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