking (just since given the nudge by this and Katie’s videos) either _Woman in White_ on my bucket list for a long time and also because I sincerely want to honor Jennifer, or _Daniel Deronda_ as my fourth Eliot book and the one I most hanker for. I don’t think I will have time for both. 😢
How did you know that I recently picked up cheap (at a library sale) a boxed set of the BBC Video Classics of Shaw from the 1970s-1980s! It's got Arms and the Man with Helena Bonham Carter, The Man of Destiny with Simon Callow, Mrs Warren's Profession with Penelope Wilton, You Never Can Tell with Robert Powell, The Devil's Disciple with Patrick Stewart....and these post Victorian plays: Pygmalion with Lynn Redgrave, The Millionairess with Maggie Smith and The Apple Cart with Helen Mirren. I am all set.
I'm planning to read Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost" and Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" in October. I know the first is a short story, but not sure if the second would fit in any of the prompts. One of the books I'm reading right now is "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen, which I'm finding very boring mainly due to all the social nensense, but I know some people love it for precisely that reason.
@@harmonyln7 perhaps surprisingly The Canterville Ghosts fits Marissa's challenge as it was published in two instalments in the Court and Society Review. And Kate's as religion features. Wuthering Heights fits Katie's challenge as it plays with form. So you are winning with your choices!
Thank you for suggesting plays for Victober, as an actor and playwright I have been mad for theater since I was a tiny little girl. I have read or seen most of your suggestions but reading or watching a play fits into my schedule for October. I think women were discouraged from theater because of religious reasons, it was not thought as respectable and that was what it was all about in that time period.
@@BooksandRadioPlays I was thinking it must have been a cultural shift as there were so many women authors but not writing drama. I look forward to hearing what you choose to watch or read.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebooks guess what? I ordered The Doctor’s Wife yesterday from Thrift Books, a large used book online seller. They just emailed me today to say that the book is no longer available-that they had one copy but it was sold to someone before my transaction was completed. They are sending me a refund! Now I’m looking for it again. 😥
@@takingteawithcatherine what a good idea. Tom Taylor was a really popular playwright but hardly remembered now. I haven't read or seen anything by him but Our American Cousin is easy to get hold of to read at least so maybe I'll add it to my TBR.
Already Victober? But summer isn’t over yet! 😁 I am going to start my Victober a bit early. I will see London Assurance, by Dion Boucicault and John Brougham, at the end of September.
@@bouquinsbooks good to plan ahead. And how exciting to see a Boucicault. He counts for Victober as an Irish writer but was particularly popular in the US I think. I am planning on reading his play The Colleen Bawn.
@@brianhaas1154 ha ha, good question. Maybe a casual Victorian reader is one who read Jane Eyre once and always meant to try another Victorian book? And hardcore means several every year? But we do want to use Victober to encourage people to dip into Victorian literature who fear it will be heavy as well as giving others an opportunity to share their passion for it.
I've been waiting for this moment for months! 😅 I think I'm finally going to try some Oscar Wilde's plays for your challenge. I'm very much intimidated by him, as English is not my native language and I'm afraid his witticism may be too much for me. But it's time to get over that and try one of his plays. I may also find a theater production on TH-cam or a film adaptation to watch (I believe there's a movie of The Importance of being Earnest with Michael Redgrave from the 50s here on TH-cam). I also have other reading plans for the other challenges! I was especially touched by the group challenge. Jenny and Alice are very much missed around here.
@@betinaceciliafeld9854 I think you will enjoy The Importance of Being Earnest as much of the humour is in the characters and situations as well as Wilde's witty words. The film from 2002 is very good too.
Hooray for Victober! Might the lack of female Victorian playwrights have to do with the novel becoming seen as more 'respectable', whereas the theater still had more...sleazy connotations? In addition, writing novels could be done at home, in keeping with the Angel in the Home ideal, whereas writing plays and helping them come to fruition in a theater was outside work?
@@freshparchment I agree there must have been a cultural shift that made women turn away from writing plays when in the 18th and early 19th women like Elizabeth Inchbald and Hannah Cowley had great success. On other hand there were famous actresses and success women theatre managers so women did work in the Victorian theatre.
Victober, the most wonderful time of the year! 🎉
It's great that you decided to honour Jennifer and Alice. I'll definitely be reading Doyle and/or Collins.
For you challenge, I might reread a play by Wilde, or maybe even try Mrs. Warren's Profession by Shaw.
@@LanaCelebic Mrs Warren's Profession is a really interesting play in terms of morality of the times. We were all keen to remember Jennifer and Alice.
Your challenge is so interesting! I really like the idea of watching a play or a film/tv adaptation. I've never actually read/seen anything by Pinero, Thomas, or Gilbert and Sullivan!
