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The other halves

Perhaps one of our readers has taken rather too much exception to the attitude and portrayal of historical heroines in fiction
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Sir, Joann Murray (letter, Mar 9) need not feel offended by the portrayal of women in literature. If it is true that, for example, Elizabeth Bennet and Dorothea Brooke are “whole only when completed by man”, it is obvious that Mr Darcy and Will Ladislaw are “whole only when completed by woman”.

Anne Montgomery
Wirral, Merseyside