Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights

It’s an overcast day here…which totally puts me in the mood for novels like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights because it just doesn’t get much better than misty moors and mysterious secrets when it’s cloudy outside. I remember laying with my feet hooked over the back of my grandmother’s couch one summer evening, feverishly reading Jane Eyre, thinking I had found the...

Girl of the Limberlost

“To Wesley and to Margaret the bright young face of Elnora, with its pink tints, its heavy dark brows, its bright blue-gray eyes, and its frame of curling reddish-brown hair...

Old-Fashioned Girl

“Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are...

The Secret Garden

“However many years she lived, Mary always felt that she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow.” -Frances Hodgson Burnett It was in The Secret...

Anne of Green Gables

“I don’t want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.” -Anne Shirley Tattered and well-loved, tear-stained and dog-eared, this is where it all began. Best read with tissue close...

Rachel Dodge

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my...