VICTOBER 2025 discussion

A place to discuss your TBRs for Victober 2022!

Already looking forward to Victober!
Work has been busy this year so my main goal is to read Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell and to watch the BBC adaptation, so that's two challenges in one.

I also found a biography of Charles Dickens in a second hand bookshop earlier this year, so while not a Victorian novel I still feel like it is related reading.

I plan to read Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (no challenge); Wilkie Collins' Poor Miss Finch (Kate's), if I can get a copy in time; Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (possibly Marissa's) as well as short poetry collections by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Thomas Hardy (Ros'). And I'd like to rewatch the BBC mini-series of Cranford, which I have read in January (half of Petra's challenge).

I'll skip the group read, though, as I have read the Mayor of Casterbridge in October (not Victober, though!) 2021.

Let's see, if I'll manage to stick to this plan. As a mood reader, this might change any time ;)

I am trying to keep costs down this year so have chosen my TBR based on what I have, can get for free, or get for very little cost.

Coming of age: Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte). I already have this

Chronic illness: The Heir of Redclyffe (Charlotte Yonge) Free on Kindle

Novel/TV adaptaion: Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy) I have this but have never read it. I did watch the movie with Carey Mulligan when I was on a flight to NYC but didn’t take it in, so will enjoy a rewatch (friend has the dvd)

Short story: Six weeks at Heppenheim (Elizabeth Gaskell) From The Penguin Book of the British Short Story that I have

Poem: The Lady of Shallot (Alfred Lord Tennyson) I have purchased a beautifully illustrated copy from World of Books for £3.49!

I have The Mayor of Casterbidge on Audible so will give that a re-listen.

My total cost for Victober 2022 is £3.49 .

I love that idea, Sandybeth. I am only reading what I have. I’ll select the titles closer to the end of September.

Like others, I'm trying to fit in books that I already own where possible so that's affected my choices here - this is also very much subject to change if I come across any fresh ideas that I prefer!

TV adaptation: I've ordered a used copy of The Mayor of Casterbridge, and will use that for this challenge too.

Bildungsroman: A copy of Wives and Daughters has been sitting on my shelf for ages, and I'm keen to try some Gaskell so this was a simple choice.

Short story: Hopefully I get on with Gaskell, because I'm choosing her for this as well! I'm planning to read the collection of her Gothic Tales that Penguin publish.

Disability/chronic illness representation: Having never read any Wilkie Collins, this is an opportunity to correct that, with Poor Miss Finch.

Poetry: I've read a few of Rossetti's poems before, and enjoyed them. So I'm planning to work my way through the 'Selected Poems' collection of her poetry, published by Penguin and unread on my shelf, across Victober.

This year, I think I am only going to be reading the group read. However, I might change my mind since I do have a lot more Victorian classics on my shelves and the prompts provided this year are amazing.

So for now, the only book I am going to read is The Mayor of Casterbridge and will participate in the group discussion thread.

I’m excited to participate again this year!

I sort of went through all of my Penguin Little Black Classics to build a big part of my TBR.

I have read most of the poetry I own, but I do still have Edward Lear’s ‘Nonsense’ on my self unread.

For short stories, I have a few options such as ‘The Old Nurse’s Story’ by Gaskell and ‘The Lifted Veil’ by Elliot.

My plan is to double up on the chronic illness and screen adaptation challenges by reading ‘North and South’, also by Gaskell.

The Bildungsroman challenge was the most difficult one for me to finds book for, because I have read a lot of the suggestions already (of the ones I own). I’m kind of hoping North and South will for this one too, but if not, I think I might reread a Dickens novel.

My tentative Victober TBR:

1. & 2.
Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian work with chronic illness or disability representation
Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian Bildungsroman/coming of age story
Great Expectations

3.
Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian short story
I'll pick something from The Complete Short Fiction by Oscar Wilde

4.
Petra’s challenge: Read a Victorian book and watch a screen adaptation of it
The Woman in White & The Woman in White (BBC 1997)
Lady Windermere's Fan & A Good Woman (2004)

5.
Ros’s challenge: Read a work of Victorian poetry, long or short
The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

Dickens' Dombey and Son has a character with chronic illness. it might be a good fit for some.

Zuzana wrote: "My tentative Victober TBR:

1. & 2.
Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian work with chronic illness or disability representation
Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian Bildungsroman/coming of age story
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Your comment has reminded me that I had a copy of Wilde's Complete Short Fiction hidden away in a corner somewhere - thank you! I'm going to add to my TBR, replacing Gaskell's Gothic Tales - that a) means I can read some Wilde for the first time and b) saves me from doubling up on Gaskell during the month.

