Twentieth Century Fox surveyed 1,000 adults in the UK asking them who was their all-time favorite classic literary heroine to mark the DVD release of Far from the Madding Crowd. And of course, the charming and quick-witted Elizabeth Bennet was crowned first place. Check out the other heroines that made the list:
1. Elizabeth Bennet – Pride & Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen
2. Miss Marple – Miss Marple – (1927) Agatha Christie
3. Jane Eyre – Jane Eyre – (1847) Charlotte Bronte
4. Scarlett O’Hara – Gone With the Wins (1936) Margaret Mitchell
5. Jo March – Little Women (1880) Louisa May Alcott
6. Eponine – Les Miserables (1862) – Victor Hugo
7. Arwen- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (first published 1954) J. R. R Tolkien
8. Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) Thomas Hardy
9. Catherine Earnshaw – Wuthering Heights (1847) Emily Bronte
10. Galadriel – The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings (1937) J. R. R. Tolkien
11. Anna Karenina – Anna Karenina (1877) Leo Tolstoy
12. Daisy Buchanan – The Great Gatsby (1925) F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. Bathsheba Everdene – Far From the Madding Crowd (1874) Thomas Hardy
14. Becky Sharp – Vanity Fair (1848) William Makepeace Thackeray
15. Emma – Emma (1815) Jane Austen
What literary heroines would you add on the list?
I have no qualms about this list whatsoever.
I love almost everyone in this list. I see many familiar characters and others from books in my to-read shelves. One heroine I would have loved to see in this list is Hester Prynne from the Scarlet Letter. That woman stuck with me since the first time I’ve read that book.
She should be on this list. But I think they focused on British literature than literature as a whole.
love the list! I would add Anne of Green Gables, of course. And Lucy Pevensie.
Yess! I love Elizabeth Bennet so much!
Me too! She’s my favorite of all time.
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