Subscribe by email:I just watched Jane Eyre starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. It’s a good thing that I hadn’t read this book when I was a teenager. It would have encouraged me to imagine all kinds of misery and suffering. I was moody without the help!
As much as I appreciated the bleak world Charlotte Bronte created, I prefer the lighter mood in Jane Austen’s world. Or maybe I prefer Austen’s heroines over Jane Eyre. I didn’t read any of the Bronte sisters or Austen in my childhood. Instead, I read American authors like Laura Ingalls Wilder and Louisa May Alcott. I identified strongly with Jo March in Alcott’s Little Women, but I suspect every girl does when she reads that book!
Which literary heroine did you identify with when you were growing up?
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For me, it was Nancy Drew all the way! She had my first name. She was smart, attractive, wealthy, personable – and could kick butt when necessary. She got to travel extensively, and solve interesting mysteries. What more could anyone ask for??!!??
Anne of Green Gables; I grew up in the country.
For me, I can’t answer this the way you asked, because for the most part, I really didn’t read a whole lot of fiction from what I remember. It was always my astronomy books. So I could say Sally Ride. But going for now, of course, would say Elizabeth Bennet… but part of me wouldn’t mind being a little Lady Catherine.
Lois
I was not much of a reader as a kid, but I did read and enjoy some of Nancy Drew’s cases and Anne Of Green Gables…
I read a lot of “The Baby-sitters Club” books when I was growing up. Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, Stacey… the way they started their own rather successful business as young girls, they were heroines to me.
Ah, I always had a spot for Jo March (in Little women)!
As such, I didn’t feel much connected, but I liked her compared to others
I didn’t like to read so I never identified with any heroines.
Cathy from WUTHERING HEIGHTS drew me to her. To be loved so absolutely & madly. I wanted to try to tame Heathcliff.
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