The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

5.10 - "The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them."
In honor of Queen Victoria, the longest reigning British Monarch, read a book written by an author who lived during her lifetime (May 24, 1819 – January 22, 1901).

If you need suggestions OR have suggestions for books to read for this task post them here.

Do their lives need to overlap Queen Victoria's a certain amount, or... Like if I read something written by a woman who was born in 1896, would that work? They weren't exactly contemporaries...

I need suggestions!

Charles Dickens
W. Somerset Maugham
Wilkie Collins

Trying to stretch my brain waaaaaay back to my old Victorian Lit class...

Dickens of course: I'd recommend Great Expectations for being a better story at a manageable length
The Brontes: Charlotte, Anne, and Emily
Lewis Carroll
George Eliot
Wilkie Collins
Anthony Trollope
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Oscar Wilde

Poetry:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Robert Browning

American Authors of the same time period, assuming they are acceptable:
Mark Twain
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne

In case you wanted to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass during the spring, but didn't get to fit it in, this was written in the 1860s.

Kathryn wrote: "In case you wanted to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass during the spring, but didn't get to fit it in, this was written in the 1860s."
Thank you! I am sitting here wracking my brains trying to get my TBR to sync up with some tasks!!!

Nicole wrote: "Kathryn wrote: "In case you wanted to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass during the spring, but didn't get to fit it in, this was written in the 1860s."
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Lewis Carroll is also a pseudonym. :o)

Cait wrote: "Nicole wrote: "Kathryn wrote: "In case you wanted to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass during the spring, but didn't get to fit it in, this was written ..."

See! I missed this. I love how knowledgeable everyone is about books and I love sharing ideas of how to fit things in!

I missed it too, Nicole. :o)

Yeah, I got that. I didn't know that until I randomly looked up Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on Wikipedia. I don't think that Carroll got included the last time we did a pseudonym. I was really excited about that!

Louisa May Alcott also lived during that time period. I have been meaning to re-read Little Women forever!

Sara ♥ wrote: "Do their lives need to overlap Queen Victoria's a certain amount, or... Like if I read something written by a woman who was born in 1896, would that work? They weren't exactly contemporaries..."

As long as the author was alive at some point during her life that's fine.

that's a good idea about Alice in Wonderland. May do that. I also have a collection of Sherlock Holmes I was debating on reading.

Thanks!

Also found:

E.B. White - 1899-1985
C. S. Lewis - 1898-1963
P. L. Travers - 1899-1996 *also Australian author
Ethel Turner - 1872-1958 *also Australian author

There's also Laura Ingalls Wilder and Bram Stoker. I think I'll read Dracula.

Thanks, I will read I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith (I Capture the Castle) (1896-1990)
Jules Verne (1828-1905)

AH! Perfect! Thanks Sara! I'm going to read I Capture the Castle!

Hmmmmmmmmmm, which shall I read. I have I Capture the Castle and Dracula

Alexandre Dumas lived from 1802 to 1870, so I presume he fits?

Yep! Which Dumas are you going to read? I LOVED The Count of Monte Cristo...

Sara ♥ wrote: "Yep! Which Dumas are you going to read? I LOVED The Count of Monte Cristo..."

That was definitely a great book. Lyn, if you haven't read it, you should really read it!

Another reading challenge my friend runs had us read a classic Gothic novel and my choice was Frankenstein...but I never finished. I'm going to use it for this challenge since I've already put some time in to it! Other classic Gothic novels like Dracula or The Woman in White might be worth looking in to! (though not sure of time periods)

Yay! My book club read fits!

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1873 - 1939)

Agatha Christie was born in 1890 so her works would fit the task, too.

Keeping Faith This would work, right?

Becky

Becky wrote: "Keeping Faith This would work, right?"

The author has to have been alive at some point between May 24, 1819 – January 22, 1901. Jodi Picoult was born in 1966, so it does not work.

Francis Hodgson Burnett works! I'm finally re-reading A Little Princess, though I think I like The Secret Garden slightly better.