Victorian classics I want to read this Victober 📖🖤 | Claire Fenby

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My TBR for this #Victober! What is your favourite piece of Victorian literature? #ClassicsCommunity 📖🍂 #VictoberTBR
THE #VICTOBER 2020 CHALLENGES
‪@katiejlumsden‬ : Read a Victorian book that equates to your favourite modern genre.
‪@lucythereader‬ : Read a Victorian diary or collection of letters
‪@katehowereads‬ : Read a new to you book and/or short story by a favourite Victorian author.
Readers' challenge: Read a Victorian book from a previous Victober TBR that you never got to, or one you've been meaning to read for ages.
General challenge: Read a Victorian book while wearing something Victorian/Victorianesque
Group readalong: Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
My selections:
Shirley
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Agnes Grey
Jane Eyre
The complete poems of Emily Bronte
Woman Much Missed
The Lifted Veil
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@rafaelleduarte 3 года назад

Going towards the Brontë sisters, I spent years of my life adoring Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and sort of ignoring the existence of the books written by Anne and Charlotte Brontë. In 2018/2019 I read Agnes Grey, but I'm yet to finish reading it. This year I acquired Jane Eyre and this is one of the best aquisitions in years, relying on the fact that I love reading it. Currently I'm nine chapters into Jane Eyre, because it's a chunky book and I feel exceptionally compelled to advance in my reading carefully. Loved this video of yours, especially the parts in which you mentioned the Brontë sisters.

@MaryAmongStories 4 года назад

I'm planning to read Agnes Grey for Victober! happy reading 💜

@Claire_Fenby 4 года назад

Ooo excited to hear what you think!

@katiejlumsden 4 года назад

Yay, glad you're taking part :) Agnes Grey is great!

@fernandacruz1736 4 года назад

The lifted veil is also on my victober TBR! Loving your autumn look and content

@izabelbrekilien9658 4 года назад

I do love my Brontës too, they're my favourite writers :)

@katehowereads 4 года назад

I hope it's a wonderful first Victober for you, Claire!

@Claire_Fenby 4 года назад

Thank you Kate 📖🖤

@teanlit2949 4 года назад

This is my first Victober also haha I'm pretty excited about it.

@Claire_Fenby 4 года назад

Wonderful! 🖤

@rojinkiannejad4692 4 года назад

I’m doing a Victorian module in my English degree at the moment! Also loving your hair! My favourite Victorian novel is probably The Tenant of Wildfell Hall or David Copperfield (also love the adaptations of it). Stay safe xx

@Claire_Fenby 4 года назад

Brilliant! Thank you

@martawesierska2683 4 года назад

if you don't mind audiobooks, the Phoebe Reads a Mystery podcast is currently doing chapters of Jane Eyre. If you can get over a British classic in an American accent it's pretty good!

@JasmineReads 4 года назад

Oooh this was fun!!! I read Agnes Grey recently and loved it😍

@jessk7240 4 года назад

How have I not known about Victober! Love this idea. Re a Victorian letters/diary I recommend ‘every girl’s duty’ which is the diary of a Victorian girl called Alice Miles. Fascinating read. She is a compelling person, and it’s a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a Victorian girl on the marriage market.

@Claire_Fenby 4 года назад

Definitely going to read this!

@beingandtreeing 4 года назад

"The Speckled Band" is definitely one of the more scary Sherlock Holmes stories! I had an experience with it I still think of whenever I hear the title. In 2012, I and a friend went to a small German event for Sherlock Holmes fans & the first evening ended with an outdoor reading of this story, which was, of course, super atmospheric & super creepy. Afterwards I went back to my hotel room which I shared with my friend. We went to sleep on during the night I woke up due to a super creepy whistling noise, it sounded just like somebody was standing in the room and whistling!! It repeated several times with a few minutes in between and I was getting more and more scared because the whistling from the story was all too fresh in my mind. FINALLY my friend woke up and it turned out the sound was ........ the whatsapp notification sound. She had forgotten to turn off her phone for the night and I, who did not own a smartphone back then, had somehow never heard that sound before. :'D

@155books 4 года назад

Firstly this whole look is just 👀👌🏻 Secondly you have made me really want to read Shirley! 🙌🏻📖 Good luck with your TBR this sounds like such a wonderful collection of books 🥰

@Claire_Fenby 4 года назад

Thank you! I always wanted to be a bit of a goth but wasn’t cool enough ahaha Yes, I think you would love Shirley 🖤🖤

@lindaharrison3240 4 года назад

I'm reading both editions of Frankenstein concurrently so I'm already reading Victorian lit. I also plan to read Shirley, though. I think it's very relevant to our current Luddite times.

