Four weeks before finishing my senior year, events like A Victorian Celebration and the thought of reading the whole summer are the only things that keep me going. So, thinking of the books I can read, I realized that most authors are English and, being especially interested in Scottish and Irish literature, I thought, why not add them? There must be great Irish and Scottish Victorian writers out there and I can’t wait to read their works. Although Ireland was still part of the UK in the ninteenth century, life was very different for them and I’m sure that’s reflected in literature.
I’ll update this post as I discover new authors and works and add them to my TBR list:
IRISH
- Uncle Sillas – Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
SCOTTISH
- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
ENGLISH
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
- Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
- The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
- Middlemarch – George Elliot
This post will remain in the front page until the Victorian Celebration arrives. Please, feel free to comment and suggest as many other Victorian authors as you want 
Agnes Grey is a book I want to tackle too – Anne is the only Bronte sister I’ve not read anything by.
And The Moonstone is great, a really fun read.
I’m the same, Sam. I’ve read both Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre and loved them all.
I love the Bronte sisters. I’ve only really read Charlotte but I have Wuthering Heights in my piles and look forward to reading it as soon as I have some free time.
Wuthering Heights is perfect for Christmas, at least it was so for me. Anyways, a Winter read, without a doubt. I don’t adivse you to read it during the summer.
Jane Austen is not Victorian — she’s Romantic, writing about two decades before Romanticism.
Wilkie Collins is a favorite for me! I love Woman in White best of all, although Moonstone is good too.
I meant writing about two decades before the VICTORIAN era.
I know, so are the Brontës, but the people hosting this event consider all the century as Victorian, more or less.
Actually, Brontes published in the 1840s, about a decade after Victoria took the throne….but it’s good to know it doesn’t really matter for the challenge — they are all good books and you have great lists!
Yes, but especially Wuthering Heights is considered the most representative novel following the sturm und drang movement in England. I don’t know the criteria, really, but I’m OK with it.
I love Collins! I’m kind of surprised you don’t have any Gaskell on your list, as I know you enjoyed Cranford–which is on my own list for this summer!
Can you believe I did not think of her? Shame on me! I have to add “Sylvia’s Lovers”. Have you read it?
No, I haven’t read that one, but it’s on my shelf. The only Gaskell I’ve read so far is North and South, which I really enjoyed.