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(1790) Ear-read during a long drive, this is Radcliffe's second novel and packed full of Gothic tropes: an exotic location (Sicily! Land of hot-blooded lovers!); a large sprawling mansion with decaying disused maybe-haunted rooms where mysterious lights appear; secret passages, family scandals, star-crossed love, and lots of fainting and almost-fainting and bursting into tears. It's a lot of muchness, but it was a welcome traveling companion

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Sonnet XIII

1 nonfiction
3 series
3 male authors
7 female authors
3 featuring people of color
1 set in Minnesota 🌲 😍🌲

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This book is a Caldecott medal winner. The illustrations are awesome and the storyline is great! I would definitely recommend this book to anyone.

Written in 1790, this book has surprisingly free female characters. Most of the time wen couldn't act without male presence, but did a few times. Female desire was regarded highly and the book was very anti-parental forced marriages.