@aisling8308 4 года назад

Haven't heard of Victober but Wuthering Heights and Vanity Fair are in my tbr so I might give it a go

@DeeDeeCatMom 4 года назад

Problematic fave: Jane Eyre 💙 . Bonnets at Dawn podcast did a read along of Agnes Grey this summer so they have lots of amazing analysis that you can all listen to ;)

@Claire_Fenby 4 года назад

Let's be honest - pretty much all of Victorian lit counts as problematic faves ahaha

@brittanypickering 4 года назад

I came here to recommend the Bonnets at Dawn podcast! It’s so good! I even listen to the episodes about books I don’t plan on reading and it’s still enjoyable.

@Claire_Fenby 4 года назад

@@brittanypickering Thank you for the recommendation! I'll check it out

@Viv8ldi 4 года назад

"I waved at it from afar" XD

@epdias4 4 года назад

Hi, I like your videos very much and I would like to suggest that a list of the books mentioned be added to the description box. Since English is a foreign language to me, sometimes it is difficult to understand an author´s name and some book covers are difficult to read through the screen.

@Claire_Fenby 4 года назад

Thanks for flagging! I normally do but have forgotten recently so thanks for reminding me

@divyanshbhatt5918 4 года назад

I am planning to read Vanity Fair this Victober

@Claire_Fenby 4 года назад

Great choice!

@bell2638 4 года назад

does anybody have recommendations for spooky/scary/gothic poetry? (other than poe) genuinely can't read or watch real horror but i would love some slightly spine-tingling poetry!!! also i'm currently reading the professor, because i read villette a couple months ago and decided i wanted to read all the bronte novels, and, having gone in with no expectations (just because i wasnt specifically interested in it as an individual book), i'm enjoying it a lot! its fun to notice how much of it was borrowed later for villette

@iheartbooks1771 4 года назад

I am reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins for Victober.

@Claire_Fenby 4 года назад

I really want to read it! Let me know what you think 📚

@Tutankhamun18Reads 4 года назад

Silas Marner is George Eliots masterpiece and is short!!!

@Claire_Fenby 4 года назад

The plot doesn’t really interest me to be honest but I’m sure that will change!

@surferboy1376 4 года назад

I'm planning Jane Eyre or The Tenant of Wildfell Hall or The Woman in White... What are your thoughts on these books?

@lindaharrison3240 4 года назад

Ugh do NOT read Woman in White. Wilkie Collins' style is long and drawn out. I believe a living professional writer said something like Wilkie Collins never met a sentence he couldn't expand by tenfold. He drones on and on and one. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was another snoozefest. I couldn't even finish that one. I vote for Jane Eyre.

@Claire_Fenby 4 года назад

I think you should read which ever story appeals to you most! Read the blurb and follow your gut 🖤

@surferboy1376 4 года назад

@@Claire_Fenby I have decided to go Bronte Sisters for Victober. As much as I want to do and follow the challenge I have to modify because of work as well. But thanks. I'm doing Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and then rereading Wuthering Heights one of my favorites or maybe listen to an audio book

@surferboy1376 4 года назад

@@lindaharrison3240 i actually started The Woman in White up to 70 pages before I had to stop it was becoming a chore. I'm doing Bronte sisters for Victober. Hopefully I will be able to finish The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

@KevTheImpaler 4 года назад

If you like true crime then surely you should read On Murder as Considered One of the Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey, only it was written in 1827, so ten years too early for Victober

@Claire_Fenby 4 года назад

I read it during my MA but definitely need to re-read 😀📖 Yes wish I could include it ahaha