Heroines Of Fiction

Heroines Of Fiction
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The numerous class of novel readers who for a lifetime have wandered through the fields of fiction, not premeditatedly seeking mental or moral improvement, but with a mind chiefly on «pleasure bent,» have a treat in store in 'Heroines of Fiction.' Mr. Howells does not write of his own heroines of fiction – it is the creations of the English and American novelists of times long ago who have filled an imaginative world with a galaxy of feminine loveliness and charm that he considers. The dear old friends of fiction who have become as real to us, in name and appearance, as if we and they had lived side by side in the passing years. Mr. Howells presents them to us again, recalling many endearing traits and captivating graces—looking at them also from the literary standpoint and their special relation to the story to which they belong. Mr. Howells has his favorites among novel writers, and he frankly avows his likings. Jane Austen, George Eliot and Henry James he places on a high pedestal far above their contemporaries. Second only to these is the place he awards to Thomas Hardy and Mrs. Humphry Ward. Beginning with Richardson's «Clarissa Harlowe,» he gives us loving and graceful sketches often set in a dramatic scene from the novel under discussion of the heroines of Dickens, Scott, Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Reade, and many others.

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William Dean Howells. Heroines Of Fiction

CONTENTS:

SOME NINETEENTH-CENTURY HEROINES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

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FRANCES BURNEY'S EVELINA

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TWO HEROINES OF MARIA EDGEWORTH'S

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JANE AUSTEN'S ELIZABETH BENNET

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JANE AUSTEN'S ANNE ELIOT AND CATHARINE MORLAND

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

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

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SCOTT'S REBECCA AND ROWENA, AND LUCY ASHTON

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

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A HEROINE OF BULWER'S

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THE EARLIER HEROINES OF CHARLES DICKENS

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HEROINES OF CHARLES DICKENS'S MIDDLE PERIOD

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DICKENS'S LATER HEROINES

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HAWTHORNE'S HESTER PRYNNE

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HAWTHORNE'S ZENOBIA AND PRISCILLA, AND MIRIAM AND HILDA

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THACKERAY'S BAD HEROINES

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THACKERAY'S GOOD HEROINES

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

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THE TWO CATHARINES OF EMILY BRONTE

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CHARLES KINGSLEY'S HYPATIA

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THE NATURE OF CHARLES READE'S HEROINES

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VARIATIONS OF READE'S TYPE OF HEROINES

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GEORGE ELIOT'S MAGGIE TULLIVER AND HETTY SORREL

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GEORGE ELIOT'S ROSAMOND VINCY AND DOROTHEA BROOKE

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GEORGE ELIOT'S GWENDOLEN HARLETH AND JANET DEMPSTER

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ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S LILY DALE

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ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S LUCY ROBARTS AND GRISELDA GRANTLY

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ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S MRS. PROUDIE

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THE HEROINE OF "THE INITIALS"

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THE HEROINE OF " KATE BEAUMONT"

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MR. JAMES'S DAISY MILLER

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MR. THOMAS HARDY'S HEROINES

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MR. THOMAS HARDY'S BATHSHEBA EVERDENE AND PAULA POWER

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WILLIAM BLACK'S GERTRUDE WHITE

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

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

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

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MRS. HUMPHRY WARD'S HEROINES

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Heroines Of Fiction

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

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CHARLES KINGSLEY'S HYPATIA.. 158

THE NATURE OF CHARLES READE'S HEROINES. 166

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