In many ways, Barbara Kingsolver’s first novel, The Bean Trees, might be considered a conventional coming-of-age story, wherein a young woman follows the lead of her literary forebear Huckleberry Finn and journeys east to west on the road to independence…. Read More ›
Ouida (1839 – 1908) practices her typical effusive style in the 1880 novel Moths, so named for one character’s pronouncement that the “fashionable,” or high society, world damages a woman. Moths, half of which immolate themselves “in feverish frailty,” and… Read More ›
When George Meredith published his 1885 novel, Diana of the Crossways, women readers welcomed his heroine as representative of recent social reforms. The novel reflects its era’s obsessive interest in the breakdown of standards, which had been part of a… Read More ›
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