I love The Heir of Redclyffe so much! I actually filmed an interview with two Charlotte Mary Yonge scholars and it will be up later this month. There were several authors I hadn't heard of here and I look forward to investigating them more!
WOW that sounds amazing. I've rung the notification bell for your videos as I think you are marvellous. Can't wait for the Heir of Radclyffe. I shall be sniffing it out soon. Just acquired Max Pemberton's Jewel Mysteries though and done an audio narration of it. I may record all of the stories ... time permitting.
Me too! I have found Jewel Mysteries though and have started reading and recording it. They are short stories and the first one I read was OK. Nothing special but a diverting half hour nevertheless. Will be in touch soon regarding Shipwrecks.
Wow, great list, Tristan! So many fascinating lives and topics to explore. I've heard of a few of these (Yonge, Kingsley, and Wreck of the Grosvenor), but most of them are new to me. I think I will look into Amy Levy's work, too. :)
Hi Marian! I am quite taken with Amy Levy too. Can't wait to get the photography shop one. I though of you when researching this list as I know that you like sea tales.😀
Hey Chris. It's exciting finding new authors. How their work will hold up against the more renowned authors I don't know. But it'll be fun checking it out.
I have heard of a number of these through Kate Howe's channel. I thoroughly enjoyed your explanations and want to explore a few more of these as I love both Classics and "a roaring yarn." Thanks for sharing!
Hi Lisa, so nice to hear from you. Kate Howe is amazing!!! I've only recently found her channel and will be giving her a shout out at the next most appropriate occasion. By that, I mean that my next video is a Shakespeare one, which might not get as many viewers over to Kate's channel. But my next classic book video will definitely be pointing everyone in Kate's direction. Love her stuff.
Great video & interesting info! The only author I know & have read a little is Charlotte Yonge. Her children's books i.e. Young Folks History of England & Daisy Chain. The other authors sound very intriguing.
Oh bravo Suzanne. I've not read a thing by Yonge. Just hunted out a book by Max Pemberton though. A bunch of short stories. I also have found Travels in West Africa too which I'm very excited about.
Thank you Hilarity. I like Authoresses too. It feels more accomplished and praiseworthy and proper. ... Look what happens when one is always reading classics! 😂😂
Yes, I have heard of Ouida and took it home from the Library; read chapter or so, then couldn't continue. It didn't draw me in few years ago, surely would others though.
I fell in love with Richard Hannay of The Thirty-nine Steps, love Buchan. Never heard of the other Hannay. Mary Kingsley sounds interesting. Ouida sounds like Beau Geste plot.
I like Richard Hannay too. I recorded an audio narration of the 39 Steps. It's on my channel. But you might dislike it as, for reasons that still perplex me, I read it in a Scottish accent! He is Scottish and raised by a Scot Father I suppose but was that reason enough to use the accent? Still, once I had started, there was no going back.
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 I thought he was Canadian, but just looked him up and really a Scot, so his inner voice probably did sound like a Scot. Finished The Sorrows of Young Werther and I can see why Napoleon would have liked the bits critical of the class system never quite accepting the talented natural aristocrat. Nappy's reply to his Father-in-law the Austrian Emperor who had the court genealogist comb through Napoleon's background looking for aristocratic antecedents, "I prefer to be the Rudolph of my line." The book did not play well with me as I do not admire people out of control, get over it fellow, but interesting, speaking of Austria and another out of control Rudolph (Mayerling), but it was a good fictional case study of an obsessive, the type who end up with restraining orders, which unfortunately do not always work.
Levy and a story about a photography shop sounds fascinating! Thanks for a great video❤️ there were a lot of authors now forgotten, I found out when searching for my victober reading. One book that particularly caught my eye is "The old Roman well" by Anonymous, I was surprised to find out there were quite a few anonymously written books, made me wonder why a person won't take a penname but instead leave their work unsigned and how many books they've actually written
Thanks for this comment Juju. The Old Roman Well sounds very intriguing. I shall look it out for my reading list. You are right in what you say. There are a wild amount of forgotten authors. What treasures our world may have lost.
