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Viola

The Twelfth Night, or What You Will - William Shakespeare (1601-2)
Conceal me what I am; and be my aid
For such disguise as, haply, shall become
The form of my intent.


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Played by Felicity Kendal

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Played by Imogen Stubbs

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Played by Amanda Bynes

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Moll Flanders

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe (1721)

"I was now the most unhappy of all women in the world. Oh! had the story never been told me, all had been well; it had been no crime to have lain with my husband, since as to his being my relation I had known nothing of it."
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Elinor Dashwood

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (1811)
Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.
People who added this item 1526 Average listal rating (853 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.7
Played by Emma Thompson

People who added this item 153 Average listal rating (87 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 8
Played by Hattie Morahan

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Elizabeth Bennett

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (1813)
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
People who added this item 115 Average listal rating (63 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 7.4
Played by Greer Garson

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Played by Elizabeth Garvie

People who added this item 727 Average listal rating (475 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8.9
Played by Jennifer Ehle

People who added this item 3035 Average listal rating (1846 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.8
Played by Keira Knightley

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Emma Woodhouse

Emma - Jane Austen (1815)
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
People who added this item 2547 Average listal rating (1636 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.8
Clueless (1995)
Modern adaptation, played by Alicia Silverstone

People who added this item 4 Average listal rating (3 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 7
Emma (1996)
Played by Kate Beckinsale

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Emma (1996)
Played by Gwyneth Paltrow


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Emma (2009)
Played by Romola Garai

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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (1837)
"I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give."
People who added this item 124 Average listal rating (71 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.5
Jane Eyre (1943)
Played by Joan Fontaine

People who added this item 9 Average listal rating (4 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 7.5
Played by Sorcha Cusack

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Played by Zelah Clarke

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Played by Samantha Morton

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Played by Ruth Wilson

People who added this item 861 Average listal rating (472 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.3
Played by Mia Wasikowska

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Becky Sharp

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
And now, being received as a member of the amiable family whose portraits we have sketched in the foregoing pages, it became naturally Rebecca's duty to make herself, as she said, agreeable to her benefactors, and to gain their confidence to the utmost of her power. Who can but admire this quality of gratitude in an unprotected orphan; and, if there entered some degree of selfishness into her calculations, who can say but that her prudence was perfectly justifiable?
People who added this item 16 Average listal rating (8 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 0
Played by Natasha Little

People who added this item 586 Average listal rating (308 ratings) 6 IMDB Rating 6.2
Vanity Fair (2004)
Played by Reese Witherspoon

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Hester Prynne

The Scarlet Letter - Natahniel Hawthorne (1850)
My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.
People who added this item 437 Average listal rating (240 ratings) 5.7 IMDB Rating 5.3
Played by Demi Moore

People who added this item 2167 Average listal rating (1439 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.1
Easy A (2010)
Modern adaptation starring Emma Stone

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Catherine Earnshaw

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (1847)
"Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire."
People who added this item 427 Average listal rating (229 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.6
Played by Merle Oberon

People who added this item 337 Average listal rating (157 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 6.8
Played by Juliette Binoche

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Played by Charlotte Riley

People who added this item 208 Average listal rating (87 ratings) 6.2 IMDB Rating 6
Played by Kaya Scodelario

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Emma Bovary

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (1856)
Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn't come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words "bliss," "passion," and "rapture" -- words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.
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Alice

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll (1865)
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

People who added this item 3115 Average listal rating (2024 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.4

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Played by Tina Majorino

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People who added this item 4701 Average listal rating (3062 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.4
Played by Mia Wasikowska

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Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina - Lev Tolstoy (1877)

My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, is every moment of it no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an unquestionable meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it"
People who added this item 135 Average listal rating (68 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7
Played by Greta Garbo

People who added this item 4 Average listal rating (3 ratings) 8 IMDB Rating 8.1
Played by Nicola Pagett

People who added this item 102 Average listal rating (54 ratings) 6.4 IMDB Rating 6.3
Anna Karenina (1997)
Played by Sophie Marceau

People who added this item 818 Average listal rating (422 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 6.6
Anna Karenina (2012)
Played by Keira Knightley

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Jo March

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (1868)

Fifteen-year-old Jo was very tall, thin, and brown, and reminded one of a colt, for she never seemed to know what to do with her long limbs, which were very much in her way. She had a decided mouth, a comical nose, and sharp, gray eyes, which appeared to see everything, and were by turns fierce, funny, or thoughtful.
People who added this item 131 Average listal rating (73 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 7.2
Played by Katharine Hepburn

People who added this item 113 Average listal rating (63 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 7.3
Little Women (1949)
Played by June Allyson


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