tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-303397732012-02-16T02:50:29.637-05:00Welcome to the blog-portion of Bethesda Library’s 19th century literature discussion group.<br><br>If this is your first time, you’ll find the dates and the list of books <b><a href=http://bustlesandbeaux.blogspot.com/2006/06/manifesto.html>here</a></b>.<br>If you want to learn more about the discussion group, you should start <b><a href=http://bustlesandbeaux.blogspot.com/2006/11/welcome.html>here</a></b><br><br>We meet at the Bethesda Library monthly from 7:15 p.m. – 8:15 p.m.Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09887139425272294031noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30339773.post-1486662754848876392006-11-02T08:13:00.000-05:002007-03-21T12:50:14.104-05:00I'm a book group junkie -- a paperback floozy, if you will (and bless you for trying if you did), though down on his luck and not as pretty as the other, younger floozies. I belong to two, one in Bethesda, and one in D.C. And they're really my only connection to contemporary literature. Left to my own devices, I'd still be blissfully unaware of <a href="http://www.jonathanlethem.com/">Jonathan Lethem</a> and Margaret Atwood's <em><a href="http://www.oryxandcrake.co.uk/">Oryx and Crake</a></em>.<br /><br />See, for me the best novels have a bustle, a beau, a hand or two of whist, and a complicated plot involving a governess who's really the mother of the mill owner -- only she's had to disguise her identity lo these many years because of something to do with Methodists and a case of consumption.<br /><br />Hence: this book group.<br /><br />It's a planned book group, meaning that the novels have already been chosen -- and there's a method there, believe it or not. I thought it would be interesting to take a sampling of 19th century writers -- Jane Austen, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy -- and track their novels, starting with their first, moving on to a middle, and then reading their last novel. In this way, we'll not only get a chance to see how each writer develops as an artist, but how the time itself helped develop the author.<br /><br />At least, I'm hoping that's what'll happen. Our first meeting will be Tuesday, January 16, at 7:15 p.m. at the Bethesda Library.<br /><br />I don't have any credentials for this. I'm not a professor of any kind, or a frustrated English Lit major looking to prove a point about post-colonialism and sexual imagery in Victorian piano legs. I'm just a guy who likes Austen and Trollope and Dickens.<br /><br />If you'd like more information, or if you want to be included in the periodic mailings list, send me an email: <a href="mbevel2002@yahoo.com">mbevel2002 at yahoo dot com</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30339773-148666275484887639?l=bustlesandbeaux.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09887139425272294031noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30339773.post-1151420321540317852006-06-27T09:58:00.000-05:002007-05-27T11:23:24.465-05:00Starting January 16, 2007:<br /><br /><u><strong>JANE AUSTEN</strong></u><br />January 16: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0141439793/sr=8-3/qid=1152671155/ref=pd_bbs_3/102-2527601-5827328?ie=UTF8" target="_blank">Northanger Abbey</a><br /><br />February 20: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0141439807/qid=1151430785/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/102-8579382-7591309?s=books&v=glance&amp;n=283155" target="_blank">Mansfield Park</a><br /><br />March 20: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0141439688/qid=1151430876/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/102-8579382-7591309?s=books&v=glance&amp;n=283155" target="_blank">Persuasion</a><br /><br /><u><strong>WILKIE COLLINS</strong></u><br />April 17: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0192835483/qid=1151434051/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-8579382-7591309?s=books&v=glance&amp;n=283155" target="_blank">Basil</a><br /><br />May 15: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014043397X/qid=1151434116/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-8579382-7591309?s=books&v=glance&amp;n=283155" target="_blank">No Name</a><br /><br />June 19: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486251896/qid=1151433684/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/102-8579382-7591309?s=books&v=glance&amp;n=283155" target="_blank">Blind Love</a><br /><br /><u><strong>GEORGE ELIOT</strong></u><br />July 17: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140431217/sr=8-1/qid=1154438031/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-1883788-1356945?ie=UTF8"target="_blank">Adam Bede</a><br /><br />August 21: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0141439750/qid=1151431344/sr=11-1/ref=sr_11_1/102-8579382-7591309?n=283155" target="_blank">Silas Marner</a><br /><br />September 18: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140434275/qid=1151431414/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-8579382-7591309?s=books&v=glance&amp;n=283155" target="_blank">Daniel Deronda</a><br /><br /><u><strong>THOMAS HARDY</strong></u><br />October 16: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140435239/qid=1151431476/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-8579382-7591309?s=books&v=glance&amp;n=283155" target="_blank">Desperate Remedies</a><br /><br />November 20: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0141439599/sr=1-4/qid=1154865922/ref=sr_1_4/102-2527601-5827328?ie=UTF8&s=books" target="_blank">Tess of the D'Urbervilles</a><br /><br />December 18: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140435387/qid=1151431586/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-8579382-7591309?s=books&v=glance&amp;n=283155" target="_blank">Jude the Obscure</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30339773-115142032154031785?l=bustlesandbeaux.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09887139425272294031noreply@blogger.com0