@ Christopher: Glad to be of help. :)
I am familiar with Wilde's fairy tales (which are also part of this collection). I'm looking forward to reading something a bit different - maybe Lord Arthur Saville's Crime.

I have books for Katie’s challenge, a Bildungsroman: Uncle Silas
For Ros’s, poetry: Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems
For Petra’s novel & film: Dracula & Bram Stoker’s Dracula w/Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Gary Oldma
For Marissa’s, short story: Gothic Tales
For Kate’s challenge, chronic condition, disability: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

I’m getting a start on Spooky Season with Lady Audley's Secret

My TBR looks like this for now:

1. Kate's challenge: Olive. I think this one will be challenging to read because of the dialect, but I'll try my best.

2. Katie's challenge: Great Expectations. This is a reread for me and my favourite Dickens novel so far.

3. Marissa's challenge: The Lifted Veil. I've wanted to try George Eliot for a long time, but I'm kind of intimidated by 'Middlemarch', which is why I chose to read a short story by her.

4. Petra's challenge: The Mayor of Casterbridge. I wanted to read 'Far from the Madding Crowd' this year, but I don't want to skip the group read this year. Looking forward to the adaptation starring Ciaran Hinds.

5. Ros's challenge: Goblin Market. Great to see a poetry challenge this year!

I'm quite sure, I won't have a time to read all of those, but... a gall can dream, right?

Kate's & Petra's challenge: Cranford I have this one on my shelfs for a while and I'm really excited for it. As far as I know there are three adaptations of it (1951, 1972, 2007). I would definitely love to see the 2007 - because Tom Hiddleston and I'll see if I can get my hands on the other ones. The only catch is that the 2007 adaptation also includes My Lady Ludlow and Mr. Harrison's Confessions, so... I might need to read those ones as well. (+The Last Generation in England is also included in my edition)

Marissa's challenge: My edition of Cranford also includes The Cage at Cranford, so I'm primarily going with that one. And I would also like to read The Squire's story, because that's also Cranford related.
I'm also including Matilda here (even though it's not really victorian), because I really want to read it and I hope this finally pushes me to...

Ros's challenge: I ordered Rossetti: Poems for this one and I also might re-read The Ballad of Reading Gaol which I love.
Pairing this with Katie's challenge: I would love to read Aurora Leigh too.

I'll see if I manage to join the group read, but I would certainly love to.

A few other books from my shelves that I would like to get to if time permits:
A Tangled Tale
Great Expectations

P.S. Did I caught all Cranford related Gaskell, or did I miss something?

Usually I get overambitious with my TBRs because I can never stick to them, so I like having a variety to choose from but this year my only "goals" are:

- finish reading North and South (I've been annotating my edition and taking my time with it but I'd like to finish within 2022 and I'm a little over halfway through)
- read Jane Eyre (used to be one of my favorites of all time but I haven't re-read it in maybe 6 years or so, when the audiobook narrated by Thandiwe Newton came out and I loved it)
- read Mary Barton
- finish Dracula! I've read it a few times before but I'm behind on Daily Dracula and since it finishes up Nov 10, I want to wrap it up on schedule

I would like to at least try The Mayor of Casterbridge because I've never read any Hardy and I'm sure I'll probably listen to Pickwick because it's a comfort read! In an ideal world I would also have time and focus to finish Middlemarch, which I started last year but haven't picked up since, but I'm not optimistic about getting to it.

My tentative TBR because I never stick to one and have a lot of library books to read as well:
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Middlemarch by George Elliott
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Guy Fawkes A Historical Romance by Ainsworth
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
Possibly join in for Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy

Hopefully i can read all of these... i think i'm being over ambitious but you never know.

Kate's challenge... chronic illness or disability...Olive and the Little Lame Prince
Katie's challenge... bildungroman... David Copperfield
Marissa's challenge... short store...In a Glass Darkly
Petra's challenge... book and screen adaption... The Woman in White and Far From the Madding Crowd (hopefully)
Ros's challenge... poetry... Sonnets From the Portugese

And the group read... The Mayor of Casterbridge

I'm Gaby from Germany and here is my TBR for my second Victober:
Group read: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Kate's and Katie's challenge: Olive by Dinah Craik
Marissa's challenge: The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
Petra's challenge: I'll watch an adaptation of The Mayor of Casterbridge
Ros's challenge: Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If there will be time over, I'll start with David Copperfield

Thea wrote: "Hi,
I'm here mostly for The Mayor of Casterbridge, that I own copy of but been postponing reading it.

