![]() ![]() She wears her freckles proudly and is offended by beauty products vowing to eliminate them. ![]() Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, her plaited hair blazes a combustible red- though, unlike Anne, she is perfectly content with her appearance. By 1945, the first book, named for the titular character, was published to great acclaim, although one reviewer, aghast, referred to Pippi as “psychotic.”Ĭertainly Lindgren’s character would have been unconventional in any case, but she is all the more extraordinary for her femaleness. Her daughter, Karin, seven years old at the time, was confined to her bed with pneumonia, and yearning for entertainment. Disgusted by the ways in which adults “browbeat” and “trampled on” their children, she dreamed up Pippi, “the strongest girl in the world,” in the winter of 1941. ![]() Perhaps one of the most uncompromising-and uncompromised-children’s heroines from the twentieth century is Pippi Longstocking, literary creation of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren. Plucky heroines abound across Anglo and American children’s literature, yet their own struggles with gendered strictures and the trajectories of their comings-of-age often present conflicting narratives. ![]()
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