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A study recently published in the Journal of Cultural Analytics shows that the prominence of female characters in novels and the number of female novelists declined between 1800 and 1960. Male authors were “remarkably resistant to giving women more than a third of the character-space in their stories,” according to the researchers. (more…)
Posted by cindyfazzi on March 21, 2018
https://cindyfazzi.wordpress.com/2018/03/21/study-shows-dip-in-prominence-of-female-characters/
Some books I like for their clever plots or unexpected denouements, others for their dazzling narratives. But the books I cherish are those with memorable characters, especially heroines. (more…)
Posted by cindyfazzi on January 20, 2015
https://cindyfazzi.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/top-9-female-characters-in-literature/
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