In this reading group we concentrate on novels of the 18th and 19th centuries. Writers from this time period include, but are certainly not limited to, Jane Austen, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Fanny Burney, John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Sarah Fielding, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Nathanial Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Henry James, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Richardson, Mary Shelley, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Jonathan Swift, William Makepeace Thackeray, Horace Walpole, Oscar Wilde, and others. We will read and discuss one book per month. Our books are chosen by nomination and poll. We'll discuss both the author and the book and also look at essays and reviews about some of these works.


2009 READING/DISCUSSION SCHEDULE

Aug: Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser
Sep: The Princess de Cleves, by Madame de Lafayette
Oct: The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
Nov: The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
Dec: Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev


2010 READING/DISCUSSION SCHEDULE

Jan: Barry Lyndon, by William Makepeace Thackeray
Feb: Lorna Doone, by R. D. Blackmore
Mar: Dombey and Son, by Charles Dickens
Apr: Felix Holt, by George Eliot
May: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Jun: The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
Jul: Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell
Aug: The Aspen Papers, by Henry James
Sep: Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson
Oct: The Doctor's Wife, by Elizabeth Braddon
Nov: Tess of the D'Ubervilles, by Thomas Hardy
Dec: Mauprat, by George Sand