19th Century

[close] https://dashfire.substack.com/ Join me in reimagining a past that never was for the future of humorous historical writing. Subscribe to Dash Fire Diaries. It's a free escape hatch into an era where science fiction and fantasy coexist, where flying machines swoop over herds of unicorns. Here, the ordinary and the the fantastic meet head to horn. Join me in my exploration of the silly and the surreal. You are invited.

[close] So welcome to a Victorian-style Dickens readalong, run by me, Katie from Books and Things. Following on from our reading of Dickens's Our Mutual Friend, we'll be starting reading Bleak House in March 2018. Here's the idea. We read Dickens's Bleak House in a serialised way, just as the Victorians would have done! So, three or four chapters a month, every month for eighteen months until we're finished. We talk about how we're reading here and I then make a monthly video talking about the chapters we've read that month. Here's the schedule. March 2018, chapters 1–4 April 2018, chapters 5–7 May 2018, chapters 8–10 June 2018, chapters 11–13 July 2018, chapters 14–16 August 2018, chapters 17–19 September 2018, chapters 20–22 October 2018, chapters 23–25 November 2018, chapters 26–29 December 2018, chapters 30–32 January 2019, chapters 33–35 February 2019, chapters 36–38 March 2019, chapters 39–42 April 2019, chapters 43–46 May 2019, chapters 47–49 June 2019, chapters 50–53 July 2019, chapters 54–56 August 2019, chapters 57–59 September 2019, chapters 60–67

[close] Welcome to **19th Century Insane Asylums** — a group dedicated to exploring the haunting history, literature, architecture, treatments, and human stories surrounding psychiatric institutions of the 1800s. This group is for readers, writers, historians, researchers, mental health advocates, and anyone fascinated by the realities of asylum life during the Victorian era and beyond. Together, we discuss: • Historical insane asylums and mental institutions • Patient experiences and forgotten voices • 19th-century mental health treatments and beliefs • Gothic and historical fiction set in asylums • Memoirs, nonfiction, documentaries, and research • Women’s institutionalization and social stigma • Preservation of asylum history and architecture Whether you are here because of a love for historical fiction, an interest in mental health history, or a desire to better understand the lives of those confined behind asylum walls, you are welcome here. Please keep discussions respectful and compassionate, especially when discussing mental illness, institutional abuse, and real historical tragedies. “In a world eager to forget them, may we remember the voices they tried to silence.”

[close] This group will welcome alls fans of Oscar Wilde's writing. If you truly enjoyed some (or all) of his plays, short-stories, poems, essays or his novel, join us and share your wits.