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Heroines of Fiction

by William Dean HOWELLS (1837 - 1920)

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

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. (Summary by Jim Locke)

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Listen next episodes of Heroines of Fiction:
Book 1, Chapter 10, A Heroine of Bulwer's , Book 1, Chapter 11, The Early Heroines of Dickens , Book 1, Chapter 12, Heroines of Charles Dickens's Middle Period , Book 1, Chapter 13, Dickens's Later Heroines , Book 1, Chapter 14, Hawthorne's Hester Prynne , Book 1, Chapter 15, Hawthorne's Zenobia and Priscilla and Miriam and Hilda , Book 1, Chapter 16, Thackeray's Bad Heroines , Book 1, Chapter 17, Thackeray's Good Heroines , Book 1, Chapter 18, Thackeray's Ethel Newcome and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre , Book 1, Chapter 19, The Two Catharines of Emily Bronte , Book 1, Chapter 4, Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet , Book 1, Chapter 5, Jane Austen's Anne Elliot and Catharine Morland , Book 1, Chapter 6, Jane Austen's Emma Woodhouse, Marianne Dashwood, and Fanny Price , Book 1, Chapter 7, Heroines of Miss Ferrier, Mrs. Opie, and Mrs. Radcliffe , Book 1, Chapter 8, Scott's Rebecca and Rowena, and Lucy Ashton , Book 1, Chapter 9, Scott's Jeanie Deans and Cooper's Lack of Heroines , Book 2, Chapter 1, Charles Kingsley's Hypatia , Book 2, Chapter 10, The Heroine of ''The Initials'' , Book 2, Chapter 11, The Heroine of ''Kate Beaumont'' , Book 2, Chapter 12, Mr. James's Daisy Miller , Book 2, Chapter 13, Mr. Thomas Hardy's Heroines , Book 2, Chapter 14, Mr. Thomas Hardy's Bathsheba Everdene and Paula Power , Book 2, Chapter 15, William Black's Gertrude White , Book 2, Chapter 16, Mr. Bret Harte's Miggles and Mr. T. B. Aldrich's Marjorie Daw , Book 2, Chapter 17, Mr. G. W. Cable's Aurora and Clotilde Nancanoe , Book 2, Chapter 18, Mr. H. B. Fuller's Jane Marshall and Miss M. E. Wilkins's Jane Field , Book 2, Chapter 19, Mrs. Humphry Ward's Heroines , Book 2, Chapter 2, The Nature of Charles Reade's Heroines , Book 2, Chapter 3, Variations of Reade's Type of Heroines , Book 2, Chapter 4, George Eliot's Maggie Tulliver and Hetty Sorrel , Book 2, Chapter 5, George Eliot's Rosamond Vincy and Dorothea Brooke , Book 2, Chapter 6, George Eliot's Gwendolen Harleth and Jane Dempster , Book 2, Chapter 7, Anthony Trollope's Lily Dale , Book 2, Chapter 8, Anthony Trollope's Lucy Robarts and Griselda Grantly , Book 2, Chapter 9, Anthony Trollope's Mrs. Proudie