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2011 A to Z Challenge


I enjoyed doing the A to Z challenge in 2010, although I didn’t finish it. But I think I’ll give it a second try in 2011, doing the Authors and Titles options. This, of course, is figure-it-out-as-I-go…


Titles:

Alas, Poor Lady, by Rachel Ferguson

The Bolter, by Robin Osborne

Cassandra at the Wedding, by Dorothy Baker

The Du Mauriers, by Daphne Du Maurier

Every Eye, by Isobel English

Few Eggs and No Oranges, by Vere Hodgson

The Glass-Blowers, by Daphne Du Maurier

The Heroine's Bookshelf, by Erin Blakemore

The Invisible Bridge, by Julie Orringer

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

K

The Lion of Mortimer, by Juliet Dymoke

Mrs. Miniver, by Jan Struther

N

The Outcast, by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Pearl Buck of China, by Hilary Spurling

Q

Reuben Sachs, by Amy Levy

Sisters by a River, by Barbara Comyns

Thunder on the Right, by Mary Stewart

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, by Isabella Bird

A Very Great Profession, by Nicola Beauman

The Winter Journey, by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

X

Y

Z


Authors:

Adam, Ruth: A Woman's Place

Bagnold, Enid: The Loved and Envied

Chadwick, Elizabeth: The Falcons of Montabard

Dennys, Joyce: Henrietta Sees it Through

Eden, Emily: Up the Country

Findlater, Mary: Crossriggs

Gortner, CW: The Tudor Secret

Holtby, Winifred: Anderby Wold

I

Jesse, F Tennyson: A Pin to See the Peepshow

Keane, Molly: Devoted Ladies

Larson, Erik: In the Garden of Beasts

Moran, Michelle: Madame Tussaud

Nicolson, Juliet: The Perfect Summer

Oliphant, Margaret: Hester

Plampin, Matthew: The Devil's Acre

Quindlen, Anna: How Reading Changed My Life

Raybourn, Deanna: The Dark Enquiry

Sinclair, May: The Three Sisters

Taylor, Elizabeth: In a Summer Season

U

V

West, Rebecca: Harriet Hume

Xiaolong, Qiu: Death of a Red Heroine

Young, EH: The Curate's Wife

Z

Comments

Svea Love said…
I started late on this challenge last year and did not finish it... I was a middle of the alphabet kind of girl, lol. Maybe I shall give it another go. Good luck!
December 21, 2010 at 7:01 PM
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