not the classics (though I love those too), the stuff that was demonized because young women enjoyed it and the stories were emotionally exciting and delightfully implausible like East Lynne by Ellen Wood jealousy! love! murder and mystery! details about everyone’s outfits! 💅
Dissociative feminism is out! Bare prose and placid female protagonists be gone! If I am to read fiction I only want the most ornate, decadent, floral of diction. I want something dense, artful and self indulgent. It is good to be more and I need a writer to demonstrate some skill in order to earn a moment of nakedness
I know I'm probably late late, but this series is so good. 💃
I may be TOO into historical romances (especially set in the Regency era - thank you Jane Austen) but Evie Dunmore has put literal magic into her 'A League of Extraordinary Women' series.
Trust me.
bc it’s what I originally wanted when I first went to college at 17 but I was scared to make writing my job and got a B.S. in Nutrition instead lol Now the goal is an eventual PhD in Victorian Literature but I’m just happy to have made it through this part at 32! Stacked is everything I read in my English courses—barely pictured are the 5 stuffed accordion folders of other reading materials under my chair haha
