lunababymoonchild Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 These are the proposed categories : 1 Read Victorian poetry. 2 Read something Victorian and Gothic. 3 Read several chapters from an academic paper about a Victorian novel or a book about Victorian novels . 4 Read a Victorian ghost story. 5 Read a Bronte novel. 6 Read a memoir or life story of a Victorian person, not necessarily famous... 7 Read a story relating to the clergy. Participants choose whichever category suits them, the title of their choice and how many categories to take part in. Or you can make up your own category as long as it's related to Victorian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted September 30, 2022 Author Share Posted September 30, 2022 (edited) I'll start by stating that the first thing that I will read is some Victorian poetry. I fancy a Victorian ghost story (category 4) and I'll choose later either a memoir of a Victorian person not necessarily famous (category 6) or a story relating to clergy (category 7. This screams Anthony Trollope to me and would be a good time for me to read him. I have the full set of The Chronicles of Barsetshire and still yet to read any) Edited September 30, 2022 by lunababymoonchild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madeleine Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 I'll go for number 2 and will read Shadowplay by Joseph O'Connor, which I had lined up for October anyway, and as I finished my current book last night it's perfect timing! I've read all the Bronte novels so that covers number 5. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEV67 Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 I vote for 1, 2 & 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted September 30, 2022 Author Share Posted September 30, 2022 I have my ghost story picked out ........................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted September 30, 2022 Author Share Posted September 30, 2022 (edited) ............................and my Victorian biography. I will finish my current read today so I'm conveniently ready to go. Edited September 30, 2022 by lunababymoonchild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEV67 Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 I was going to buy Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu, but it was not in the Birmingham branch of Waterstones, so I bought his In a Glass Darkly, which is a selection of ghost stories. I also got The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted October 1, 2022 Author Share Posted October 1, 2022 Uncle Silas By Sheridan Le Fanu is a great book but can be very long so perhaps not a read for a challenge but In a Glass Darkly would be just right and is a great read. Not read The Way of All Flesh, so can't comment. I've read quite a lot of Victorian poetry today and it's glorious! What I'll do, however, is intersperse it with my other Victorian reads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted October 1, 2022 Author Share Posted October 1, 2022 Finished my Victorian ghost story : Flaxman Low in The Story of the Moor Road Kate and Hesketh Prichard. When Flaxman Low was introduced to the public in “The Story of The Spaniards, Hammersmith” (Pearson’s Magazine, January 1898) readers met the prototype of the psychic detective. Marvellous! Now for a Victorian biography Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEV67 Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 I will have a go at memorising The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson. I will also post a link to a reading of The Lady of Shallot, which I thought was really well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted October 2, 2022 Author Share Posted October 2, 2022 I read The Lady of Shallot, for the first time, yesterday and I'll read The Charge of the Light Brigade too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madeleine Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 I love the Lady of Shallot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted October 2, 2022 Author Share Posted October 2, 2022 (edited) Just finished a very short biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel in Fred Dibnah's (remember him?) Victorian Heroes. And very interesting it was too. Also The Charge of the Light Brigade, something by George Elliot and I can't remember the other poem. This is going very well and it's only the second of October! Edited October 3, 2022 by lunababymoonchild Dodgy typing. Changing fixing if to of Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEV67 Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 (edited) Lady of Shalott reading: Edited October 2, 2022 by KEV67 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madeleine Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 Unfortunately I've fallen at the first hurdle! Can't get on with Shadowplay at all, don't like the way it's written and when it started to into the format of being written as a play I ditched it - at page 60! Normally I try to go to at least page 100, but couldn't , I did flip through to see if the format changes but it doesn't seem to. A shame as the story is a great idea but I just don't like the writing style. I will find another Vic Gothic book, I have a few, and the next Frey and McGray is waiting after that. And I will also do challenge number 2, and read some Victorian poetry, starting with a re-read of The Lady of Shalott. The Canadian singer songwriter Loreena McKennitt has also recorded this, should be on You Tube somewhere with some lovely accompanying images of the various paintings of the Lady. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted October 3, 2022 Author Share Posted October 3, 2022 16 hours ago, KEV67 said: Lady of Shalott reading: That was lovely, thanks for posting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madeleine Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 I'll try "The Doll Factory" by Elizabeth Macneal, which is set in 1850, and features a pre-Raphaelite artist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted October 3, 2022 Author Share Posted October 3, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, Madeleine said: I'll try "The Doll Factory" by Elizabeth Macneal, which is set in 1850, and features a pre-Raphaelite artist. Looking forward to hearing what you think about that one. I am going to start The Warden by Anthony Trollope Edited October 3, 2022 by lunababymoonchild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted October 3, 2022 Author Share Posted October 3, 2022 Started The Warden, Anthony Trollope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madeleine Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 16 hours ago, lunababymoonchild said: Looking forward to hearing what you think about that one. I am going to start The Warden by Anthony Trollope Started it last night, bit gruesome re depictions of taxidermy 😝 but readable, and the main characters seem good too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted October 4, 2022 Author Share Posted October 4, 2022 I just could not settle on much in the way of Victorian poetry today so decided to just read one of my favourites, Lord Ullin's Daughter, by Thomas Campbell. Was pleasantly surprised to find out that this is a nineteenth century poem. I've nearly got it off by heart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayley Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 On 10/1/2022 at 8:58 PM, lunababymoonchild said: Finished my Victorian ghost story : Flaxman Low in The Story of the Moor Road Kate and Hesketh Prichard. When Flaxman Low was introduced to the public in “The Story of The Spaniards, Hammersmith” (Pearson’s Magazine, January 1898) readers met the prototype of the psychic detective. Marvellous! Oooooh this one sounds like a good choice, I might join you with it. As everyone is reading Tennyson, have you seen that there's a wax cylinder recording of him reading The Charge of the Light Brigade!? (I wish they hadn't animated his mouth on this youtube video - it's so creepy looking): I want to read both The Doll Factory AND The Way of All Flesh! Still not fully decided which Gothic book I'm going for yet though, so I think I'll just start with the ghost stories. I am also promising myself that I'll read the end of The Old Curiosity Shop as part of Victober. I've been avoiding it for quite a while (I know you understand why @lunababymoonchild !) but it's time to finish it at last. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted October 5, 2022 Author Share Posted October 5, 2022 It's a good ghost story, Flaxman Low Thanks for the Tennyson, I will watch it The Old Curiosity Shop: yes I do know, you can do it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunababymoonchild Posted October 5, 2022 Author Share Posted October 5, 2022 13 hours ago, Hayley said: As everyone is reading Tennyson, have you seen that there's a wax cylinder recording of him reading The Charge of the Light Brigade!? (I wish they hadn't animated his mouth on this youtube video - it's so creepy looking): Far too creepy for me to stay with! But thanks for posting it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayley Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 41 minutes ago, lunababymoonchild said: Far too creepy for me to stay with! But thanks for posting it it helps if you don't look at the video - that animated mouth is just... wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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