The only one I had heard of was Charlotte Mary Yonge, and I do think that I actually have a copy of The Heir of Redclyff. Will have to go and do some digging (things are a little messy with Christmas decorations etc at the moment). The rest are new and I took copious notes and will begin my search tonight for William Black (I love Thackery) and Sir Max Pemberton as at the moment I am reading quite a bit of mystery. WOW, this was very interesting, thank you so much for all of the research, I honestly would not have even thought to ask this question or go down this rabbit hole!!!
Great list! The Heir of Redclyffe and The Romance of The Romance of a Shop are books I’ve been meaning to get to. I’d like to track down a physical copy of both. Catherine Gore sounds like an author I might enjoy. I’m sure I’ll have fun searching for some physical copies of her novels. Thanks!
Thank you. Those are two that I want to get to. Also, Travels in West Africa. I've just started reading Jewel Mysteries which is a collection of short stories by Max Pemberton. My latest video is an audio recording of the first of them.
Robert Cromie I’ve never heard of but I saw a film on Netflix with Daniel Dae Kim & Anna Kendrick very similar in plot to what you described. Maybe it was inspired by that book? I’ve heard of Amy Levy but never read her works. Thank you for this video!
Some new names! I knew Charlotte Mary Yonge's work, I think The Heir of Redclyffe was a Virago reprint? I had a couple of others. When I lived in Kent I used to go to a used bookstore in Rochester and they had tons of 19th century books, very cheap. I also found some Ouida books there. This was in the 1980s-early 90s. I read Mary Kingsley's Travels in West Africa, in a reprint of that era. One you may not have heard of is William De Morgan. I was researching him for a book I was writing on British art pottery and found he was also an author. I did manage to find perhaps three of his books and while not great classics, they were enjoyable and gave me extra insights into DeMorgan's character.
I have actually never heard of any of them, but from the descriptions I will definitely look for some of their books, especially Amy Levy and Charlotte Mary Yonge. It is interesting how many writers from the 19th century have mostly disappeared, but I wonder how many 20th century authors will also vanish in another 100 years? I'm sure that many of the best sellers of the last 50 years will someday be forgotten.
Amy Levy appeals to me too. Quite a number have told me that they've read some Yonge. When one reads a lot of the classics it always strikes me how many other works are being read by the characters. I wish I had a few more lifetimes to read them all.
Thanks so much Tristan for sharing this list. I love Victorian literature and this is really helpful. I only heard of Yonge and Amy Levy. I took note of the ones I didn't know. If I may recommend an underrated authors, I would recommend Dinah Maria Mullock Craik and Harriet Martineau. Thanks for your hard work really appreciate it.
Oh thanks for the recommendations Charmaine. I do love especially finding writers who lived near the beginning of the 19th century all the way to the other end. Their works reflect the quickly changing scene of Victorian Britain.
I've read both books by Amy Levy. The Romance of a Shop is a better story. But I enjoyed the observations on Jewish life in England in Reuben Sachs. The characters also discuss Daniel Deronda, and whether George Eliot's book accurately portrays Jews in England. Both novels are short and well worth reading.
It's a staggering number isn't it?! My wife has read some Catherine Gore. She's says that she's quite good. Have just started reading Max Pemberton's Jewel Mysteries. They are short stories. I've just done an audio narration of one of them. I might record them all.
160 novels is more than most people read in a life time, let alone write. Haha I have heard of some of these authors, I believe. But don't believe I have read any of them. Time to do some research!! Haha
Good morning. I guess I'm late to the party. This is a two-year -old video. In exploring CZcams I came upon a video by Drawn to Books, called "The Most Important Author You've Never Heard Of", about an authoress named Aphra Behn (c. 1640-80), who was the first Englishwoman to write for a living. I downloaded from Project Gutenberg the first of six volumes of her works, which include novels and poetry, including The Rover, a novel in two parts that was one of her early successes.
I have put aside Gravity's 🌈 and having fun with the Voynich Manuscript . Bouncy may have faked the 'MS' using the necessary items found at the bottom of the chest he bought from a monastery. It still remains a puzzle simply because it might be authentic. We know Gravity's 🌈 is authentic and like Finigans Wake.....an enigma. Tristan, here is a 'modern classic ' that is unknown because it is hardly ever read nevermind understood !
