In Search of Bad Girls
I’m putting together a workshop on Bad Girls in Fiction. If you don’t see your favorite bad girl here, suggest one to me and I’ll add her to the list! Also, if you want to explain why you like a particular bad girl, I’d love to hear your comments! Also, I’d like to know what you think the difference is between a villains and a bad girl of fiction. (Read More to take the poll!)

February 21st, 2010 at 8:57 am
What about Becky Sharp from Thackeray’s Vanity Fair? She was pretty ruthless!
February 21st, 2010 at 10:58 am
Hey Liss! I haven’t actually read Vanity Fair *sheep*. But I added her to the poll!
February 21st, 2010 at 11:32 am
I think the difference is humanity…most villains are just evil and completely irredeemable…bad girls are still human, show feelings and give at least the illusion that they can be helped.
Ms Thorpe from Jane Austen’s ‘Northanger Abbey’, I think is a bad girl.
February 21st, 2010 at 11:35 am
Assuming she doesn’t have to be a protagonist, what about Fanny Dashwood, the sister-in-law in Sense and Sensibility– the one who talks her husband out of helping his sisters?