This looks delightful!
Playwright/journalist Samantha Ellis shares her life experiences as viewed through her favorite literary heroines' experiences. I enjoyed perusing the smorgasbord of blurbs adorning the HOW TO BE A HEROINE (Penguin Random House, 2015) webpage.
Inspired by a friendly argument (as perhaps, many wondrous things are), Ellis used this personal examination of her own life as shaped by the women she learned from, adored, and even aspired toward being like to also examine their lives in print.
Here's an interesting interview wherein Ellis discusses how her heroines changed and even her perceptions of herself in relation to them transformed through her life stages. Seems both characters and author are compelling examples of heroism.
A look at the TOC:
Introduction
1 The Little Mermaid
2 Anne of Green Gables
3 Lizzy Bennet
4 Scarlett O’Hara
5 Franny Glass
6 Esther Greenwood
7 Lucy Honeychurch
8 The Dolls (from the Valley)
9 Cathy Earnshaw
10 Flora Poste
11 Scheherazade