"I hate the ending with all my heart..." YES. I fumed for years after reading The Mill on the Floss. I'm fuming again just thinking about it.
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Right?! It's the worst!
@novellenovels
3 жыл бұрын
I really want to try deerbrook even more after this video as I love books on siblings 😊
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Yay I think you'll like it - it's great.
@DebMcDonald
3 жыл бұрын
I love Trollope. He pulls me in from the start, is easy to read, and makes me care about his characters to a ridiculous degree. I have finished 3 of his novels this year and am currently reading He Knew He Was Right. I had plans to read a Victorian short story each day but I can’t because I have to find out what’s going on with my people. Deb
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Trollope is just so amazing. I really want to reread He Knew He Was Right - I haven't read it for over a decade but I loved it as a teenager!
@paulapoetry
3 жыл бұрын
Dorothea and Celia in Middlemarch also have an interesting sibling relationship. I love reading about fictional siblings. I do love writing about sibling relationships, too - always so fascinating. Great video. 😀💖❤
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Fictional siblings are fascinating :)
@jenniferbrooks
3 жыл бұрын
Deerbrooke and the Moorland Cottage are very high on my list! Thanks for these recs, Katie!
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
I think you'll love them both! (Especially Deerbrook, actually - don't know why but I just have a feeling you'll really get on with it.)
@MargaretPinard
3 жыл бұрын
What great recommendations!! Sounds like maybe The Moorland Cottage might be a sly present for a sibling for Christmas...😝 Thanks for such great summations, these are excellent indications of which I'll enjoy: The Half Sisters and The Moorland Cottage sound the best for me 😍
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
The Moorland Cottage and The Half Sisters are so great!
@tomreadsthings7145
3 жыл бұрын
“However...I hate it” had me cracking up! Very interesting video. I definitely want to read The Moorland Cottage 👍🏻
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Tom XD The Moorland Cottage is really excellent.
@a.g.2790
3 жыл бұрын
Great video 😄😁 & a good laugh how you go on about George Eliot. 😅 I have only read Middlemarch & the short story Brother Jacob ftom her. Daniel Deronda is next on my list. You always give great recommendations. Thank you & happy Victober!
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks :) Daniel Deronda is the only George Eliot novel I actually like, so enjoy XD
@ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace
3 жыл бұрын
A Gaskell novella! 😍 Deerbrook is so emotionally complex and quotable. And the historical aspects- with the Dissenters and the slander...powerhouse novel. I have trouble with Eliot's style, too 😬 Victorian lovers can get heated about her, though, I've found!
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Deerbrook is soooo good. Yes, many people love George Eliot a lot . . . but I am not one of them.
@charmainesaliba5546
3 жыл бұрын
I hope to read Deerbrook this year. Is the second year that is on my tbr. There are too many books that I want to read and so little time. I am currently reading Mary Barton, I am loving it, even though it is depressing. I can sense Elizabeth Gaskell's grieve while writing this novel. Thanks for the recommendations. Happy Victober
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Gaskell is such a wonderful writer - she is just so great. Highly recommend Deerbrook too!
@juliequick5526
3 жыл бұрын
Your antipathy for George Eliot always interests me and great that you included an example here despite your preferences. I’m reading a biography of her by Kathryn Hughes called The Last Victorian. She interests me as a person for having the courage to lead such and anti-establishment life.
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I just don't get on with her work, but she is an interesting author, so feels a shame to exclude her when I know many others enjoy her!
@ABearandaBeeBooks
3 жыл бұрын
Great video! I really enjoy this series. I’d love to see one on Victorian books based on family. I hope you are having an awesome Victober!
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks :) I feel like I'll have to divide it down into lots of little family-segments, but yes, I should. Definitely need to do one on non-nuclear/found families in Victorian literature too.
@ABearandaBeeBooks
3 жыл бұрын
@@katiejlumsden Yes! That sounds amazing! I love books that feature family such as Little Woman and Sense and Sensibility. I’d love to see your recommendations. I also enjoy found family. It is definitely something you find explored in literature, especially it seems in fantasy.
