That's Right, The Women are Smarter

This page has a selection of resources for my unit on women and gender. At the end of it, we will be doing the Gender Project. Authors include: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, and Jane Austen , Edith Wharton Virgina Woolf and Zora Neale Hurston.

Hey, the assignment is hard, but my essay is weak. The project this year will be the newspapers project

Pygmalion by G. B. Shaw.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

the Yellow Wallpaper
The text Jane Eyre is available, for those of you who need to search. We are writing a Jane essay but see my essay on "Reader, I married him"
Joyce Carol Oates on Jane and a more thoughtful essay
Gaskell's complete biography has been thoughtfully broken down into two parts, A and B You can read a shorter version if you like.
The Victorian Web offers an excellent overview of the whole period, with information from soup to nuts, as well as an overview of her work in particular. This site offers a quick summary and some criticism.
Pretty much all of the criticism can be found in the Victorian Web as well. This essay on Jane Eyre is first class, but highly specific.

So I go looking for information on this book, and I find tons. Penguin Classics has a boring Monarch Note version of the book. Here is a plot summary pretending to be a review and here is an essay about Nectar in government. Humorously, Nectar pops up on many of the college syllabi on line. This cheery essay addresses the role of women in the novel.
the title comes from this obscure Coleridge poem.
Finally, the web is full of unreadable tracts on Ecriture Feminine. this is accessible.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

The text broken into chapters
A handsome, fragmentary picture of the author is available. The Bronte sisters came from Haworth which resembles, not a little, the moors of their novels. Look at the pictures of Wuthering Heights
Bronte Sisters Site This site has tremendous resources for both Charlotte and Emily.

Jane Austen Info page and the novel are both great starting points. Almost everything you need is here. This site has similar information, but more pictures.Here is one more site, with great links for the movies, a recipe for White Soup, and a guide to Regency Fashions.
This novel has been adapted dozens of times, most recently by the BBC and A&E
The Goucher Library has an excellent guide to their collection.

Summer the text and the handouts . This list has almost everything but our two novels.
Wharton's World Welcome to the author.
Ethan Frome. Here is a brief review of the work.ased on Zeena from Ethan Frome; I highly recommend it. This discussion of The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome focuses on the movies, but deals with the books.
Berkshires Where both novels are set and where Wharton's summer home, The Mount, is.

Biography A quick and short biography of the author.
The Virginia Woolf Web lots of good and useful stuff. Exceptionally thorough.
To The Lighthouse Not what you think. A page about lighthouses (with a nightmarish background)>. Mr. Ramsay quotes William Cowper and Tennyson. Mrs. Ramsay gets to eat Boeuf en daube
A brief extract and some others.
A study guide Some questions to help with the novel.
A brief discussion of Stream of Conciousness in Joyce and Woolf. Check this site for improvements. This is related to the Victorian Web.
A Room of One's Own: The Personal Essay A nice essay that discusses Woolf's essay in light of modern writing. Probably an illegal link.

Great Stuff A Great site with lots of information. Notice the dates, however.
What's Love Got to Do With It My essay on Janie and the boys.
Language A strange review that plays the ebonics riff off of Hurston.
A picture A handsome picture of the author, courtesty of the Writer's Project.Here is another, more famous one.
Zora's Homepage
Another Hurston homepage, with good links
These two pictures are good adjuncts to this novel. Worth a look and a discussion. Brown picture and Johnson
Eatonville A festival in florida, celebrating the author.
Harper Collins wants you to buy all her books. The Bibliography.
Raps, Bubba and Affirmative Action A neat discussion about the Afircan American culture today. A good light to see Zora with.
The Harlem Renaissance Zora's golden age. This page is heavily under construction.
Florida Black Heritage Trail with pictures of Eatonville.
Essays A great set of student essays on the novel.