Quiz – A-Z Heroines from Literature
Quiz – A-Z Heroines from Literature
26 clues to 26 feisty fictional females that we all love – or love to hate!
26 clues to 26 feisty fictional females that we all love – or love to hate!
Marilla Cuthbert’s unexpected kindred spirit.
The female half of one of Shakespeare’s greatest sparring couples. The other half is Benedick.
Miss Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights, North Yorkshire.
A heroine from 1900 who, along with her dog, isn’t in Kansas anymore.
Which Austen heroine says, ‘There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.’
Little Paul Dombey’s adored older sister, Mr Dombey’s neglected daughter.
‘There comes a time when speaking one's mind ceases to be a moral duty, it becomes a pleasure’ says which Oscar Wilde character?
The heroine of a novel from 1850 and the victim of religious hypocrisy and misogynistic social mores.
Mrs Knightley, Miss Woodhouse’s elder sister.
The shy, plain governess of Thornfield Hall who yearns for love and equality.
The first Ms Everdene was Bathsheba in Hardy’s novel, this Ms Everdene arrived 134 years later.
A travelling heroine from 1908 trying to free herself from the restraints of Edwardian society.
Deputy Headmistress, head of Gryffindor House, Transfiguration professor, and later Headmistress at Hogwarts.
The abused prostitute and thief who shows little Oliver the first love and kindness in his life.
One of Shakespeare’s most tragic characters: ‘There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.’
‘Grown-ups never have any fun,’ says which best loved Swedish heroine?
Who threatens to remove Alice’s (and everyone else’s) head?
The eponymous character who is never seen but whose presence permeates every page of Daphne du Maurier’s thriller.
‘Tomorrow is another day.’
Shakespeare’s Queen of the Fairies.
The heroine of Kate Atkinson’s 2014 novel who has the chance to live her life over and over again.
The spoiled, petulant one in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Which young heroine has this compliment paid to her, ‘one girl is more use than twenty boys.’
In Greek mythology this X is one of the many daughters of Oceanus.
A wildling from the fictional kingdom of Westeros in A Song of Ice and Fire.
Voltaire’s tragic heroine whose fate is condemned by the jealousy of her Muslim lover and the intolerance of her fellow Christians.