@LiteraryKnitterary
3 жыл бұрын
I’m really excited about The Half Sisters because I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a discussion of the theatre in a Victorian novel, and even in other classics that bring it up, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a character who was an actor. If anyone has more recs on the topic, I’d appreciate them!
@marytumulty4257
3 жыл бұрын
@ LiteraryKnitterary, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” features a significant plot point about the fate of an actress. Also, “Sister Carrie” by Theodore Dreiser is an American novel published in 1900 which is about a young country girl who becomes an actress due to an unfortunate series of events.
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
The Half Sisters is fascinating, and the theatre stuff is very interesting - highly recommend it :)
@ReadABookGem
3 жыл бұрын
I love the sound of The Moorland Cottage. I also can't wait to get to Dombey and Son at some point too. This is such a great video series with some brilliant recommendations so thank you for those 😊
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Dombey and Son is just so absolutely brilliant.
@launchedathousand
3 жыл бұрын
I'm currently reading Hard Times by Dickens and that is another quite toxic sibling relationship. I also really like the 2 sibling relationships be see in Wives and Daughters a lot. Have only read Moorland Cottage out of this list so looking forward to eventually getting to all these other relationships develop.
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, Hard Times and Wives and Daughters do have fascinating sibling relationships in too.
@BookishTexan
3 жыл бұрын
Guess I have to read the whole Chronicles of Barcester series now.
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Ha yes, you do!
@teaandtypewriters2913
3 жыл бұрын
I’m just going to make a TBR playlist and add all your recommendation videos. These books sound so lovely.
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Ha thanks :)
@JasmineReads
3 жыл бұрын
Ohhh I love this series!! I'm going to start the Chornicles of Barsetshire books soon - and I plan to read them in order. Can't wait to discover them all!
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jasmine :) The Chronicles of Barsetshire are amazing :)
@alicialozano2802
3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha, love your honesty about George Elliot, I found your recomendations great, thank you
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it felt wrong not to mention her but I do not get on so well with her books!
@lornam3637
3 жыл бұрын
Dombey and Son does have the best sibling relationship in literature - so insightful and beautiful and it makes me emotional just thinking of it. It's a wonderful wonderful book. I also agree about The Moorland Cottage and The Mill on the Floss. I'm so happy Elizabeth Gaskell seems to be gaining in reputation. She such a versatile writer - she can do romance, humour, tragedy, politics and atmosphere - going from one of her books to another is such a different experience.
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Dombey and Son is just so wonderful. And yes, Gaskell is just so amazing - I love how varied her books are :)
@MaryAmongStories
3 жыл бұрын
ahh all of those sound lovely!
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@meghanthestorygirl4581
3 жыл бұрын
I love these themed videos! I really must read The Half Sisters. Hopefully I can do it for next Victober.
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
I think you'll really love The Half Sisters :)
@jeanetter.2420
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Katie. The Moorland Cottage sounds like something I would like. I'll try to read it this month. I share your dislike of George Eliot's writing. Silas Marner is the only one of her books that I've ever managed to finish.
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
The Moorland Cottage is great.
@HamsavahiniVajraasthra
3 жыл бұрын
Namaste Katie, these are amazing books! I'll surely read a few of them .The plots are amazing and very well explained.Great video!!!Happy Reading🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰💝
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much :)
@thetbrdiaries
3 жыл бұрын
I read The Warden last year and was planning to continue anyway, but hearing that the final book has similarities to Sense and Sensibility has definitely pushed them up my to-read list!
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Small House at Allington is book 5 of 6, so not quite the last, but it is such an amazing series I promise!
@rupachenthil
3 жыл бұрын
I can watch your videos on Victorian themes all day long :)
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks :) :)
@CharlieBrookReads
3 жыл бұрын
I love books about siblings so all these sound fab . Deerbrook will probably be the one I head to first xx Thank you for these recommendations xx
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
I think you'll enjoy Deerbrook, Charlie :)
@nedmerrill5705
2 жыл бұрын
_The Master of Ballantrae,_ R L Stevenson
@felixarquer7732
3 жыл бұрын
R. L. Stevenson doesn’t get much attention on BT or Victober, though he’s much more than the author of “Dr Jekyll” and “Treasure Island”. “The Master of Ballantrae”, set in 18th century Scotland (among other countries), is the story of a feud between two brothers, the devilish Master -not just evil and relentless, but highly intelligent and seductive- and his helpless sibling. A unique blend of action and subtle psychological analyses.
