How To Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis

How To Be a Heroine

Samantha Ellis

272 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced

Description

While debating literature’s greatest heroines with her best friend, thirtysomething playwright Samantha Ellis has a revelation—her whole life, she's been trying to be Cathy Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights when she should have been trying to be Jane ...

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Moods

reflective 89%
inspiring 57%
funny 46%
informative 42%
hopeful 39%
lighthearted 39%
emotional 35%
relaxing 17%
adventurous 3%
challenging 3%
dark 3%

Pace

medium 60%
slow 21%
fast 17%

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3.77

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