I'm also going to use Marissa's challenge as excuse and read The Virago Book of Victori..."</i>

The ghost stories are a great idea, I might dig out my copy of [book:The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

My list looks like this:
Wilkie Collins - Woman in White (for chronic illness or disability)
Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son (for coming of age)
Oscar Wilde Short Stories
Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (plus ‘Two Way Mirror’ life)
Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters (plus screen adaptation)

This sounded good . . . until I put the books together and saw how thick they are!! Ah well! Aim high!

Love to be in a company of so many fellow ambitious overachievers 😁

I like being seen as ‘an ambitious overachiever’. Let’s see what the end of October brings!

PaulaJA wrote: " Let’s see what the end of October brings!"

I'm really curious about that too 😂 I feel really hyped right now, but I'm sure it won't last...

I can guarantee that I won't get to most of the challenges and will not follow my own tbr.

Tentative TBR, always subject to change:

1. Disability & 2. Coming of Age: Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, a re-read via audiobook, read by Simon Vance. 30 CDs, which I have already started

3. Short story: I have several collections of short stories by Elizabeth Gaskell, and will choose from them.

4. Novel & Adaptation: Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy; a re-read from 1980s

5. Poetry -- I may substitute a nonfiction book. Possibilities include biographies of Eliot, Gaskell, Trollope, Disraeli or Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey.

Group Read: Since I recently re-read The Mayor of Casterbridge, I've decided instead to read The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope, which I have not read.

Also trying to read mainly what I have on my shelves so the tentative plan is:

Disability / Illness - The Woman in White

Coming of Age - John Halifax, Gentleman

Novel & Adaptation - The Pickwick Papers

Poetry - The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Short Story - Something from Victorian Fairy Tales

And if I have time, I have a lot of Anthony Trollope to get through so probably either Ayala's Angel or Cousin Henry

Hi, fellow Victobers!

Here is my TBR: https://theblankgarden.com/2022/09/16...

Happy reading to everyone! :)

Given my poor success rate over the last few Victobers and my general reading rates over this year, this TBR is laughably optimistic, but...here we go.

Katie's Challenge - Jane Eyre

Kate's Challenge - North and South

Petra's Challenge - Treasure Island (though, really the other two would work too)

Marissa's Challenge - I've got some short stories by Rudyard Kipling, H G Wells as well as a few others, I thought I'd just read a few here and there

Roz's challenge - I have a poetry collection from Elizabeth Barrett Browning as well as W. B. Yeats - I'll pick a few - I'm a poetry newbie so I'm excited to dip my toes in

I'm also hoping to do the group challenge, as well as reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles. I work in a bookstore and we are doing this as our store's group read for October.

I've also got a few novellas on the pile - The Dream Woman by Wilkie Collins
The Little Duke by Charlotte M Yonge
The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins (and Charles Dickens)

Two others I'm hoping to get to are King Solomon's Mines by H Rider Haggard and I found of a copy of Anthony Trollope's The Golden Lion of Grandpere which is pretty short.

Id also like to make a start on the Pickwick Papers for Katie's Dickens Readalong but I'll probably hold off until November for the bulk of it (Though its 57 chapters...which works out for reading a chapter a day for just short of two months....)

Juliana wrote: "Hi, fellow Victobers!

Here is my TBR: https://theblankgarden.com/2022/09/16...

Happy reading to everyone! :)"

Great list, I'm contemplating Ouida too, it featured in a Dorothy Richardson novel I read recently. Also have copies of the Mona Caird and the "Daughters of Decadence" collection I've been meaning to read for a while.

This is only my second year participating, so I want to keep my goals modest by just sticking with one book per prompt. I did that last year, and it was a perfect amount of Victorian reading for the month. This year I was able to use 4 books I already owned (but haven't read), and I got the other 2 new, which is a treat :)

Here is my TBR:

1. Chronic illness or disability rep: Great Expectations.
I'm trying to read a new Dickens each Victober. I started with David Copperfield last year and really enjoyed it.

2. Bildungsroman: Uncle Silas.
Last year one of my reads was Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, and I absolutely loved it. I wanted to include another one of his books this year, so I was thrilled when Katie suggested this title as possibility for this challenge.

3. Short story: Ghostly Tales: Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age.
I really enjoyed reading Gothic Tales throughout the month last year, so I thought I'd do something similar with this beautifully illustrated edition this year

4. Book with screen adaptation: Treasure Island.
Cranford was my original pick for this prompt, but I saw somewhere the adaptation includes other books as well? I want to keep it to one book per prompt this year, so I think I'm just gonna go with Treasure Island instead.

5. Poetry: Goblin Market and Other Selected Poems.
I've had this one on my TBR for a while, and I'm really excited to finally have the excuse to read it. I'll be reading Goblin Market for sure, but I'm also hoping to get through the whole collection by the end of Victober.

