[PW] Re: eponymous heroines - clarified

[Marian Drabkin]

There's Moll Flanders, Pamela, Esther Waters, Mary Barton,
  Evelina, Sybil, Mildred Pierce ...
   
  Marian Drabkin

Tsviya Polani <tpolani at bgu.ac.il> wrote:
  Of course, Brian is right. I need a list of books in which the heroine's 
name appears in the title, such as Anna Karenina or Madame Bovary.
I let my fingers be influenced by the title of the Wikipedia list I'd found.

Tsviya Polani
Reference Librarian
Aranne Library
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Be'er Sheva, Israel
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Whatcott" 
To: 

Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:26 PM
Subject: [PW] Re: eponymous heroines


> At 03:26 AM 8/16/2006,
> tsviya, you wrote:
>
>>Here is a question to awaken you all from the summer doldrums:
>>One of our instructors has asked for a list of eponymous heroines in 
>>Western
>>literature, everything from ancient Greece and Rome to modern day - as 
>>many
>>as we can locate.
>
> ///
>
>>Tsviya Polani
>
>
> I am in trouble with parsing Tsviya's ask. For me, eponymous means
> essentially, "named for the person in question"
>
> So a list of heroines named for themselves doesn't take me where
> Tsviya would have me go.
>
>
>
> Brian Whatcott Altus OK Eureka!
>
>
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