Mini-Muse Monday-How Do You Like Your Heroines?

 

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Mini-Muse Monday-How Do You Like Your Heroines?

Last week we talked about the types of heroes that will send our pulses cavorting, so I thought it only fair to discuss heroines this week.

 

I’ve heard, over and over, that modern readers, even of historical romances, like strong, independent heroines. That’s all well and good, and I’m not denying there have always been intrepid women, but sometimes I feel like an author has taken a contemporary woman and plopped her in the middle of another century.

 

As I’ve said in a couple of workshops I’ve presented, I half expect her to whip a tampon from her reticule or pop a piece of bubble gum into her mouth. An authentic heroine has to be believable in the setting the author places her too.

I know I’ve gotten frustrated more than once when a reader doesn’t understand the constraints women of previous eras were under. Today, what we take for granted was truly the exception for most women until at least the mid 19th century, for some even later.

 

Just as there are typical romance heroes, so too there are the standard heroine types:

 

Miss perfect-the person everyone hates because she is truly great at everything and nice to boot.

The free spirit

The waif or lost soul

The intellect (bluestocking)

The chief (boss)

The self-sacrificing nurturer

The feisty-strong-don’t-tell-me-what-to-do-rebel

The crusader

 

Most heroines are a combination of types with one or two typically being more predominate than the others.

 

I like a woman who is strong, capable, an intelligent, but also not afraid to be soft, feminine, and doesn’t feel threatened when a man wants to take care of her. I flat out don’t like foul-mouthed, aggressive heroines with attitudes whose only use for men is in the bedroom.

 

What kinds of heroines do you like? Which ones get under your skin? Which kinds do we see too much of and which ones would you like to see more of?

 

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