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 was going to add that it has the racism of its time and place. Thus the smart, hard-working hero makes "No Chinese workers" one of his strike demands.

If you want to read the book for free, you can download it from Gutenberg.org -- look under Kathleen Norris. The Thompson is used these days to distinguish her from the religious writer.