Katie, I could watch you talking about Anthony Trollope all day.😀 He is my comfort author. He changed my reading life in such a wonderful way. He will always hold the most special place in my heart. Thank you so much for these fantastic videos on Victorian authors. You have introduced me to so many authors whose books I am so excited to read. 😊
These are some of my most favorite video series and I really appreciate you spending so much time doing them. I didn't get them all done last year so just finished. Found so many new ones to try.
What a great video series! I can't imagine all those Victorian stories all rambling around in your memory! In this batch, I think I've read some HG Wells science fiction decades ago, but I don't really remember them. And I've heard of the book Dracula. Your series really does inspire me to read Victorian books. And it was satisfying to find out that I have read some Victorian books this past year, but I didn't think of them that way. I am working my way through some Joseph Conrad, but I'll be using your series as a reference for expanding out through other authors.
Thanks Katie. This series must have been a lot of work for you, but it is great. Quite tempted to set myself the goal of reading something by every author mentioned.
At the beginning of the series, I wasn't sure if I wanted to watch so many videos about so many authors. But, it didn't take long before I was hooked and couldn't stop watching. I guess the best way to put it would be to say that I found the series really really interesting. 🙂 The amount of work that went into this series is amazing. I see you mentioned your novels as another way to support your channel. I bought The Secrets of Hartwood Hall last year, and ordered The Trouble With Mrs. Montgomery Hurst a few days ago. I'm looking forward to future videos, and future novels.
Thank you so much for this series Katie- I’ve really enjoyed it and appreciate the amount of time and effort it must have taken you. I’ve been out and bought myself a little notebook and I’m going to start keeping a log (I’m old school and a spread sheet isn’t the one for me 😂) It’ll be interesting to see how many I have read xx
Dracula! One of my favourite ever classics!! And is this how I found out that Fanny is a nickname for Frances?! This Island of Dr Moreau is such an interesting short story, but I definitely enjoyed it more when thinking about the YA inspired series 😅😅
Oh yes, Fanny was the shortened version of Frances throughout the 18th and 19th century! Now most people called Frances shorten it to Fran for some reason 😂
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Love this series and I learned so very, very much about Victorian literature. I was an English major back in the day and this was such a treat to hear about all the great novels I was unable to read at the time. The only author whose works I devoured was Charles Dickens, the inimitable one!!!
Thank you so much for all the work you put into this series Katie and into your content generally. I didn’t want to use the tip jar on RUclips so used Patreon for a one off tip. Hope it helps towards giving you time to make more wonderful bookish content!
This series , alongwith your other series are a good resource to know more about Victorian Authors , Books , Themes , Trollope and Dickens and more . Such a work of love , Katie . Thank you for all the work and research you do .
Thanks so much for this series. It has been a fascinating list of writers and added a number of potential books to my reading list. It also was the final push I needed to start my own BookTube channel - Lokster Reads - because I have, for the last four years, devoted November to what I call 'Remembrance Reads' where I focus on World War One reading and your series made me realise I could do videos focusing on that. I might even do an A to Z of World War One writers at some point. But thanks it has been great. I love what Wells I've read, which has been all science-fiction. I need to read some Anthony Trollope. He's high on my list.
Did you know that Anthony Trollope was one of the favourite writers of Leo Tolstoy. There are lots of English editions of his books in Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy's family estate. In fact, the whole plot line involving Levin in "Anna Karenina" was directly inspired by Trollope plots.
A huge thank you Katie.👏🏻👏🏻. This was a wonderful, informative series which introduced me to so many authors. Victober may be a year long event for me in 2025.🍂
Thanks for creating this wonderful reference work. It will help me flesh out my Victorian reading immensely. Was it Benjamin Disraeli who said he liked nothing better than curling up in bed with a good Trollope?! 😂
Thank you for introducing me to so many writers and reminding me of others I've been meaning to read. I clearly need to read Ralph the Heir - I really like the others in your A.T. top 5, although I find The Small House at Allington a little too painful to re-read! I wonder if Adolphus Crosbie was named after AT's brother? Frances Trollope sounds so interesting. H.G Well's social realist fiction is definitely on my tbr now, along with The Picture of Dorian Gray, De Profundis and something by Israel Zangwill. Maybe The King of Schnorrers; it's intriguing to find a Victorian story with Yiddish in the title!
