![]() ![]() When she found love and happiness, she lost it in a matter of hours. Terrible things happened to her, her family failed her, her hero left her. ![]() Tess was the ultimate tragic heroine for me. Tess Durbeyfield from Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy I loved Lucy Snowe for her cleverness, her sarcasm, her trousting of Victorian notions of how a lady should behave, and mostly for her strength of character in finding her way in the world with no one to help or support her.Ģ. Villette was Charlotte Bronte’s last book, and I was lucky that it was on my English A Level syllabus when I was seventeen because we got to study it in depth, and I think I would not have been able to really appreciate this book any younger. ![]() Lucy Snowe from Villette by Charlotte Bronte They were books that I loved and read and reread and made a huge impression on me.ġ. Okay, this is a difficult one for me because I find it really hard to make top ten lists – the choice is so incredible and I’m useless at deciding which characters make the top ten list and which ones miss out! Most of this list, apart from one, are from books I read when I was growing up. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |