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Overview
From Austen to Alcott, this is a compilation of some must-read novels written by European & American women in the 19th century.
All authors are capped at three of their most popular works to promote diversity of thought and thus any additional novels are seen as bonuses. In addition to these works, I have included some other notary works important to the time which are bonuses for further reading. Happy to accept any suggestions or recommendations! The novels are sorted by year.
19th Century Novels By Female Writers
23 participants (42 books)
Overview
From Austen to Alcott, this is a compilation of some must-read novels written by European & American women in the 19th century.
All authors are capped at three of their most popular works to promote diversity of thought and thus any additional novels are seen as bonuses. In addition to these works, I have included some other notary works important to the time which are bonuses for further reading. Happy to accept any suggestions or recommendations! The novels are sorted by year.
Challenge Books
1873
(bonus)
Eight Cousins
Louisa May Alcott
We are only including Little Women, Little Men, and Goodwives from Louisa May Alcott's novels, therefore this work is included as a bonus due to its popularity and significance.
1873
(bonus)
And the Truth Shall Make You Free
Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Woodhull was an American feminist, reformer, stockbroker, sex symbol, spiritualist and advocate of free love. She was the first woman to run for president. Her view that women should be free to marry and take lovers based on conscience, not compulsion, set her at odds with other 19th century feminists. And the Truth shall make you Free, which began as a speech, is a defense of her advocacy of free love and the principles of social freedom.
-Goodreads
As this is not a novel it is not included as a part of this challenge.
1874
(bonus)
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
We are only including Middlemarch, Silas Marner, and The Mill of the Floss from George Eliot's novels, therefore this work is included as a bonus due to its popularity and significance.
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1889
(bonus)
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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells, later Wells-Barnett (1862-1931), was an African American civil rights advocate and an early women's rights advocate active in the Woman Suffrage Movement. Fearless in her opposition to lynchings, Wells documented hundreds of these atrocities.
-Goodreads
As this is not a novel it is not included as part of this challenge.