I love this series. Btw, Helbeck of Bannisdale by Mary Augusta Ward is amazing! I read it a few years ago for Victober after Shawn the Book Maniac recommended it. I highly recommend it and hope others will pick it up. I loved it so much that I want to check out most (if not all) of her other novels now, fwiw. I’ll be excited to hear your opinions about her when you start checking out her work. 😊
You have three of my favorites in this one, H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats. Love all three, but I think tops is H G Wells, I have been reading him since I was a teen and I have read The Time Machine so many times. I have been inspired by you and others to read Anthony Trollope, I have been slowly collecting The Barchester Chronicles, I have The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne and Framley Parsonage. When I get the other two I will read the series. I rather have them all, it makes it easier for me.
There are no "gender politics" in Dracula. That's new thing, but I think I know what you mean. I remember The Lair of the White Worm as being pretty good (I read it as a child). And I often come across his short story "The Squaw" in collections. That one is excellent, I think.
Yes, the term was of course not in use at the time, but Dracula is somewhat of an anti-New Woman novel, contributing to the discourse on gender and women's rights in the late Victorian period in a reactionary way, writing against a lot of the proto-feminist writers of the time, which is something about it I struggle with. I do want to try more by him at some point, though.
Phew. A round of applause for Katie, if you please.
Thanks very much :)
Katie, I could watch you talking about Anthony Trollope all day.😀 He is my comfort author. He changed my reading life in such a wonderful way. He will always hold the most special place in my heart. Thank you so much for these fantastic videos on Victorian authors. You have introduced me to so many authors whose books I am so excited to read. 😊
Anthony Trollope really is such a wonderful author.
This has been a tour de force. Thank you.
Thanks, Ros :D
Thank you so much for all the effort required to make this series possible. What a great reference will be from now on!
Thanks so much!
These are some of my most favorite video series and I really appreciate you spending so much time doing them. I didn't get them all done last year so just finished. Found so many new ones to try.
Thank you so much for this series, Katie! Now I have *even more* great authors to look for!
Thanks very much :)
I thoroughly enjoyed this series. I have picked up a few new authors that I very much look forward to reading. Thanks so much!
What a great video series! I can't imagine all those Victorian stories all rambling around in your memory! In this batch, I think I've read some HG Wells science fiction decades ago, but I don't really remember them. And I've heard of the book Dracula. Your series really does inspire me to read Victorian books. And it was satisfying to find out that I have read some Victorian books this past year, but I didn't think of them that way. I am working my way through some Joseph Conrad, but I'll be using your series as a reference for expanding out through other authors.
Thanks Katie. This series must have been a lot of work for you, but it is great. Quite tempted to set myself the goal of reading something by every author mentioned.
I think that's now my goal, and it's going to take me a while!
At the beginning of the series, I wasn't sure if I wanted to watch so many videos about so many authors. But, it didn't take long before I was hooked and couldn't stop watching. I guess the best way to put it would be to say that I found the series really really interesting. 🙂 The amount of work that went into this series is amazing. I see you mentioned your novels as another way to support your channel. I bought The Secrets of Hartwood Hall last year, and ordered The Trouble With Mrs. Montgomery Hurst a few days ago. I'm looking forward to future videos, and future novels.
Thanks so very much :)
This has been exhaustively well done. Thank you so much for this wonderful series!
Katie, this series was amazing. 🤩 Thank you. 😊
Thank you for doing this Victorian authors series.
I've enjoyed this series very much! Thank you!
Katie, this is amazing! So much research! You rock!
That was awesome! 🥳 Thank you very much, Katie!
Thank you so much for this series Katie- I’ve really enjoyed it and appreciate the amount of time and effort it must have taken you. I’ve been out and bought myself a little notebook and I’m going to start keeping a log (I’m old school and a spread sheet isn’t the one for me 😂) It’ll be interesting to see how many I have read xx
Thank you! A wonderfully entertaining and educational series
Dracula! One of my favourite ever classics!! And is this how I found out that Fanny is a nickname for Frances?! This Island of Dr Moreau is such an interesting short story, but I definitely enjoyed it more when thinking about the YA inspired series 😅😅
Oh yes, Fanny was the shortened version of Frances throughout the 18th and 19th century! Now most people called Frances shorten it to Fran for some reason 😂
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Love this series and I learned so very, very much about Victorian literature. I was an English major back in the day and this was such a treat to hear about all the great novels I was unable to read at the time. The only author whose works I devoured was Charles Dickens, the inimitable one!!!
