Even Eloise herself wouldn’t be bored by the Plaza Hotel’s latest tribute to the restless, 6-year-old storybook heroine who made her fictional home in the New York City landmark: a 2,100-square-foot pink shrine to all things Eloise. Roaming a space bigger than many houses, the young and young at heart can buy dozens of products inspired

... other badass editors, like Ann and Miriam. CA: Who is your favorite fictional heroine? RA: Dorothy from The Wiz. It's such a fascinating story of feminism. This woman is travelling around the world - ... to speak their testimony, are my heroes. My mom is a huge heroine to me. I don't tell her this stuff, and she doesn't go online that much, so she might not find out ...

... the president is actually black, the studio is counting on its audience to find it unremarkable that a fictional heroine also happens to be black. Tiana’s race is also a moot point because she ... , like a true recession princess, puts every penny away. Whereas “The Little Mermaid” heroine Ariel actually sang an entire number about being unfulfilled despite being “the girl who ...

... with Lucinda's glass collection. I have always admired very old and thin glass, but now I am determined to find some of my own, in hopes of one day owning a collection as fine as this fictional heroine's. Young Cate Blanchett and handsome Ralph Fiennes (my mother's favorite!) are amongst the best of actors if you ask me. I found ...

... , so I definitely understand and appreciate the immigrant experience, as the daughter of immigrants who's gotten to live the American dream CA: Who is your favorite fictional heroine? JG: I love GI Jane. I think she had such an outward strength, that we rarely see. Having appreciated and seen on a daily basis the inward strength that women have, it ...

... more appealing things about the book is that it avoids the common trap of negative and/or weak portrayals of historical women in order to make the (mostly) fictional heroine look good. I enjoyed it a lot, with the above caveats, but I suspect individual success relies a lot on how much “Elizabethan politics! With magic!” appeals to you ...

... No doesn't mean NO. Instead, it's a token protest that seems to be ignored, so long as the heroine gets a quality orgasm out of it. And I would like to un-apologetically state that I don't effing ... /magicspells/wackyhijinks made them do it cliche). Yet, it's conveniently ignored by the fictional characters (and their respective authors) because if they enjoyed it, why wouldn't ...

... ;real man" worthy of enshrinement in her pantheon of fictional heroes. You see, Hickman was a forger, an armed robber, ... be burned for those who deserve it?" (This declaration is made by the heroine Kira, Rand's stand-in; it is quoted in ... young Ayn Rand. Now here are some of Rand's notes on the fictional hero she was developing, with Hickman (or what he "suggested" ...

... all, in a period before her public persona has hardened, when not so much about her is known. Suppose her to be the heroine of an invented narrative, to which she seems at first to bring little weight, for she arrives on the scene as ... la mérite d'être clair. But of course the great virtue of this fictional Coco (and maybe of the real-life Chanel too) is to be clear. The main business ...

... under mysterious circumstances. I can picture the covers easily: the heroine fleeing in her flimsy nightgown at midnight, her long hair ... many familiar tropes. For example, Challis's resourceful heroine is more than a match, socially and intellectually, for the Hartleys of Padthaway, ... 's rich heritage and wild, romantic atmosphere, and her fictional counterpart feels similarly. The openness of ...

... trope is so embraced that often the rape has been perpetrated on the victimized romance-heroine not by some slavering villain, but by the stalwart hero. I say "has been" ... by a handsome swain. In itself this is no different than a host of similar dynamizations which fictional narrative makes possible. But having said that, is titillation all there is to the matter? In THYMOS Parts 1 and ...

... a kind of southern gothic horror novel with a science fictional premise beating within its brilliantly warped heart. ... . Gen. Thomas Wharington. In Alpha, the science fictional elements, e.g., the evolution of artificial ... and romance. Having devoured the first two books, I was already familiar with the hero and heroine-where else could the relationship possibly go? But McDonald found a way to make ...

... with women characters, and most of them would involve interaction with other characters rather than being a lone heroine (although few of them still would involve scenes of those women interacting with other women, even ... it’s a while since we’ve discussed the BWT. What popular fictional works have you seen/read over the last few years that have actually passed the Bechdel-Wallace Test ...

... in this weekend's paper." I couldn't help but think that Almina Brooke, the mother of the heroine in The Bartered Bride would have been so proud of me, appearing in the social column and all. When the ... write "The Bartered Bride." The book is the first in a three-book series that tells the fictional story of two families in the Duluth area. Vetsch is a Rochester woman who ...

... I was hesitant at first. The story covers ten years in time, and the hero and heroine are children for much of it. Also, the high point of the action was a shipwreck, which would not sit well in landlocked ... its success thought to rest in our desire to live there. But Cranford is not one world, it is many. It is the fictional town portrayed on screen. It is Gaskell's memoir of the same name, ...