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Female literary villains (87 P) W. Hildegarde Withers (7 P) Pages in category "Female characters in literature" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...
Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) is one of the authors of classical Greece who took a particular interest in the condition of women within the Greek world. In a predominantly patriarchal society, he undertook, through his works, to explore and sometimes challenge the injustices faced by women and certain social or moral norms concerning them.
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 ...
Pages in category "Characters in American novels of the 20th century" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 236 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page)
In the cult television series Twin Peaks the name was also adopted as a pseudonym by the character Audrey Horne. Another literary figure using the surname Prynne is a woman who had an adulterous relationship with a pastor in the novel A Month of Sundays by John Updike, part of his trilogy of novels based on characters in The Scarlet Letter. [1]
Extraterrestrial characters in literature (1 C, 2 P) F. Female characters in literature (11 C, 458 P) ... Pages in category "Literary characters"
Female villains depicted in literature. Villains are often defined by their acts of selfishness, stupidity, evilness, craziness, cruelty, and cunning. They display immoral behavior that can oppose or pervert justice.
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."