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|title=How To Be A Heroine: Or, what I've learned from reading too much

|author=Samantha Ellis

|publisher=Vintage

|date=January 2015

|website=http://www.samanthaellis.me.uk/

|summary=An addictive journey with many of literature's heroines and full of fascinating insights into Samantha Ellis's own life.

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''How to be a Heroine'' is a pleasant and addictive read. Playwright Samantha Ellis looks back at her childhood as a voracious reader and remembers the characters that influenced her. These are as diverse as Sylvia Plath, ''Little Women'' and Scheherazade.