Thank you so much for all the work you put into this series Katie and into your content generally. I didn’t want to use the tip jar on RUclips so used Patreon for a one off tip. Hope it helps towards giving you time to make more wonderful bookish content!
Thank you so much, Jo :)
This series , alongwith your other series are a good resource to know more about Victorian Authors , Books , Themes , Trollope and Dickens and more .
Such a work of love , Katie .
Thank you for all the work and research you do .
Thanks very much :)
Thanks!
Thank you so very much :)
Thanks so much for this series. It has been a fascinating list of writers and added a number of potential books to my reading list. It also was the final push I needed to start my own BookTube channel - Lokster Reads - because I have, for the last four years, devoted November to what I call 'Remembrance Reads' where I focus on World War One reading and your series made me realise I could do videos focusing on that. I might even do an A to Z of World War One writers at some point. But thanks it has been great. I love what Wells I've read, which has been all science-fiction. I need to read some Anthony Trollope. He's high on my list.
Welcome to Booktube, and thanks very much! Anthony Trollope and Wells are both so great!
I loved this series you did, Katie! Thank you so much for all your work. Much appreciated! ❤
Thank you Katie!
Excellent work!!
Thanks
Thank you so much :)
Danke!
Thank you very much :)
Wonderful video 😊😊
Thanks so much, Katie! Really terrific!
Great job, so many more authors to explore, love all your videos. Greetings from Ontario, canada
I vote for a mega trollope read along! 🎉
Did you know that Anthony Trollope was one of the favourite writers of Leo Tolstoy. There are lots of English editions of his books in Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy's family estate. In fact, the whole plot line involving Levin in "Anna Karenina" was directly inspired by Trollope plots.
Yes, I did read that somewhere! So fun.
Thanks for this resource.
Extraordinary!!!
I liked The Canterville Ghost and The Picture of Dorian Grey.
Hats off!! 🎩🎩
A huge thank you Katie.👏🏻👏🏻. This was a wonderful, informative series which introduced me to so many authors. Victober may be a year long event for me in 2025.🍂
Thanks very much :)
Thanks for creating this wonderful reference work. It will help me flesh out my Victorian reading immensely.
Was it Benjamin Disraeli who said he liked nothing better than curling up in bed with a good Trollope?! 😂
I also enjoyed Oscar Wilde's children's stories. " the selfish giant)
Thank you for introducing me to so many writers and reminding me of others I've been meaning to read.
I clearly need to read Ralph the Heir - I really like the others in your A.T. top 5, although I find The Small House at Allington a little too painful to re-read! I wonder if Adolphus Crosbie was named after AT's brother? Frances Trollope sounds so interesting.
H.G Well's social realist fiction is definitely on my tbr now, along with The Picture of Dorian Gray, De Profundis and something by Israel Zangwill. Maybe The King of Schnorrers; it's intriguing to find a Victorian story with Yiddish in the title!
Maybe! Always interesting to see authors using family names in their books. Jane Austen uses her brothers' names a lot!
Agree about Dr Wortle's School, which I read recently and thoroughly enjoyed. Must have been quite scandalous at the time.
I love this series. Btw, Helbeck of Bannisdale by Mary Augusta Ward is amazing! I read it a few years ago for Victober after Shawn the Book Maniac recommended it. I highly recommend it and hope others will pick it up. I loved it so much that I want to check out most (if not all) of her other novels now, fwiw. I’ll be excited to hear your opinions about her when you start checking out her work. 😊
Thanks - that's great to know :)
You have three of my favorites in this one, H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats. Love all three, but I think tops is H G Wells, I have been reading him since I was a teen and I have read The Time Machine so many times. I have been inspired by you and others to read Anthony Trollope, I have been slowly collecting The Barchester Chronicles, I have The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne and Framley Parsonage. When I get the other two I will read the series. I rather have them all, it makes it easier for me.
Anthony Trollope is so wonderful :)
@@katiejlumsden looking forward to it.
There are no "gender politics" in Dracula. That's new thing, but I think I know what you mean. I remember The Lair of the White Worm as being pretty good (I read it as a child). And I often come across his short story "The Squaw" in collections. That one is excellent, I think.
Yes, the term was of course not in use at the time, but Dracula is somewhat of an anti-New Woman novel, contributing to the discourse on gender and women's rights in the late Victorian period in a reactionary way, writing against a lot of the proto-feminist writers of the time, which is something about it I struggle with. I do want to try more by him at some point, though.
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
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Thanks very much :)