What I Read for My PhD in English Literature | Victorian Women Novelists Independent Study
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- 00:00 Intro
03:18 Romola & Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
07:01 Miss Marjoribanks & Hester
09:58 Wives and Daughters
11:36 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
13:13 Agnes Grey & Bread Upon the Waters
16:40 Lady Audley's Secret
18:28 East Lynne
20:51 Ruth
21:54 Olive & A Woman's Thoughts About Women
23:29 Moths
25:18 The Heavenly Twins
28:16 Final Paper
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I read Lady Audleys Secret. Loved it and inhaled it. Read Ruth and Wives and Daughters. So good. And to make you feel good, I got Moths on your love for it. Haven't read it yet. Its huge. I really believe that only women can understand women. Our roles are and have been pretty limited when criticized. We are criticized for our sensitivity and emotions. Melodrama is pretty typical for women characters. Especially in the regency and Georgian periods.
I'm so happy that multiple people have bought Moths! I hope you like it. Inhaled is the perfect word to use for reading Lady Audley! It's so compelling!
(Melanie here) This is so interesting. I'm half jealous of you doing this course but then I'm glad that I didn't rush those books as you had to do. I, also, loved Romola, The Tenant of Wildefell Hall, and Lady Audley's Secret. Wives and Daughters was very enjoyable also. Those four stand out for me. I've read Ruth and Agnes Grey and liked those as well. I have not read the others you mentioned but am interested in reading most of them.
It was such a great opportunity, but reading them all so quickly was difficult!
This all sounds so interesting! I love the premise of your paper!
Thanks! I actually got a few of the books for the reading list from your channel!
Loved this & gosh i am the slowest reader ever (who loves long 18th & 19th century lit) & can't imagine getting through all those back to back 😅🤓 Moths & MBanks have been on my tbr for so long..💝💖😊
Hope you enjoy them when you get to them! Honestly, I have now idea how I managed this. My reading pace has slowed down sooo much since I did this independent study!
Wow Elizabeth! Were you reading all that alongside other courses? It took me a month to read Wives and Daughters and I can imagine why some of those didn’t rate as highly at first if you read them so quickly. I’m rereading Romola this summer and can’t wait! I’m also nearly finished with Miss Majoribanks and agree how wonderful it is and how clever! Can you please enlighten me as to why it is pronounced Marchbanks- it drives me nuts that whenever I talk about it, my instinct is to pronounce it as written but I know that’s wrong😉
I was doing this study at the same time as the 19th-century American literature course. So there was one week that I had to read one of these plus Uncle Tom's Cabin. It was rough. 😂 I honestly have no idea why it's pronounced Marchbanks. My edition had a note at the beginning telling me and that's the only reason I know! The English language is bizarre.
Now I’ve finished it there is actually a bit where Dr Majoribanks is said to have told people that it’s pronounced Marchbanks like the estate. Still don’t know why she didn’t just spell it like that 🤷♀️
@@josmith5992 If it makes you feel any better, there were reviewers in the Victorian period that were wondering the same thing.😆