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Who Are Your Favorite Female Literary Characters?

by The Frisky February 10, 2015
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Reddit user specfreader asked the r/Books community yesterday: Who is your favorite female book character? As the answers came in, an interesting trend emerged. Take a look at some of the most popular answers:

  • Minerva McGonagall from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series
  • Granny Weatherwax from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series
  • Tiffany Aching from the Discworld series
  • Lyra Belacqua from Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy
  • Vin from Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn
  • Elphaba from Gregory Maguire’s Wicked
  • YT from Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash
  • Brienne of Tarth from George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire

Source: Pinterest

It’s not until pretty far down on the list that you come across characters like Scout Finch from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Cathy Ames from Steinbeck’s East of Eden, or Charlotte Bronte’s titular Jane Eyre – that is, female characters who aren’t in genre fiction novels and graphic novels. When I was thinking of my own favorite female characters, the two that immediately came to mind were Death from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series and Mona from Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle (followed by Ifemelu from Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah and Joelle Van Dyne from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest – “And lo”).

Source: The Telegraph

But it seems like genre fiction is friendlier to complex, relatable, three-dimensional women who actually get to talk and act than literary fiction is, and that seems to be the case regardless of the gender of the author. Although, as the VIDA count suggests, it is awfully hard to even get reviewed as a female author writing literary fiction, and that has to have an impact on the place of female characters in literary fiction.

What do you think? What female characters would you nominate?

Original by: Rebecca Vipond Brink

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