If You Were Teaching...

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a one semester 2nd year college course in "Women's Lit," what novel would you teach???

I'm thinking about Jane Eyre, but would welcome other suggestions, just NOT The Handmaid's Tale, please.

ETA and not Mrs Dalloway, much as I love it, because I teach it in my 20th century lit course that some of my students in this upcoming course might have taken. And lidocafe teaches it in hers, so the same argument applies.

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[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh yes. But isn't that true even of Elizabeth Gaskell?

Speaking of which, a book that is astounding, feminist, true but doesn't get nearly enough attention due to missing the last chapter is Gaskell's Wives and Daughters George Eliot used it as inspiration for Middlemarch--another suggestion.

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Gaskell would be an interesting choice... aargh. There are so many possibilities!