Women's Classic Literature Enthusiasts discussion

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I thought this might be of interest to Pride and Prejudice movie fans. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/...

This scene was never in the book and doesn't seem to fit the Mr. Darcy I met there.

Why does the box of posting rules show up not just the first time I posted but about half the time?

Everyman wrote: "Why does the box of posting rules show up not just the first time I posted but about half the time?"

I was wondering that too. I'll check and see.

I think I found the issue and corrected it. Let me know if it happens again.

☯Emily wrote: "I think I found the issue and corrected it. Let me know if it happens again."

thanks.

☯Emily wrote: "I thought this might be of interest to Pride and Prejudice movie fans. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/......"

I wonder who came up with the whole idea? I suppose it's supposed to show how bothered he was about Elizabeth, but I think he just looked a bit hectic and, as he said, sodden!

Another article about Jane Austen. This time is why men like to read her: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/cultureh...

Wow, I had no idea that Jane Austen influenced the writer of Lolita!

☯Emily wrote: "Another article about Jane Austen. This time is why men like to read her: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/cultureh..."

That was fun, and it made me chuckle!

Has anybody else run across the website "The Victorian Women Writers Project"?

I ran across it in a roundabout way. I was browsing in John Sutherland's The Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature and ran across a mention of Ella Hepworth Dixon's Story of a Modern Woman as "the greatest unread novel of female struggle in the century." So I went to Gutenberg.org to find it, and lo and behold, they didn't have it. So I searched for it, and found that there was an online copy at a site I had never heard of, The Victorian Women Writer's Project. Well, it sounded interesting, so I explored it a bit, and it seems that it would be a site that Women's Classical Literature Enthusiasts should know about.

Here's the link to it, in case people want to browse it for possible ideas for books to nominate for reading here.
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vwwp/...

I'm tempted to nominate not the Dixon book, but another one I discovered (which does happen to be on Gutenberg and which Sutherland says is worth reading), The Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird, but I'm going to hold off for now because I won't have time next month to moderate a discussion of it. But maybe sometime in future.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21858

Everyman wrote: "Has anybody else run across the website "The Victorian Women Writers Project"?

I ran across it in a roundabout way. I was browsing in John Sutherland's The Stanford Companion to Victorian Liter..."

Wow thanks for the link, definitely a site worth exploring!

I am not sure where to post this. But a school library is needing books by women authors. https://throwingchanclas.com/2016/06/...

Charlene wrote: "I am not sure where to post this. But a school library is needing books by women authors. https://throwingchanclas.com/2016/06/..."

What a wonderful idea!

It looks like I will have to leave Goodreads because I am not getting any email notifications. I also constantly need to verify my email. In fact, I can't even begin a new thread or start a new topic because GR is no longer accepting my email address. I have tried to verify my email constantly for a week. Worst of all, I have sent 15+ emails to support, including Otis, the head honcho, and have gotten no reply in more than five days.

I will give GR's another day and then I will cancel my account. I am not sure how this will affect the group since I created it. If anyone has any suggestions or if anyone wants to contact Support on my behalf, I would appreciate it. Thanks for all your support.

Goodreads support is usually fairly slow.

Emily,

Have you posted about your issue in GR Feedback group?

If support is slow with a fix, perhaps someone in the feedback group has advice or had a similar experience/issue/problem.

This is terrible what you are going through!

I have done everything. I have added comments to existing threads in the Feedback group since I can't create my own threads. I won't be able to set up the threads for our December readings.

I can certainly set up the threads for you, so don't worry about that! This whole situation totally stinks! Trying to brain-storm...perhaps creating a new email account, perhaps a gmail account and changing your account over to that? Although if it won't recognize who you are now I'm guessing it won't accept a change of email from you either....

How many different Goodreads groups do you actively participate in? Are you able to balance the different books?

I try to actively participate in 3 out of the 8 groups I am in. A couple groups don't have monthly selections but still between the three groups I participate in, my local book club, and what I want to read, it is hard to balance books sometimes.

I'm in 12 public groups, including 2 of the Goodreads official groups & the Moderators group (not official but Goodreads supports it & some of the staff are members). I moderate 2 groups now, one by myself & another with 4 other moderators.

I've done all but one of the group reads in the group where I'm a sole charge moderator. It is for my favourite author & I'm generally happy to reread all her books. The other group is a fairly new rebranding & I read when I can. We are trying to encourage buddy reads as some books are obscure & will be hard to get hold of.

Another group for GA mysteries runs quite a few group/buddy reads every month & I do the ones I'm interested in - usually one a month.

Another group has a big book pool where we each nominate 3 books & read what we can over 2 months. There is no pressure & it is the only group I belong to where I do group reads of more modern fiction - & NZ books! This happens twice a year.

Another group is for art appreciation. They rarely have book reads - I'm more of an occasional lurker. I love looking at the artwork others have discovered.

Another group is for another favourite author. They have about 6 group reads a year & atm I do about half of them.

& another group which has been fairly inactive this year.

One for another favourite author - group reads not that active, but interesting discussion on other things.

Then there is this group. I usually can't get hold of the books suggested (I'm not buying atm as I have over 100 unread books at home) & another group which has been fairly inactive this year.

Sometimes I have felt a little overwhelmed by everything I've committed to, so this December I'm just going to read what I feel like - probably fluffy trash! :D

Mary Shelley's 220th birthday is today (August 30, 1797).

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20...

I don't know if this link will work. http://forms.em.penguinrandomhouse.co...

Charlene wrote: "I don't know if this link will work. http://forms.em.penguinrandomhouse.co......"

This is what Penguin Classics sent for Women's History Month.

Charlene wrote: "I don't know if this link will work. http://forms.em.penguinrandomhouse.co......"

Definitely a couple on there I'd love to read.

