Heroines of Fiction

This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bronte, Thackeray, and others. These studies of nineteenth-century literature were by a critical light of the time.


By : William Dean Howells (1837 - 1920)

01 - Book 1, Chapter 1, Some Nineteenth-Century Heroines in the Eighteenth Century



02 - Book 1, Chapter 2, Frances Burney's Evelina



03 - Book 1, Chapter 3, Two Heroines of Maria Edgeworth's



04 - Book 1, Chapter 4, Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet



05 - Book 1, Chapter 5, Jane Austen's Anne Elliot and Catharine Morland



06 - Book 1, Chapter 6, Jane Austen's Emma Woodhouse, Marianne Dashwood, and Fanny Price



07 - Book 1, Chapter 7, Heroines of Miss Ferrier, Mrs. Opie, and Mrs. Radcliffe



08 - Book 1, Chapter 8, Scott's Rebecca and Rowena, and Lucy Ashton



09 - Book 1, Chapter 9, Scott's Jeanie Deans and Cooper's Lack of Heroines



10 - Book 1, Chapter 10, A Heroine of Bulwer's



11 - Book 1, Chapter 11, The Early Heroines of Dickens



12 - Book 1, Chapter 12, Heroines of Charles Dickens's Middle Period



13 - Book 1, Chapter 13, Dickens's Later Heroines



14 - Book 1, Chapter 14, Hawthorne's Hester Prynne



15 - Book 1, Chapter 15, Hawthorne's Zenobia and Priscilla and Miriam and Hilda



16 - Book 1, Chapter 16, Thackeray's Bad Heroines



17 - Book 1, Chapter 17, Thackeray's Good Heroines



18 - Book 1, Chapter 18, Thackeray's Ethel Newcome and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre



19 - Book 1, Chapter 19, The Two Catharines of Emily Bronte



20 - Book 2, Chapter 1, Charles Kingsley's Hypatia



21 - Book 2, Chapter 2, The Nature of Charles Reade's Heroines



22 - Book 2, Chapter 3, Variations of Reade's Type of Heroines



23 - Book 2, Chapter 4, George Eliot's Maggie Tulliver and Hetty Sorrel



24 - Book 2, Chapter 5, George Eliot's Rosamond Vincy and Dorothea Brooke



25 - Book 2, Chapter 6, George Eliot's Gwendolen Harleth and Jane Dempster



26 - Book 2, Chapter 7, Anthony Trollope's Lily Dale



27 - Book 2, Chapter 8, Anthony Trollope's Lucy Robarts and Griselda Grantly



28 - Book 2, Chapter 9, Anthony Trollope's Mrs. Proudie



29 - Book 2, Chapter 10, The Heroine of ''The Initials''



30 - Book 2, Chapter 11, The Heroine of ''Kate Beaumont''



31 - Book 2, Chapter 12, Mr. James's Daisy Miller



32 - Book 2, Chapter 13, Mr. Thomas Hardy's Heroines



33 - Book 2, Chapter 14, Mr. Thomas Hardy's Bathsheba Everdene and Paula Power



34 - Book 2, Chapter 15, William Black's Gertrude White



35 - Book 2, Chapter 16, Mr. Bret Harte's Miggles and Mr. T. B. Aldrich's Marjorie Daw



36 - Book 2, Chapter 17, Mr. G. W. Cable's Aurora and Clotilde Nancanoe



37 - Book 2, Chapter 18, Mr. H. B. Fuller's Jane Marshall and Miss M. E. Wilkins's Jane Field



38 - Book 2, Chapter 19, Mrs. Humphry Ward's Heroines

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