who's your favourite fictional heroin?

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Mine is Nicola Marlow from Antonia Forest's Marlow books - but trying to think of more.

I am currently on the 3rd Millennium book and loving them so I'll ditto Lisbeth Salander!

My new discovery is Sarah Burton in South Riding who felt completely real as I read the book.
Lisbeth Salander is also amazing.
Hannah Green in The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory also stands out.

a bit more low-brow but...

Lt Eve Dallas of course!
(J D Robb 'in death' series)

Merrily Watkins, Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax.

I'm rather fond of Flora Poste in 'Cold Comfort Farm' - so funny when she starts bustling around, organising the Starkadders, and stops them lurking around the place being stereotypical country folk. Always makes me laugh when she buys Reuben a dishmop instead of the old twig he uses for fettling his washing-up....

Davita in Davita's Harp by Chaim Potok :D
One of my favourite authors. It's her little-girl solemnity, like she's watching from the sidelines, but she knows about everything, she has the potential to grow up into a Humbert Humbert but she won't.

Otherwise, Anna Karenina, of course.

Yes to jo march and anne shirley.
stephanie plum(from the janet evanovitch series-though wish she would hurry up and marry joe morelli!)
Miss Smilla(from Miss Smillas feeling for snow-though film was shite).

Hi mine has to be Josephine Cox but favourite crime/thriller has to be Martina Cole...i do like many other authors but these are my favourites

Hugs Ruthie

Cassandra Mortmain from I Capture the Castle. I lurve her. In fact I thought I was her, when I was seventeen

Clarice Bean

Moominmamma and Tooticky out of the Moomin books

Jane Eyre

Becky Sharpe. Proper norty

Kerewin Holmes from The Bone People

Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird

Mick fro The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Fevvers from Nights at The Circus

Ooh I'd forgotten the Moomins

Little My

Lizzy Bennet definitely.

And me :)

Scarlett O' Hara!

Sookie Stackhouse

Kay Scarpetta

Temperence Brennan (so much so, i named my DS2 after her!)

Becky Sharpe
Lisbeth Salander
Bathsheba from Far from a Madding Crowd but I suspect that's got a lot to do with Julie Christie in the film.

Far from The Madding Crowd, sigh

Amber from Forever Amber, K Winsor
Emma, Austen

the irishwoman from harthover

This is so much harder than it ought to be - why aren't there dozens of fantastic characters to choose from?

Anne Shirley and Petrova Fossil both get my vote. Polly (Camomile Lawn) rather fab, too.

I'm finding it very hard not just to vote for everyone else's. Anne Shirley - check. Elizabeth Bennet - check. Petrova Fossil - CHECK. Nicola Marlow ought to be President of this Republic by now, what's stopping her? (Other than, erm, being fictional).

Also Thursday Next, VI Warshawski, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Princess Daisy.

Anne Shirley
Elizabeth Bennet
Rose Casson (anyone else know her?)
Jo March
Stephanie Plum (also wish she'd hurry up and marry Morelli, but the series would be over when she did :( )

Becky Sharpe
The First Mrs DeWinter (although more of an antiheroine )

All of the protaganists (is that the right word?) in Barbra Comyns's novels apart from the Vets Daughter. She gets on my nerves (as does the second Mrs DeWinter)