Such a wonderful video and series of videos! Thank you so much, Katie ❤ I'm gonna return to all of these, years from now, whenever I encounter some new Victorian read ❤
Luckily this series will come back tomorrow. I can't wait to see the rest of the videos, this was amazing! You put so much work into it! As always, I enjoyed the little blooper at the end 😅
Katie, it must have taken a huge chunk of time to do the research for this video, which was wonderfully executed, and very enlightening. Thanks for putting my radar on a few writers unbeknown to me, and I’ll join you tomorrow!
I’ve made a note of 5 books which you mentioned that I’d like to read. As this is only day one, I suspect I will end up with far too many by the end. I enjoy reading but I don’t read a huge amount so it might end up being a “lifetime TBR” for me! Haha
Thank you, Katie. I certainly wouldn't claim that Ainsworth was a bright star in the literary firmament, but Old Saint Paul's was a serendipitous find during the early stage of the pandemic and kept me entertained.
I bought both your books last night online to be posted to Australia! I love your channel and especially love Victorian literature, especially Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Wilkie Collin’s and Anthony Trollope ❤ I’m looking forward to reading your books!
@ thank YOU for providing such brilliant content! You have really helped me to find more authors to explore and to learn that just because I might not enjoy one book by a Victorian author doesn’t necessarily mean i won’t like another book by that author. I’ve now read more works by Trollope and Wilkie Collins and am branching out. I’m grateful to you!
Haha! Edwin A Abbott's Flatland is sitting next to me as I listen to your wonderful list. It must have inspired a great segment in the movie 'What The Bleep Do We Know!?' I love serendipity. Thanks for this informative and interesting series. 😃
"Ainsworth: All the wordiness of Dickens with none of the flair." Makes me think of that waitress scene from Office Space: "Not enough FLAIR!" You have helped me be more discerning in my TBR List!
I read somewhere that after their poetry book, the Bronte sisters sat down around the same table and each wrote a novel at the same time over many days of work. The publisher didn't like The Professor, so Charlotte had to more or less speed write Jane Eyre without doing much preparation. And it turned out to be her best!
Love this Katie . Love the extensive research you have done for this video . I love Jane Eyre and the Tenant of Wildfell Hall but NOT Wuthering Heights ... I hate Heathcliff and his love 🙄 . I loved Heathcliffs son and his love though . But then I hate Gone With The Wind and Scarlet o Hara too . Also love EBB's poems .
Have you seen the NF book Flatterland by mathematician Ian Stewart? There's a lovely twist at the end, much to the advantage of the heroine and her mother, and you just have to love a one-dimensional cow called Moobius! Really enjoyed this and seriously looking forward to tomorrow's instalment.
I read The Coral Island as a child and loved it. Reread it a couple years ago and realized I must have read an abridged version. The first half is a fascinating adventure. You’re going to hate the second half.
@@katiejlumsdenit’s still worth reading. And we have to realize - as you do - that there are some ugly parts of history and worldviews. That’s what’s so awesome about older literature: that we have a small time capsule of attitudes and customs and ideas. In many ways it’s more accurate - because it’s in that moment - than a current history text can be, because that history text might overlay our current views and end up obscuring what was normal or changing then. We also often get to see a contemporary awakening in social criticism while the society is still changing. That’s really valuable, I think. Maybe to realize that stupid stuff we hold true and ethical now will be seen in a similar light to those who come after us. Humans are flawed and will always be so. But back to the book, as a kid I loved the adventure and independence and ingenuity of the kids. And I’ve never forgotten the breadfruit plant.
@@michaelldennis Yes, I always feel like I get an interesting historical insight into something even if elements of a book are hard. And yes, the Victorians are fascinating for also being quite radical and critical of their own society, even if it's often limited, but I always find that interesting. I'll definitely read it sometime!
