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Heroines of fiction /

William Dean Howells (1837-1920), autodidact from the farmlands of Ohio, was a realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". In his "Editor's Study" column at The Atlantic Monthly and, later, at Harper's, he formulated and...

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Main Author: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
Other Authors: Keller, Arthur Ignatius, 1866-1924
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, Harper and Brothers, 1901.
Subjects:
Fiction.
Women in art.
Table of Contents:
  • Volume I. ([vi], 238 pages) ; Some nineteenth-century heroines in the eighteenth century
  • Frances Burney's Evelina
  • Two heroines of Maria Edgeworth's
  • Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet
  • Jane Austen's Anne Eliot and Catharine Morland
  • Jane Austen's Emma Woodhouse, Marianne Dashwood, and Fanny Price
  • Heroines of Miss Ferrier, Mrs. Opie, and Mrs. Radcliffe
  • Scott's Rebecca and Rowena, and Lucy Ashton
  • Scott's Jeanie Deans and Cooper's lack of heroines
  • A heroine of Bulwer's
  • The earlier heroines of Charles Dickens
  • Heroines of Charles Dickens's middle period
  • Dickens's later heroines
  • Hawthorne's Hester Prynne
  • Hawthorne's' Zenobia and Priscilla, and Miriam and Hilda
  • Thackeray's bad heroines
  • Thackeray's good heroines
  • Thackeray's Ethel Newcome and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
  • The two Catharines of Emily Brontë.
  • Volume II. ([vi], 273 pages) ; Charles Kingsley's Hypatia
  • The nature of Charles Reade's heroines
  • Variations of Reade's type of heroines
  • George Eliot's Maggie Tulliver and Hetty Sorrel
  • George Eliot's Rosamond Vincy and Dorothea Brooke
  • George Eliot's Gwendolen Harleth and Janet Dempster
  • Anthony Trollope's Lily Dale
  • Anthony Trollope's Lucy Robarts and Griselda Grantly
  • Anthony Trollope's Mrs. Proudie
  • The heroine of "The Initials"
  • The heroine of "Kate Beaumont"
  • Mr. James's Daisy Miller
  • Mr. Thomas Hardy's heroines
  • Mr. Thomas Hardy's Bathsheba Everdene and Paula Power
  • William Black's Gertrude White
  • Mr. Bret Harte's Miggles, and Mr. T.B. Aldrich's Marjorie Daw
  • Mr. G.W. Cable's Aurora and Clotilde Nancanou
  • Mr. H.B. Fuller's Jane Marshall, and Miss M.E. Wilkins's Jane Field
  • Mrs. Humphry Ward's heroines.