"Unhinged" and complex female literary characters (e.g. Mrs Danvers) - who else will I like?

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JohnSnowsTie · 22/02/2014 13:16

So I've noticed a theme in the sort of literary female character I enjoy reading about. Examples are Mrs Danvers, Miss Havisham, Lady Dedlock, the Woman in Black...

Who else/what other works will I enjoy based on this?

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ancientbuchanan · 22/02/2014 16:16

Bertram Mason in The Wide Sargasso Sea, once you have read Jane Eyre.

The awful woman in Little Dorrit ( is it) who influenced TattyCoram.

The awful Mrs Clennam in Little Dorrit

The awful woman in David Copperfield ( is it) who is in love with Steerforth

Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair

Rachel in My Cousin Rachel

Lady Macbeth in Macbeth

Grendel's mother in Beowolf

The Green Knight's wife in Gawain and the Green Knight ( trans Simon Armitage)

All the women in the later parts of The Once and Future King apart from the stupid Guinevere.

Miss Brodie in the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Mefisto · 22/02/2014 16:06

Henry James- Turn of the Screw?

CheeseStrawWars · 22/02/2014 16:04

Notes On A Scandal by Zoe Heller

AnneWentworth · 22/02/2014 16:02

Hmmm, I think Madame Bovary (friggin love Emma Bovary) and Anna Karenina.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 22/02/2014 15:19

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen

Misery by Stephen King

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Jane Eyre

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