Sublime

A Little Princess (greatest vindication story ever), The Golden Compass (greatest animal character ever), and Little Women

Mrs Lemon’s school, the chief school in the county, where the teaching included all that was demanded in the accomplished female – even to extras, such as the getting in and out of a carriage.

‘’Tis sure any sister of mine should know how to cook mutton without setting fire to it, and at the least, how to season a stirabout. Our ma,’ he informed me, straight-faced, ‘would be scandalized.’

She was born a Quaker. As such, she found herself in a vastly different social milieu than other American girls—a world with at least a window open to other possibilities. Her family believed in absolute equality of the sexes.

steaming bowls full of chicken dumpling soup, gooey baked cheese and crusty bread still warm from the oven, spiced rice pudding with honey-fried pears, blueberry buttermilk pancakes stacked a foot high and smothered with syrup… and scones!

Jo March of Little Women is one, the eponymous Anne of Green Gables another, Betsy Ray of the beloved Betsy-Tacy books a third.

Lilla Cabot Perry,