Amazon is doing a promotion: 2 months of KU for .99 cents

New subscribers only
Offer expires March 11, 2018

If you have any family or friends that might want to try it out now is a good time :D

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/pro...


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Half Price books is holding a Mystery Madness: Tournament of Mysteries. Agatha Christie and Daphne du Maurier each have a book in the voting.

http://halfpricebooks.com/mystery-mad...

Agatha Christie and Daphne du Maurier both made it to the second round of Half Price Mystery Madness.

http://halfpricebooks.com/mystery-mad...

Two Bronte manuscripts have been found and will be published.

https://bookriot.com/2018/03/22/charl...

Lisa wrote: "Two Bronte manuscripts have been found and will be published.

https://bookriot.com/2018/03/22/charl..."

What great news! Can't wait to read this!

So exciting!

Half Price's 3rd round of Tournament of Mysteries voting started. Unfortunately, Agatha Christie and Daphne du Maurier are going against each other.

https://www.halfpricebooks.com/myster...

Final round of Half Price Tournament. Agatha Christie made it to the final.

http://halfpricebooks.com/mystery-mad...

PBS listed their top 100 books for the Great American Read.

http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american...

A little reflection on how novels written by women get talked about, and who/what gets to be a classics and under which labels. Considering the worldwide obsession with a very restricted number of novels, I found it a refreshing read and it might be of interest to members of this group https://lithub.com/how-to-suppress-wo...

Cam wrote: "A little reflection on how novels written by women get talked about, and who/what gets to be a classics and under which labels. Considering the worldwide obsession with a very restricted number of ..."

You know what is interesting about the article, it never mentions Anne Bronte. It mentions all of Charlotte's work; it mentions all of Emily's work but not a peep about the youngest sister's work.

Anne Bronte's works were suppressed by her sister, Charlotte. That attitude of Charlotte still exists today.

Also, an author that is almost completely ignored by both sexes is Elizabeth Gaskell who was a contemporary of Charles Dickens.

☯Emily wrote: "Anne Bronte's works were suppressed by her sister, Charlotte. That attitude of Charlotte still exists today.

Also, an author that is almost completely ignored by both sexes is Elizabeth Gaskell wh..."

You know - it's funny - my view of the world has become so skewed because of GoodReads. My GR classics-reading friends are reading Elizabeth Gaskell All. The. Time. So somehow I think of them as representative of "the world".

This is a great article. Thanks, Cam, for sharing it.

Also, my thanks for sharing it, Cam. It just so happened to have come along just after I finished reading Lillian Smith's 1940 novel about a lynching in the American South in the Post World War One years. Without having researched it any further, I would wager there was an attempt to suppress that book. It was entitled "Strange Fruit" and I read about it here in this forum. The title seized my attention because of it being famous as the lament sung by the great Billie Holiday. Before I joined this forum, I had thought I was rather well-read, in woman-authored literature. But ever since, I have been learning "Not so, girl.....",

Mizzou wrote: "Also, my thanks for sharing it, Cam. It just so happened to have come along just after I finished reading Lillian Smith's 1940 novel about a lynching in the American South in the Post World War One..."

You've given me a reason to buy it now, Mizzou. I nominated it as soon as I discovered mention and reviews of it last month, and also was unaware that there'd been a book and not only Billie Holiday's haunting song of the same title. I typically avoid well-meaning white authors addressing the core topic, but it looked like the exception to the rule.

I also have had the same humbling experience. I thought I was well-read until I found you all.

Usually, I don't care to have someone else choose my reading for me, but, you know, one has to make exceptions for such things as Mother's Day gifts. I was given a copy of The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion, by Fannie Flagg. And I know why----it was to counteract the state of mind that has been induced in me by two books I've been reading of late. I got through Peter Kropotkin's work, Mutual Aid, but now I am embarked on Murray Bookchin's Post-Scarcity Anarchism, and I believe I am in over my head! The reason I took on this reading was so I could comment on a dear friend's Ph.D. thesis, but boy howdy, is it ever tough slogging. The daughter who gave me Fannie Flagg is concerned for my mental health!

PBS' The Great American Read . . . . . . we're being asked to vote on a list of America's 100 best-loved novels to choose the No. 1 beloved work of fiction. So, I guess the criterion is gonna be "LOVE". But I have misgivings about a few of the titles on the list of 100. One of them was one of the most scurrilous books I've ever encountered. And thirteen of the listings are "series" !
Just for the record, about one fifth of the books were written by women. But that's only an approximation, because there were quite a few books the authors of which are unknown to me.
I've read only 27 of the ones that made "The Ultimate Summer Reading List", as Parade magazine dubs it.

Mizzou wrote: "Usually, I don't care to have someone else choose my reading for me, but, you know, one has to make exceptions for such things as Mother's Day gifts. I was given a copy of The All-Girl Filling Stat..."

Did it work?

Mizzou wrote: "PBS' The Great American Read . . . . . . we're being asked to vote on a list of America's 100 best-loved novels to choose the No. 1 beloved work of fiction. So, I guess the criterion is gonna be "L..."

I found it to be a strange list. There were three classics I’d never heard of, and added to my TBR. It was oddly diverse, including several South American authors. But then ... Fifty Shades, lol?? One thing it is not is America’s 100 best-loved novels. It isn’t nearly pedestrian enough to be that.

Once I saw that Emma was omitted and Fifty Shades included, I stopped looking at the list. Quite ridiculous list.

I thought Persuasion and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall should have been on the list.

Charlene wrote: "I thought Persuasion and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall should have been on the list."

I agree!

They lost me when I saw 50 Shades lol

Anastasia wrote: "They lost me when I saw 50 Shades lol"

I know. Right?

So, is Gone Girl a work of "literature"? Or literchoor, even?