[personal profile] aliskye
from all my well read and clever readers. :)

I'm going to be playing in a Victorian-era Legion of Extraordinary Gentlemen-type role play game.  I'm looking for a female literary character set in the mid to late 1800's to play.  This is not an area that I have any expertise in at all and I'm coming up blank.  We're supposed to each come up with several ideas and then we'll pick the best ones to play.  I'm looking for an adventuress type of character.  The only one that I've considered is Jane, Lady Greystoke, who apparently, after being merely a damsel in distress, becomes an adventurer on her own.

Andy suggestions?

Thanks in advance!!

Date: 2009-03-07 03:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jillaw.livejournal.com
Well, Scarlett O'Hara isn't much of an adverturess, but she was definitely spunky. All of Edith Wharton's characters are kinda annoying. Anne of Green Gables might not have had the type of adventures you're speaking of, but she certainly had plenty (and dreamt of even more!). I can't seem to think of anything by George Sand off the top of my head, but I'd be surprised if she didn't have some good characters.

I'm afraid I wasn't much help...but I hope I at least got some juices going!

Date: 2009-03-07 04:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] czina.livejournal.com
Well, Nellie Bly was a real person, but she had adventures, traveling around the world in less than 80 days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly

Date: 2009-03-07 04:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elmunadi.livejournal.com
I'd suggest Ada, Countess Lovelace - Byron's daughter, Mathematical prodigy, and the world's first computer programmer!

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_ada_lovelace)

Date: 2009-03-07 04:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elmunadi.livejournal.com
She's a literary character (in addition to being a real person) in that she appears prominently in Bruce Sterling's alternate history "The Difference Engine".

BTW - I'm jealous. you have time and a crew to play with!

Date: 2009-03-07 04:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaithriona.livejournal.com
That's the one I was gong to suggest. I'm reading "The Difference Engine" now.

Date: 2009-03-07 05:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jkrissw.livejournal.com
For theme music while you play, consider:

this group
Edited Date: 2009-03-07 05:56 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-03-07 06:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 4sprinkles.livejournal.com
Whoo! Abney Park! :D (Tho the link didn't work for me...)
And I second the vote for Lovelace - it's a perfect choice!

Date: 2009-03-07 07:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jkrissw.livejournal.com
I love LJ's silly 404 error pages. :-)

I tried to give the link for Abney Park's myspace, but for some reason, aliskye's journal url got prefixed on it. Try it like this:

www.myspace.com/abneypark

Date: 2009-03-07 07:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elmunadi.livejournal.com
They're local to Seattle - Kaithriona's familiar with them. You could easily build an adventure movie around "Airship Pirates"

Date: 2009-03-07 08:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elmunadi.livejournal.com
"They" being Abney Park

Date: 2009-03-07 10:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mistresshuette.livejournal.com
How about Irene Adler? The only woman to outwit Sherlock Holmes and gain his admiration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Adler

Date: 2009-03-07 03:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deryabar.livejournal.com
Christina Rossetti <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/christina_rossetti>
Grace Darling <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/grace_darling>
Georgiana Burne-Jones <http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/macdonald_georgina.html>
Elizabeth Gaskell <http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/gaskell/bio.html>
George Eliot <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/george_eliot>
Florence Nightingale <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/florence_nightingale>
Louisa May Alcott <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/louisa_may_alcott>
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson <http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/a3197216>

Victorian Female Writers <http://www.mantex.co.uk/ou/aa810/vww-05.htm>

Date: 2009-03-07 04:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aliskye.livejournal.com
We're not looking for real people, we're going to be playing fictional literary characters.

Date: 2009-03-07 07:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deryabar.livejournal.com
Ahh. Well then, there is really only one heroine - Jo March. :)

Too Easy!

Date: 2009-03-09 11:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goth-bunnyy.livejournal.com
Irene Adler - from Sherlock Holmes' Scandal in Bohemia.

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