The_Heroine_(novel)
The Heroine (novel)
1813 novel by Eaton Stannard Barrett
The Heroine; Or Adventures of Cherubina is a novel by Eaton Stannard Barrett, first published in 1813.
The novel is a quixotic satire, in which the protagonist displays the hallmarks of "heroinism" exemplified by Germaine de Staël's novel Corinne ou l'Italie (1807) and goes through a series of Gothic adventures inspired by Ann Radcliffe's novels. Ultimately, the protagonist is reformed, and the novel presents a conservative message that women must be domestic and submissive to men in order to maintain public order.[1]