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
That sounds great! I must read more by him - I've read Dr Jekyll and Treasure Island (liked the former, did not like the later) but I do want to delve further.
@felixarquer7732
3 жыл бұрын
@@katiejlumsden I also liked Jekyll but not Treasure. Some favourites are: Kidnapped (another Scottish historical novel); New Arabian Nights; The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (short story collections); Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes; The Amateur Emigrant (travel writing).
@teaspoones
3 жыл бұрын
I’m currently reading Deerbrook and I love it so so much! Some stone throwing just happened and oh my god all the tension! I really want to read The Half Sisters later this month :)
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Yay, so glad you're enjoying Deerbrook, it's great! Hope you enjoy The Half Sisters too - it's great.
@jamesduggan7200
3 жыл бұрын
Having just finished re-reading "Les Illusions Perdues" ("Lost Illusions") it's hard not comment here, tho I'll try to keep it short. Although Balzac could be considered the quintessential French author of the period, it is roughly Victorian in time and spirit. Serialized in newspapers during the 1830s and 1840s, the story follows Lucien, a poet of genius, his beautiful red-haired sister, and his best friend from college, David, who becomes his brother-in-law. Rather than say more here, I'll just remind everyone to read, or re-read it soon.
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Sounds very interesting. I really must read some Balzac!
@AljaVast
3 жыл бұрын
The Mill on the Floss was the second Victorian Novel I ever read and I actually really enjoyed it. I will say why: Eliot's work is a provincial novel. It was the way I viewed water in the novel that changed the true meaning of the book. The major catastrophe of the work, in my opinion, is not the concluding flood, but rather the global capitalism which leads to the flood. In changing the way I have read the central locale of the novel should be seen less like a river, and more as an estuary. The geography and society function together as a conjoined ecological system. The entanglement of multiple bodies of water provides a formal model for the overall ecology of the novel. Essentially, reading for water readily yields a wide-ranging map of global capitalism perhaps unexpectedly centered on a small town in Lincolnshire,
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
I can see why some people get on with Eliot, but I just don't enjoy her novels - I don't get on so well with her writing, and the ending of The Mill on the Floss made me so cross! Always feels like she writes about the characters in her novels I least want to hear about too, somehow.
@Alpha-qz8wj
3 жыл бұрын
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@teanlit2949
3 жыл бұрын
Do you think that you enjoyed Sense and Sensibility more or less than The Small House at Allington?
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Oh, I definitely love The Small House at Allington more. I do like Sense and Sensibility but it's one of my lesser favourite Austens, whereas The Small House at Allington is one of my favourite classics of all time.
@tomg1048
3 жыл бұрын
I've played your greeting over and over and I still can't figure out the first word.Nevermind I got it. Right so hello. I think.
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
Yep, 'Right so hello' - I started saying it accidentally at the start of videos ages ago and then it became a thing.
@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
3 жыл бұрын
It is rather silly of me to be sad you don't love Eliot. Having said that The Mill on the Floss is not my favourite by her.
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
If it makes you feel better, I do like Daniel Deronda, and I sort of begrudgingly respect Middlemarch :)
@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
3 жыл бұрын
@@katiejlumsden yes that helps considerably. I just started Felix Holt as my last novel for this Victober. Not read it before but I am optimistic about it.
@danieljackson3367
3 жыл бұрын
Tom is definitely unlikeable, but is Maggie really not a nice person? I find her sympathetic, even when she makes mistakes, and feel she is more a victim of a narrow-minded and patriarchal society that doesn't understand her and that she doesn't fit into.
@katiejlumsden
3 жыл бұрын
I just found her so frustrating - I sort of got what George Eliot was trying to do but I struggled with everyone in that book!
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