How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading too

How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading too Much

While debating literatureâ€™s greatest heroines with her best friend, thirtysomething playwright Samantha Ellis has a revelationâ€”her whole life, she's been trying to be Cathy Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights when she should have been trying to be Jane Eyre.

With this discovery, she embarks on a retrospective look at the literary ladiesâ€”the characters and the writersâ€”whom she has loved since childhood. From early obsessions with the March sisters to her later idolization of Sylvia Plath, Ellis evaluates how her heroines stack up today. And, just as she excavates the stories of her favorite characters, Ellis also shares a frank, often humorous account of her own life growing up in a tight-knit Iraqi Jewish community in London. Here a life-long reader explores how heroines shape all our lives.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 347440
Color Purple
ReleaseDate 2015-02-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781101872093

How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading too Much