@@Marta-pl297 some fun to look forward to then 😀
So excited 🎉🎉 Alice would love that you have included her in victober 💔🥰 I have decided on a few books already and plan to read the group book😊
@@novellenovels we had to remember her somehow in our plan.
So happy to see the announcements Ros, especially when it’s 36 degrees and we can only dream of Autumn 😉 lovely to see Jennifer and Alice remembered too. I think I’ve read one Victorian play and that’s The Importance of Being Earnest but I’m reading Charley’s Aunt with Kate’s group so happy to hear you enjoyed it. As for female playwrights I remember Katie read Afternoon by Ouida last year and enjoyed it, I also found Marjorie Daw by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Alan’s Wife by Florence Bell published in 1883 and all three are available on Internet Archive which anyone with a screen can access for free. Not sure what I’ll get to, but the length of plays definitely makes them easier to slot into a no doubt bloated and unrealistic TBR! 😉
@@josmith5992 thank you for finding those. I tried a search on the Internet Archive but obviously messed up. I have added these to the description now.
Three cheers for Victober! Enjoyed thinking about our previous Victorian drama reads, hope we can fit in another play together this year.
@@tillysshelf we must. It's a tradition now.
SO many books and so little time! Best wishes.
@@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk oh I know. But at least Victober gives a steer to make some choices.
I love your prompt! Looking forward to exploring some Victorian plays!
@@michaelmccarty splendid 👌
I really liked this year’s prompts, especialy your special prompts ❤
It looks like I will read two books (one being the group read), two short stories for the special prompts and one Oscar Wilde play 🎉🎉
@@BernasBookishAdventures that sounds like a lovely mixture.
I love plays so this is a prompt after my own heart ❤️ I'm going to participate in the Charley's Aunt group read with Kate, but will be on the lookout for more pieces for this prompt 😃
Happy Almost-Victober 🥳
@@NadaOQ96 me too I hope. It should be fun.
Hoorah hoorah 🎉🎭
I am so excited to read some Victorian drama last year I read of much of Wilde and Shaw and it was delightful
@@KierTheScrivener they are the cream of the crop I think but there are other goodies to find.
I do plan on reading The Turn of The Screw but I’m not sure if I’ll get to anything else that would fit. It’s sounds like a fantastic challenge though- and I’m very tempted to add Wilkie Collins or The Doctor’s Wife to my TBR too. 🤔😊
@@lyddie8 go for some Wilkie Collins I think. The Doctor's Wife was good but not amazing 😕
Hooray for another Victober!! 🥰
_First!_ I always anticipate the #Victober announcements 👑 Maybe I'll conquer _North and South,_ this year. I'm always ready for an Oscar Wilde play!
Thanks Allen. A dose of Wilde lifts the spirits I find.
North and South is great. Enjoy. Please do watch the BBC TV adaptation.
so exciting! also perfect as i have a book of plays by George Bernard Shaw that still fall in the victorian era parameters
@@sashahawkins excellent!
What a wonderful prompt! I shall peak around here to see if anything is being staged. Years ago, I read Charley’s Aunt with a group of young homeschoolers. What a hoot!
@@HannahsBooks how lovely. It speaks to young people I think. I loved it as a teenager.
I just found out about Victober 2 days ago 😅so glad I came across the intro videos. I had planned anyway to reread Sherlock Holmes and Dracula but so excited to hear so many additional suggestions for books. I'm looking into reading a play and at some of Katie's suggestions. I think "modern" people forget or are just ignorant of the fact that religion was an integral part of the human experience and life since we began being humans. It's an extremely recent thing to see a society largely disinterested, estranged from religion and it's largely a Western phenomenon too. Africa and Asia outside China w their communist experiment are very different in that aspect.
@@EXOmakemeHorololo yes religion was just a given for most Victorians, wasn't it? So glad you have found Victober in time to plan to take part.
You make such an interesting point about female Victorian playwrights, and one I hadn’t considered before. Many moons ago I did a theatre studies and writing degree and we did a module on 19th century playwrights so looked at the likes of Oscar Wilde and Henrik Ibsen, but I don’t recall one single female playwright of any nationality that we studied. Quite sad isn’t it. I am looking forward to delving into your challenge though- I love reading a play in conjunction with some of the hefty novels to break things up a bit xx
@@amandalavelle2638 I'm determined to find one at least to read by a woman playwright. I'm glad if this challenge brings a change of pace to people's Victober reading.
So happy to see the announcements of victober!! I look forward to it every year now. I love how you chose the group challenge to honor Alice and Jennifer. I will for sure read a Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle. Excited for the group read as well. For your challenge I am thinking of continuing with Oscar Wilde. I still have some of his plays yet to read. I will also look for my dvd of the Importance of being Earnest.
