No. 0008 La Palette des Heroines (11.5"x13.5")

If you love reading as much as I do, you'll count the classic heroines as being amongst your greatest friends. Some are prim and proper; some are plucky and charming; some are spirited and a little brash; and some are passionate and make the most terrible mistakes when it comes to boys. 

"La Palette des Heroines" brings together...

• Clarissa Harlowe (Samuel Richardson's Clarissa)
• La Princess de Cleves (Madame de Lafayette's novel by that name)
• Elizabeth Bennet (Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice)
• Becky Sharp (William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair)
• Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe's novel by that name)
• Lucy Honeychurch (E. M. Forster's A Room with a View)
• Hester Prynne (Nathanial Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter)
• Catherine Earnshaw (Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights)
• Jo March (Louisa May Alcott's Little Women)
• Emma Bovary (Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary)
• Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte's novel by that name)
• Dorothea Brooke (George Eliot's Middlemarch)

Together, they remind us that there are many different ways of being a heroine, and they suggest that we can cherry pick the best characteristics of each of them to become the heroines we need for our own lives.

Oil paint and graphite on wood board in a vintage black and giltwood frame.