I am particularly fond of Magdalen from No Name - but she is so very far from "good" in the Victorian sense.īoth Laetitia Dale and Clara Middleton from The Egoist (George Meredith) which is a truly underrated novel. You are right that Wilkie Collins wrote good ones. And that's before you get into the delightful secondary characters and the ones that don't qualify as "good." While there are any number of well-drawn female characters in the novels of Anthony Trollope (one of my favorite authors), I particularly like Caroline Waddington from The Bertrams, Lucy Robarts from Framley Parsonage, and Nora Rowley from He Knew He Was Right. Jeanie Deans from The Heart of Midlothian (Sir Walter Scott)I have long thought she was one of Scott's finest protagonists - and she is based on a real person. Any truly "human" character will have a mix of good and evil, character and flaws.īut, as far as "good" women from earlier novels who are interesting, I would nominate the following: I find "good" characters a bit nauseating myself - male or female. Well, there is the question as to whether "good" characters are interesting as a general rule or not.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |