tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post8841896580334395052..comments2023-08-19T23:23:19.849+10:00Comments on Sentire cum Ecclesia: 19th Century English Novelists: More on Chesterton on DickensSchützhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05026181010471282505noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-76474334182106620972008-07-07T14:51:00.000+10:002008-07-07T14:51:00.000+10:00Jane-baby is my own favourite, but surely GKC was ...Jane-baby is my own favourite, but surely GKC was writin later than this mob?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-1282836631568993122008-06-20T21:00:00.000+10:002008-06-20T21:00:00.000+10:00I haven't read "Castle Richmond".Another very inte...I haven't read "Castle Richmond".<BR/><BR/>Another very interesting Trollope novel is his short "The Fixed Period", about an island state that was introducing enforced euthanasian for its elderly. Very interesting. I found it on the shelves at Bishop Anthony Fisher's home and read it through in one day.Schützhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05026181010471282505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-83152309621395247692008-06-20T08:06:00.000+10:002008-06-20T08:06:00.000+10:00Ah Google is wonderful. The Trollope book set agai...Ah Google is wonderful. <BR/><BR/>The Trollope book set against the background of the famine is Castle Richmond. <BR/><BR/>The book I read last year or the year before about the famine was "The Great Hunger." <BR/><BR/>Susan Petersoneulogoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06975120700184179765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-85402940376454851662008-06-20T07:58:00.000+10:002008-06-20T07:58:00.000+10:00Jane Austen is head and shoulder above the rest of...Jane Austen is head and shoulder above the rest of them, in my opinion. But after you have read each of her books three or four times, what are you going to do? <BR/><BR/>You can read Trollope forever and ever, it seems. His quality is uneven. He doesn't pull off everything he tries. But he is usually "a good read." I am currently just beginning " The small house at Allington." <BR/><BR/>One Trollope which sort of shocked me, the name of which unfortunately I can't remember,(It was the name of an estate or house) is a very minor romance and inheritance story, set against the background of the famine, which mainly serves to show off the charitable impulses of his heroines and some amusing scenes in which the RC priest comes off better than the low church parson. Like a good civil servant he also defends the hash that was made of the relief effort as the best that could have been done under the circumstances, a thesis which was seriously disputed by a very detailed book I read about the famine last year. To me this display's Trollope's limitations. A great writer would have realized that the background of people dying in ditches would make his own story and characters look shallow and petty. If he did't think he could write the human story of the famime, he would have eschewed setting his rather trivial story anywhere near it. <BR/><BR/>Susan Petersoneulogoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06975120700184179765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-10647775974932928622008-06-19T15:06:00.000+10:002008-06-19T15:06:00.000+10:00Ah yes. American 19th Century novelists are anothe...Ah yes. American 19th Century novelists are another whole kettle of fish.Schützhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05026181010471282505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-4596524039944759352008-06-19T13:58:00.000+10:002008-06-19T13:58:00.000+10:00My dad counted Dickens' A Child's History of Engla...My dad counted Dickens' A Child's History of England the best book he had ever read -- which he did as a blue collar working class Midwestern kid not that long after the nineteenth century had ended. I think he counted the copy I found for him in a used book store the best Christmas present I ever gave him.<BR/><BR/>To answer your question, I don't have a favourite English nineteenth century author, as in from England, but my favourite nineteenth century author writing in English is Mark Twain, hands down. Tom Sawyer is my Child's History of England.Past Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10541968132598367551noreply@blogger.com