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 Kurt Vonnegut made him up is why. Trout is famous for coming up with brilliant ideas for novels that fail miserably in the execution--based on Vonnegut's frenemy Theodore Sturgeon, who devised a brilliant idea to take revenge against Vonnegut which somehow failed miserably in the execution.
Okay, you stumped me -- I've never heard of any of them. I'm not sure you sold me on any of them either, but don't feel bad. I must ignore Victober just as I'm ignoring Spooky Season this year -- and just reading and rereading my own stupid books over and over in advance of their upcoming release. I literally just found a typo in one that's existed for eleven years. Eleven. Years. Sigh.
Well I understand why you haven't time to engage in any reading challenges. As for not selling you on any of the books, I can't blame you as I didn't explain them all that well, being as I've not read them either. A typo after 11 years you say. Well that's quite the editing rate!!!😂
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 Eleven years, three professional editors, five proofreaders, and ... maybe 10,000 readers? And now you just know there are others hiding out there waiting until the moment the new print run finishes. Happy Victober, Tristan!
I love The Heir of Redclyffe so much! I actually filmed an interview with two Charlotte Mary Yonge scholars and it will be up later this month.
There were several authors I hadn't heard of here and I look forward to investigating them more!
WOW that sounds amazing. I've rung the notification bell for your videos as I think you are marvellous. Can't wait for the Heir of Radclyffe. I shall be sniffing it out soon.
Just acquired Max Pemberton's Jewel Mysteries though and done an audio narration of it. I may record all of the stories ... time permitting.
I am having a Tristan - fest today 😁 listening while I work 🍁🍂🤓
Tee hee, that makes me blush. Thank you so much for your support and encouragement Christina.
Ugh everything sounds so good. I want to read Travels in West Africa right away!
Me too! I have found Jewel Mysteries though and have started reading and recording it. They are short stories and the first one I read was OK. Nothing special but a diverting half hour nevertheless.
Will be in touch soon regarding Shipwrecks.
Wow, great list, Tristan! So many fascinating lives and topics to explore. I've heard of a few of these (Yonge, Kingsley, and Wreck of the Grosvenor), but most of them are new to me. I think I will look into Amy Levy's work, too. :)
Hi Marian! I am quite taken with Amy Levy too. Can't wait to get the photography shop one.
I though of you when researching this list as I know that you like sea tales.😀
Thanks for the info on these writers. I've only heard of Catherine Gore! Love looking into to new authors from the past.
Hey Chris. It's exciting finding new authors. How their work will hold up against the more renowned authors I don't know. But it'll be fun checking it out.
I have heard of a number of these through Kate Howe's channel. I thoroughly enjoyed your explanations and want to explore a few more of these as I love both Classics and "a roaring yarn." Thanks for sharing!
Hi Lisa, so nice to hear from you. Kate Howe is amazing!!! I've only recently found her channel and will be giving her a shout out at the next most appropriate occasion. By that, I mean that my next video is a Shakespeare one, which might not get as many viewers over to Kate's channel. But my next classic book video will definitely be pointing everyone in Kate's direction. Love her stuff.
loved this. Had only heard of Catherine Gore. Like the sound of Amy Levy and William Black.
Exciting to find so may unheard of authors isn't it!
Your podcast is a delight!
And really good stuff!
Brilliant discussion; I'll need to try something from Charlotte Mary Yonge
Thanks Katja. There's so much forgotten stuff out there it makes my heart ache.
Great video & interesting info! The only author I know & have read a little is Charlotte Yonge. Her children's books i.e. Young Folks History of England & Daisy Chain. The other authors sound very intriguing.
Oh bravo Suzanne. I've not read a thing by Yonge. Just hunted out a book by Max Pemberton though. A bunch of short stories. I also have found Travels in West Africa too which I'm very excited about.
I like “authoresses.” And I love all these recommendations Tristan. Thank you.
Thank you Hilarity. I like Authoresses too. It feels more accomplished and praiseworthy and proper. ... Look what happens when one is always reading classics! 😂😂
Yes, I have heard of Ouida and took it home from the Library; read chapter or so, then couldn't continue. It didn't draw me in few years ago, surely would others though.
Excellent video
I fell in love with Richard Hannay of The Thirty-nine Steps, love Buchan. Never heard of the other Hannay. Mary Kingsley sounds interesting. Ouida sounds like Beau Geste plot.
