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
CONTENTS:
SOME NINETEENTH-CENTURY HEROINES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 1
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
THE EARLIER HEROINES OF CHARLES DICKENS. 83
HEROINES OF CHARLES DICKENS'S MIDDLE PERIOD... 90
HAWTHORNE'S HESTER PRYNNE.. 106
HAWTHORNE'S ZENOBIA AND PRISCILLA, AND MIRIAM AND HILDA 115
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
