Reading Classics, Chronologically Through the Ages discussion

My first project will be the women's list:
Authors of Antiquity:
• Sappho, Greek, 7th C BCE. Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Collh91 Rex

Authors of the Medieval Period (ca 800-1550)
• Murasaki Shikibu, Japanese, ca. 976-1015. Tale of Genji. Recommended by: App Fadiman 4 Meaningful MW Asian Oriental Rex Smiley StJE Utne Ward
• Comnena, Anna, Byzantine Greek, 1083-ca. 1153. Alexiad. Recommended by: Ward
• Hildegard of Bingen, German writing in Latin, 1098-1179. Scivias. Recommended by: Utne
• Nakanoin Masatada no musume, Japanese, b. 1258. Confessions of Lady Nijo. Recommended by: MW Asian
• Christine de Pizan, Italian-French, ca. 1364-ca. 1430. Book of the City of Ladies. Recommended by: Bloom Colcc91
• Marguerite de Navarre, French, 1492-1549. Heptameron. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley
• Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Jesús), Spanish, 1515-1582. Life of Saint Teresa. Recommended by: Ward

Authors of the Enlightenment Period (ca 1550-1800)
• La Fayette, Madame de, French, 1634-1693. Princess of Clèves. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley
• Juana Ines de la Cruz, Sister, Mexican, ca. 1651-1695. Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Lennox, Charlotte, English, 1729?-1804. The Female Quixote. Recommended by: Smiley
• Wollstonecraft, Mary, English, 1759-1797. Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Recommended by: Colcc91 Seymour-Smith

19th century authors
• Edgeworth, Maria, Irish, 1768-1849. Castle Rackrent. Recommended by: Bloom
• Austen, Jane, English, 1775-1817.
o Pride and Prejudice. Recommended by: Adler Bloom Collh91 Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Good Reading Meaningful SJCTelegraph Ward
o Emma. Recommended by: Adler Aquinas Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 GBWW SJC
o Mansfield Park. Recommended by: Bloom
o Persuasion. Recommended by: Bloom Harvard Smiley Utne
• Sand, George, French, 1804-1876. The Haunted Pool. Recommended by: Bloom
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, English, 1797-1851. Frankenstein. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley Telegraph
• Brontë, Charlotte, English, 1816-1855.
o Jane Eyre. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 4 Harvard Smiley Telegraph Ward
o Villette. Recommended by: Bloom
• Brontë, Emily, English, 1818-1848.
o Wuthering Heights. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 3 Fadiman 4 Meaningful Smiley Ward
o Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Gaskell, Elizabeth, English, 1810-1865.
o A Life of Charlotte Bronte. Recommended by: Telegraph
o Cranford. Recommended by: Bloom
o Mary Barton. Recommended by: Bloom
o North and South. Recommended by: Bloom
• Rossetti, Christina, English, 1830-1894. Poems. Recommended by: Bloom
• Dickinson, Emily, American, 1830-1886. Collected Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Fadiman 4 Good Reading Ward
• Alcott, Louisa May, American, 1832-1888. Little Women. Recommended by: Bloom Smiley
• Jekyll, Gertrude, English, 1843-1932. Home and Garden. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Harrison, Jane E., English, 1850-1928. Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion. Recommended by: Counterpunch NF
• Lagerlöf, Selma, Swedish, 1858-1940. Nobel Laureate Works. (I suggest Gösta Berling's Saga)

Looks like an amazing list! Please share your thoughts as you work through it.

Sappho, Greek, 7th C BCE. Poems. Recommended by: Bloom Collh91 Rex

Complete_Poems_and_Fragments_-_Stanley_Lombardo.pdf