Stage heroines: tell us your favourites
Do you have a soft spot for Ophelia? Do you secretly admire Lady M and Medea? An homage to favourite female charactersI've been reading Samantha Ellis's terrific How to be a Heroine. Ellis combines memoir and an exploration of her Iraqi-Jewish heritage through the books that have influenced her as a child and into adulthood. It turns out that Ellis has been trying to be a Cathy (Wuthering Heights), when Jane Eyre mig…