6. Group read: The Mayor of Casterbridge.
This will be my first Thomas Hardy read, and I must say I'm a bit intimidated. I'm looking forward to the readalong discussion.

I am going a little looser with my interpretation of “Victorian” this year and including a few things by American authors who lived and wrote in the same time period, as well as a historical fiction set in the Victorian era. Also want to get some spooky/creepy stuff in. I’m in a several-months-long read of Les Miserables, so I’m keeping my other reads somewhat short so I can get through more than 1-2 books! Here is my pile of possibilities:

- At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald (think I heard about this on Roz’ channel?)
- The Annotated Alice (Alice in Wonderland) - will do an audio+print combo with this beautiful annotated hardback
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (Jane Eyre inspired0
- The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
- a few short stories from Edgar Allan Poe

Happy Reading!!

Oh! I forgot! I am going to try and watch the TV mini series of Howard’s End from 2017.

It was great fun exploring Victorian books! I've decided that I am going to focus on one big book that actually covers three challenges, as well as some shorter works. So my TBR for Victober 2022 is:

1. Chronic illness or disability representation: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. It's one of those iconic classics that I haven't read, and I already own a copy. So it was almost a no-brainer for me!

2. Bildungsroman / Coming of age: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. It fits both challenges :)

3. Short story: Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson and maybe also The Great Winglebury Duel by Charles Dickens

4. Book with screen adaptation: Jane Eyre 2006 miniseries and/or 2011 film

5. Poetry: Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde will be my main read but I also plan to read more short poems that Ros has recommended in her announcement video. I plan to read at least some of the following:
- On The Death of Anne Bronte by Charlotte Bronte
- Robert Louis Stevenson poems
- In a London Drawingroom by George Eliot
- The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
- Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
- The Lady of Shalott and The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Sonnets from the Portuguese 43: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
- Remember by Christina Rossetti
- The Song of Wandering Aengus by W.B.Yeats
- Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins

I am not going to participate in the read-along but I also plan to read Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson as part of a different book club.

That feels like a lot but it's basically a novel, a novella, a short story and many poems, so I think it's doable. Looking forward to October now 😇

My massive, but doable, Victober TBR:

- Katie: Bildungsroman: David Copperfield by Dickens

- Kate: chronic illness or disability: Barchester Towers by Trollope
and Life in the Sick-Room Autobiographical Essays by Harriet Martineau (I might not read all the essays)

- Marissa: short story: “To Be Read at Dusk” by Dickens, and
"The Portrait of Mr. W.H.” “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime,” “The Sphinx Without a Secret,” and “The Model Millionaire,” by Oscar Wilde

- Ros: Poetry: Sonnets from the Portuguese collection by Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Home Thoughts From Abroad, and Rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning, and Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti

- Petra: Read then watch an adaptation: David Copperfield 1999 miniseries,
The Pied Piper of Hamelin 1957,
The Mayor of Casterbridge 2003 (watch not read), and The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1934 (not an adaptation, but a depiction of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning’s love story)

My personal additional challenges:

- Sisters:
The Half Sisters Geraldine Jewsbury

- Epistolary/Diary/Journal format:
The Diary of a Nobody George and Weedon Grossmith and finish Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett 1845-46 edited by their son Robert Barrett Browning

I have a lot of books to get through in the FALL season, and I pulled a few out for Victober. I have already started reading some short novellas, but I would like to get the bigger books finished in October. :)

1. Chronic illness or disability representation:

2. Coming of age:
(?)
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3. Short story:
Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales


4. Book with screen adaptation: We will see. I would like to watch movies, but I feel like I should be reading during it. lol.
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5. Poetry:
Goblin Market and Other Poems

6. All the other books I want to read unsure if they fit in the prompts. Will move once I read them :) 🤞

For this year's Victober, here are my temporary TBR:

Group Read: The Mayor of Casterbridge

Kate's: Bleak House or The Woman in White

Katie's: Villette

Petra's: Daniel Deronda

Marissa's: The Old Nurse's Story and Other Tales or George Walker at Suez, and John Bull on the Guadalquivir

Ros's: The Lady Of Shalott, Locksley Hall, My Last Duchess or The Pied Piper of Hamelin

Others: Treasure Island and/or The Diary of a Nobody

Hello!