I read Flatland this year. It cracked me up, it was so funny, from a math perspective and as satire about the Victorian period. Having read The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, I can see how Flatland satirizes that book, too. It was an emotionally moving book in the second half. It does take trust, though, on the part of the reader to put in the effort in the first half to understand the rules of the Flatland world, so they can appreciate the action in the second half of the book. Thanks for an interesting video and I look forward to the rest of the alphabet! :D
@@katiejlumsden I had no clue what it was about when I started it. Wow. It took me awhile to read, because I had to put it down about every 4-5 pages, I got so aggravated. It has helped me understand a different version of Christianity than I experienced in my much happier, guilt- and terror-free upbringing. It's still one of the most published books in history, with versions out in the 2020s, and it's influenced a lot of writers, from what I've learned since. I'm glad I read it, since it's given me a different perspective about people today, who still read this book for guidance and values. And I've recognized its influence in some books I've read afterwards, too. Anyway, Flatland was much more enjoyable! I"m enjoying your whole Victorian series!
On the subject of Elizabeth B.B., Margaret Forster wrote a really interesting novel called Lady's Maid about the couple seen from the viewpoint of her maid. I read it over 20 years ago but remember enjoying it.
Thank you Katie. This was a wonderful and informative video. I have a feeling that I will be reading more Victorian literature than normal next year. I will be joining you to read Dickens this Christmas and now I think I will also have to include The Christmas Hirelings. 👏🏻🎄
I bought an old copy of Margaret Ogilvy by J. M. Barrie, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, 1896, because it was mentioned in The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley; it probably ceased to be collectible soon after Morley's book. Let's face it, Barrie is remembered for Peter Pan, the rest forgotten.😅
Just a thought - would you include Daisy Ashford, author of 'The Young Visiters' as a Victorian author? Although not published until 1919, she supposedly wrote it at the age of nine in 1891 - and it is very funny! But so impressed by your comprehensive coverage.
@ The book begins ‘Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking people to stay with him.’ It’s a delightful little work - and you could finish it in about an hour and a half (good for the stats!) The received view is that it is a genuine childhood work rather than a clever impersonation…
First cousins share the same grandparents. Second cousins share the same great grandparents (but not the same grandparents - meaning that at the grandparent level, those were siblings)
This is how I think about those terms: The children of my father's sister are my first cousins. The children of my father's cousin are my second cousins. The children of my first cousin are my first cousins - one removed.
Pretty much what everyone said above! 'once removed' means up or down a generation, and the first, second, third, etc. means how close or far you are related. If two people are first cousins, their parents were siblings; if two people are second cousins, their grandparents were siblings. What we often think of as a cousin is a first cousin, but in the Victorian period, the term cousin was used much more broadly for various kinds of cousins.
@DarcyRussell-x1o What about half-first cousins and double cousins, half-double cousins and every other weird thing that happened in Victorian times, when women dropped like flies from childbirth and in a few instances when women were widowed over and over. One of my great-grandfathers married two women consecutively, both named Mary, a great-great grandmother married consecutively two men named Leonard, how convenient, no worries about calling them by the wrong name.😂
Thank you Katie! Your love for the Victorian period is so infectious. Really enjoyed this video!
Thank you so much for this series! I've learned about so many new authors through your channel! 💓
Such a wonderful video and series of videos! Thank you so much, Katie ❤ I'm gonna return to all of these, years from now, whenever I encounter some new Victorian read ❤
Thank you for making this series; I have already added several books to my TBR
Luckily this series will come back tomorrow. I can't wait to see the rest of the videos, this was amazing! You put so much work into it!
As always, I enjoyed the little blooper at the end 😅
A nice long video from Books and Things? Yes, please!
Katie, it must have taken a huge chunk of time to do the research for this video, which was wonderfully executed, and very enlightening. Thanks for putting my radar on a few writers unbeknown to me, and I’ll join you tomorrow!
Thanks, Larry! It was great fun to pull together.
I’ve made a note of 5 books which you mentioned that I’d like to read. As this is only day one, I suspect I will end up with far too many by the end. I enjoy reading but I don’t read a huge amount so it might end up being a “lifetime TBR” for me! Haha
What are those five?
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is so good!
Loved this video idea ❤
All I can say is thank you for all these amazing authors ❤❤
Thank you, Katie. You’ve inspired me to revisit Wuthering Heights.
It's not for everybody but I do love it so much.
Thank you, Katie. I certainly wouldn't claim that Ainsworth was a bright star in the literary firmament, but Old Saint Paul's was a serendipitous find during the early stage of the pandemic and kept me entertained.
I probably will give him another try sometime!
