How to be a heroine, or, What I've learned from reading too much
By: Samantha Ellis
Publisher: Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781101872093
Subjects: Books and reading; Heroines in literature; Characters and characteristics in literature; Women in literature
Other titles: How to be a heroine; What I've learned from reading too much
Description: "A young writer explores what some of the greatest women in literature have meant to her--and how these timeless characters still serve as a guide for the way we lead our lives"--
Notes: "A Vintage Books original"--Title page verso.

"Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of the Random House Group Limited, London, in 2014"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: The little mermaid; title: Anne of Green Gables; title: Lizzy Bennet; title: Scarlett O'Hara; title: Franny Glass - Luch Honeychurch; title: The Dolls (from the Valley); title: Cathy Earnshaw; title: Flora Poste; title: Scheherazade.