Millenium Hall
8 best books like Millenium Hall (Sarah Scott): The Castle of Otranto, For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Dr. Faustus, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, Belinda, Love in Excess, Mary & The Wrongs of Woman (2 in 1)
| Author | Horace Walpole |
| ISBN | 0192834401 |
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern." Crammed with invention,...
For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
| Author | Ntozake Shange |
| ISBN | 0684843269 |
A revolutionary, award-winning play by a lauded playwright and poet about the experiences of women of color.
From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have...
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0895941228 |
in college, in the late 80s and early 90s, i discovered that i had two aunts. this is one (and this is another). aunt Audre intimidated me at first. she was a stern, moody, melancholy woman who had lived a life of so many ups and downs. but as i got to know her, her innate gentleness became clear. this was a woman...
| Author | Christopher Marlowe |
| ISBN | 0486282082 |
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different...
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
| Author | Samuel Richardson |
| ISBN | 0192829602 |
One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists,"...
| Author | Maria Edgeworth |
| ISBN | 0192837095 |
The lively comedy of this novel in which a young woman comes of age amid the distractions and temptations of London high society belies the challenges it poses to the conventions of courtship, the dependence of women, and the limitations of domesticity. Contending with the perils and the varied cast...
| Author | Eliza Fowler Haywood |
| ISBN | 1551113678 |
Panting and misspelled, Love in Excess is easy to roll your eyes at. But I think it deserves more. It was a blockbuster smash when it was published in 1720, as popular as Robinson Crusoe. It influenced Samuel Richardson and it's much more fun than his work. It was written by a woman and shows women who have...
Mary & The Wrongs of Woman (2 in 1)
| Author | Mary Wollstonecraft |
Mary Wollstonecraft's work put a basis for feminism. Like I said in my review for A Vindication of the Rights of Womanhe's one of the first feminist philosophers and as such, she's inspiring. However, the reason why the book I just mentioned is her most well known book is quite obvious after reading this.
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