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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I'm not confining it to Britain, just that I tend to read more British, so those are my choices. Allende...? Hmm. I think her books are a bit overwrought, except Of Love and Shadows, which I adore.

Yes, it's an agonizing decision. Whatever I choose, someone (maybe me) will say "why didn't you choose something else"?

I was talking about this with friends last night, and we actually thought Orlando might be a good choice.