Heroines
Subtitle: the lives of great literary characters and what they have to teach us
By: Mary Riso.
Contributors: Riso, Mary, 1960-
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Women in literature.; Heroines in literature.; Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Natasha in War and peace / L.N. Tolstoy; title: Jane in Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte; title: Lucy in the Chronicles of Narnia and the green lady in Perelandra / C.S. Lewis; title: Anne in persuasion / Jane Austen; title: Kitty in Anna Karenin / L.N. Tolstoy; title: Bobbie in The railway children / Edith Nesbit; title: Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen; title: Betsey in David Copperfield / Charles Dickens; title: Pauline in Descent into hell / Charles Williams; title: Psyche in Till We Have Faces / C.S. Lewis; title: Celia in The Cocktail Party / T.S. Eliot; title: Julia in Brideshead Revisited / Evelyn Waugh; title: Mary in the Secret Garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett; title: Alice in Can You Forgive Her? / Anthony Trollope; title: Lucie in A Tale of Two Cities / Charles Dickens.