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Taking this from [personal profile] doctornerdington because it seemed like low-hanging fruit to re-establish a presence here on DW now that I am done travelling for a little while -- my ten favourite female characters, limiting myself to one character per source, in order of how rapidly I was able to think of them:

  • Is is Elinor Dashwood? It must be somebody from Austen, and it's not Emma or Fanny, and surely not Marianne (poor thing), and I think not Elizabeth... is there enough to Jane or to Georgiana for me to claim them as a favourite? Oh! Anne Eliot. I love her the best.
  • Cordelia Naismith, by Lois McMaster Bujold (Ekaterin Vorsoisson is also obviously dear to me but Cordelia saved my life)
  • Oh, obviously, if we're talking precious life-saving literary talismans from one's youth, Hermione Granger
  • Pepper Potts, actually, an under-explored personage of intense interest to me
  • Too much children's literature is springing to mind; Sarah Crewe from A Little Princess, Ella from Ella Enchanted... let's give it to Emily Starr, who encompasses all of them for me.
  • Emily Fox-Seton, by Frances Hodgson Burnett in The Making of a Marchioness (though Hester mesmerizes me more with each passing year) - technically not children's lit!
  • Rosalind, in As You Like It (This is where I started to scroll through my "read" list on Goodreads and remember all the grown-up literature I actually do read)
  • Cecilia, by Frances Burney (Evelina is a better novel than Cecelia I think, but I find Cecilia herself more interesting)
  • Aquilina, in Venice Preserv'd (it was gonna be Belvidera but then I remembered the Nicky-Nacky scene)
  • Lady Bracknell, in The Importance of Being Earnest (it turns out she's actually right most of the time?)
  • Lucy Honeychurch, in A Room with a View
  • Lavinia, in Ursula K. LeGuin's Lavinia and in the Aeneid
  • ... oops, I'm well past 10 now, but what the heck, Hild in Hild and Katherine in Katherine are both magnificently dense characters, and now that I've made this list I don't want to cut people from it.

There. A stream-of-consciousness post which revealed to me that, actually, a lot of the really character-focused stuff I consume is about men. Or perhaps, a lot of the 18thC heroines I adore are all the same single character with different names, so it's hard to become attached to them individually?

Date: 2019-05-24 06:40 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] pangodillo
Sarah and Ella were two of my best friends growing up 💜💜 I feel like I should recognize Emily Starr but I don't; but if she's in with that crowd I'll have to go introduce myself. You might be interested in Princess Amy from The Ordinary Princess--a younger book than the others I think, but she always fit with Ella and Sarah to me. If nothing else it should be a v quick read

Date: 2019-05-31 09:22 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jesse_the_k
Waves hello!

(Interesting meme. If only I'd kept track of the books I read before my memory vamoosed.)

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