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Book Giveaway: *The Heroine's Bookshelf* by Erin Blakemore
I’m so pleased that The Heroine’s Bookshelf is out in paperback in time for holiday giving; it’s the perfect book to share with women in a book group, your sister, mother, or best friend.
Here’s the publisher’s description:
 Jo March, Scarlett O’Hara, Scout Finch—the literary canon is brimming with intelligent, feisty, never-say-die heroines and celebrated female authors. They placed a premium on personality, spirituality, career, sisterhood, and family, not unlike women of today. When they were up against the wall, authors like Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott fought back—sometimes with words, sometimes with gritty actions.
Witty, informative, and inspiring—full of beloved heroines and the remarkable writers who created them—The Heroine’s Bookshelf explores how the pluck and dignity of literary characters such as Jane Eyre and Lizzy Bennet can encourage modern women, showing them how to tap into their inner strengths and live life with intelligence and grace. From Zora Neale Hurston to Colette, Laura Ingalls Wilder to Charlotte BrontË, Harper Lee to Alice Walker, here are authors whose spirited stories and characters are more inspiring today than ever.
To enter the giveaway for The Heroine’s Bookshelf, simply leave a comment below, telling me who one of your literary heroines is. Giveaway will be open for entries until midnight ET on Thursday, December 8, with the winner selected in a random drawing and announced on December 9. Giveaway is open to US/Canada mailing addresses only.
Thanks to author Erin Blakemore for providing the book for the winner!
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I was trying to hold off coming over here, so I wouldn’t be #1 since we all know #1 never wins. Oh well. I’m going to go with Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird.
I’d have to go with Lizzy Bennett. Her wit and determination are character aspects I aspire to.
I’m going to say Marianne Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility. She’s a strong, expressive character with a taste for the arts. I just always liked her. Thanks for the giveaway and including Canada!
Margaret
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But of course, Ramona, from Helen Hunt Jackson’s “Ramona”. All she endured for love!
My heroine is Stephanie Plum from the series by Janet Evonavich…come to think of it I also like Grandma from that series
Many thanks for this giveaway. Anne From Anne of Green Gables is my all time heroine forevermore.
Nancy Drew, of course!
I love Anne of Green Gable too. She is a very strong woman. Tore923@aol.com
I have so many literary heroines.. like Thursday Next.
Flavia de Luce.
I recently read “The Dovekeepers” by Alice Hoffman and really enjoyed it. My current literary heroine would be Shirah, the Witch of Moab. Though she is ostracized and feared by most in her community, she is a sensual, independent, strong, and powerful woman who empowers those around her.
Laura Ingals Wilder. I feel like I grew up with Laura and Mary. My mother read the books to me and my brothers during the early 40s. I remember waiting and waiting for These Happy Golden Years to be published and our small town library to get a copy.
I’m going to go old school and pick one that my mother shared with me from her childhood – Mrs. Mike. That was one awesome lady.
Stephanie Plum
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Elizabeth Bennet of course!
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I have to second Nancy Drew. She had it all together and managed to solve the mystery too.
nancy drew is my pick .she was a role model for young women strong &independent.