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Becoming a heroine : reading about women in novels / Rachel M. Brownstein.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author:	Brownstein, Rachel M.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Viking Press, 1982.
Subjects:	English fiction > History and criticism. Heroines in literature. English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism. Women and literature > Great Britain > History. Women > Books and reading. Sex role in literature. Women in literature. Austen, Jane > 1775-1817 > Characters > Women.

Table of Contents:

Being perfect. My life in fiction. An exemplar to her sex
Getting married : Jane Austen
Thinking it over. Life as literature, revision as romance. Villette. The egoist. Daniel Deronda. The portrait of a lady. Mrs. Dalloway.