Tea or Books? #78: 19th Century vs 20th Century and Two Unfinished Jane Austen Novels

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

Sanditon, The Watsons, and a whistle-stop tour of the centuries – we’re back!

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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