HEROINES BOOKSHELF: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder - Softcover

Blakemore, Erin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061958778 ISBN 13: 9780061958779

Publisher: Perennial, 2011

Synopsis

The Heroine's Bookshelf From Zora Neale Hurston to Colette, Laura Ingalls Wilder to Charlotte Bronte, Harper Lee to Alice Walker, this title presents the stories of our beloved heroines and the writers who created them. It explores how the pluck and dignity of literary characters such as Jane Eyre and Lizzy Bennet can encourage women. Full description

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Review:

“[A] delightful guide to what the heroines of some of the great novels by women writers, and those writers themselves can teach us about life.” (Beatrice.com)

“If you’re stumped for your next pleasure book and want to submerse yourself in a literary past sprinkled with powerful, independent women like Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott, Blakemore’s book provides the perfect portal.” (New York Press)

“Blakemore finds comfort and inspiration in revisiting the tales of literature’s leading ladies and exploring the lives of the women who spun them. [She] makes a charming case for rereading.” (Washington Post)

From the Back Cover:

Jo March, Scarlett O’Hara, Scout Finch—the literary canon is brimming with intelligent, feisty, never-say-die heroines and celebrated female authors. They placed a premium on personality, spirituality, career, sisterhood, and family, not unlike women of today. When they were up against the wall, authors like Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott fought back—sometimes with words, sometimes with gritty actions.

Witty, informative, and inspiring—full of beloved heroines and the remarkable writers who created them—The Heroine’s Bookshelf explores how the pluck and dignity of literary characters such as Jane Eyre and Lizzy Bennet can encourage modern women, showing them how to tap into their inner strengths and live life with intelligence and grace. From Zora Neale Hurston to Colette, Laura Ingalls Wilder to Charlotte Brontė, Harper Lee to Alice Walker, here are authors whose spirited stories and characters are more inspiring today than ever.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061958778
• ISBN 13: 9780061958779
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224