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Shirley Jackson wrote “We Have Always Lived in the Castle.”

On the same note, I nominated Merricat from “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” in adult literary, and she doesn’t show up either.

I definitely did nominate Jo in YA–I just went back and checked–but she doesn’t show up in the poll. Can anything be done about it at this late stage?

Kathy H–Never Let Me Go–Kazuo Ishiguro
Elphaba–Wicked–Gregory Maguire
Catelyn Stark–A Song of Ice and Fire–George R.R. Martin

Awwww <3 Middlemarch Madness is my favorite time of year.

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.)

Also:
Esther Greenwood–The Bell Jar–Sylvia Plath

Katniss Everdeen–The Hunger Games–Suzanne Collins
Luna Lovegood–Harry Potter–J.K. Rowling
Odge Gribble–The Secret of Platform Thirteen–Eva Ibbotson
Scraps–The Oz Books–L. Frank Baum

Two I forgot:
Anastasia Krupnik–Anastasia Krupnik–Lois Lowry
Elizabeth–Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth–E.L. Koningsburg

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 […]

Jo March–Little Women–Louisa May Alcott
Charlotte A. Cavatica–Charlotte’s Web–E.B. White
Sarah Purcell–Sisters of the Quantock Hills–Ruth Elwin Harris
Violet Baudelaire–A Series of Unfortunate […]

Let’s all vote for Grace Makutsi! She’s a self-proclaimed feminist who worked her way up from a poor childhood in Bobonong to get the highest ever results on the final exam at Botswana Secretarial College (97 […]

Everyone should vote for Merricat, who truly has one of the most unique and interesting voices I’ve ever read. Let her tell you about herself (the book’s first paragraph):
“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I […]

What a fabulous bracket! I am so pleased that so many of my favorite ladies made it through.

^The above is Literary, by the way. I forgot to mark it.

Forgot to mark the above as YA Lit–hope it’s not too late!

Elizabeth–Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth–E.L. Koningsburg

I also want to add Sukhvinder Jawanda from J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy. I don’t think she will get the author nomination when there are Potter ladies around, but I think she’s awesome anyway.

Literary:
Mary Katherine “Merricat” Blackwood–We Have Always Lived in the Castle–Shirley Jackson
Jane Eyre–Jane Eyre–Charlotte Bronte
Elinor Dashwood–Sense and Sensibility–Jane Austen
Lily Briscoe–To […]

Literary:
Charlotte A. Cavatica–Charlotte’s Web–E.B. White
Frances Purcell–Sisters of the Quantock Hills–Ruth Elwin Harris
Violet Baudelaire–A Series of Unfortunate Events–Lemony Snicket
Betsy Ray–The […]