Stories From The Victorian Age

This was a golden age for the novel form, with writers such as the Brontes, Charles Dickens and George Eliot, as well as many others, some now largely forgotten. Later, the Victorian Age (1837-1901) also proved fertile ground as a setting for historical novels.Borrowing from Charles Dickens, one could say, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

TERM 1 (autumn) Commences 2 October 2026

· Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli (1845)· The Woman in White (1859) by Wilkie Collins· The Fraud (2023) by Zadie Smith

TERM 2 (spring)

· Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (1889)· Arthur and George by Julian Barnes (2005)· Trilby by George Du Maurier (1894)

You may like to join Creina for her two-hour lecture "Middlemarch" on Friday 18 September at the Guild. 

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