I play violin with the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra, as I have since 1996. On a typical evening, you might find our seven noses buried in books. We still fit in the kitchen, but are running out of room in the library. When we married, my wife and I agreed to share the kitchen and the library.

Thanks for stopping by and commenting! Deleteīakersfield, CA, United States I'm a middle aged solo practice lawyer, married with 5 children. So there are a few - but they are indeed too scarce. Both women in the book are well developed and intriguing. It's a good one for females to read to learn to recognize the type of man who wants a woman to reflect his glory. I am particularly fond of Magdalen from No Name - but she is so very far from 'good' in the Victorian sense.īoth Laetitia Dale and Clara Middleton from The Egoist (George Meredith) which is a truly underrated novel. You are right that Wilkie Collins wrote good ones. And that's before you get into the delightful secondary characters and the ones that don't qualify as 'good.' While there are any number of well-drawn female characters in the novels of Anthony Trollope (one of my favorite authors), I particularly like Caroline Waddington from The Bertrams, Lucy Robarts from Framley Parsonage, and Nora Rowley from He Knew He Was Right. Jeanie Deans from The Heart of Midlothian (Sir Walter Scott)I have long thought she was one of Scott's finest protagonists - and she is based on a real person. Any truly 'human' character will have a mix of good and evil, character and flaws.īut, as far as 'good' women from earlier novels who are interesting, I would nominate the following: I find 'good' characters a bit nauseating myself - male or female. Well, there is the question as to whether 'good' characters are interesting as a general rule or not.

Dorothy sayers are women human