Female protagonists in young adult fiction are unlikely heroines who embrace their flaws. But when it comes to diversity, they are still largely white and middle class.
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The history of children's books gives us very few really villainous female characters – and most of them are witches or evil queens.
Of all his characters, Sir Walter Scott's outlaw Rob Roy appealed most to the public and has paved the way for outsider heroes ever since.
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Senior Lecturer in English, University of Dundee
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Associate Professor of English; Program Coordinator, 6-9 and 9-12 licensure programs in English, Meredith College
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Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham
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Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Centre for Corpus Research, University of Birmingham
