Costume Series: Heroines

Updated:  July 2011

My #1 sewing obsession is replicating or designing 11 1/2 inch doll-sized costumes of characters (usually from literature).  So one day when I had lots of better things to do, I came up with a list of heroines whose costumes I'd like to replicate (or design):

1. Jane Eyre. . .from Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
2. Jane Austen heroines
1. Elinor. . .from Sense and Sensibility
2. Elizabeth. . .from Pride and Prejudice
3. Emma (click here). . .from Emma
4. Fanny. . .from Mansfield Park
5. Anne. . .from Persuasion
6. Catherine. . .from Northanger Abbey
3. Marian Halcombe. . .from The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
4. Esther Summerson. . .from Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
5. Irene Adler and/or Violet Hunter. . .from "Sherlock Holmes" (Arthur Conan Doyle)
6. Marguerite Blakeney. . .from The Scarlet Pimpernel (Emma Orczy)
7. Catriona Drummond. . .from Catriona (Robert Louis Stevenson)
8. Lucie Manette. . .from A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
9. Margaret Hale. . .from North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)
10. Joan of Arc
11. Molly Gibson. . .from Wives and Daughters (Elizabeth Gaskell)
12. Anne Shirley. . .from Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
13. Eowyn. . .from The Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
14. Arwen (click here). . .from The Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien) 
15. Queen Victoria (click here)
16. Alice. . .from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
17. Alice Kingsleigh. . .from Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton)
18. Trixie Belden. . .from "Trixie Belden" (Julie Campbell Tatham)
19. Jill Pole. . .from The Silver Chair (C. S. Lewis)
20. Polly Plummer. . .from The Magician's Nephew (C. S. Lewis)
21. Amy Edmonstone. . .from The Heir of Redclyffe (Charlotte Yonge)
22. Tatyana Larin (click here). . .from Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin)