If you read in order of Austen, Shelley, Brontë, and then Alcott, you get to talk to women across the transition from the late Georgian and Romantic eras into the Victorian age, from 1811 to 1886.
The Boomers invented it—check out the usage of the term generation gap during the course of the 20th century. The rupture happened when I was still a child, so I inherited it along with most of the other things older Boomers gave to America.
Every modern American dictionary that you've consulted owes something to the Third —even if that something is that the dictionary you're consulting is not the Third.
7mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
