Here’s your chance to nominate your favorite female characters from adult literary fiction.
While we encourage you to comment to offer your nominations, we whipped up a form so non-members can vote, too. You’ll have until Friday to nominate in this or any other category, and next week we’ll start narrowing the contenders down to those who’ll be in the bracket.
Middlemarch Madness contenders do not need to be the primary focus of the books they occupy. They do not even need to be protagonists. Above all else, MMM contenders are interesting female characters (not to be confused with Strong Female Characters, but there’s some overlap).
Let the nominations begin! May the odds be ever in your choice’s favor. To nominate, tell us your choice’s name, the book or book series they appeared in, and the author. You may nominate as many characters as you’d like.
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11 replies on “Middlemarch Madness IV: Adult Literary Nominations”
Thursday Next, Thursday Next series, Jasper Fforde (maybe falls under fantasy? not sure)
Blanche duBois, A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
Nora, A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
Lysistrata, Lysistrata, Aristophanes
Nikki Heat, Nikki Heat series, “Richard Castle”
…Yes, I realize this is a weird assortment
Grace Makutsi–The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency–Alexander McCall Smith
Mary Katherine “Merricat” Blackwood–We Have Always Lived in the Castle–Shirley Jackson
Dorothea Brooke–Middlemarch–George Eliot
Jane Eyre–Jane Eyre–Charlotte Bronte
Lily Bristow–To the Lighthouse–Virginia Woolf
Scout Finch–To Kill a Mockingbird–Harper Lee (not sure about the category here)
Elizabeth Bennet–Pride and Prejudice–Jane Austen
Sethe–Beloved–Toni Morrison
Lucy Snowe–Villette–Charlotte Bronte
Margaret Schlegel and Helen Schlegel–Howards End–E.M. Forster
Georgette George–The Last of Her Kind–Sigrid Nunez
Sukhvinder Jawanda–The Casual Vacancy–J.K. Rowling
Is it one per author again this year?
Also:
Esther Greenwood–The Bell Jar–Sylvia Plath
And I forgot Shakespearean ladies!
Beatrice–Much Ado About Nothing–William Shakespeare
Paulina–The Winter’s Tale–William Shakespeare (not sure if this should qualify here or as fantasy. There’s a live statue.)
You are also my favorite!
Awwww <3 Middlemarch Madness is my favorite time of year.
Tita – Like Water for Chocolate
Mona Aamons Monzano – Cat’s Cradle
Taylor – The Bean Trees
Claudia – Interview with the Vampire
Lolita – Lolita
Miss Brody – The Prime of Miss Jean Brody
You are singlehandedly kicking MMMIV into high gear, and I love you. <3
Haha, I couldn’t figure out why no one else was posting already! I might be slightly insane, but I just love MMM. I was thinking of my list weeks ago!
I also, hilariously, made the same mistake I made last year and nominated Claudia in Adult Fiction rather than Fantasy/Sci Fi.
Where are everyone else’s nominations? Come reminisce with me, people!
You are my favorite.
It’s because I’m waiting for the fantasy/sci-fi nominations with bated breath…