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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 29 Dec 2010 | 09:01 pm
This was my first Sherlock Holmes, and it very much lived up to my expectations. In this novel Holmes is called from London to consider the death of Charles Baskerville, apparantly by a crazed and sup...
Marcella by Mrs. Humphrey Ward 26 Dec 2010 | 06:45 pm
This book is a Victorian family saga, focused on a family estate, a spurned lover, and a devious villain. Marcella Boyce is young, bright, and taken with socialism. When her parents inherit the family...
Trumpets Sound No More 20 Dec 2010 | 02:03 pm
Trumpets sound no more / Jon Redfern Toronto: Rendezvous Crime, c2007. 248 p. This is one of my NeoVictorian choices for this challenge: it is set in 1840 London, England, the week before Christmas,...
Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White 18 Dec 2010 | 02:52 pm
The Woman in White / Wilkie Collins Markham, ON: Penguin Canada, 1984, c1859-60. 648 p. Yes, I freely admit, I hadn't read this book until just this fall! I love Wilkie Collins -- I've read many of h...
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope 17 Dec 2010 | 03:46 am
Two whole weeks of Anthony Trollope! It's my turn for a review of Barchester Towers, the second book in his Barsetshire Chronicles and one of his more popular books. Anyway, I've been wanting to rev...
Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) 15 Dec 2010 | 04:34 am
She's "goodness made interesting". That's what Irving Howe calls Tess, the main character in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Interesting is one way to put it. Not all of his Victorian reade...
Gustav Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857) 13 Dec 2010 | 06:27 am
Although it fits the time frame perfectly, in many ways Flaubert's Madame Bovary seems to challenge the prevailing ideas about Victorian womanhood. Emma Bovary's character faces the same limitations ...
Lady Anna 12 Dec 2010 | 05:12 am
Lady Anna. Anthony Trollope. 1874/2009. Oxford World's Classics. 560 pages. Women have often been hardly used by men, but perhaps no harder usage, no fiercer cruelty was ever experienced by a woman t...
Measuring the Victorians 5 Dec 2010 | 12:19 pm
The New York Times has an article (from December 3rd) called Analyzing Literature by Words and Numbers about how "the titles of every British book published in English in and around the 19th century —...
He Knew He Was Right 4 Dec 2010 | 07:43 pm
He Knew He Was Right. Anthony Trollope. 1869/2009. Oxford University Press. 992 pages. When Louis Trevelyan was twenty-four years old, he had all the world before him where to choose; and, among othe...