I think you are having too much fun :) your love for this period is unmatched. Wonderful Video. I have not heard of a lot of these authors.
I had SO much fun doing this series :)
A wonderful introduction to Victorian authors , can't wait for more!
I'm in love with this series already! I definitely need to check out Charlotte Brame. I'd never heard of her before.
I bought both your books last night online to be posted to Australia! I love your channel and especially love Victorian literature, especially Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Wilkie Collin’s and Anthony Trollope ❤ I’m looking forward to reading your books!
Thanks so much :)
@ thank YOU for providing such brilliant content! You have really helped me to find more authors to explore and to learn that just because I might not enjoy one book by a Victorian author doesn’t necessarily mean i won’t like another book by that author. I’ve now read more works by Trollope and Wilkie Collins and am branching out. I’m grateful to you!
Well, you added some books to my TBR! And I haven't reread Flatland in years, so may give that another try also.
Haha! Edwin A Abbott's Flatland is sitting next to me as I listen to your wonderful list. It must have inspired a great segment in the movie 'What The Bleep Do We Know!?' I love serendipity. Thanks for this informative and interesting series. 😃
Fun!
"Ainsworth: All the wordiness of Dickens with none of the flair." Makes me think of that waitress scene from Office Space: "Not enough FLAIR!" You have helped me be more discerning in my TBR List!
I haven't ever seen that!
@@katiejlumsden So many great memes and phrases from that movie! 🙂
Thank you for doing this series on Victorian authors.
This is amazing! Thanks so much for doing this.
Thank you for all the work you have put into this video and the videos to follow in this series.
I read somewhere that after their poetry book, the Bronte sisters sat down around the same table and each wrote a novel at the same time over many days of work. The publisher didn't like The Professor, so Charlotte had to more or less speed write Jane Eyre without doing much preparation. And it turned out to be her best!
Love this Katie . Love the extensive research you have done for this video .
I love Jane Eyre and the Tenant of Wildfell Hall but NOT Wuthering Heights ... I hate Heathcliff and his love 🙄 . I loved Heathcliffs son and his love though .
But then I hate Gone With The Wind and Scarlet o Hara too .
Also love EBB's poems .
Wow this series will be such a useful resource, thank you!
Loved the outtake 😅 (and the rest, too!) ❤
Have you seen the NF book Flatterland by mathematician Ian Stewart? There's a lovely twist at the end, much to the advantage of the heroine and her mother, and you just have to love a one-dimensional cow called Moobius!
Really enjoyed this and seriously looking forward to tomorrow's instalment.
Ooo interesting - I'll have to give that a try.
This is amazing!! I'm currently reading The Professor and would totally agree that it's not the place to start 😂
Great start to what I can see will be a great series!
I read The Coral Island as a child and loved it. Reread it a couple years ago and realized I must have read an abridged version. The first half is a fascinating adventure. You’re going to hate the second half.
Yeah, I read the back of the book and do feel a bit wary now.
@@katiejlumsdenit’s still worth reading. And we have to realize - as you do - that there are some ugly parts of history and worldviews. That’s what’s so awesome about older literature: that we have a small time capsule of attitudes and customs and ideas. In many ways it’s more accurate - because it’s in that moment - than a current history text can be, because that history text might overlay our current views and end up obscuring what was normal or changing then. We also often get to see a contemporary awakening in social criticism while the society is still changing. That’s really valuable, I think. Maybe to realize that stupid stuff we hold true and ethical now will be seen in a similar light to those who come after us. Humans are flawed and will always be so.
But back to the book, as a kid I loved the adventure and independence and ingenuity of the kids. And I’ve never forgotten the breadfruit plant.
@@michaelldennis Yes, I always feel like I get an interesting historical insight into something even if elements of a book are hard. And yes, the Victorians are fascinating for also being quite radical and critical of their own society, even if it's often limited, but I always find that interesting. I'll definitely read it sometime!
This is wonderful - delightful and educational.
Thank you! This was such fun. I’ve added several to my list.
Wait a second. This video only covers the first two letters of the alphabet? Already looking forward to "C" and "D."
We didn't even get to the end of the letter B in this one! The alphabet is definitely skewed towards the early letters for Victorian authors!
