Now we're talking!
These were suggested by the English Country Dance list serv - many thanks to them and Barbara for asking them. Speaking of which, I'd like to post about the country dance I went to on Monday, but it requires more time and energy than I have at present. Will do this weekend. Suffice it to say it was a tremendously fun and challenging evening and I'll be going back next week. They were lovely.
On to the list. There are some duplications I didn't weed out. Not sure where I'll start after rereading the novels.
Actually, I'm lying - I REALLY want to read The Mysteries of Udolpho. So that's where I'll begin. Only fair, then, to read a serious book directly after and alternate silly and serious from that point on.
Sounds like a Marianne plan to me!
Here's the list:
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox
Waverley, Scott
Cowper
The Giaour, Byron
Clarissa, Richardson
Pamela, Richardson
Evelina, Burney
The Spectator Papers
She certainly knew her Shakespeare and her Bible, as well. (
(Chris note: have read all of Shakespeare's plays, so much as I worship him, will be reading books I haven't read first.)
Tom Jones (Fielding)
The Monk (Lewis)
Swift
Defoe, Sterne
The Arabian Nights
Gilpin's Tour to the Highlands
Shakespeare
The Female Quixote (Charlotte Smith)
The Sorrows of Werhter (Goethe)
Arnaud Berquin's L'ami des enfan and L'ami de l'adolescence
Mame. de Genlis' Les Veilees du Chateau and Adelaide and Theodore
Dr Johnson's Rasselas and The Idler as well as his Dictionary of the
English Language and A Journey to the Western Islands
Boswell's Life of Johnson adn Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
The works of Oliver Goldsmith
Shakespeare
The Bible
Hume's History of England
Addison & Steele's The Spectator
Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (in English)
The Rev. Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
The novels of Fanny Burney: Evelina, Cecila, Camilla and the Wanderer
Roche's The Children of the Abbey and Clermont
Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho as well as
the Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents
The Midnight Bell
The Castle of Wolfenbach
The Mysterious Warning
The Necromancer or The Tale of the Black Forest
The Orphan of the Rhine
Horrid Mysteries
Margiana, or Widdrington Fair
Ida of Athens
More's Coelebs in Search of a Wife
Mme de Stael's Corinne, or Italy
Carr's Descriptive Travels in the Southern & Eastern parts of Spain
Mary Brunton's Self-Control (she didn't like it)
The Heroine, or Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader
the novels of Maria Edgeworth
Scott's Waverley and his poems
Byron's The Giaour and The Bride of Abydos
the works of William Cowper, Campbell, Montgomery, Crabbe & Wordsworth
Tom Moore's poems
I don't know if I just missed it on your (certainly swoon-worthy) list, but you should also check out Sir Walter Scott. Miss Austen was a fan of his and he of her, so I've heard.
Posted by: Odessa | 10/04/2009 at 06:56 PM