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This was a very, very good book. Wow.

I enjoy books that are told in two different time frames, as they usually end with a very clever link between the two (and in this book it was done perfectly)

The two different time frames both had strong female characters (one of which was called Emily 🙈)

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"To know how to do everything which can properly come within a women's sphere of duty should be the ambition of every female mind"

"The very expression - falling in love - has done an incalculable amount of michief, by conveying the idea that it is a thing that cannot be resisted, and which must be given way to, either with or without reason"

"Above every other feature which adorns the female character, delicacy stands foremost within the provence of good taste"

"I am far from asserting that there are not instances of noble and generous-hearted men who know how to be the friend of a women; these instances are lamentably rare"

"The bloom of modesty is soon rubbed off, and can never be restored"

"There is no subject on which young women are apt to make so many and such fatal mistakes as in the regulation of their emotions of attraction and repulsion."

"To love and to hate, then, seem to be the two things which it is most natural and easy for women to do. How important is it, therefore, that they should learn early in life to love and hate aright"

"Youth is the season of impression"

I love this book so far!
It tells the story of two girls, one in the present day and one in the late 1800s. The chapters alternate between the two time frames, with the diary entries from the 1800s starting with a quote that reflects the events of the chapter to come. I think they are interesting and thought provoking, even on their own. I will share the ones that I have read so far, and the rest as I come to them.

Also, 300 followers?!!! 😊