Novels about daughters
So, tonight in class someone made a side-comment about how many books with the word "daughter" in the title are out there. Here's a list where daughter is used as a noun.
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
The Professor's Daughter
The Alchemist's Daughter
The Goldminer's Daughter
The Admiral's Daughter
The Abortionist's Daughter
The Communist's Daughter
The Tailor's Daughter
The President's Daughter
The Prodigal Daughter
The Sea King's Daughter
The Thief Queen's Daughter
The Cantor's Daughter
The Bearkeeper's Daughter
The King of Elfland's Daughter
The Gravedigger's Daughter
The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Mistress's Daughter
The Hummingbird's Daughter
The Pirate's Daughter
The Daughter of Time
The Seven Daughters of Eve
The Daughter's of Lancaster County (a trilogy of these titles: The Storekeeper's Daughter, The Quliter's Daughter, The Bishop's Daughter)
A Clergyman's Daughter
A Daughter of Isis
Rashi's Daughters
Galileo's Daughter
Pandora's Daughter
Mr. Darcy's Daughters
Optimist's Daughter
Eve's Daughters
Wizard's Daughter
Abram's Daughters (is technically a series title of 5 books by Beverly Lewis)
Belshazzar's Daughter
Devil's Daughter
Burger's Daughter
Egalia's Daughters
Father Melancholy's Daughter
Somebody's Daughter
Daughter of York
Mara, Daughter of the Nile
Daughter of Fortune
Daughters of the River Huong
Daughter of the River
Daughter: A Novel
I have officially reached the point where the word daughter looks like it's spelled wrong when I type it.
Comments
Haven't all of these books been Oprah Book club choices? Also, I noticed a similar trend recently with "Wife." If my arm weren't sore from Guitar Hero, I would blame the patriarchy.
OT, I watched a documentary on pre-revolutionary America, which tried to recreate the pronounciations of how English sounded then, and they pronounced the "gh" in "daughter" like the "gh" in "tough," so it sounded like "daufter."
Posted by: Victoria | April 8, 2008 9:12 AM
lifetime is showing a made for tv movie of "the memory keeper's daughter."
Posted by: mike | April 11, 2008 1:10 PM