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Happy Birthday, Anthony Trollope! It’s Weekend, Let’s Read! & A New Series by Katie Lumsden

Anthony Trollope was born on this day in 1815. I’ve only read five novels and a short story collection. I’m on the fifth volume of Chronicles of Barsetshire and I’m loving it so much that my recommendation for this weekend goes for the first volume in the series.

The Warden – Read or download at Project Gutenberg, if you have a Kobo, I recommend the Standard Ebooks version. Librivox also has three versions in audiobook, if you prefer. It’s the smallest of the series and maybe not the most loved, but I do recommend starting with it.

If you like satirical dystopian, you can go for The Fixed Period, that I recommended before.

Katie Lumsden is making a new series about Trollope, after reading all the 47 novels and the first episode (10 Reasons to Read Anthony Trollope) is out now on her YouTube channel. I watched it yesterday and it was a delight. And although I didn’t read much Trollope yet, I can relate with all these reasons (just from the Barsetshire Chronicles).

Image by Howard Pyle #BookChatWeekly #AncientSky #Mythology #MythologySky #EnglishMythology #Folklore #FolkloreSky #EnglishFolklore #Book #BookSky #Fiction #FictionSky #Literature #LiteratureSky #EnglishLiterature #VictorianLiterature #VictorianSky #RobinHood #RobinHoodSky #HowardPyle

So, so tired! Finally, putting my feet up! With tea & Trollope's The Small House at Allington. I'm at 60% of the book and I really don't know where he's going! And it's not like him, is it? I mean, he usually gives one some kind of assurance!

#Reading #Books #Trollope #VictorianLiterature

This companion has been invaluable during my reading of the Chronicles of Barsetshire

#Books #Trollope #VictorianLiterature #Victorians #Reading

Dickens scholars:

Does anyone have a copy of Sanders, Dickens and the Spirit of the Age (OUP 1999) to hand? If so, could you help me checking a quotation for me?

#Dickens #victorianliterature

#Christmas is a time of tradition & #nostalgia for many. Embrace it with these 2 new studies on beloved #childrensclassics
1) Patrick C. Fleming's "Animating the Victorians", tracing the #GoldenAge #childrensliterature texts that inspired #WaltDisney & Co

#Disney #VictorianLiterature #Adaptations

"Re-Reading the Age of Innovation", edited by Louisa Kane, collects 14 essays on the subject of newness: new inventions, new forms in #VictorianLiterature & #Modernism - 1830–1950
Authors discussed incl #Dickens #Conrad #Hardy #Woolf #CharlotteMew #ElíasMar & #WalterFrancesWhite

#VictorianStudies

"Victorian Automata: Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century", edited by Suzy Anger & Thomas Vranken explores the concept of the automaton (a forerunner to robots or artificial intelligence), both mechanical & human, in #VictorianCulture & #VictorianLiterature in 15 essays

#VictorianStudies

4 new #VictorianStudies arrivals!
Asha Hornsby's book "Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture" analyses the British #antivivisection movement and its discourses around #animalprotection in #VictorianLiterature & science & the press

#LiteraryStudies #VictorianScience #academicsky

Happy #DraculaDay to my fellow Gothic Fiends. Stoker's enormously influential tale first published on this day in 1897, and just like the Count himself, seemingly immortal, never out of print, endlessly adapted to stage, film, games, even to muppet form, a mythos endlessly malleable to fit each generation's fear and desires.

#books #livres #Dracula #BramStoker #Horror #Horreur #HorrorFiction #VictorianLiterature

Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! The famous creator of #SherlockHolmes would have turned 166 today!

#BOTD #ArthurConanDoyle #ScottishWriters #VictorianLiterature #EnglishLiterature

Original photo via Wikimedia Commons (edited), part of George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress

We went to vote and now I'm getting some "me time" to start this one (loving the series)

#SundayShelfie #Trollope #Reading #Classics #VictorianLiterature 📚💙 #Bookstodon #Books

It’s Friday, Let’s Read: Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome follows three friends (and their dog) in a boating trip on the Thames, full of adventures and misadventures and much humour. If you need a lighthearted, funny reading, it’s this one.

You can read it right now whatever the device you’re using by downloading the book at Project Gutenberg.

#BookLook #books #JeromeKJerome #livros #publicDomain #readings #Thames #Victorian #VictorianLiterature

Happy birthday to Anthony Trollope that was born #OTD in 1815

I'm resharing a post where you can download the Chronicles of Barsetshire ebooks @gutenberg_org

#LetsRead #Trollope #VictorianLiterature

https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2024/09/30/victober-chronicles-of-barsetshire-by-anthony-trollope-with-links-to-the-ebooks/

2x #VictorianLiterature:
#MaryElizabethBraddon's "The Trail of the Serpent" (1861), maybe the 1st British #detectivenovel & #BramStoker's "The Snake's Pass", his 1890 precursor to #Dracula

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=350833354
&
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=507429346

#EnglishLiterature #IrishLiterature #YearOfTheSnake

St. Mary's, Wirksworth, May 2024.

#photography #ukphotographer #nikon #topographics #uktopographic #documentingplaces #documentingbritain #thought_landscape #noicemag #thisaintartschool #mood_in_frame #monochrome #bnw #bnw_capture #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhiteuniverse #derbyshire #wirksworth #georgeeliot #adambede #victorianliterature #literaryheritage #stmarys #church

https://www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim_van_mierlo/St M

Elizabeth Evans' House, Wirksworth, May 2024.

#photography #ukphotographer #nikon #topographics #uktopographic #documentingplaces #documentingbritain #thought_landscape #mood_in_frame #noicemag #thisaintartschool #moodynature #monochrome #bnw #bnw_capture #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhiteuniverse #derbyshire #wirksworth #georgeeliot #adambede #victorianliterature #literaryheritage

https://www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim_van_mierlo/

Elizabeth Evans' House, Wirksworth, May 2024.

#photography #ukphotographer #nikon #topographics #uktopographic #documentingplaces #documentingbritain #thought_landscape #noicemag #thisaintartschool #moodynature #monochrome #bnw #bnw_capture #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhiteuniverse #derbyshire #wirksworth #georgeeliot #adambede #victorianliterature #literaryheritage

https://www.saal-digital.net/profiles/wim_van_mierlo/

Tonight is Christmas Eve! What's your favourite story or film to enjoy tonight? Is it "The Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens?
Our collection abounds in editions of this seasonal favourite of #VictorianLiterature and lots of secondary works on its adaptations! See the replies to this thread for more info