Sanditon, The Watsons, and a whistle-stop tour of the centuries – we’re back!
In the first half of this episode, we take a suggestion from Elizabeth – do we prefer the nineteenth or twentieth century for literature? That’s an awful lot to cover, so we just look at British literature… and not very much of that tbh. But it’s fun!
In the second half, we look at Sanditon and The Watsons – two unfinished novels by Jane Austen – and pick which one is our favourite, and which we wish had been finished.
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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
William Blake
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Dorothy L Sayers
Georges Simenon
The Secret of High Eldersham by Miles Burton
Diaries of Cecil Beaton
Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Madden
The Wells of St Mary’s by R.C. Sherriff
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Jane Austen
Elizabeth Gaskell
George Eliot
Wilkie Collins
Charles Dickens
Mrs Henry Wood
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Arthur Conan Doyle
Amy Levy
Bronte sisters
Mary Shelley
Virginia Woolf
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Drabble
Margaret Forster
Nina Bawden
Penelope Mortimer
Anthony Trollope
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Monk by Matthew Lewes
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Cecilia by Fanny Burney
Evelina by Fanny Burney
Pamela by Samuel Richardson
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Self-Control by Mary Brunton
Discipline by Mary Brunton
Emma by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
Loving by Henry Green
Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers
4.50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie
Interesting episode as always! I wouldn’t want to have to choose, but I suspect I’d find the 20th century hard to give up.
And yes, isn’t The Castle of Otranto wacky!
Thanks so much for all of the great Georgianary ideas, Simon and Rachel! :)