Awesome Female Characters in Literature (1 Viewer)

[NRuus]

Ah, good old Ellie. Am I a girlygirl if I got a tear in my eye when I finished Circle Of Flight cause I knew I'd never again hear Ellie's voice telling me new things?

Ellie definately! And no you aren't a girly girl because I didn't just get a tear in my eye in that book I cried. And I am far from being a girly girl!

 

[ccc123]

Josie from 'Looking For Alibrandi'
Kat from 'Taming of the shrew'

 

[white lady]

Eowyn - LOTR
Francesca - Saving Francesca

That is all

 

[mr EaZy]

you've all said mine

except: Elspeth- OBERNEWTYN LOL

 

[m0ofin]

Josie - Looking for Alibrandi
Sue - Fingersmith
Lisa - Take My Word for It
Kit - When You Wake and Find Me Gone

 

[Empress of All]

All the lovely ladies in Tamora Pierce's books:
Alana - song of the lioness series
Kel - protector of the small series
Aly - Trickster series
Daja, Sandry, Tris, Lark, Rosethorn & Bernene - Circle series (circle forged, opened, reforged)
Just to name a few

 

[pffft]

Anne Shirley - Anne of Green Gables books (all 7 of them)

 

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Anne Shirley - Anne of Green Gables books (all 7 of them)

Forgot to mention Anne, but yes, got to love Anne- that girl has gumption.

 

[Josie]

you've all said mine

except: Elspeth- OBERNEWTYN LOL

I haven't read those books in years. But she was cool.

and Josie in Looking for Alibrandi. And she has my name

 

[jager206]

All the lovely ladies in Tamora Pierce's books:
Alana - song of the lioness series
Kel - protector of the small series
Aly - Trickster series
Daja, Sandry, Tris, Lark, Rosethorn & Bernene - Circle series (circle forged, opened, reforged)
Just to name a few

Don't forget Veralidaine aka Daine. She was awesome.
Anyhow...Tamora Pierce rox my sox.

 

[white lady]

Forgot to mention Anne, but yes, got to love Anne- that girl has gumption.

ill second that :uhhuh:

 

[phoebe e]

becky sharp- vanity fair
( I acknowledge she is manipulative...but her ability to be so cruel and clever.....)

anna karenina- book titled the same- Tolstoy

narrator out of "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf

Judy- Seven Little Australians


Just to name a few!

 

[bethb02]

Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Bennett.. and probably some others. Ah! pippi longstockings

 

[white lady]

Lizzie and Pippi r awesome

 

[mr EaZy]

I haven't read those books in years. But she was cool.

i only read the first 2 books,

tried to get my little sis into it, i think she's starting to!

 

[ObjectsInSpace]

Nynaeve al'Maera from The Wheel of Time ... up until she gets married and loses her block. Up until then - especially in the early books - she was a brilliant character, but once she married Lan she just became this soppy, bleeding heart.

 

[Taketheatrain]

Hmmm, I find that female authors give their female characters more sense of humour but that could just be me.

Iris Chase in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin. <was awesome till the end
Jeanette from Oranges are not the Only Fruit.

I think they come "alive" because they were created by female authors and written in first person. I didn't find Julia from 1984 very "alive" or anything because to me, she just seemed like some girl that some guy was talking about.

 

[amy236]

one my favourites is clare from 'the time traveller's wife'... i just loved the way she was written... taylor from 'on the jellicoe road'... and you can't go past ellie or elizabeth bennet...

 

[Aznpsycho]

Bellis Coldwine from The Scar (China Mieville)

As a character, she's rather boring. She's the everywoman, run through a bitch filter of sorts.

What she goes through, and what she can and cannot do, makes this the best Bas-Lag book by far. Yes, she gets played like crazy, but anybody would, and how she responds is incredibly well written.

 

[HermioneGranger]

Hermione Granger!