My tentative TBR:

Group read: The Mayor of Casterbridge

Kate's and Petra's: Bleak House, Dickens

Katie's: North & South, by Gaskell and/or Romola, by George Eliot and/or Great Expectations, Dickens

Marissa's: Grey woman and other tales, Gaskell

Ros's: How Lisa loved the king, George Eliot

I will be keeping it light, as I'm not a fast-paced reader :)

Kate's challenge - Sylvia's lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell (last 350 pages): I think the father's botched hand qualifies for disability (?)

Ros's challenge - The Night is Darkening Round Me by Emily Brontë: the Penguin Classics collection

+ Maybe a victorian short story, for Marissa's challenge

I'm wishing everyone good luck with their TBRs!!! ^-^

I am guilty of finishing my first Victober book before the month has even started (I couldn't put it down). I guess I will wait until October to watch the screen adaptation (TBW instead of TBR) and stay true to the challenge.

The book is The Woman in White.

I really want to read Agnes Grey again as it's over 30 yrs since the last time and I also want to read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Do either of these fit any of the prompts?

My choices for Victober are:

Group read: The Mayor of Casterbridge

Disability: Olive by Dinah Craik

Short stories: I have a number of collections of gothic Victorian short stories, so I think I'll just pick random stories that sound good at the time. I also have the complete Sherlock Holmes stories on audio, so I'll be listening to a number of those while I'm out on my walk each day.

I'm also tempted to read The New Annotated Dracula or The Annotated Alice.

I'm currently finishing The Pickwick Papers which I was reading earlier this year, but I had put it aside for a while. I'm making better progress through it now, so I hope to finish it early in October.

Since this is my first Victober, I'm going to limit myself to one novel which I first read two years ago: The Trail of the Serpent by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The disability has to do with one of the main characters being dumb, unable to speak, and must communicate via sign language.
I'd go with the group read, but I finished The Mayor of Casterbridge this past May and have no reason to reread it so soon.

1. Bildungsroman: The Manxman Hall Caine [1894]

2. The ‘chronic disability’ challenge really took my interest. I idly wondered whether any authors I might have read had themselves been disabled. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (intense head and spinal pain and lung problems, pos. TB), Alfred Lord Tennyson (epilepsy), Mrs Henry Wood (severe curvature of the spine, loss of muscular power), Wilkie Collins (rheumatic gout/blindness), Harriet Martineau (deaf), Bronte Sisters (TB), Sheridan Le Fanu (chronic depression), Mrs Humphrey Ward (debilitating pain, fibromyalgia? Never cured). I thought I’d pick Marcella [1894] by Mary Augusta Ward for this challenge. It was so interesting to find out about other disabled Victorian people, who were not novelists.
Henry Fawcett (1833-1884) the blind economist and MP, married to Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson’s sister. James Burke (1809-1845) the Thames waterman who became the English heavyweight champion from 1833 to 1839, who was also deaf since infancy. John William Lowe (1804-1876), a barrister like his father, Reverend Richard Aslett Pearce (1854-1928), an ordained clergyman and William Agnew (1846-1914) a painter; were also all Victorian and all deaf. There may be biographies of some of them which would be a nice thing to add to this challenge. (If I have time!)

3. Short Story: Wilkie Collins Short Stores (various)

4. Novel with a film/series adaptation. The Wyvern Mystery Sheridan Le Fanu.


5. Poetry: Tennyson possibly The Idylls of the King

I have some ideas for victober and already chose some books for October Hardy, Gaskel, Collins, Trollope and dickens of course :
These are possibly at the moment.
The trumpet Major
The woman in white
The gothic tales
The mill on the floss
Poor Miss Finch
Doctor wortle’s school
It may change in the future.

My TBR went up on my blog today https://grantleighmanorlibrary.wordpr... Really looking forward to my October reading!

Kate's Challenge: Olive by Dinah Craik or Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins
Katie's Challenge: Olive or The Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell
Marissa's Challenge: The Executor by Margaret Oliphant. Possibly also The Manchester Marriage by Elizabeth Gaskell
Petra's Challenge: Silas Marner by George Eliot
Ros' Challenge: some poems by Tennyson

Hello. On this my first Victober, I will go with the group read, the Mayor of Casterbridge, and Wuthering Heights.

disability/chronic illness: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Hyde
bildungsroman: Agnes Gray
short story: Desiree's Baby
Poetry: I don't have much ideas good victorian about poetry. Any recomendations?
adaptation: Dracula

Chronic Illness/ disability: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
Bildungsroman: Agnes Gray
Short Story: Desiree's Baby
Adaptation: Dracula
Poetry: I don't know about any victorian poems. Any reccomendations?

Estelle, I can recommend Ros’s announcement video of this challenge for Victorian poetry recommendations. She shared loads of suggestions there - I ended up with a pretty long list of poems I would like to read after her video.