tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post3496654327697002484..comments2024-03-29T03:30:18.368-06:00Comments on Blood-Red Pencil: Dover Classics for Women's History MonthDanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14471919576687777886noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-85340607081910580472018-04-02T07:56:49.404-06:002018-04-02T07:56:49.404-06:00Great list, Dani. I've read a few of them many...Great list, Dani. I've read a few of them many, many years ago in school. I also remember that dissecting them in class was torture--enough to make me dread the read. Maybe it's time to read them without the whip over my back.Polly Iyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05729656119287702191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-75479251404385892452018-03-28T11:36:31.344-06:002018-03-28T11:36:31.344-06:00What a great list, Dani. I have read a number of t...What a great list, Dani. I have read a number of the books you mentioned and the reminder made me want to read them again, especially My Antonia and Silas Marner. How did I not remember that was written by a woman? One of those facts that slips out of memory so many years past the reading.<br /><br />I did not read much Jane Austen, and, like you, did not like her books very much. I don't remember why, but I just could not get invested in the characters like I could some in other books. Maryannwriteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09479027709233807149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704943052235281766.post-58776229660336677562018-03-28T10:58:27.300-06:002018-03-28T10:58:27.300-06:00The only one of those you listed that I've rea...The only one of those you listed that I've read is Silas Marner by George Eliot, aka, Mary Anne Evans. Her use of a masculine pseudonym stemmed in part, she reportedly said, from her wish that her works be considered seriously rather than viewed lightly, as were those of other women who wrote during the Victorian era. Also, she wanted her real identity to remain unknown so that she would not be under the critical social microscope of the "Victorian morality" of her day——and the moral values it demanded. Linda Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06686488133905538811noreply@blogger.com