Just read Gaskell's 'A Fear for the Future' which is a hilarious lamentation by a middle aged gentleman as he observes the demise of the younger female species; "these followers of the arts, whose life is in the pictures they paint, or the books they write, these scientific damsels who would strike me dumb with a sense of my helpless ignorance" 😂
@bethstratton3391
Жыл бұрын
Love Elizabeth Gaskell. The George Edgerton shorts sounds a really interesting collection. Thank you for telling us about the Victorian Short Story Archive. It is such a fantastic online resource to check out. ❤
@larrymilliken288
Жыл бұрын
When it comes to Victorian literature it seems short stories assume a lesser place in the esteem of critics. The heavy tomes are highly regarded, promoted, and regaled frequently, but short stories by these same authors hardly get a mention. Thanks, Katie, for reminding all lovers of 19th century prose that these titles deserve more attention.
@katiejlumsden
Жыл бұрын
I really do love Victorian short stories. I must read more!
@elizabethaliteraryprincess
Жыл бұрын
Glad to hear you're enjoying George Egerton! I'm planning/hoping to read "The Little Grey Glove" this weekend.
@springintoreading7225
Жыл бұрын
I read Gaskells "Right at Last" and loved it:) So many short stories to choose from. Great video!
@cathrussell2426
Жыл бұрын
This was fascinating, saving it to favourites as one of my plans for 2023 is read lots of Victorian literature, including short stories. I've just started In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu and love it already.
@katiejlumsden
Жыл бұрын
Sheridan Le Fanu is so great!
@peggymccright1358
Жыл бұрын
What a wonderful job you have. I have spent all day sewing, but I’m going to give a try and set aside one day for reading. Love your channel. Thanks for sharing all the different aspects of your world.
@katiejlumsden
Жыл бұрын
Thanks very much :)
@hildureinarsdottir3208
Жыл бұрын
This was excellent ! I put so many stories on my list after this and will definelty look at those that are online :)
@martasgreatlibrary
Жыл бұрын
20 short stories is a lot!!! i love oscar wilde, i need to read some of his short stories!
@reader4532
Жыл бұрын
This was great, was interested that the hardy story was in Women Who Did, thought that was a women-only collection but just looked it up and the subtitle proves me wrong! 😊 So far I've read short stories by Gaskell (The Old Nurse's Story) and Wilde (lord Arthur saviles crime) and two novellas by Eliot (the first two in Scenes of Clerical Life, reading Janet's Repentance now). The wilde story has stayed with me longer than the gaskell, it was so dark really, when I think of wilde as a humorous writer. I know you don't like her but I am loving the Eliot novellas.
@katiejlumsden
Жыл бұрын
Women Who Did is a great collection so far!
@jamesduggan7200
Жыл бұрын
love the Yoyo Ma around 3:40 - 4:40
@BJPDesigns
Жыл бұрын
I’ve been looking for the short stories by Dickens and will check out the book you mentioned, plus all the short stories you recommended. Thank you Katie! Also I am so excited to find more Victorian authors I haven’t heard of before in the online Victorian list you shared.
@MartinDSmith
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing these stories and authors!💝
@launchedathousand
Жыл бұрын
This was a fun video! Overall it seems liked a successful reading experiment. I love short stories and after reading a bunch of Elizabeth Gaskells last year made me want to read at least all of hers.
@lisainbookland
Жыл бұрын
An interesting day to experience so many authors! There is really so much out there. I loved the sound of A Thief in the Night and the Gaskell ones - I’m reading some of her short stories this Victober but they’re all from a collection of her supernatural tales. The Governess’ Tale did sound really interesting - your description of the girl’s position really reminded me a lot of the film Belle which I saw on telly earlier in the month and loved (though that film was set in an earlier period).
@nat4465
Жыл бұрын
This is such a good idea. I think reading short stories might be a way I can still enjoy Victorian literature this month and finish it. I’m going through Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell and I don’t think I’ll be able to finish it before Victober ends. 😅I may have to go with one of her short stories.
@henrygonzalez4697
Жыл бұрын
Cool J.L.B pillow.
@theresas709
Жыл бұрын
I have read The Signal-Man by Dickens and A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I thought this video was really fun.
@felixarquer7732
Жыл бұрын
SPOILER ALERT. What do you make of the very ending of “An Imaginative Woman”? I mean when the narrator says about Marchmill’s little boy that “By a known but inexplicable trick of Nature there were undoubtedly strong traces of resemblance to the man Ella had never seen; the dreamy and peculiar expression of the poet's face sat, as the transmitted idea, upon the child's, and the hair was of the same hue.” Pushing likelihood too much?
@katiejlumsden
Жыл бұрын
I'm not really sure. I think it was supposed to be a coincidence - Victorians sort of had more tolerance for believing coincidences like that, I think!
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