I like Richard Hannay too. I recorded an audio narration of the 39 Steps. It's on my channel. But you might dislike it as, for reasons that still perplex me, I read it in a Scottish accent! He is Scottish and raised by a Scot Father I suppose but was that reason enough to use the accent?
Still, once I had started, there was no going back.
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 I thought he was Canadian, but just looked him up and really a Scot, so his inner voice probably did sound like a Scot. Finished The Sorrows of Young Werther and I can see why Napoleon would have liked the bits critical of the class system never quite accepting the talented natural aristocrat. Nappy's reply to his Father-in-law the Austrian Emperor who had the court genealogist comb through Napoleon's background looking for aristocratic antecedents, "I prefer to be the Rudolph of my line." The book did not play well with me as I do not admire people out of control, get over it fellow, but interesting, speaking of Austria and another out of control Rudolph (Mayerling), but it was a good fictional case study of an obsessive, the type who end up with restraining orders, which unfortunately do not always work.
Levy and a story about a photography shop sounds fascinating! Thanks for a great video❤️ there were a lot of authors now forgotten, I found out when searching for my victober reading. One book that particularly caught my eye is "The old Roman well" by Anonymous, I was surprised to find out there were quite a few anonymously written books, made me wonder why a person won't take a penname but instead leave their work unsigned and how many books they've actually written
Thanks for this comment Juju. The Old Roman Well sounds very intriguing. I shall look it out for my reading list. You are right in what you say. There are a wild amount of forgotten authors. What treasures our world may have lost.
The only one I had heard of was Charlotte Mary Yonge, and I do think that I actually have a copy of The Heir of Redclyff. Will have to go and do some digging (things are a little messy with Christmas decorations etc at the moment). The rest are new and I took copious notes and will begin my search tonight for William Black (I love Thackery) and Sir Max Pemberton as at the moment I am reading quite a bit of mystery. WOW, this was very interesting, thank you so much for all of the research, I honestly would not have even thought to ask this question or go down this rabbit hole!!!
Just subscribed. I came across your channel via Kate Howe’s Dark Academia discussion.
Oh I say, that's mighty kind of you. Glad to make your acquaintance Mary. Do you have any favourite authors or books?
Great list! The Heir of Redclyffe and The Romance of The Romance of a Shop are books I’ve been meaning to get to. I’d like to track down a physical copy of both. Catherine Gore sounds like an author I might enjoy. I’m sure I’ll have fun searching for some physical copies of her novels. Thanks!
Thank you. Those are two that I want to get to. Also, Travels in West Africa. I've just started reading Jewel Mysteries which is a collection of short stories by Max Pemberton. My latest video is an audio recording of the first of them.
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 I will definitely have to take some time to go and check that out! Thanks again for the great content!
Robert Cromie I’ve never heard of but I saw a film on Netflix with Daniel Dae Kim & Anna Kendrick very similar in plot to what you described. Maybe it was inspired by that book? I’ve heard of Amy Levy but never read her works. Thank you for this video!
Ooo that sounds exciting, I will have to track it down. I hope to read some of Levy's work too, shortly.
Some new names! I knew Charlotte Mary Yonge's work, I think The Heir of Redclyffe was a Virago reprint? I had a couple of others. When I lived in Kent I used to go to a used bookstore in Rochester and they had tons of 19th century books, very cheap. I also found some Ouida books there. This was in the 1980s-early 90s. I read Mary Kingsley's Travels in West Africa, in a reprint of that era. One you may not have heard of is William De Morgan. I was researching him for a book I was writing on British art pottery and found he was also an author. I did manage to find perhaps three of his books and while not great classics, they were enjoyable and gave me extra insights into DeMorgan's character.
Stepping up the lighting game!!
🤣🤣🤣 can't get my setup as good as yours though.
I have actually never heard of any of them, but from the descriptions I will definitely look for some of their books, especially Amy Levy and Charlotte Mary Yonge. It is interesting how many writers from the 19th century have mostly disappeared, but I wonder how many 20th century authors will also vanish in another 100 years? I'm sure that many of the best sellers of the last 50 years will someday be forgotten.
