Victorians! discussion

The Discussion Leader for this book will be Charlotte. :)


(Volume I)
Week 1 : September 3-9 : Ch. 1-9
Week 2 : September 10-16 : Ch. 10-19

(Volume II)
Week 3 : September 17-23 : Ch. 20-28
Week 4 : September 24-30 : Ch. 29-37

(Volume III)
Week 5 : October 1-7 : Ch. 38-45
Week 6 : October 8-14 : Ch. 46-53

Some versions do not include Volume breaks, but they are noted above for reference.

Read this few months ago. Such a wonderful book! Looking forward to join in the discussion.

Oh, great! I hope that this time I read it all the way through. There was no reason for giving up other than a surfeit of books! I was really enjoying it!

Hi, I got to finally read the novel this year, and that too with another Goodreads group. Thought I out to complete my Bronte set ;).
Unfortunately it turned out to be a bit of a disappointment. It started out good, but then the plot fell apart and the character and story arc didn't hold. I had hoped the group could iron out the issues but no luck back then since everyone in the group agreed with the issues I had.
Hopefully this time around this group discussion would help me see the novel in a more favorable light.

Hello, I will introduce myself, since I am the discussion leader for this book. I would like to read the book since Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are among my all time favourites and I too would like to complete my Brontë set.

I live in Denmark and joined Goodreads two years ago, in order to get some more reading done. I am so glad about this forum and I especially cherish our Victorians! group.

I have two grown children - one of them is a teenager and still at home. I work in finance and administration and my husband is Chinese and works as an actor in China (commuting back and forth). I lived in China for 13 years and often find myself comparing the descriptions in our Victorian books with life in the backward Chinese countryside, tracing the economic and intellectual development up to our time and society.

I am looking forward to reading this book with you. I have already started. It promises for a good read, so I am excited about it.

Charlotte wrote: "Hello, I will introduce myself, since I am the discussion leader for this book. I would like to read the book since Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are among my all time favourites and I too would ..."

Hi Charlotte, lovely to meet you :).
Looking for to you leading the discussion

It's very nice to meet you, Charlotte and I too am looking forward to your leading of this discussion. I'm just beginning to be active in this group. Very much looking forward to reading this book as well and am a long-time fan of all things Bronte. :)

Hello Charlotte! Thank you for leading this discussion! 😊

Hi Charlotte and others who have written in this thread. I have finished The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and am looking forward to the discussion. At the moment I am writing a review of the novel, beginning: 'We know so much about Jane, but how much more intriguing if we had met Helen earlier and given her as much time...' This is exactly how I feel about this novel - I wish I'd read it earlier and so grateful to this group for the opportunity to read it now.

Victorian Mary G wrote: "It's very nice to meet you, Charlotte and I too am looking forward to your leading of this discussion. I'm just beginning to be active in this group. Very much looking forward to reading this book ..."

Welcome to you too, Mary! Please feel free to post whatever you feel like during our discussion.

Here is a bit of Victorians!'s statistics regarding our current read:

This is the third time the group is reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, thereby marking a first. No other book has done this so far, the other times being 2010 and 2012. Also, it was only nominated three times. So every time it made it to a poll, it won.

Kerstin wrote: "Here is a bit of Victorians!'s statistics regarding our current read:

This is the third time the group is reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, thereby marking a first. No other book has done this ..."

Thanks for this! Interesting to know. I'm glad the group is reading it for a third time since I missed the other two reads.

That's very interesting, Kerstin. I had no idea!

I didn't know that Victorians had read this before. This is my first after joining the Goodreads and the Victorian group.
Thanks for the information, Kerstin. The statistics definitely speaks volumes for the book's popularity.

That's the kind of stuff I uncovered when I cleaned up the bookshelf. Now anyone can see under the "shelves" column if and when a book was read before - as best as I could reconstruct it.

Thanks for doing this Kerstin. It does give a new perspective.