Following on from a previous post The UK’s favourite 15 literary heroines, here are some other heroines that might have made it, but didn’t. I leave you to identify the books they came from! By the way, what is the collective noun for literary heroines? A quill? A scribble? A canon? Thank you, Bill, for your suggestions of more names (via Facebook) – now added. Any others missing? Whether obvious, interesting or silly?
- Alice in Wonderland
- Angelina Johnson
- Anne Elliot
- Beatrice
- Belle de Jour
- Bridget Jones
- Celie
- Cordelia
- Daenerys Targaryen
- Dorothea Brooke
- Elinor / Marianne Dashwood
- Eliza Doolittle
- Emma Bovary
- Francesca da Rimini
- Guinevere
- Gwendolen Harleth
- Helen of Troy
- Hermione Grainger
- Holly Golightly
- Isabel Archer
- Juliet
- Kate Croy
- Lady Chatterley
- Lady Macbeth
- Lady of Shalott
- Lucy Pevensie
- Lucy Snowe
- Marian Halcombe
- Mary Barton
- Mary Garth
- Mary Poppins
- Matilda Wormwood
- Miss Havisham
- Moll Flanders
- Mrs Danvers
- Pippi Longstocking
- Pollyanna
- Rachel Verinder
- Tinkerbell
The original list:
- Elizabeth Bennet – Pride & Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen
- Miss Marple – Miss Marple – (1927) Agatha Christie
- Jane Eyre – Jane Eyre – (1847) Charlotte Bronte
- Scarlett O’Hara – Gone With the Wins (1936) Margaret Mitchell
- Jo March – Little Women (1880) Louisa May Alcott
- Eponine – Les Miserables (1862) – Victor Hugo
- Arwyn – The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (first published 1954) J. R. R Tolkien
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) Thomas Hardy
- Catherine Earnshaw – Wuthering Heights (1847) Emily Bronte
- Galadriel – The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings (1937) J. R. R. Tolkien
- Anna Karenina – Anna Karenina (1877) Leo Tolstoy
- Daisy Buchanan – The Great Gatsby (1925) F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Bathsheba Everdene – Far From the Madding Crowd (1874) Thomas Hardy
- Becky Sharp – Vanity Fair (1848) William Makepeace Thackeray
- Emma – Emma (1815) Jane Austen
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I love this post, and I love your blog. I saw you spruiking it on 101 Books. I don’t think this is too niche at all – I think its great. You have a new follower!
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Thank you, Weezelle – and welcome aboard. And thank you 101 Books. Following your blog – I’m glad now that I managed to get tea drinking into my Conan Doyle book review today!
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