November is an illustrious months for my literary heroines, since so many of them were born in it! First up, Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell, born on this day in 1900. Here are some fun facts about the fearless Peggy: ~ Like me, Peggy was a Smithie who didn’t graduate from the
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By Guest Blogger Darren Garnick This is the first in a series of guest posts on heroines featured in The Heroine’s Bookshelf. My guests? Honored authors, writers, experts, historians, and more. First up is Darren Garnick, an unlikely adherent of everyone’s favorite Anne with an e. Want to combine some
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Ever since I blogged about Lily Bart yesterday, I’ve been contemplating a heroine’s clothes. You know, the lovely (or tattered) duds that either hamper or enhance a woman’s rise to glory. I’m thinking Jo March’s singed dress, Scarlett’s portieres, the sunbonnets of Laura Ingalls Wilder and the cloche hats of
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I came late to The House of Mirth, having been traumatized by Ethan Frome in high school. So imagine my surprise to meet Lily Bart, in all her decadent-yet-run down glory. This is a heroine for grown women, a devious, self-centered, and tired thing, a woman who is bound by
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Little Laura Jernegan, a girl who traveled the world on a whale ship during the 1860s, made quite the splash on the Internet yesterday (thanks, Wendy McClure, for passing on the link). Her journal, written when she was six years old, records her thoughts on various animals, the smells of
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