In her journals, in 1852, Louisa May Alcott made a note to herself: "Make a resolution to read fewer novels, and those only of the best."
This is her list of books that she liked-
Carlyle's French Revolution, and his Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (also Carlyle)
Goethe's Poems, Plays and novels
Plutarch's Lives
Madame Guyon
John Milton's Paradise Lost and Comus
Schiller's Plays
Madame de Staël - (author and friend of Goethe's)
Bettine
Louis XIV
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Hypatia by Charles Kingsley
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Emerson's Poems
3 comments:
Oh yay! Thank you! She liked Jane Eyre. Of course she did. ;o)
Katie
I would have thought she liked The Heir of Redclyffe, since she had Jo crying over it up on the attic. Maybe Jo's taste, not hers?
That is quite a list.
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