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Extra Reading for IWOAW

If anybody’s interested in what books- queer, historical, cultural, religious, and spiritual- that have currently inspired me or have been referenced in the au, here is a current list. Again, this is not conclusive; I have way more lined up to read! 😁 I hope you enjoy and maybe feel inspired to read some 💖 (I love reading sm so consider these as book recommendations too haha). 

Queer Reading

Fiction

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson

Ash, Malinda Lo

The Color Purple, Alice Walker

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

All About Sarah, Pauline Delabroy-Allard

Alice in Leatherland comic series, Zanfrardino & Ramboli

A Woman Appeared to Me, Renée Vivien

Non-Fiction

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, Edited by Helena Whitbread

Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister, Anne Choma

Female Fortune: Land, Gender, & Authority, Jill Liddington

Gentleman Jack, Angela Steidele

Presenting the Past, Jill Liddington

No Priest But Love, Anne Lister, Edited by Helena Whitbread

The Ladies of Llangollen: A Study in Romantic Friendship, Elizabeth Mavor

Historical, Cultural, & Religious Reading

Fiction

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

Sense & Sensibility, Jane Austen

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen

Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

Hard Times, Charles Dickens

Camilla, Frances Burney

Emma, Jane Austen

Little Women, Louisa M. Alcott

Bleak House, Charles Dickens

The Stark Munro Letters, Arthur Conan Doyle

The Murders in the Rue Morgue & Other Tales, Edgar Allan Poe

The Christmas Books, Charles Dickens

Middlemarch, George Eliot

Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

Shirley, Charlotte Brontë

Mary & The Wrongs of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft

Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens

Carmilla, Sheridan Le Fanu

The Winter’s Tale, William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare

Non-Fiction

Poverty & Poor Law Reform in 19th Century Britain, 1834-1914, David Englander

The Peterloo Massacre, Robert Reid

Growing Up in Nineteenth Century Ireland, Mary Hatfield

India in the Persianate Age, 1000-1765, Richard M. Eaton

Property, Aristocracy, & the Raj, Ranjit Sen

Nineteenth Century Ireland, D. George Boyce

Jane Austen’s Letters, Edited by Deirdre Le Faye

The Fall of the Asante Empire, Robert B. Edgerton

An Era of Darkness, Shashi Tharoor

The Age of Revolution, Eric Hobsbawm

Captain Swing, Eric Hobsbawm & George Rudé

Religious Reading (Historical, Informational, & Scriptures)

Hinduism for Dummies, Dr Amrutur V. Srinivasan

Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction, Kim Knott

Ramayana: A Retelling, Daljit Nagra

Hinduism: An Introduction, Owen Cole & V.P. Hermant Kanit

On Hinduism, Wendy Doniger

The Catholics, Roy Hattersley

Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries, Thich Nhat Hanh

The Upanishads, Translated by F. Max-Müller and revised by Suren Navlakha

Cultural Reading

Brit(ish), Afua Hirsch

Orientalism, Edward W. Said

Secret Bedford, Paul Adams

Extra Influences/Reading

Lorna Doone, Richard Blackmore (historical appropriate romance)

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (for the writing style)

Dracula, Bram Stoker (for the writing style)

The Tale of Steven, Rebecca Sugar (for additional character references)

The Count of Monte Cristo (on its uncompassionate treatment of women and my references to that in the book)

Moll Flanders (additional historically accurate reading)

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Step behind the curtains and see the magic! #LoveTheatreDay at the Palace Theatre

Step behind the curtains and see the magic! #LoveTheatreDay at the Palace Theatre

It’s just six months since a new local Community Interest Company, Jazz Hands CIC, took over the running of the Palace Theatre in Paignton and, to celebrate, Directors Maureen McAllister and Deirdre Makepeace are running a series of free backstage tours.

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