The word "heroine" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is normally used to describe a heroic female character in literature, film, or other forms of art, or a real-life woman who has performed a courageous act. For example, you could say, "The brave actions of the war heroine were recounted in a special ceremony."
The book's last sequence, Lucinda's Way, is the sweetest – a fond remembrance of a lovely sounding marriage, one in which she never threw away a scrap of his writing "without kissing it first", and in which Reid, as he puts it, was "second always to you, the dashing heroine".
Inspired by these old, dark tales I piled on the heartache, not an easy sell for a children's story (the heroine, a little girl, is eventually imprisoned and comes to a terrible end).
Otherwise, I will leave.'" That creation turned out to be Petit's biggest success, Carmen (1949), which introduced a new kind of ballet heroine.
SDLP councillor John Boyle said: "This selfless heroine put the lives of her passengers and people living around ahead of herself".
Following the exile of Captain Alfred Dreyfus after his wrongful conviction for spying for Germany against France, his wife, Lucie, was portrayed as a bourgeois heroine, the epitome of the dutiful Victorian spouse.
Ali Bell is a heroine born from grief and a burning vendetta, and learns that to be a bad-ass all you need to do is believe in the power you have inside of you, and never let anybody persuade you otherwise.
Her actions were hailed on Thursday as the work of a "heroine" by local politicians, who condemned the republican terrorist group's actions.
And Kate Atkinson's Life After Life (Doubleday) – though it put off some readers with its endlessly regenerating heroine and Hitler cameo – swept me away with its profound and beautifully written exploration of fate, family, endurance and a changing England.
It was Mitchell's only published novel, and she originally named her heroine Pansy O'Hara.
Skelton has recently published her first children's book, Amy Wild: Amazon Summer, about the travels of an adventurous heroine with her photographer aunt.
PK (the title is a play on the Hindi word for being drunk) also has an elaborate side story that has further upset Hindu nationalists – the heroine falls in love with a Pakistani, is heartbroken when she thinks he has ditched her, but is eventually reunited with her Muslim boyfriend by the film's lead.
