Hi, thanks for the "Interesting Libraries" linkage.
(Nice little website you've got there....)

-Bob

posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 9:07 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2008

Hello, Catherine,

I hope the year is going well for you. I was happy to learn of "Victorian Secrets" from the link to its website you provide on your LT profile. I have long thought I'd read something by Charles Reade, and I see that among the forthcoming titles is "Peg Woffington." And I'd like to try a novel by Margaret Oliphant, too (I wonder if that company will be reprinting any of her things). I have read Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford" with pleasure; can you suggest the next of hers I should read?

Best regards,
Steven (bozbuff)

posted by bozbuff at 2:48 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2008

Hi Catherine,
Not only have I read "Family Fortunes," I did so in graduate school studying British marriage law/social reform! Until I switched my fields, I had performed in-depth studies of the 1860's married women's property reform bill and the criminal law amendment act of 1885. In the end, I turned in a thesis on married women's wills in southwestern Mississippi from 1840 through 1919. All of these papers are 10+ years old and the research has likely been superceded, but you're welcome to take a look at them at my website:
http://www.geocities.com/jenpayne10/index.html
I've got a bibliography of articles you may be interested in as well located here:
http://www.geocities.com/jenpayne10/bibliography_articles_uk_us_social_history.html

As for the book storage, wall space is at a premium at our house and we're going to have to either figure out a way to put in more bookshelves or else--horrors--weed the collection!!

posted by jmp3613 at 9:29 am (EST) on Jan 25, 2008

Hello Catherine,

I see we share several wonderful titles, including Tosh's "A Man's Place" but you're lacking my favorite and perhaps the book most influential on me in grad school: Patricia Jalland's "Women, Marriage, and Politics, 1864-1914." http://www.librarything.com/work/276180/book/14347147

I enjoy re-reading it every year or so and I recommend it highly.

Best of luck with your studies!!

Jennifer

posted by jmp3613 at 8:36 am (EST) on Jan 23, 2008

Thank you, Catherine! Actually, one of my favorite supernatural novels, Dorothy Macardle's 'The Uninvited' (1942), is a wonderful tale of a maternal haunting with a twist.

posted by gharader at 3:33 pm (EST) on Nov 24, 2007

Hi Catherine, Thanks for adding me to your interesting library list. I wish you luck with your M.A. That is something I wish I was able to do. I've been looking at you library and notice that I left Mrs. Henry Woods off my list of favorite.
Take care,
bob

posted by bjbookman at 3:38 pm (EST) on Oct 29, 2007

Dear Catherine,

I can see you have a beautiful and discriminating library in Victorian literature. My interests coincide with yours.

Thank you for including our library on your interesting library list.

Ellen

posted by ellenandjim at 8:47 am (EST) on Jul 20, 2007

hi again. :) I've never read The Law & The Lady, but no doubt your shuffling about the house would fit well into a Collins novel. (bonus points if you've a shocking secret to keep buried in your sordid past.)

speaking of Collins, a few months back I read one of his later novellas (The Haunted Hotel). as you said, it wasn't one of his greats, but it was entertaining. there's a particularly gruesome scene with a severed head. ah, Victorian grossness at its finest.

my all-time favorite sensation novel is probably Lady Audley's Secret, though The Woman in White runs in a dead heat. I'm also quite partial to Louisa May Alcott's sensation stories. there are two collections: Behind a Mask & A Marble Woman, plus one other novel. A Marble Woman is my favorite of the collections. I don't know if you're into American lit, but you should give them a try when you're feeling up to juicier language. :)

posted by silverwraith at 1:03 am (EST) on Apr 2, 2007

I'd only read one review and that was decent. It's a pet subject of mine so wanted to add it to the shelf.

The Christian Wolmar bok was on my Christmas wish list, received it, and is my next non-fiction read.

I won't waffle on as you've got so much on your plate at the moment, but wish you all the very best particularly with your back. All my sympathy!!

posted by hazelk at 2:33 am (EST) on Mar 7, 2007

As the only other person listed to have Jerry White's 'London in the nineteenth century' I'd be interested in your opinion of the book. I particularly enjoyed the first half - the ever-increasing transport network, the demolition of everything 'old', the chapters on vice/prostitution etc. I flagged towards the end, perhaps having read much already on working-class agitation and radicalism of the first half of the century.

Michael Faber in his 'The Crimson Petal and the White'novel must have researched in the British Library along the same lines.

posted by hazelk at 4:59 am (EST) on Mar 3, 2007

I don't usually leave random comments in strangers' libraries, but I'll make an exception for you & your lovely Victorian lit collection. oh my. I'm envious! I wish I had the money (and excuse) to flesh out my collection like you have yours. Victorian lit is one of my two favorite genres, especially sensation fiction (I also love 18-19th century gothics) so I'm especially jealous of all those Collins & Braddon & Mrs Wood novels. hehe.

I've also added three more books to my amazon wishlist. thanks for the inspiration...I think. :P

Silverwraith

posted by silverwraith at 2:00 am (EST) on Feb 24, 2007

Greetings from Indiana, Catherine. You're even newer to LibraryThing than I am (by a few days) but have catalogued as many books as I have already! One of my tags is "London" -- my favorite city in the world. Dickens is my favorite author (see my profile). Cheers, bozbuff.

posted by bozbuff at 1:45 pm (EST) on Feb 8, 2007