What Do I Read Next?
- Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1869) tells the story of four sisters living in New England after the Civil War. The main character, Jo March, is a determined and independent woman who holds onto her aspiration of becoming a writer, despite the societal expectations that writing is a male-dominated field.
- Anne of Green Gables (1908), authored by L. M. Montgomery, narrates the adventures of an imaginative orphan who moves to a farm and often finds herself in trouble due to her vivid imagination. This book is the first in a series of eight novels that chronicle Anne's journey as she matures into a self-sufficient young woman.
- Little House on the Prairie (1935) is part of a series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, depicting her childhood as a pioneer in the Midwest during the mid-1800s. Laura is intelligent and keenly observant, and much like Mattie in A Northern Light, she dreams of one day becoming a writer.
- Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) chronicles Janie Crawford's physical and spiritual journey from rural Florida to the all-black town of Eatonville, Florida, then to a region known as the Florida "muck," and eventually back to Eatonville. Throughout her three marriages, Janie encounters challenges similar to those faced by many African American women in the early 20th century, yet she remains a dignified and resolute female protagonist.
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