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The Captive Reader

20th Century middlebrow fiction, domestic Victorian novels, volumes of correspondence, gossipy diaries, books about European history, and almost anything having to do with Jane Austen.

  • By Claire
  • Based in Canada
  • Roughly two posts per week
  • First post on

Posts per month

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Posts per month
Month starting Posts
Sep 2022 3
Oct 2022 3
Nov 2022 5
Dec 2022 9
Jan 2023 7
Feb 2023 6
Mar 2023 8
Apr 2023 6
May 2023 3
Jun 2023 4
Jul 2023 2
Aug 2023 4
Sep 2023 5
Oct 2023 5
Nov 2023 3
Dec 2023 10
Jan 2024 10
Feb 2024 9
Mar 2024 7
Apr 2024 7
May 2024 4
Jun 2024 5
Jul 2024 3
Aug 2024 8
Sep 2024 13
Oct 2024 6
Nov 2024 6

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

“Discovering” Katherine Center
I’m not sure someone can be said to be flying under the radar when they’ve published eleven books and had two of then turned into films but, having seen other people’s reading habits this year, …
On , by Claire (The Captive Reader), 1,509 words
Library Loot: November 13 to 19
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like …
On , by Claire (The Captive Reader), 340 words
Love and War – Two Young Adult Novels by Lydia Syson
I first heard of Lydia Syson when the Guardian reviewed her first YA book, A World Between Us, back in 2012. I am always up for a bit of historical fiction and was intrigued by …
On , by Claire (The Captive Reader), 728 words