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GREATEST
LITERATURE CONTEST #16
Name these
female heroines and Winners and answers below. |
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| 1 | Not exactly a heroine, more of a villainess, but to Sherlock Holmes she was always the woman. | ||||||||||
| 2 | She opposed the straining of mercy in Shakespeare's Venetian play. | ||||||||||
| 3 | She's a pillar of strength for the Republicans in Hemingway's tale of the Spanish Civil War. | ||||||||||
| 4 | Not quite a woman, but a very strong girl, a foster child who makes her way in Kaye Gibbons's first novel. | ||||||||||
| 5 | Another Southern belle but this foxy one exerting her will over a wealthy family, in which everyone seems to be plotting against each other, in Lillian Hellman's drama. | ||||||||||
| 6 | She survives Japanese capture in Malaya and ends up founding a town in Australia in Nevil Shute's romance. | ||||||||||
| 7 | An elderly woman has one last fling at freedom in Margaret Laurence's classic of modern Canadian literature. | ||||||||||
| 8 | A pioneering woman is the object of the narrator's admiration in Willa Cather's classic of modern American literature. | ||||||||||
| 9 | A great and virtuous lady who inspires her knight errant, even though she's probably imaginary, in this classic of Spanish literature. | ||||||||||
| 10 | In the 19th-century novel named after her, the governess survives chills and thrills to win the love of a brooding man, who incidentally keeps a wife in the attic, in this classic of British lit. | ||||||||||
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The winners include Rosa Cross of Tancook Island, Nova Scotia, and Margaret Macintyre of Moncton, New Brunswick. The remaining winner has been notified and will be posted here as soon as it is confirmed. Answers: 1. Irene Adler, "A Scandal in Bohemia" |
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