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Heroines of Fiction

William Dean Howells (1837 - 1920)

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)

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Book 1, Chapter 1, Some Nineteenth-Century Heroines in the Eighteenth Century	Jim Locke	00:24:02
Play 02	Book 1, Chapter 2, Frances Burney's Evelina	Jim Locke	00:23:18
Play 03	Book 1, Chapter 3, Two Heroines of Maria Edgeworth's	Jim Locke	00:26:43
Play 04	Book 1, Chapter 4, Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet	Jim Locke	00:28:02
Play 05	Book 1, Chapter 5, Jane Austen's Anne Elliot and Catharine Morland	Jim Locke	00:32:15
Play 06	Book 1, Chapter 6, Jane Austen's Emma Woodhouse, Marianne Dashwood, and Fanny Price	Jim Locke	00:27:31
Play 07	Book 1, Chapter 7, Heroines of Miss Ferrier, Mrs. Opie, and Mrs. Radcliffe	Jim Locke	00:23:53
Play 08	Book 1, Chapter 8, Scott's Rebecca and Rowena, and Lucy Ashton	Jim Locke	00:23:59
Play 09	Book 1, Chapter 9, Scott's Jeanie Deans and Cooper's Lack of Heroines	Jim Locke	00:26:28
Play 10	Book 1, Chapter 10, A Heroine of Bulwer's	Jim Locke	00:25:30
Play 11	Book 1, Chapter 11, The Early Heroines of Dickens	Jim Locke	00:20:53
Play 12	Book 1, Chapter 12, Heroines of Charles Dickens's Middle Period	Jim Locke	00:25:08
Play 13	Book 1, Chapter 13, Dickens's Later Heroines	Jim Locke	00:28:22
Play 14	Book 1, Chapter 14, Hawthorne's Hester Prynne	Jim Locke	00:30:31
Play 15	Book 1, Chapter 15, Hawthorne's Zenobia and Priscilla and Miriam and Hilda	Jim Locke	00:32:42
Play 16	Book 1, Chapter 16, Thackeray's Bad Heroines	Jim Locke	00:26:43
Play 17	Book 1, Chapter 17, Thackeray's Good Heroines	Jim Locke	00:22:50
Play 18	Book 1, Chapter 18, Thackeray's Ethel Newcome and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre	Jim Locke	00:24:20
Play 19	Book 1, Chapter 19, The Two Catharines of Emily Bronte	Jim Locke	00:24:09
Play 20	Book 2, Chapter 1, Charles Kingsley's Hypatia	Jim Locke	00:27:36
Play 21	Book 2, Chapter 2, The Nature of Charles Reade's Heroines	Jim Locke	00:30:30
Play 22	Book 2, Chapter 3, Variations of Reade's Type of Heroines	Jim Locke	00:29:35
Play 23	Book 2, Chapter 4, George Eliot's Maggie Tulliver and Hetty Sorrel	Jim Locke	00:42:17
Play 24	Book 2, Chapter 5, George Eliot's Rosamond Vincy and Dorothea Brooke	Jim Locke	00:30:41
Play 25	Book 2, Chapter 6, George Eliot's Gwendolen Harleth and Jane Dempster	Jim Locke	00:31:45
Play 26	Book 2, Chapter 7, Anthony Trollope's Lily Dale	Jim Locke	00:35:02
Play 27	Book 2, Chapter 8, Anthony Trollope's Lucy Robarts and Griselda Grantly	Jim Locke	00:24:02
Play 28	Book 2, Chapter 9, Anthony Trollope's Mrs. Proudie	Jim Locke	00:35:33
Play 29	Book 2, Chapter 10, The Heroine of ''The Initials''	Jim Locke	00:24:16
Play 30	Book 2, Chapter 11, The Heroine of ''Kate Beaumont''	Jim Locke	00:23:09
Play 31	Book 2, Chapter 12, Mr. James's Daisy Miller	Jim Locke	00:28:42
Play 32	Book 2, Chapter 13, Mr. Thomas Hardy's Heroines	Jim Locke	00:37:22
Play 33	Book 2, Chapter 14, Mr. Thomas Hardy's Bathsheba Everdene and Paula Power	Jim Locke	00:35:47
Play 34	Book 2, Chapter 15, William Black's Gertrude White	Jim Locke	00:27:02
Play 35	Book 2, Chapter 16, Mr. Bret Harte's Miggles and Mr. T. B. Aldrich's Marjorie Daw	Jim Locke	00:18:42
Play 36	Book 2, Chapter 17, Mr. G. W. Cable's Aurora and Clotilde Nancanoe	Jim Locke	00:22:41
Play 37	Book 2, Chapter 18, Mr. H. B. Fuller's Jane Marshall and Miss M. E. Wilkins's Jane Field	Jim Locke	00:27:29
Play 38	Book 2, Chapter 19, Mrs. Humphry Ward's Heroines	Jim Locke	00:30:47

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