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Top 10 Underrated Classic Novels Written by Women |
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Evelina
by Fanny Burney
Traces the adventures of country-born Evelina as she tries to make it in London, pursued by cads and used by boorish relatives.
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The Last Man
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontè
Depicts the unhappy marriage of Helen Graham and her drunken husband, realistically portraying the devastating impact of alcoholism.
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Miss Marjoribanks
by Margaret Oliphant
Follows the exploits of its heroine, Lucilla Marjoribanks, as she schemes to improve the social life of the provincial English town of Carlingford.
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Plum Bun
by Jessie Redmon Fauset
After her parents die, Angela Murray, a young mulatto, decides to move from Philadelphia to New York and live as a white woman.
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Grand Hotel
by Vicki Baum
Five diverse guests stay in a German hotel for two days after World War I.
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Abigail
by Magda Szabo
A willful teenager in Hungary rebels after being sent away to boarding school at a grim religious institution and seeks the assistance of a classical statue of a woman at the center of a local legend.
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Lucy Gayheart
by Willa Cather
Fervently pursuing the life of an artist, a young music student leaves behind her small midwestern town existence and comes to know the elation and heartache of a life in the creative world.
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The Street
by Ann Lane Petry
Explores the life and dreams of a young woman who struggles to raise her son in a suffocating ghetto world of racism, human degradation, and uncontrolled violence.
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Bonjour Tristesse
by Franðcoise Sagan
Cecile is the spoiled 17-year-old daughter of Raymond, a wealthy Parisian widower vacationing in a villa on the French Riviera. Their pleasure-seeking existence is threatened when Raymond decides to marry Cecile's straitlaced godmother, Anne, who disapproves of the teenager's steamy summer affair with Philippe.
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