Status Updates From Chantry House

“‘Shall we order a carriage and take him to the office; we can’t have him on our hands all the afternoon?’ ‘And we might get the new number of Nicholas Nickleby.’

N.B.—Perhaps it was Oliver Twist or The Old Curiosity Shop—I am not certain which was the current excitement just then.”

Love when books mention books!

This is what I love about Victober—the books all talk to each other. I just read about the altered Poor Laws in Simon Heffer’s book and here’s a reference to them!

Don’t scare me like that, Lottie!!

Well done Clarence!! He’s so great! ❤️

“In one venerable mansion, behind the wainscot, there had been discovered nine skeletons of cats in different stages of decay, having trapped themselves at various intervals of time, and during the gradual extinction of their eighty-one lives having emitted cries enough to establish the ghastly reputation of the place.”

😂😂

I actually think this would make a great starting place with Yonge. The first-person narration makes it easier to follow and the plot moves along at a fun clip. Plus the ghost(s)!

“Ears of corn, bearded barley, graceful oats, poppies, corn-flowers, were all delicious novelties to Emily and me”

Read this on a day I planted poppies and cornflowers in my own garden!

This is just so great!!

“There was one [story] in particular, about a whole boat’s crew sitting down on what they thought was a fallen tree, but which suddenly swept them all over on their faces, and turned out to be a boa-constrictor, and would have embraced one of them if he had not had the sail of the boat coiled round the mast, and palmed off upon him”

👀

Jump start on Victober