Victober 2024 | Announcement and Recommendations

#Victober
In which we announce Victober!
Victober is a month-long readathon celebrating Victorian literature (i.e. British and Irish literature published and/or written between 1837 and 1901.)
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The Other Hosts
‪@katehowereads‬
‪@BlatantlyBookish‬
‪@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711‬
The Challenges
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 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This final challenge is in honour of Jennifer Brooks and Alice and the Giant Bookshelf
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Alice talking about Sherlock Holmes: • A Reader's Guide to Sh... & • Celebrating Sherlock H...
The Group Read
The Doctor’s Wife, Mary Elizabeth Braddon: / 3204192
Reading from 1 October to 18 October
2 chapters a day every day, except for 18 October, where we read 3 chapters
Books Mentioned
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë: / 6185
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells: / 2493
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James: / 12948
The Rebecca Rioter, Amy Dillwyn: / 5478065
The House by the Churchyard, J. Sheridan Le Fanu: / 1814793
The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson, Anthony Trollope: / 427343
The Grey Woman, Elizabeth Gaskell: / 6059410
The Poor Clare, Gaskell: / 16156339
Wylder’s Hand, Le Fanu: / 2533794
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë: / 337113
Diary of a Nobody, George & Weedon Grossmith: / 535856
Elizabeth and Her German Garden, Elizabeth Von Arnim: / 1140698
Dracula, Bram Stoker: / 17245
The Beetle, Richard Marsh: / 54815297
Bleak House, Charles Dickens: / 31242
Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning: / 817993
The Ring and the Book, Robert Browning: / 867406
Erewhon, Samuel Butler: / 516570
The Pickwick Papers, Dickens: / 229432
Cranford, Gaskell: / 182381
My Flirtations, Ella Hepworth Dixon: / 1041244
Round the Sofa, Gaskell: / 4727236
Mugby Junction: / 922870 .
A House to Let: / 922862
The Haunted House: / 28515081
The Fate of Fenella: / 4081419
Wilkie Collins:
Armadale: / 777108
The Moonstone: / 6138
The Woman in White: / 5890
Man and Wife: / 720016
Poor Miss Finch: / 1293687
Arthur Conan Doyle:
A Study in Scarlet: / 102868
The Sign of Four: / 608474
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: / 3590
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: / 194373
The Hound of the Baskervilles: / 8921
The White Company: / 93063
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