@@hildureinarsdottir3208 I am looking forward to listening to Stephen Fry read some Conan Doyle. I have only read Lady Audley's Secret by Braddon so I am pleased that The Doctor's Wife was the groupread choice.
Thank you for coming up with this challenge and for all the lovely suggestions! I love The Importance of Being Earnest and this video made me want to re-watch it! Though for the challenge itself I'm going to check out Charlie's Aunt, you made it sound like so much fun!
@@veroreads oh do. It's deliciously silly.
I actually didn't plan to participate this year, but your excitement is infectious! 😂
So I plan to pick up The Awakening and Other Stories by Kate Chopin although I'm fully aware that this choice is a cheat. 😉 But this book is sitting on my shelves for ages and at least it was written in English and published in the right period of time. 😏
And a re-read of some Sherlock Holmes is always an option too! 🕵🏻♂️
@@ameliareads589 cheating, but a very fine novel.
Thanks, Ros!🌷Your video has given me an idea for my ideal Victober TBR this year! Next to reading Cranford, which, so to hear from Katie, Kate and Marissa, could be a good fit for all three their prompts, I could watch (and also possibly read) a play a week. One by each of the four popular playwrights you mentioned. I’ll also be thinking about something to add by Collins and Conan Doyle for the Jennifer/Alice prompt. Very much looking forward to it all!
@@emmavd a play a week sounds delightful. I hope you find four good performances to watch. Another popular playwright to consider would be Dion Boucicault. Cranford is wonderful. A real favourite of mine.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebooks Hi Ros😊Boucicault is totally new to me. I’ll have a look. Thanks!
Hey, Ros! Excited to be back for my 2nd year of Victober. 🤗 Thinking about the group read if I can get a copy through the library. I'd like to also read Armadale and The Hound of the Baskervilles.
@@katsnoveladventures1863 glad you're joining us again. I hope you can get The Doctor's Wife. It is available free as an ebook but perhaps you don't use them.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebooks Oh, that’s good to know, Ros. My library apps offer e-books and audiobooks, so if I can’t get a physical copy, I’ll check for e-book or audiobook. I can also check my FOTL Store this month and see if I can get a used copy. I loved the group read last year. I’m also thinking about watching one of the plays you mentioned instead of reading the play for your challenge. Thanks for the suggestions. 🥰
What a lovely surprise to end August with! I think I'll watch The Pirates of Penzance. I've never seen it, but I got a kick out of The Pirate Movie back in the '80s.
@@skeletonkeybooks great idea.
Oh wow, time to get all my William Morris off the shelves - I'm in!
@@apoetreadstowrite excellent 👌
I’m adding The Second Mrs. Tanqueray for this prompt! I’m a huge theater buff but Victorian drama is a huge blind spot.
I’m so looking forward to this. I love Victober 2023 and coincidentally I picked up The Doctor’s Wife a couple of weeks ago 😊
@@RaynorReadsStuff well that was fortuitous Debs.
Your challenge is going to bring such lovely variety to our reading! I just remembered that Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a playwright but it looks like her plays are very hard to access 😢
@@katehowereads yes I thought I could read the play version of Lady Audley's Secret but it turns out she didn't really contribute to the adaptation. Her own plays seem to have rather sunk without trace.
@@katehowereads Jo Smith has found Marjorie Daw by Mary Elizabeth Braddon on the Internet Archive so I'll give that a look.
Victober! Yay! But also how is it already halfway through September 2024 😅
Some interesting challenges for this year! Will try to pick some from everyone's suggestions! I love the idea to experience Victorian drama! Been a while since I read a play (or even gone to the theatre shamefully!). Will start crafting my tbr soon!
@@hasteyebooks oh I know. It should still be midsummer in my head. Happy planning though.
Yay! I love Victober! I have several books in mind (including Wilkie Collins) and I'm going to see if I can find a play to watch. Now to look for The Doctor's Wife!
Update: I paused the video to order the book, lol.
@@readandre-read I love Victober too Angelia.
I’ll just be peripheral this year, I’m thinking (just since given the nudge by this and Katie’s videos) either _Woman in White_ on my bucket list for a long time and also because I sincerely want to honor Jennifer, or _Daniel Deronda_ as my fourth Eliot book and the one I most hanker for.
I don’t think I will have time for both. 😢
@@davidnovakreadspoetry well either will be a fine choice of course.
Victober is the best!❤❤🎉
@@capturedbyannamarie I agree!
