Cressida Connolly

‘Where are the happy fictional spinsters?’

In How to Be a Heroine, Samantha Ellis looks at the literary heroines who shaped her life — and finally finds one she can use as her role model

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  • How to be a Heroine, or What I’ve Learned from Reading Too Much

    Samantha Ellis

    Chatto, pp. 250

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