Review: Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
I loved this book. It’s the Gone Girl of the Victorian era – popular fiction at its very, very best. So often reading classic fiction can end up feeling somehow worthwhile or virtuous […]
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Review: Villette, Charlotte Brontë
I hadn’t planned to read Villette for this round of Brooding about the Brontës but I ended up hearing so much about it as I went through the biographies and secondary material that my […]
Review: Dark Quartet, Lynne Reid Banks
I had been saving Dark Quartet for a long time, waiting for Brooding about the Brontës. Having read and adored Jude Morgan’s The Taste of Sorrow a good few years ago, I had high […]
Review: Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë
Agnes Grey is one of the more under-sung Brontë novels. For starters, it’s by Anne, the Cinderella of the three sisters. Then it’s a story about being a governess and […]
Review: Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
As with many of the ‘classics’, I was unsure of whether or not I had read this. I think I may have been confused because I did see some of […]
Austen in August – Review: Emma, Jane Austen
It wouldn’t be Austen in August if I didn’t actually read one of Jane Austen’s original novels. Emma has always been a bit of a strange one for me as it’s […]
Review: A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
My Mum and I read this for the first time when I was eight and we carried on doing so for the next seven Decembers. We would light the Advent […]