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2Doulton
Feb 27, 2007, 4:37 pm

I won't use daughters in the title but will focus on books where the relationship of being a daughter is crucial to the plot:
Mill on the Floss
Pride and Prejudice
Sula
The Joy-Luck Club
Jane and Prudence

3TallyDi
Feb 28, 2007, 11:20 am

How interesting to find that I have read both fiction and non-fiction relating to daughters. I really like these lists.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes
The General's Daughter by Nelson DeMille
My Mother/My Self: The Daughter's Search for Identity by Nancy Friday
Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody

4dylanwolf
Edited: Mar 7, 2007, 1:15 am

LynnB, Many thanks for posting a new seed!

My five daughter books -
The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
Unless - Carol Shields
The Child In Time - Ian McEwan
Three novels where a daughter is lost.
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
A daughter tempted by strange new parents.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Narrated by a daughter.

9QuentinTom
Mar 16, 2007, 6:44 am

Dombey and Son by Dickens, all about a girl's relationship with her father
I capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith, ditto, Mrs Gaskell's Wives and Daughters, A Suitable Boy features a parents' attempts to find a suitable husband for their daughter, and Mrs Dalloway has a very troubled mother-daughter relationship.

10QuentinTom
Mar 16, 2007, 6:45 am

sorry touchstones doesn't work for me...:(

13Seajack
May 22, 2007, 1:24 am

The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

Fat Girl by Judith Moore (memoir of life with an abusive mother)

Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs and Revenge of the Paste Eaters: memoirs of a misfit by Cheryl Peck. (memoirs containing anecdotes of her late mother, as well as her relationship with her widower father)

How to be Lost: a novel by Amanda Eyre Ward (fiction involving a missing daughter, as well as paternity issue)

Sharp Objects: a novel by Gillian Flynn (fiction showing damage the mother does in raising all three daughters)

14sflax
May 22, 2007, 12:36 pm

Cool topic!

All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor. Ok, so that's one entry, but there are 5 books in the series, *and* there are 5 daughters.

15lilithcat
May 22, 2007, 1:06 pm

Daughters of the Dust, by Julie Dash (novel, film, and book about the film)
Eve's Daughters: or, Common Sense for Maid, Wife, and Mother, by Marion Harland
Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter, by Karl Kerenyi
In my Mother's House, by Kim Chernin
Daughter of France; the life of Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier, 1627-1693, la Grande Mademoiselle, by Vita Sackville-West

17Enraptured
May 28, 2007, 4:48 pm

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Daughters of Eve by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung

18varielle
Jun 6, 2007, 8:22 am

The Joy Luck Club
The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Passion of Artemisia
Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother
Our Father Who Art in a Tree

19tiddleyboom
Jun 6, 2007, 4:11 pm

#14 sflax-

OMG I forgot all about those books! I loved them as a child.

21aviddiva
Edited: Jun 8, 2007, 2:24 am

Three by by Gene Stratton-Porter:
Daughter of the Land
Her Father's Daughter
A Girl of the Limberlost

Close Company: stories of mothers and daughters by Christine Park & Caroline Heaton
Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley

23MyopicBookworm
Sep 14, 2007, 5:52 am

Hm. Most of the obvious ones have already been mentioned. Here are some books which focus on a daughter:

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott
Sabriel by Garth Nix
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
Homer's Daughter by Robert Graves

25Schmerguls
Sep 18, 2007, 8:50 am

I have read 17 books which have the word daughter in the title. The most recent five are:
The Bonesetter's Daughter, by Amy Tan (read 15 Aug 2001)
The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey (read 28 Aug 2001)
A Clergyman's Daughter, by George Orwell (read 8 Aug 2002)
The Englishman's Daughter A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I, by Ben Macintyre (read 9 Apr 2003)
Dear Senator A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond, by Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem (read 14 Aug 2005)

May I post the other twelve?

26survivingniki
Edited: Sep 18, 2007, 9:48 am

Wow, Schmerguls. You must be really organized to know when you read each book. I could just say a probable year and maybe the season, but never the month. How do you keep up with it?

Does anyone else keep such good tabs on their reading?

Edited to add: And to everyone: Sorry about the thread hijack. Umm, carry on. :)

27LynnB
Sep 18, 2007, 4:46 pm

I keep a list of books I read by year....I've done so since 2003. Just the year .. no months, days or hours!

And I would love to see the other 12!

28Schmerguls
Edited: Sep 22, 2007, 7:25 am

Here, LynnB, they are:

Queen Victoria's Daughters, by E. F. Benson (read 25 July 1945)
Kate Chase Dominant Daughter The Life Story of a Brilliant Woman and Her Famous Father, by Mary Merwin Phelps (read 11 Dec 1945)
Waverly Novels--Volume VII: The Fair Maid of Perth - Anne of Geierstein - The Surgeon's Daughter - Castle Dangerous, by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (read 11 Jan 1981)
The Optimist's Daughter, by Eudora Welty (read 22 May 1981) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1973)
A Daughter of the Middle Border, by Hamlin Garland (read 10 Jan 1982) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1922)
Daughter of Fire: A Portrait of Iceland, by Katharine Scherman (read 10 Jan 1986)
The Daughter of an Empress, by Louise Muhlbach (read 18 Sep 1988)
The Kaiser's Daughter: Memories of H.R.H. Viktoria Luise, Duchess of Brunswick and Luneberg, Princess of Prussia translated and edited by Robert Vacha (read 15 Oct 1989)
Terry: My Daughter's Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism, by George McGovern (read 15 Dec 1996)
Victoria and her daughters, by Nina Epton (read 1 Jan 1999)
Frederick Manfred: A Daughter Remembers, by Freya Manfred (read 9 Dec 1999)
Hitler's Children: Sons and Daughters of Leaders of the Third Reich Talk About Their Fathers and Themselves, by Gerald L. Posner (read 17 Dec 2000)

29patchygirl
Edited: Oct 16, 2017, 8:15 am

A Daughter's a Daughter by Mary Westmacott
What Should We Tell Our Daughters by Melissa Benn
Governess (UK title is *Other People's Daughters*) by Ruth Brandon
Britannia's Daughters by Joanna Trollope
Being George Devine's Daughter by Harriet Devine

30EMS_24
Edited: Oct 16, 2017, 9:02 am

Jacoba, dochter van Holland by Simone van der Vlugt Jacoba, daughter of Holland
Brief aan mijn dochter by Abdelkader Benali Letter to my daughter
Mijn dochter wordt sirene by Karel Jonckheere My daughter will be a Siren
Insulinde's dochter by Merapi Obermayer Insulinde is the East Indies,
Kathy's dochter by Tim Krabbé

32rolandperkins
Edited: Oct 17, 2017, 3:14 am

The Daughter of Dawn by Myles Norbert

New York, New York, June 2, 2001: Visit with
Daughter Notebook by Elizabeth Jackson

"Where she Came from: a Daughter's Search for
her Mother's History" by Helen Epstein

"Doctor Hathern's Daughters: a Story of Virginia
in four parts" by Mary Jane Holmes

If it's for my Daughter, I'd even Defeat a Demon Lord
by Chirolu