Amy Levy appeals to me too. Quite a number have told me that they've read some Yonge.
When one reads a lot of the classics it always strikes me how many other works are being read by the characters. I wish I had a few more lifetimes to read them all.
Thanks so much Tristan for sharing this list. I love Victorian literature and this is really helpful. I only heard of Yonge and Amy Levy. I took note of the ones I didn't know.
If I may recommend an underrated authors, I would recommend Dinah Maria Mullock Craik and Harriet Martineau.
Thanks for your hard work really appreciate it.
Oh thanks for the recommendations Charmaine. I do love especially finding writers who lived near the beginning of the 19th century all the way to the other end. Their works reflect the quickly changing scene of Victorian Britain.
I've read both books by Amy Levy. The Romance of a Shop is a better story. But I enjoyed the observations on Jewish life in England in Reuben Sachs. The characters also discuss Daniel Deronda, and whether George Eliot's book accurately portrays Jews in England. Both novels are short and well worth reading.
Thank you Kathleen for this. Really valuable information.
The Romance of Poisons. Perfect title..
It is isn't it? Makes me want to run off and find it. I have just found Pemberton's Jewel Mysteries though which is exciting.
Off to order Mary Kingsley
You can get it for free on kindle if you want to.
I've got it, just need to read it now.
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 thanks Tristan. I’m looking forward to this!
Know some Yonge but certainly not 160. Will look for Gore, surprised I don't know her.
It's a staggering number isn't it?! My wife has read some Catherine Gore. She's says that she's quite good.
Have just started reading Max Pemberton's Jewel Mysteries. They are short stories. I've just done an audio narration of one of them. I might record them all.
160 novels is more than most people read in a life time, let alone write. Haha I have heard of some of these authors, I believe. But don't believe I have read any of them. Time to do some research!! Haha
Your not kidding my friend. Like you I am yet to read any. Though I have just started on Max Pemberton.
Good morning. I guess I'm late to the party. This is a two-year -old video. In exploring CZcams I came upon a video by Drawn to Books, called "The Most Important Author You've Never Heard Of", about an authoress named Aphra Behn (c. 1640-80), who was the first Englishwoman to write for a living. I downloaded from Project Gutenberg the first of six volumes of her works, which include novels and poetry, including The Rover, a novel in two parts that was one of her early successes.
I have put aside Gravity's 🌈 and having fun with the Voynich Manuscript .
Bouncy may have faked the 'MS' using the necessary items found at the bottom of the chest he bought from a monastery. It still remains a puzzle simply because it might be authentic.
We know Gravity's 🌈 is authentic and like Finigans Wake.....an enigma.
Tristan, here is a 'modern classic ' that is unknown because it is hardly ever read nevermind understood !
#1 unknown to most is Robert Musil.
You forgot Kilgore Trout, the World's Greatest Science Fiction Author.
Well doesn't that just prove a point! The reason I never put them on the list is because I'd never heard of them!!!😅
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 Kurt Vonnegut made him up is why. Trout is famous for coming up with brilliant ideas for novels that fail miserably in the execution--based on Vonnegut's frenemy Theodore Sturgeon, who devised a brilliant idea to take revenge against Vonnegut which somehow failed miserably in the execution.
Okay, you stumped me -- I've never heard of any of them. I'm not sure you sold me on any of them either, but don't feel bad. I must ignore Victober just as I'm ignoring Spooky Season this year -- and just reading and rereading my own stupid books over and over in advance of their upcoming release. I literally just found a typo in one that's existed for eleven years. Eleven. Years. Sigh.
Well I understand why you haven't time to engage in any reading challenges. As for not selling you on any of the books, I can't blame you as I didn't explain them all that well, being as I've not read them either.
A typo after 11 years you say. Well that's quite the editing rate!!!😂
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 Eleven years, three professional editors, five proofreaders, and ... maybe 10,000 readers? And now you just know there are others hiding out there waiting until the moment the new print run finishes. Happy Victober, Tristan!
Authoresses? Surely "female authors" would do the job just as well.
You are right, it certainly would have.
@@tristanandtheclassics6538 but not nearly as pleasant as authoress.
Stop saying authorist.
He is saying “authoress”. Amazing ignorance.