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Heroines of Fiction
by William Dean HOWELLS (1837 - 1920)Book 2, Chapter 10, The Heroine of ''The Initials''
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)
Listen next episodes of Heroines of Fiction:
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