12 Classics: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Better late than never: Let’s chat about the May-book off the list of the 12 classics that I will read in 2023! #classics #nonfiction May read: Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861):   / 597671.incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl   Review of the January book / A Bondswoman’s Narrative:    • 12 Classics: The Bondswoman's Narrative   Review of the February book / Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm (1883):    • 12 Classics: The Story of an African Farm   Review of the March book / Oroonoko:    • 12 Classics: Oroonoko   Review of the April Book / Iola Leroy:    • 12 Classics: Iola Leroy   June pick: Jane Austen, Lady Susan (1871):   / 91582.lady_susan   The 12 classics I want to read in 2023: Sei Shõnagon, The Pillow Book, transl. from the Japanese by Meredith McKinney (1002):   / 18187.the_pillow_book   Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies, transl. from the French by Rosalind Brown-Grant (1405):   / the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies   Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World (1666):   / 354620.the_blazing_world_and_other_writings   Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1688):   / 51187.oroonoko_the_rover_and_other_works   Harriet E. Wilson, Our Nig (1859):   / 369783.our_nig   Hannah Crafts, The Bondswoman’s Narrative (ca. 1859):   / 588937.the_bondwoman_s_narrative   Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861):   / 597671.incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl   Jane Austen, Lady Susan (1871):   / 91582.lady_susan   Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm (1883):   / 588504.the_story_of_an_african_farm   Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Iola Leroy (1892):   / iola-leroy   Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career (1901):   / 1981726.my_brilliant_career   Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (1915):   / 531509.herland   Connect with me: twitter:   / britta_boehler   goodreads:   / 5497508.britta_b_hler   Instagram:   / brittaboehler   The name of the channel (‘The Second Shelf’) was inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's book, 'The Second Sex'. And it was the title of an article by Meg Wolitzer in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/boo... I also wrote some books: Fiction: De juiste houding (2021) / only available in Dutch: https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20... Nonfiction: De goede advocaat (2017) / nonfiction / only available in Dutch: http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/D... Fiction: The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the... In the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php... also available in Dutch, French, Italian, Danish, Greek, Hebrew and Turkish Nonfiction: Crisis in de rechtstaat (2004) / only available in Dutch: https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-... Nonfiction: De zwerftocht van een leider (2000) / only available in Dutch: https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-... Crime fiction, as Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt) The Posthumus Mysteries: Lonely Graves (2014) Lives Lost (2015) Deadly Secrets (June 2016) https://www.hodder.co.uk/authors/deta... also available in German: Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015) Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016) Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017) http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/auto... and in Dutch: Heldhaftig (2012) Vastberaden (2014) Barmhartig (2016) https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-...