Many of the literary heroines the narrator claims to have loved or bedded are immediately recognizable.

Each literary heroine in the audience stood to receive applause.

With it, West introduced a new sort of black literary heroine.

But since, unlike my literary heroines, I was actually filled with resentment, my speech came out like a parody of renunciation.

Her Alice is a creature of hot and cold running artifice, a sexual fantasy assembled from celluloid vamps and literary heroines.

She is one of my all-time favourite literary heroines - despite the fact that my housewifery skills leave something to be desired.

In the week of International Women's Day, we turn our attention to literary heroines.

Perhaps no other region in North America is so strongly identified with a hundred-year-old literary heroine.

You could make a claim that all the best literary heroines are crazy.

Having not learned something new about herself, Lucie's success as a literary heroine is moot.