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
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| 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 |
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| Sep 2023 | 5 |
| Oct 2023 | 5 |
| Nov 2023 | 3 |
| Dec 2023 | 10 |
| Jan 2024 | 10 |
| Feb 2024 | 9 |
| Mar 2024 | 7 |
| Apr 2024 | 7 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
I think we can all agree that it’s fairly futile to “review” someone else’s commonplace book. At best, you can say the compiler has flawless taste that exactly matches your own and that you copied …
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 …
Only one brief entry for me in this week’s 1937 Club: Goodness, How Sad! by Robert Morley. It’s described as “a comedy in three acts” and while it certainly has three acts, the comedic angle …