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How To Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much
By Ellis, Samantha
- ISBN
- 9781101872093 9781101872109
- Publisher
- Vintage
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Starred Review on February 1, 2015 | Arts and Humanities
Like Rebecca Mead in My Life in Middlemarch, London playwright Ellis bridges memoir and literary criticism as she traces her literary past to uncover the female characters who have most influenced and changed her life. In Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and in even more unexpected places, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, the author finds ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
