heroine

There’s a scene in the new “Sense and Sensibility,” out this week, in which Jane Austen’s classic heart-on-her sleeve heroine Marianne Dashwood runs through the woods barefoot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

You root for the right people in “Unabomber,” even if the heroine is fictional and the talented Mr. Tremblay makes youthful frustration and rage a bit too sympathetic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

In the novel, Nyathi's heroine, Joyce, believes she has married into a union of one man and one woman, yet her husband, Jonasi, marries and sets up homes with three other women behind her back.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Our titular heroine is only 13 years old when her escapade begins – a little more mature than most of the director’s protagonists, but still innocent enough not to be jaded.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

The heroine was even more offensive than she had been in the circus musical.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

I could easily hail “Howl’s Moving Castle” as a tribute to maturity, especially when placed against other Miyazaki stories starring young heroines setting out on adventures.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

In “Trouble,” she buzzes with nervous energy, her dizzying delivery of Raphaelson’s smart dialogue creating the template for the screwball heroines soon to follow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Did you channel any classic romance heroes, heroines or stories as you prepped?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026

She has made images of performers such as Charles Dance and Roger Daltrey and Second World War heroines such as Noor Inayat Khan and Violette Szabo.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026

The heroes and heroines of the early stories face disaster.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton