My September To-Be-Read List

This TBR list is going to be focusing on Victorian novels in preparation for my MA because I know that by reading anything Victorian its likely to help me prepare. Victorian literature is my favourite period anyway, hence why I have chosen to study it, so I am excited to read novels that I have …

Anonymous Bookaholics Tag

I saw this tag on Ellie’s blog, who tagged ‘anyone reading this’, so I thought I would like to answer the questions on my blog! Find Ellie's blog: https://eleanorsophiewrites.wordpress.com/ . What do you like about buying new books? Everything! I like to make a mental plan of when I will actually get around to reading …

Blog Update: Where I’ve Been

So this is going to be a brief post just to update my small following on why I haven’t posted in a little while and what my plans are for my blog up until January. I’m sorry that I haven’t been posting once a week like I did over the summer. Most of you will …

Autumn Recipes

As we are now in the midst of autumn, I thought it might be a good idea to share with you some warming dishes that are perfect for the upcoming months. I think to make the most of autumn cooking its good to take advantage of vegetables that are in season and to appreciate lovely …

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848): ‘I maintain that if she were more perfect, she would be less interesting’.

(Trigger warning: emotional/mental abuse).   Anne Brontë’s second and final novel challenges the conditions of the rigid Victorian marriage system. The first and last parts of the novel are narrated by Gilbert Markham via the letters he is sending a friend relating to the mysterious Helen Graham who has just moved into their quiet village. …

My September Favourites

  My apologies for this Favourites post being slightly late and also for being fairly quiet on my blog in general – I have been desperately trying to get ahead with the reading for my course, and there are so many essays to get through! However, now I have made a good start on the …

Book Haul

I love looking at books that others have bought to see what they are enjoying in case anything takes my interest! If not, I feel its still interesting to find out what kind of literature people like. Over the past six weeks or so, I’ve acquired a lot of new books so I thought I …

My August Favourites

My third favourites post! I have gained and enjoyed some lovely things throughout August – mainly as a result of my birthday - so I am going to share some with you here. Unfortunately I can’t list all my birthday presents as well as the other things I have enjoyed this month, such as TV …

Ten Classics to Start With

I love reading classics. I feel as though there is definitely still a place for them in the modern world because so many of the lessons that we can gain from reading classic literature apply to modern situations and transcend the period they were written in, while giving us such a great insight to what …

Shirley (1849): ‘I’ll borrow of imagination what reality cannot give me’.

Charlotte Brontë’s longest and second published novel tells the story of Caroline Helstone, who is in love with her cousin and mill owner, Robert Moore. Of course, it also tells the story of the free-spirited Shirley, Caroline’s opposite in many ways, and her love for Robert’s brother and her tutor – Louis Moore. The story …