Rhys, Jean
"Wide Sargasso Sea" - 2025
#6Degrees is a monthly link-up hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. I love the idea. Thank you, Kate. See more about this challenge, its history, further books and how I found this here.
The starter book this month is a wildcard. We have to start with the book we finished our December chain with. That was "Wide Sargasso Sea" for me.
That was a lovely book to start with as it is a prequel to Jane Eyre who is a governess. The book was written by Charlotte Brontë whose sister Anne was also an author and who wrote a book about another governess, Agnes Grey. In the novel Emma by Jane Austen, there is the question of Jane Fairfax becoming a governess. The main character in Little Dorrit works as a seamstress to support her family but there is the governess, Mrs. General who is hired by her father after he becomes wealthy. The protagonist in Vanity Fair, Becky Sharp, however, is a governess. In the Thirteenth Tale, the main characters Adeline and Emmeline have a governess again.
Brontë, Anne "Agnes Grey" - 1847
Austen, Jane "Emma" - 1816 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen)
Austen, Jane "Emma" - 1816 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen)
Dickens, Charles "Little Dorrit" - 1857
Thackeray, William Makepeace "Vanity Fair, or, A Novel Without a Hero" - 1848
Thackeray, William Makepeace "Vanity Fair, or, A Novel Without a Hero" - 1848
Setterfield, Diane "The Thirteenth Tale" - 2006
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Easy to get the connection this time, right? They are all about governesses.
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I just saw this meme on someone else's blog and it looks so fun!
ReplyDeleteIt definitely is a lot of fun, Lindsi. Check out Kate's page, you can find many more links there.
DeleteOooh, I like this thread. Yes, stories about governesses abound. I really want to reread Little Dorrit, one of my favorite Dickens novels, and Vanity Fair is one of my all time favorite novels as well.
ReplyDeleteI love this challenge, Jane. It's always fun to start with a book you have never heard of, well, most of the time. This time, we were to start with the last book from the last list, so it was a book we had heard of. But it was just as interesting.
DeleteLittle Dorrit. It's been a while that I read it. My favourite Dickens is David Copperfield but I might have to re-read Dorrit next. Thanks for that.
That is so clever!
ReplyDeleteAh, well, Lisa. I prefer to go with the words in the titles. That way I get a larger variety. But this was one of my books where I found lots of others with the same subject, so I just had to do it this time.
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