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Victober #10 | Announcement and Recommendations

#Victober In which we announce the 10th Victober . . . Hosts 01:07 Group read 02:37 Challenges 04:16 Short stories 08:58 Plays 12:34 Poetry 14:20 Non-fiction 16:00 Victober is a month-long readathon, all about celebrating Victorian literature (British and Irish literature published and/or written 1837–1901). Discord Server:   / discord   The Hosts ‪@katehowereads‬ ‪@katiejlumsden‬ ‪@BlatantlyBookish‬ ‪@scallydandlingaboutthebooks‬ ‪@elizabethaliteraryprincess‬ ‪@HannahsBooks‬ ‪@dickens-and-docks‬ & https://tinyurl.com/mr3y3rzy ‪@MilenaReads‬ ‪@royreadsanything‬ ‪@takingteawithcatherine‬ The Group Read Hester, Margaret Oliphant: https://tinyurl.com/4fukr58d Blackwells affiliate link: https://tinyurl.com/9kr4swdu 2 chapters a day, 1st to 22nd October (3 chapters on the final day) The Challenges Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book where friendship is featured. Katie’s challenge: Read a work of Victorian literature that is not a novel (i.e. a play, short story, poem or work of non-fiction). Marissa’s challenge: Read a work of Victorian literature where a character experiences a change in class status (social mobility, rags to riches, fallen women, etc.). Ros’s challenge: Empire spotting: see how many times you can spot signs of the Empire in your Victober reading. Elizabeth’s challenge: Read a work by an underrated Victorian woman writer. Hannah’s challenge: Read a Victorian work that discusses education. Jess’s challenge: Step back in time – read a Victorian work set in a different era. Milena’s challenge: Spin a (digital) colourwheel and pick a Victorian book with a cover that primarily features that colour. You can pick any edition. Roy’s challenge: Read a Victorian work of fantasy. Catherine’s challenge: Read a Victorian book that has a connection to Jane Austen. Completed 1–3 challenges = Mr Micawber level Completed 4–6 challenges = Jane Eyre level Completed 7–9 challenges = Sherlock Holmes level Completed 10 challenges = Dracula level Scorecard: https://drive.google.com/file/d/168mY... Short Stories Women Who Did An Imaginative Women, Hardy The Yellow Drawing Room, Caird Mugby Junction, Dickens Ghostly Tales (Chronicle Books) Victorian Ghost Stories (Arcturus Publishing) The Open Door and Other Stories, Oliphant The Library Window The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Female Detective, Forester George Silverman’s Explanation and Other Stories, Dickens The Great Winglebury Duel To Be Read at Dusk The Old Nurse’s Story, Gaskell Gothic Tales Wessex Tales, Hardy The Two Heroines of Plumplington, Trollope Christmas at Thompson Hall The Happy Prince and Other Stories, Wilde Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime The Canterville Ghost The Model Millionaire Green Tea, Le Fanu A Slip Under the Microscope, Wells A Thief in the Night, Marion Hepworth Dixon Keynotes and Discords, Egerton Plays Ros’s videos on Victorian drama:    • Who were the Victorian women working in th...      • The colourful life of Dion Boucicault #vic...      • Oscar Wilde's plays: the famous, the infam...      • Victober 2024 announcement #victober   My video on Victorian drama:    • 8 Great Victorian Plays   London Assurance, Boucicault Charley’s Aunt, Thomas The Case of Rebellious Susan, Jones: Afternoon, Ouida The Second Mrs Tanqueray, Pinero Trelawny of the Wells The Cabinet Minister Widower’s Houses, Shaw Mrs Warren’s Profession You Never Can Tell Lady Windermere’s Fan, Wilde A Woman of No Importance The Importance of Being Earnest An Ideal Husband Poetry The Brontës Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Ring and the Book, Robert Browning Gerard Manley Hopkins A Shropshire Lad, Houseman Edward Lear Amy Levy George Meredith William Morris Goblin Market and Other Poems, Christina Rossetti The Convent Threshold Alfred, Lord Tennyson Oscar Wilde Non-fiction The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, Seacole The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Gaskell A Memoir of Jane Austen, Austen-Leigh Life in the Sickroom, essays by an invalid, Martineau The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick The Diary of Amy Dillwyn The letters of Charles Dickens The letters of Elizabeth Gaskell London Labour and the London Poor, Mayhew Of Street Pieman How to Observe Morals and Manners, Martineau On the Origin of Species, Darwin The Voyage of the Beagle It was snowing butterflies A Thousand Miles up the Nile, Edwards American Notes, Dickens Pictures from Italy The Uncommercial Traveller Richard Francis Burton Isabella Bird On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers, Kate Marsden The Soul of Man under Socialism, Wilde Cassandra, Florence Nightingale The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century, Ruskin John Stuart Mill Harriet Taylor Mill Culture and Society in Britain (Oxford University Press) The Great Exhibition (Manchester University Press)