The Heroine’s Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder Audiobook

Quotes

• “If you’re stumped for your next pleasure book and want to submerse yourself in a literary past sprinkled with powerful, independent women like Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott, Blakemore’s book provides the perfect portal.”

  — New York Press

• “An inspiring look at literature’s greatest and most enduring female characters—such as Jo March, Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Bennet, Laura Ingalls and others—and their authors, who have helped shape the inner lives of generations of women, teasing out universal tenets of strength and survival, and gleaning the wisdom and solace they offer to help women navigate these challenging times and find their inner heroine.”

  — Publishers Lunch

• “Marketing consultant Blakemore finds that in moments of struggle and stress she revisits her favorite childhood women authors and their plucky heroines for respite, escape, and perspective.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “In this literary love letter to the heroines and authors of twelve works of classic children’s and adult literature, freelance writer Blakemore makes the case that women today can find much inspiration in these characters, e.g., Mary of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden and Janie of Zora Neal Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. Among the characteristics she highlights are faith, dignity, compassion, and ambition—not just in the characters she surveys but in the legendary writers who created them, whose personal lives she also examines…An enjoyable bonus to each chapter are suggestions of additional fictional heroines to discover. For women’s studies collections and for lovers of literature.”

  — Library Journal