Well you left on the biggest high, my favourite book ever.. Lovely to learn about other Victorian authors, some of which I’ve not heard about 😊
I read Flatland this year. It cracked me up, it was so funny, from a math perspective and as satire about the Victorian period. Having read The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, I can see how Flatland satirizes that book, too. It was an emotionally moving book in the second half. It does take trust, though, on the part of the reader to put in the effort in the first half to understand the rules of the Flatland world, so they can appreciate the action in the second half of the book. Thanks for an interesting video and I look forward to the rest of the alphabet! :D
Ah interesting - I've never read Pilgrim's Progress.
@@katiejlumsden I had no clue what it was about when I started it. Wow. It took me awhile to read, because I had to put it down about every 4-5 pages, I got so aggravated. It has helped me understand a different version of Christianity than I experienced in my much happier, guilt- and terror-free upbringing. It's still one of the most published books in history, with versions out in the 2020s, and it's influenced a lot of writers, from what I've learned since. I'm glad I read it, since it's given me a different perspective about people today, who still read this book for guidance and values. And I've recognized its influence in some books I've read afterwards, too. Anyway, Flatland was much more enjoyable! I"m enjoying your whole Victorian series!
On the subject of Elizabeth B.B., Margaret Forster wrote a really interesting novel called Lady's Maid about the couple seen from the viewpoint of her maid. I read it over 20 years ago but remember enjoying it.
That sounds fascinating!
I love Villette - it might be my favorite of Charlotte’s books!
Thank you Katie. This was a wonderful and informative video. I have a feeling that I will be reading more Victorian literature than normal next year. I will be joining you to read Dickens this Christmas and now I think I will also have to include The Christmas Hirelings. 👏🏻🎄
Yes, I'm excited for The Christmas Hirelings!
Thank you Katie!
That was fascinating. Not that I need much encouragement for finding more authors to read.
I bought an old copy of Margaret Ogilvy by J. M. Barrie, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, 1896, because it was mentioned in The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley; it probably ceased to be collectible soon after Morley's book. Let's face it, Barrie is remembered for Peter Pan, the rest forgotten.😅
Great author review video! 👏🏼😁
Just a thought - would you include Daisy Ashford, author of 'The Young Visiters' as a Victorian author? Although not published until 1919, she supposedly wrote it at the age of nine in 1891 - and it is very funny! But so impressed by your comprehensive coverage.
I suppose so, if she really did write in then? Not an author/book I know yet!
@ The book begins ‘Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking people to stay with him.’ It’s a delightful little work - and you could finish it in about an hour and a half (good for the stats!) The received view is that it is a genuine childhood work rather than a clever impersonation…
Amazing!
James Barrie is missed, as is his friend SR Crockett in the next video , both extremely prolific in the 1890-early 1900s
Yes, I realised too late I'd somehow forgotten J.M. Barrie! I'll be doing an overspill video at some point in the future.
This is great!
Thanks
Thank you!
Can you explain the definition of first cousin and second cousin?
First cousins share the same grandparents. Second cousins share the same great grandparents (but not the same grandparents - meaning that at the grandparent level, those were siblings)
This is how I think about those terms:
The children of my father's sister are my first cousins.
The children of my father's cousin are my second cousins.
The children of my first cousin are my first cousins - one removed.
Pretty much what everyone said above! 'once removed' means up or down a generation, and the first, second, third, etc. means how close or far you are related. If two people are first cousins, their parents were siblings; if two people are second cousins, their grandparents were siblings. What we often think of as a cousin is a first cousin, but in the Victorian period, the term cousin was used much more broadly for various kinds of cousins.
@DarcyRussell-x1o What about half-first cousins and double cousins, half-double cousins and every other weird thing that happened in Victorian times, when women dropped like flies from childbirth and in a few instances when women were widowed over and over. One of my great-grandfathers married two women consecutively, both named Mary, a great-great grandmother married consecutively two men named Leonard, how convenient, no worries about calling them by the wrong name.😂
@@susprime7018 you made me smile. The genetics professor in me is now going to try to map all those scenarios - wow!
You're very sweet and cute Katie ❤
had an affair with h g wells....who didnt?
Is it truly a Victorian name if it isn't ridiculous? 😂