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The strong female character is a stock character, the opposite of the damsel in distress. In the first half of the 20th century, the rise of mainstream feminism and the increased use of the concept in the later 20th century have reduced the concept to a standard item of pop culture fiction.
Pages in category "Female characters in literature" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 461 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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[3] [5] [6] Three are poems [3] [5] [6] and three are dictionaries, [2] [4] [7] but they all list, and comment on, literary women and their accomplishments. NB: In the columns, readers can find subjects' names or pseudonyms as presented in the text. A number in front of a name indicates the relative position of that name in the text.
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Collective 18th-century biographies of literary women; Eighteenth century women poets: an Oxford anthology; Feminist literary criticism; Feminist science fiction; Feminist theory; Gender in science fiction; List of biographical dictionaries of female writers; List of early-modern British women novelists; List of early-modern British women ...
Mothers of the Novel is divided into three parts. Part I treats a series of seventeenth-century women writers, only some of whom would have been familiar to most readers in 1986: Aphra Behn (1640–1689), Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673), Anne Clifford (1590–1676), Anne Fanshawe (1625–1680), Eliza Haywood (1693–1756), [1] Lucy Hutchinson (1618–1681), Delarivière Manley (1663 –1724 ...
Two Marys, strong, loving, self-defined, transformative characters, whether with one person or the world. Janey/Jane (multiple songs) Another woman character who appears often in Springsteen’s ...