Query From Bonita Bray 31 Jan 1997
Hi Everyone,
I'm posting this message for a friend who teaches Grade 12 English. He is
looking for a female "coming of age" novel that could be used in tandem with
_Catcher in the Rye_ or _Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man_. Thanks in
advance for any suggestions you can think of.
Responses:
Allison, Dorothy _Bastard Out of Carolina_
Angelou, Maya _I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings_
Atwood, Margaret _A Cat's Eye_
Blum, Judy _Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret_
Brittain, Vera _Testament of Youth_
Bronte, Charlotte _Jane Eyre_
Brown, Rita Mae _Rubyfruit Jungle_
Cisneros, Sandra _The House on Mango Street_
Chiyo, Uno (1897-1996) _The Story of a Single Woman_ (Trans. under DuFour Editions; orig. pub. of the translation was Peter Owen,Ltd, 1992)
Conway, Jill Kerr _The Road From Corain
Dillard, Annie _An American Childhood_
Dougherty, Molly C. _Becoming A Woman in Rural Black Culture_
Franklin, Miles _My Brilliant Career_
Harper, M. _Falling in Love With Robert E. Lee_
Hurston, Zora Neale _Their Eyes Were Watching God_
Kincaid, Jamaica _Lucy_, _Annie John_
Kingsolver, Barbara _animal Dreams_
Konecky, Edith _Allegra Maud Goldman_(Feminist Press reissue)
Lehmann , Rosamond _Dusty Answer_ (1928?)
Lessing, Doris _Martha Quest_
McCullers, Carson _The Member of the Wedding_
Marshall, Paule _Brown Girl, Brownstone_
Meriwether, Louise _Daddy Was A Numbers Runner_
Moody, Anne _Coming of Age in Mississippi_
Morrison, Toni _Sula_, _The Bluest Eye_
Munroe, Alice _Lives of Girls and Women_
Pilcer, Sonia _Maiden Rites_
Plath, Sylvia _The Bell Jar_
Roiphe, Anne _Loving-Kindness (1987)
Spewack, Bella Cohen _Streets_ (Feminist Press, 1995)
White, Barbara _Growing Up Female: Adolescent Girlhood in American Fiction_(1985)
Other Titles suggested: _A Tree Grows in Brooklyn_, _The Bread Givers_, _Recollections of a Rotten Kid_, _Emma_,
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