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      Heroines Of Fiction

      WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

      

      

      

       Heroines of Fiction, W. D. Howells

       Jazzybee Verlag Jürgen Beck

       86450 Altenmünster, Loschberg 9

       Deutschland

      

       ISBN: 9783849657710

      

       www.jazzybee-verlag.de

       [email protected]

      

      

      

      

      CONTENTS:

       SOME NINETEENTH-CENTURY HEROINES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 1

       FRANCES BURNEY'S EVELINA.. 9

       TWO HEROINES OF MARIA EDGEWORTH'S. 16

       JANE AUSTEN'S ELIZABETH BENNET.. 25

       JANE AUSTEN'S ANNE ELIOT AND CATHARINE MORLAND... 33

       JANE AUSTEN'S EMMA WOODHOUSE, MARIANNE DASHWOOD, AND FANNY PRICE 43

       HEROINES OF MISS FERRIER, MRS. OPIE, AND MRS. RADCLIFFE.. 52

       SCOTT'S REBECCA AND ROWENA, AND LUCY ASHTON... 60

       SCOTT'S JEANIE DEANS AND COOPER'S LACK OF HEROINES. 68

       A HEROINE OF BULWER'S. 75

       THE EARLIER HEROINES OF CHARLES DICKENS. 83

       HEROINES OF CHARLES DICKENS'S MIDDLE PERIOD... 90

       DICKENS'S LATER HEROINES. 98

       HAWTHORNE'S HESTER PRYNNE.. 106

       HAWTHORNE'S ZENOBIA AND PRISCILLA, AND MIRIAM AND HILDA 115

       THACKERAY'S BAD HEROINES. 125

       THACKERAY'S GOOD HEROINES. 133

       THACKERAY'S ETHEL NEWCOME AND CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S JANE EYRE 141

       THE TWO CATHARINES OF EMILY BRONTE.. 150

       CHARLES KINGSLEY'S HYPATIA.. 158

       THE NATURE OF CHARLES READE'S HEROINES. 166

       VARIATIONS OF READE'S TYPE OF HEROINES. 175

       GEORGE ELIOT'S MAGGIE TULLIVER AND HETTY SORREL. 185

       GEORGE ELIOT'S ROSAMOND VINCY AND DOROTHEA BROOKE 198

       GEORGE ELIOT'S GWENDOLEN HARLETH AND JANET DEMPSTER 207

       ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S LILY DALE.. 217

       ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S LUCY ROBARTS AND GRISELDA GRANTLY 227

       ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S MRS. PROUDIE.. 236

       THE HEROINE OF "THE INITIALS". 246

       THE HEROINE OF " KATE BEAUMONT". 255

       MR. JAMES'S DAISY MILLER.. 263

       MR. THOMAS HARDY'S HEROINES. 272

       MR. THOMAS HARDY'S BATHSHEBA EVERDENE AND PAULA POWER 282

       WILLIAM BLACK'S GERTRUDE WHITE.. 294

       MR. BRET HARTE'S MIGGLES, AND MR. T. B. ALDRICH'S MARJORIE DAW 303

       MR. G. W. CABLE'S AURORA AND CLOTILDE NANCANOU.. 309

       MR. H. B. FULLER'S JANE MARSHALL AND MISS M. E. WILKINS'S JANE FIELD 316

       MRS. HUMPHRY WARD'S HEROINES. 326

      SOME NINETEENTH-CENTURY HEROINES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

      IN proposing to confine these studies to the nineteenth-century heroines of Anglo-Saxon fiction, I find myself confronted by a certain question, which I should like to share with

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