I'd like a picture :) Make it any size you want - I can make it an icon later if that isn't the way you go.
I recommend Jane Eyre, one of my favorites that you probably have hit (but if you haven't, you should), and Vanity Fair, one that most people haven't. I FAR prefer Thackeray to Dickens so far as novels originally published in episodic format. Such a deliciously vicious satirical wit.
Please don't let your Defoe reading stop at Robinson Crusoe, do not pass go or collect $200 before reading Moll Flanders. Guy deserted on island, yes a classic, but feisty women need to read Moll Flanders. Well, ok, Jane and Becky are significantly feisty too.
I intend to read Anna Karenina someday - I took it out of the library once and got totally bogged down and stalled in the academic introduction, before I learned never to read them before reading the book itself (damn you, you stupid editors of Pride and Prejudice that let the introduction writer give away the plot before I even got past the pages with roman numerals!). Consequently I do not know if Anna is feisty or not.
I only intended to recommend a couple, so I'll stop now. I will add, however, that I feel it is a grevious error to allow someone (such as myself) to attain an English literature degree without forcing her to read Milton. I don't feel any real urge to pick up Milton (other than to deepen my understandings of the references Neil Gaiman makes in The Sandman oeuvre, sad creature that I am), but I sincerely believe that I ought to have been compelled to read some in order to get my stripes.
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How did this comment become "A Reading List of Feisty Women in English Literature"?
Date: 2006-01-16 06:39 am (UTC)I recommend Jane Eyre, one of my favorites that you probably have hit (but if you haven't, you should), and Vanity Fair, one that most people haven't. I FAR prefer Thackeray to Dickens so far as novels originally published in episodic format. Such a deliciously vicious satirical wit.
Please don't let your Defoe reading stop at Robinson Crusoe, do not pass go or collect $200 before reading Moll Flanders. Guy deserted on island, yes a classic, but feisty women need to read Moll Flanders. Well, ok, Jane and Becky are significantly feisty too.
I intend to read Anna Karenina someday - I took it out of the library once and got totally bogged down and stalled in the academic introduction, before I learned never to read them before reading the book itself (damn you, you stupid editors of Pride and Prejudice that let the introduction writer give away the plot before I even got past the pages with roman numerals!). Consequently I do not know if Anna is feisty or not.
I only intended to recommend a couple, so I'll stop now. I will add, however, that I feel it is a grevious error to allow someone (such as myself) to attain an English literature degree without forcing her to read Milton. I don't feel any real urge to pick up Milton (other than to deepen my understandings of the references Neil Gaiman makes in The Sandman oeuvre, sad creature that I am), but I sincerely believe that I ought to have been compelled to read some in order to get my stripes.