The heroines of literature are just a click away these days. Among the treasures that can be found and read for free online are these five firm favourites. Check them out at Project Gutenberg.
If you can get your book club to read all five of these, there is an interesting discussion to be had about whether men or women are better at presenting the female character in fiction.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The delightful Lizzy Bennet.
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. The tragic Tess.
Middlemarch by George Eliot. The worthy Dorothea.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. The naughty Emma.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe. The troubled Moll.
