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)
Book 1, Chapter 1, Some Nineteenth-Century Heroines in the Eighteenth CenturyBook 1, Chapter 2, Frances Burney's EvelinaBook 1, Chapter 3, Two Heroines of Maria Edgeworth'sBook 1, Chapter 4, Jane Austen's Elizabeth BennetBook 1, Chapter 5, Jane Austen's Anne Elliot and Catharine MorlandBook 1, Chapter 6, Jane Austen's Emma Woodhouse, Marianne Dashwood, and Fanny PriceBook 1, Chapter 7, Heroines of Miss Ferrier, Mrs. Opie, and Mrs. RadcliffeBook 1, Chapter 8, Scott's Rebecca and Rowena, and Lucy AshtonBook 1, Chapter 9, Scott's Jeanie Deans and Cooper's Lack of HeroinesBook 1, Chapter 10, A Heroine of Bulwer'sBook 1, Chapter 11, The Early Heroines of DickensBook 1, Chapter 12, Heroines of Charles Dickens's Middle PeriodBook 1, Chapter 13, Dickens's Later HeroinesBook 1, Chapter 14, Hawthorne's Hester PrynneBook 1, Chapter 15, Hawthorne's Zenobia and Priscilla and Miriam and HildaBook 1, Chapter 16, Thackeray's Bad HeroinesBook 1, Chapter 17, Thackeray's Good HeroinesBook 1, Chapter 18, Thackeray's Ethel Newcome and Charlotte Bronte's Jane EyreBook 1, Chapter 19, The Two Catharines of Emily BronteBook 2, Chapter 1, Charles Kingsley's HypatiaBook 2, Chapter 2, The Nature of Charles Reade's HeroinesBook 2, Chapter 3, Variations of Reade's Type of HeroinesBook 2, Chapter 4, George Eliot's Maggie Tulliver and Hetty SorrelBook 2, Chapter 5, George Eliot's Rosamond Vincy and Dorothea BrookeBook 2, Chapter 6, George Eliot's Gwendolen Harleth and Jane DempsterBook 2, Chapter 7, Anthony Trollope's Lily DaleBook 2, Chapter 8, Anthony Trollope's Lucy Robarts and Griselda GrantlyBook 2, Chapter 9, Anthony Trollope's Mrs. ProudieBook 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 MillerBook 2, Chapter 13, Mr. Thomas Hardy's HeroinesBook 2, Chapter 14, Mr. Thomas Hardy's Bathsheba Everdene and Paula PowerBook 2, Chapter 15, William Black's Gertrude WhiteBook 2, Chapter 16, Mr. Bret Harte's Miggles and Mr. T. B. Aldrich's Marjorie DawBook 2, Chapter 17, Mr. G. W. Cable's Aurora and Clotilde NancanoeBook 2, Chapter 18, Mr. H. B. Fuller's Jane Marshall and Miss M. E. Wilkins's Jane FieldBook 2, Chapter 19, Mrs. Humphry Ward's Heroines
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