How did you know that I recently picked up cheap (at a library sale) a boxed set of the BBC Video Classics of Shaw from the 1970s-1980s! It's got Arms and the Man with Helena Bonham Carter, The Man of Destiny with Simon Callow, Mrs Warren's Profession with Penelope Wilton, You Never Can Tell with Robert Powell, The Devil's Disciple with Patrick Stewart....and these post Victorian plays: Pygmalion with Lynn Redgrave, The Millionairess with Maggie Smith and The Apple Cart with Helen Mirren. I am all set.
@@kathleencraine7335 perfect! Impressive list of actors too.
I'm planning to read Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost" and Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" in October. I know the first is a short story, but not sure if the second would fit in any of the prompts. One of the books I'm reading right now is "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen, which I'm finding very boring mainly due to all the social nensense, but I know some people love it for precisely that reason.
@@harmonyln7 perhaps surprisingly The Canterville Ghosts fits Marissa's challenge as it was published in two instalments in the Court and Society Review. And Kate's as religion features. Wuthering Heights fits Katie's challenge as it plays with form. So you are winning with your choices!
Thank you for suggesting plays for Victober, as an actor and playwright I have been mad for theater since I was a tiny little girl. I have read or seen most of your suggestions but reading or watching a play fits into my schedule for October. I think women were discouraged from theater because of religious reasons, it was not thought as respectable and that was what it was all about in that time period.
@@BooksandRadioPlays I was thinking it must have been a cultural shift as there were so many women authors but not writing drama. I look forward to hearing what you choose to watch or read.
Well, this sounds like a great deal of fun. I'm ordering The Doctor's Wife right now.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 so glad you are joining the fun Pat.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebooks oh I wouldn’t miss it! 😊
@@scallydandlingaboutthebooks guess what? I ordered The Doctor’s Wife yesterday from Thrift Books, a large used book online seller. They just emailed me today to say that the book is no longer available-that they had one copy but it was sold to someone before my transaction was completed. They are sending me a refund! Now I’m looking for it again. 😥
I'd like to find a performance of Our American Cousin, which has a sadly notorious connection to American history...but it was successful at the time!
@@takingteawithcatherine what a good idea. Tom Taylor was a really popular playwright but hardly remembered now. I haven't read or seen anything by him but Our American Cousin is easy to get hold of to read at least so maybe I'll add it to my TBR.
So excited!
@@DebMcDonald me too. Time to plan that TBR.
Already Victober? But summer isn’t over yet! 😁 I am going to start my Victober a bit early. I will see London Assurance, by Dion Boucicault and John Brougham, at the end of September.
@@bouquinsbooks good to plan ahead. And how exciting to see a Boucicault. He counts for Victober as an Irish writer but was particularly popular in the US I think. I am planning on reading his play The Colleen Bawn.
Thank you for posting this video. What exactly distinguishes a "casual" Victorian reader from a "hardcore" reader?
@@brianhaas1154 ha ha, good question. Maybe a casual Victorian reader is one who read Jane Eyre once and always meant to try another Victorian book? And hardcore means several every year? But we do want to use Victober to encourage people to dip into Victorian literature who fear it will be heavy as well as giving others an opportunity to share their passion for it.
I've been waiting for this moment for months! 😅
I think I'm finally going to try some Oscar Wilde's plays for your challenge. I'm very much intimidated by him, as English is not my native language and I'm afraid his witticism may be too much for me. But it's time to get over that and try one of his plays. I may also find a theater production on TH-cam or a film adaptation to watch (I believe there's a movie of The Importance of being Earnest with Michael Redgrave from the 50s here on TH-cam).
I also have other reading plans for the other challenges! I was especially touched by the group challenge. Jenny and Alice are very much missed around here.
@@betinaceciliafeld9854 I think you will enjoy The Importance of Being Earnest as much of the humour is in the characters and situations as well as Wilde's witty words. The film from 2002 is very good too.
@@scallydandlingaboutthebooks thank you for the encouragement and the recommendation!
Hooray for Victober!
Might the lack of female Victorian playwrights have to do with the novel becoming seen as more 'respectable', whereas the theater still had more...sleazy connotations? In addition, writing novels could be done at home, in keeping with the Angel in the Home ideal, whereas writing plays and helping them come to fruition in a theater was outside work?
@@freshparchment I agree there must have been a cultural shift that made women turn away from writing plays when in the 18th and early 19th women like Elizabeth Inchbald and Hannah Cowley had great success. On other hand there were famous actresses and success women theatre managers so women did work in the Victorian theatre.
Hope to read the woman in white and the heir of redclyffe and Oscar Wilde play .
@@gracetaylor7351 that sounds like a lovely balanced combination and covers all challenges.
I'm now on a mission to track down a female Victorian playwright!
@@clarepotter7584 please do! And tell me. I found some names but not an actual play available to read.