Top Ten Tuesday - Favorite Book Heroines

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On occasion I'll be joining in the Top Ten Tuesday posts hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl 

This week's Top Ten Tuesday Topic is: TTT Rewind, so we can pick a previous topic we missed or would like to redo. Since my first TTT post was just last week, I decided on Favorite Book Heroines, which was the topic just before I got started.

 Anne Gilbert from the Anne of Green Gables series (Lucy Maud Montgomery) - Anne (along with Nancy Drew, to be fair) was my earliest favorite. I've always loved her imagination, flair for the dramatic, and whole-hearted devotion to those she loves.

Jo March from Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) - Jo was my favorite of the four sisters, and as the main protagonist, I suppose she's meant to be. I genuinely liked her and would have loved to have her as a friend, stubborn and unconventional though she was, because she was independent and loyal as well.

Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) - No surprise in this choice of a favorite either! Elizabeth's weaknesses remind me a bit of my own―a dry sense of humor that can sometimes get her in trouble, and a tendency to speak bluntly what's on her mind. But she's still a lovely and interesting person, and I hope my strengths are similar to hers as well.

Elinor Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) - Elinor is the other Austen heroine that I love best. Although Elinor's reserve and seriousness almost cost her the chance at love, she is the steady rock that holds the little family of Dashwood women together with grace and devotion.

Lady Kiera Darby from the Lady Darby series (Anna Lee Huber) - Kiera is a favorite because she is continuously seeing how her hardest experiences, and her talents and skills, can be used to pursue justice and help others. She's been though a lot and doesn't take the love of her husband and family or the second chance she's been given for granted.

Lady Julia Grey from the Lady Julia Grey series (Deanna Raybourn) - In a similar vein, Lady Julia loves assisting her husband in untangling mysteries, and as quirky a character as she is, she's one of the most conventional in her entire family. 

Lady Georgiana from Her Royal Spyness series (Rhys Bowen) - Georgie is delightfully witty and adventurous, and although her impulsiveness gets her into all kinds of scrapes, she's spirited and clever and seems like so much fun.

Clara Blackwell in Hope Between the Pages (Pepper Basham) - Clara is the modern day character in this dual timeline story, and I like her (and her historical counterpart Sadie) so much because she's a modern struggling and wannabe businesswoman who loves books and history, and who grabs a chance for her own fairytale ending.

Kiya in Counted With the Stars (Connilyn Cossette) - This book was my introduction to the author, and this lead character was one I loved from the start. Kiya is an Egyptian slave who believes her Hebrew friend and walks out of Egyptian captivity with the Hebrews in the Exodus. The lead characters in Cossette's follow-up books have all been favorites as well, but Kiya holds a special place for me.

Deborah in The Prophetess (Jill Eileen Smith) - There are several authors that do a marvelous job of bringing Bible stories and characters to life in novels based on Scripture. Cossette, Smith, Mesu Andrews, and Angela Hunt all come to mind. This novel based on the story of Deborah, Israel's female judge is a favorite because of Deborah's unusual status and circumstances. She's a very real woman, wife, and mother in this compelling novel.

Sophie in Until the Dawn (Elizabeth Camden) - This novel was my introduction to the author Elizabeth Camden, and the character Sophie intrigued me from the start. Like most of Camden's heroines, Sophie is an independent-minded young woman seeking success in a time and field of interest that was dominated by men. Sophie's area of interest is meteorology, and against the odds she works hard to pursue her goals and she also speaks up for others who feel lonely and forgotten.

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