A review of Samuel Richardson’s troubling, landmark novel and its lockdown links.
Category: Book reviews
The Well of Loneliness
A review of Radclyffe Hall’s landmark 1928 novel about lesbianism, love, and loneliness.
Girl, Woman, Other
A review of Bernardine Evaristo’s stunning recent Booker Prize-winning novel.
To the Lighthouse
A review, a rhapsody on Woolf’s gorgeous and seminal 1927 novel.
Howards End
On connection, harmony, and female strength in Forster’s masterpiece of a novel.
Adam Bede
On George Eliot’s emotive and spectacular first novel.
Lolita
Considering Nabokov’s well-known, highly problematic, and inevitably captivating novel.
Jiddy Vardy
Kicking off the blog tour for Ruth Estevez’s brand-new young adult novel.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
A review of Thomas Hardy’s powerfully emotive, powerfully female tragedy.
A Secret Sisterhood
A review of Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney’s illuminating exploration of female literary friendship.
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Reflecting on Mary Wollstonecraft’s seminal feminist work.
The Mill on the Floss
A reflection on one of my most beloved books, second time around.
Jess Writes 