January is Bronte month. You can post any Victorian related item you like this month, but I am going to focus on the Bronte sisters and you are allowed to focus with me! We will hopefully have a couple of guest blog posts on the Bronte sisters through the month also to celebrate the Bronte sisters.
The Bronte sisters were three very gifted sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte that lived in Haworth, Yorkshire, England during the Victorian Age. Their early life was marred by the tragic passing of their mother and of their elder sisters when they were children. Raised by their father the reverend Patrick Bronte and their aunt Elizabeth, they along with their brother Branwell, allowed their active imaginations to take flight and create wonderful juvenilia. As adults they became published with a book of poetry and then wrote wonderful novels. Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre, Villette, The Professor, and Shirley, while Emily wrote Wuthering Heights, and Anne wrote Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Tragically all three sisters died young.
For great reading/viewing/audio ideas related to the Brontes, check out this post for the Bronte Challenge 2010 and all of the great reviews from that challenge at this post.
I look forward to reading your reviews this month!
Please post the name of your blog followed by the item you reviewed. For example, Laura's Reviews (Jane Eyre).
Oops, sorry about that. I meant to sign up not to join in the January Bronte fest. My reading for January is all lined up and I don't feel I can squeeze in another book.
ReplyDeleteI'll head on over to the regular sign up.
I really do want to participate in the yearly challenge. :)
No problem Yvette - I'll delete your post on this link-up. This is not a sign-up for the Bronte month, it is the spot to post any reviews for the Victorian Challenge for the month of January. They can be Bronte related or any Victorian item.
ReplyDeleteJust a quick query. While I am still working my way through Wuthering Heights I have finished my first read for the year and it is sort of Victorian in that it is steampunk and revolves around real historical figures can it also count for this challenge?
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I've posted my first review for the challenge: Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope. I just loved it and am looking forward to reading more Trollope for the Victorian Challenge!
ReplyDeleteJust did a very brief post on Emily Bronte's No coward soul with a link to a brief but interesting article.
ReplyDeleteI know it is probably an unconventional choice but it does make reference to a number of significant Victorian figures so I have included my recent steampunk read Burton and Swinburn in Expedition to the mountains of the moon, hope this is okay.
ReplyDeleteI read Jude Morgan's Charlotte and Emily for this month's challenge but I wasn't a big fan of the book. It has certainly received praise by other readers, but it wasn't one of the better Bronte-inspired reads.
ReplyDeleteFinally got around to posting on Wuthering Heights re-read.
ReplyDeleteJust finished my second review for the Victorian Challenge: The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith. Meh.
ReplyDeleteThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was published in 1902. Publication wise it falls outside of Queen Victoria's reign but the Sherlock Holmes books are a very big part of the Victorian era. So, is it okay if I read The Hound of the Baskervilles for the Victorian Challenge 2012?
ReplyDeleteI have just reviewed Emily by Dilys Gater a book detailing the lives of the Brontes from their childhood to poor Emily's death.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the opportunity to be challenged again!
cheers
Julie in Australia
Laura, I spelt my blog address incorrectly, it should have been http://juliescraftsandhobbies.blogspot.com
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Sorry, hope you can fix this
cheers
Julie in Australia
As I've finished my January challenge, would you prefer we wait till February to post our next achievement? (I'm reading Dicken's Christmas Carol for the (would you believe it) first time, have seen it on TV different versions a few times).
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Julie in Australia
Aussie Stitcher - I deleted your post with the wrong address!
ReplyDeleteYou can post Charles Dickens whenever you would like. I just listened to a George Eliot audiobook (it was available through the library right now!) and will post it early before her month. But when people come looking for Charles Dickens posts, they may look in February. Your choice!
wutheringwillow - As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a prominent Victorian Author (one that we are going to celebrate in May!) I think it is more than fitting that you read any of his works that you would like, regardless of whether they were published slight after Queen Victoria's reign.
ReplyDeleteI've posted a review of The Professor by Charlotte Bronte. It wasn't as good as Jane Eyre or Villette, but I still liked it. Now the only Bronte novel I still need to read is Shirley!
ReplyDeleteThanks Laura for deleting the post with the wrong address for me!
ReplyDeleteI've finished my Dickens The Christmas Carol, but will publish my review in February.
I started Hard Times today, but couldn't settle down and read it...wonder if anyone else will attempt it!
regards
Julie in Australia
Just posted my latest Victorian read, 20 thousand leagues by Jules Verne which was also read for a steampunk speculative fiction challenge. Thanks
ReplyDeleteHi again, just read Jamrach's Menagerie, a novel with a Victorian sailing setting. Loving this challenge!
ReplyDeleteI posted my review for wuthering heights. I probably did not enjoy the book as others. I will have to go look and see if anyone else in the list feels the same as I.
ReplyDeleteJust posted my review on Shirley. That book is certainly underrated even compared to Villette.
ReplyDeleteHi again, just did some Bronte related baking from Good things in England, a suitably themed Victorian recipe. I have put up a link. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteJust posted my review on Anne Perry - The face of a stranger. This is a Victorian Mystery series.
ReplyDeleteJust posted my reviews of A Christmas Carol (book) and Little Dorrit (DVD) for the Dicken's February challenge!! I had started in January, great that I have accomplished Feb already, but I am still reading another Bronte book too which I am really enjoying too
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Julie in Australia
Great posts everyone! I have the February link-up now posted. For posts in the month of February, please use this link-up post (see right sidebar).
ReplyDeleteI have just reviewed "Romancing Miss Bronte" a great book recently published (2010) by Juliet Gael, a mix of fact and fiction detailing Charlotte's loves. Eminently readable.
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Julie in Australia
Gosh, here I am again, just having written a review of a relatively new DVD of Jane Eyre (2011). I really enjoyed it
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Her Forbidden Hero is a wonderful story about overcoming a painful past and embracing life. I believe all true love begins with friendship and Her Forbidden hero exemplified this scenario.
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