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