I am not usually so organised but I do have a plan for this challenge
- to read the books that I have on my bookshelf or kindle.
- to make the counties where my forebears lived a priority to visit. ( marked with *)
Bedfordshire *
John Bunyan ? - unless someone can tell me of another author from this county.
Berkshire
Our Village by Mary Russell Mitford
Buckinghamshire*
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
Cambridgeshire
Maurice by E.M.Forster
Cornwall
Rambles Beyond Railways by Wilkie Collins (thanks Jane)
Cumbria *
Helbeck of Bannisdale by Mrs Humphrey Ward
Derbyshire *
Adam Bede by George Eliot
Devon
Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
Dorset
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Huntingdonshire
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Kent *
The Chronicles of Pop Larkin by H.E.Bates
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
London *
The Odd Women by George Gissing
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Nottinghamshire *
Sons and Lovers by D.H.Lawrence
Staffordshire
Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Sussex
Queen Lucia by E.F.Benson
Mapp and Lucia by E.F.Benson
Yorkshire *
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Great list! I loved To The Lighthouse and the Vicar of Wakefield. Ooo, thanks for reminding me about Mapp & Lucia ...... I've seen the series but have never read the books, so it's time to change that. Good luck with this challenge!
ReplyDeleteI bought them at a Book Fair and it's definitely time I read them. Really looking forward to the challenge.
DeleteI love the idea of this challenge but I'm not sure I'm up for it right now. I have not paid much attention to geography in English novels (other than vaguely north/south regional differences), and it will be interesting to learn how you experience further distinctions. It will also be a wonderful way to explore your ancestry. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteWhat I like about this challenge is no deadlines - no pressure........and I love England so any opportunity to spend time there I will take .
DeleteI have decided to look for short challenges during 2015 such as January in Japan or November non fiction but I will use my own books for these also. I have a ton of books in my house I have not read and I need to so I can move them on (and make room for new ones?) Good luck with your challenge.
ReplyDeleteI like the short monthly events too and will be joining in with those as they come along.
DeleteGlad you're joining! Great list - I'm glad to have some new ideas for mine! Good luck :)
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to it!
DeleteWhat an amazing list of books! You are good reaing from what you have and I love that you're tying in your family history.
ReplyDeleteI am terrible at buying and then leaving the books sitting on the shelf so will be an attempt to actually reading some of them.
DeleteI love that you're linking this with your ancestors old stomping grounds.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea.
I'm planning on joining in this one to also get through my Classics Club TBR list. I hope I'm more success than I was with this years challenges :-/
One can only try and I'm hoping this challenge will make a big dent in my CC list.
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