I really wanted to join in on the decades reading challenge, but I also wanted to limit myself to a realistic amount of reading. I thought that I would be able to do that by reading short "fairy tales" written in the 19th century with a then contemporary setting. They are charming light reads, and funny, and most conveniently relatively brief. But the ones I have in mind were published too close together, or are impossible to find a publication date for.
I'll have to find a new challenge that my list will suit.
The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1855
The Magic Fishbone by Charles Dickens - 1868
Petsetilla's Poesy by Tom Hood - 1870
Prince Perigio by Andrew Lang - 1889
The Light Princess by George Macdonald -?
Uncle James or the Purple Stranger by E. Nesbit 19??
Update. Hooray! I have gotten hold of some of the missing pub dates.
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Saturday, February 2, 2008
Reading Challenges
So many reading challenges out there on the internet and so little time to read!
I really want to sign up for a dozen of them, but a realistic look at my free time compels me to be selective. The 19th Century Women Writers Reading Challenge for 2008 looks fantastic and would allow me to combine rereading old favorites with actually getting to some titles that have been on my must read list for well over a decade perhaps even two decades. So really high time I read them.
At the moment I am considering the following titles:
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Wives and Daughters by Mrs. Gaskell
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Miss Marjoribanks by Margaret Oliphant*
Cranford by Mrs. Gaskell
Persuasion by Jane Austen*
*These two titles will be rereads for me.
I have attempted to read Middlemarch before and not gotten very far, Wives and Daughters I once bought with the idea that I would read it in my copious free time during my maternity leave. Hah!
I am not the biggest Bronte fan, but somehow have always felt that I ought to read Villette, so fingers crossed that I can get through it... Cranford looks short being under 250 pages!
I really loved Miss Marjoribanks when I read it almost 20 years ago, so time for a reread to see if it holds up.
I really want to sign up for a dozen of them, but a realistic look at my free time compels me to be selective. The 19th Century Women Writers Reading Challenge for 2008 looks fantastic and would allow me to combine rereading old favorites with actually getting to some titles that have been on my must read list for well over a decade perhaps even two decades. So really high time I read them.
At the moment I am considering the following titles:
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Wives and Daughters by Mrs. Gaskell
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Miss Marjoribanks by Margaret Oliphant*
Cranford by Mrs. Gaskell
Persuasion by Jane Austen*
*These two titles will be rereads for me.
I have attempted to read Middlemarch before and not gotten very far, Wives and Daughters I once bought with the idea that I would read it in my copious free time during my maternity leave. Hah!
I am not the biggest Bronte fan, but somehow have always felt that I ought to read Villette, so fingers crossed that I can get through it... Cranford looks short being under 250 pages!
I really loved Miss Marjoribanks when I read it almost 20 years ago, so time for a reread to see if it holds up.
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