Jeanne_d_Arc is not currently reading any books.
I’m 31 years old, female, from France. I’ve been a DailyLit member since March 02, 2007. My reading interests include Eclectic.
Books
- The Scarlet Letter finished
- Buch der Lieder finished
- Scaramouche finished
- The Sign of the Four finished
- Women in Love finished
- Moby Dick finished
- Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories finished
- My Antonia finished
- The Woman in White finished
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom finished
- Little Women finished
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself finished
- The Scarlet Pimpernel finished
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow finished
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions finished
- Utopia finished
- Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard suspended
- Pride and Prejudice suspended
- Julius Caesar suspended
Posts
Little Women - Angel of the House
Well, I finished reading yesterday, and feel quite frustrated with some of the character's lives. I had hopes for Amy and Jo's careers, but it's disappointing to think that living a little housewify domestic and family life is more important for the world than being a great painter or a well-known author... perhaps it is the moral tone of all the book that makes it a little hard to bear also, for even if it is a kind and soft book, every event is the ground for quite a long nineteenth-century moral lecturing.
Well I'm no suffragette, but thinking everyday about the Présidentielles makes me quite offended when someones tells me that good housewify women like Meg can't hope to understand politics, but have to play make believe just in order to make their husbands feel less lonely.