Nine notable unsung heroines

Fanny Price, the heroine of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, has been unfairly dismissed by readers and critics, says the Guardian. So to mark the novel's 200th anniversary, the paper collected nine writers' celebrations of "literary leading ladies who have been overshadowed by their showier sisters," including:Tessa Hadley on Lucy Snowe
Villette by Charlotte Brontë

It isn't easy to like Lucy Snowe