Victober Announcement and Recommendations

#Victober

In which I announce Victober!

Victober is a month-long readathon, from 1st-31st October, in which everybody reads Victorian literature!

My co-hosts:
Ange, Beyond the Pages:
Kate Howe:
Lucythereader:

Victober Goodreads Group:

My Instagram: @katiejlumsden —

---Challenges---

1. Ange’s challenge: Read a book by a Victorian female author (bonus: one that’s new to you)
2. Kate’s challenge: Reread a Victorian book
3. Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian book under 250 pages and/or over 500 pages
4. Lucy’s challenge: Read an underrated Victorian book from the same year as your favourite Victorian classic
5. General challenge: Read by candlelight
Group readalong: The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde (1st–6th October) and A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde (14th–21st October)

---Schedules for the group readalongs---

The Importance of Being Earnest:
(1st–6th October)
Act I: 1st and 2nd
Act II: 3rd and 4th
Act III: 5th and 6th

A Woman of No Importance:
(14th–21st October)
Act I: 14th and 15th
Act II: 16th and 17th
Act III: 18th and 19th
Act IV: 20th and 21st

---Books Mentioned---

Carmilla, J. Sheridan Le Fanu (108 pages):

The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (144 pages):

Diary of a Nobody, George and Weeden Grossmith (176 pages):

Dr Wortle’s School, Anthony Trollope (222 pages):

The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde:

A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde:

George Bernard Shaw:

Christina Rossetti:

Gerald Manley Hopkins:

My Victorian Penguin Little Black Classics:
Nonsense, Edward Lear:
A Slip under the Microscope, H.G. Wells:
The Old Nurse’s Story, Elizabeth Gaskell:
As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Gerald Manley Hopkins:
Of Street Piemen, Henry Mayhew:
The Great Winglebury Duel, Charles Dickens:
Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime, Oscar Wilde:
It was Snowing Butterflies, Charles Darwin:
To Be Read at Dusk, Charles Dickens:
The Withered Arm, Thomas Hardy:
Green Tea, J. Sheridan Le Fanu:
Only Dull People are Brilliant at Breakfast, Oscar Wilde:
Sancliffe Hotel, Charlotte Bronte:

Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens (884 pages):

Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens (880 pages):

Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell (679 pages):

The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope (776 pages):

East Lynne, Ellen Wood (694 pages):

The Egoist, George Meredith (608 pages):

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