What I'm Doing Here

I am reading Elsie - Adventures of an Arizona Schoolteacher by Barbara Anne Waite, Elsie's granddaughter.  Elsie taught in Cornville and Williams AZ in the 1900's, and her diaries and letters are a facinating read.  I have decided to go on a journey myself, and first list all of the books Elsie mentions (there are so many!), and after I'm done reading her book, I attempt her reading list.  I will blog about my efforts at this project, but first I must list all of the titles! This could take some time, so expect to see me updating this list until I finish the book. This will be quite the challenge as she mentions sometimes only an author she is reading or a book title.  There will have to be some research that goes into finding each of these literary works, but I think it will be a fun project.  I will put stars next to the books representing how Elsie felt - although she didn't comment on each and every one. One star being Good, and three stars being highly "entertaining."

T. Tembarom (I'm assuming it's an author, not a book, have to look that up)
Hansel and Gretel (she read to her kids alot!)
The King's Highway by Madeline Willard
Quattrocentisteria
Adventure in Contentment by David Grayson **
Morte d' Arthur
Tristan and Iseult
The Gay Rebellion by R. Chamber * (Elsie thought this book was absurd)
The Little Lame Prince
Isaiah - Moulton's edition
Joseph Vance ***
Marie Claire ***
Ladies' Home Journal article "How May a Girl Know"
Green Bough
Alice in Wonderland
Oenone and Lady of Shallot by Tennyson ***
Lady of the Fountain (also Tennyson??)
The Girl with the Green Eyes by Clyde Fitch **
The Servant in the House ***
Treasure Island
Light that Failed (sad, not inspiring)
Twinkling of an Eye
Adonais
The Purple Stockings
Count of Monte Cristo
The Inside of the Cup ***
Trelawney of the Wells
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Gray
Quo Vadis (she skipped parts of this one)
Paola & Francesca
Francesca da Rimini *** (few books show so wild love)
Faust
Aucassin and Nicolette
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
My Friend from India
Chanticleer
The Joy of Living
Last Days of Pompeii
Waverley - short story??
The supremacy of Jesus
Berlin & Sans-Souci by Muhlbach (love stories)
The God are Good - play
Princess by Tennyson
Rob Roy by Scott??
Compensation by Emerson
American Literature
Courage of the Commonplace by Mary R.S. Andrews
Myths
English and American History of Literature
Alhambra
Ancient Mariner
Talisman by Scott??
Vicar of Wakefield
Waif of the Plains by Bret Harte
Plain Tales from the Hills by Kipling
Light of Western Stars by Zane Gray
Amethyst Box by Arma K. Green
Autobiography by Frankilin??
Silas Marner
Lower Depths by M. Gorky
David Copperfield
Guardian Angel by Holmes ***
Les Miserables
Bleak House by Dickens **
The Marble Faun
Daughter of Joris by D'Annunzio
Rhymes and Jingles by W.W. Bass
Tale of Two Cities
Mill on the Floss **
Ivanhoe
History of the English People by Green
South Sea Tales
Call of the Wild
The Lady of the Lake
Woman in the Alcove by A.K. Green
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Pollyanna Grown Up
Dreams
Idylls of the King by Tennyson