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How To Be A Heroine
Author | : Samantha Ellis |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2014-01-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781448130832 |
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Cathy Earnshaw or Jane Eyre? Petrova or Posy? Scarlett or Melanie? Lace or Valley of the Dolls? On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights, Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best: Jane Eyre or Cathy Earnshaw. She was all for wild, passionate Cathy; but her friend found Cathy silly, a snob, while courageous Jane makes her own way. And that’s when Samantha realised that all her life she’d been trying to be Cathy when she should have been trying to be Jane. So she decided to look again at her heroines – the girls, women, books that had shaped her ideas of the world and how to live. Some of them stood up to the scrutiny (she will always love Lizzy Bennet); some of them most decidedly did not (turns out Katy Carr from What Katy Did isn’t a carefree rebel, she’s a drip). There were revelations (the real heroine of Gone with the Wind? It's Melanie), joyous reunions (Anne of Green Gables), poignant memories (Sylvia Plath) and tearful goodbyes (Lucy Honeychurch). And then there was Jilly Cooper... How To Be A Heroine is Samantha’s funny, touching, inspiring exploration of the role of heroines, and our favourite books, in all our lives – and how they change over time, for better or worse, just as we do.
How to Be a Heroine
Author | : Samantha Ellis |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2015-02-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781101872109 |
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While debating literature’s greatest heroines with her best friend, thirtysomething playwright Samantha Ellis has a revelation—her whole life, she's been trying to be Cathy Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights when she should have been trying to be Jane Eyre. With this discovery, she embarks on a retrospective look at the literary ladies—the characters and the writers—whom she has loved since childhood. From early obsessions with the March sisters to her later idolization of Sylvia Plath, Ellis evaluates how her heroines stack up today. And, just as she excavates the stories of her favorite characters, Ellis also shares a frank, often humorous account of her own life growing up in a tight-knit Iraqi Jewish community in London. Here a life-long reader explores how heroines shape all our lives.
Heroine
Author | : Mindy McGinnis |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2019-03-12 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780062847218 |
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A captivating and powerful exploration of the opioid crisis—the deadliest drug epidemic in American history—through the eyes of a college-bound softball star. Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a visceral and necessary novel about addiction, family, friendship, and hope. When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she’s ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she’s been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends—fellow injured athletes, others with just time to kill—Mickey finds peaceful acceptance, and people with whom words come easily, even if it is just the pills loosening her tongue. But as the pressure to be Mickey Catalan heightens, her need increases, and it becomes less about pain and more about want, something that could send her spiraling out of control.
Once Upon a Heroine
Author | : Alison Cooper-Mullin,Jennifer Marmaduke Coye |
Publsiher | : McGraw Hill Professional |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0809230208 |
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Contains over 450 entries that describe books that have female heroines; includes publishing information, a short overview of the plot, and recollections from famous women about what their favorite book was as a child.
A Hero Like You
Author | : Nikki Rogers |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2020-10-10 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0648723232 |
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A Hero Like You looks at everyday heroes and highlights qualities such as loyalty, compassion, resourcefulness, justice, and courage. The lyrical rhyme and relatable illustrations remind us that we all have the opportunity to be a hero by helping others, doing right and making the world a better place. "What the world needs is a hero like you!"
Becoming a Heroine
Author | : Rachel M. Brownstein |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0231100000 |
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"Brownstein examines how the stories we read influence our notions of how we should live. In fresh, wonderfully nuanced readings of works by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronté, George Eliot, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, she considers woman-centered novels as rewritings of romance, and analyzes the thematic links and echoes that connect these works not only to each other but to women's lives. This splendidly provocative book shows how good novels, intelligent heroines, and careful readers are skeptical of the romantic ideal of a perfected, integral self"--Publisher's description, back cover.
The Heroine s Journey
Author | : Maureen Murdock |
Publsiher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2020-08-18 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780834842892 |
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This book describes contemporary woman's search for wholeness in a society in which she has been defined according to masculine values. Drawing upon cultural myths and fairy tales, ancient symbols and goddesses, and the dreams of contemporary women, Murdock illustrates the need for—and the reality of—feminine values in Western culture today.
Heroine
Author | : Gail Scott |
Publsiher | : Coach House Books |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2019-10-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781770566064 |
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In a bathtub in a rooming house in Montreal in 1980, a woman tries to imagine a new life for herself: a life after a passionate affair with a man while falling for a woman, a life that makes sense after her deep involvement in far left politics during the turbulent seventies of Quebec, a life whose form she knows can only be grasped as she speaks it. A new, revised edition of a seminal work of edgy, experimental feminism. With a foreword by Eileen Myles.