Victober, Short Story, and Classics Wrap Up (October 2021)

Victober (I am putting one book next to each of the prompts. The rest listed are all ones I read on top of the prompts.)

Sensation Novel- The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins (5 stars)
Book Set in the Country Side- Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (3.75 stars)
Book Set in the City- The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Female Main Character- Olive by Dinah Craik (5 stars)
Popular Victorian Novel- Many of the books I chose could fit this
Group Read- Gothic Takes by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Bronte’s A Life in Letters by Juliet Barker (5 stars)

Short Stories ( Many of these are from the Victober group read, #ClassicShortStorySunday and #DarkVictorians)

Disappearances by Elizabeth Gaskell (4 stars once you knew the backstory of it)
The Old Nurse’s Tale by Elizabeth Gaskell (5 stars)
The Messenger by Robert W. Chambers (4.5 stars)
The Closed Door by L. M. Montgomery (3 stars)
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe (2.25 stars)
Mrs. Zant and the Ghost by Wilkie Collins (4.5 stars)
The Poor Clare by Elizabeth Gaskell (3 stars)
The Doom of the Griffiths by Elizabeth Gaskell (4 stars)
Tom Toothache’s Ghost Story by Harriet Beecher Stowe (4.5 stars)
The Episode of Cathedral History by M. R. James (4 stars)
Lois the Witch by Elizabeth Gaskell (5 stars)
Lot No 249 by Arthur Conan Doyle (3 stars)

Movies

Young Sherlock Homes (1985)- This was a Victober Eve kick off with Kate Howe that was a blast)

North and South (2004)
Jane Eyre (2006)
Jane Eyre (2011)
Cranford (2007)

To Walk Invisible (2016)

I cannot wait for Victober next year! I would love to know what you read, what your biggest surprise book was, or a new Victorian work you learned about this year.