| As I matured, I grew less and less tolerant of singing animals and doe-eyed heroines. |
| The heroines explicitly reject comfortable middle-class lives when they rebel against their parental figures. |
| Cavendish and her dramatic heroines alternately invite and reject the gaze of the other, of desire, and of the crowd. |
| Byatt's heroines are victims of a culture whose value-systems are prejudiced against nature and natural processes of ageing. |
| Mae is a serious role, but Lombard's smart-alecky tough dame isn't far from the screwball heroines for which she's best remembered. |
| The bel canto opera repertoire is most closely associated with Bellini's deranged heroines and Donizetti's game gamines. |
