This is probably a question for the ladies. Jane Austen's heroines were all different in each of her books. Lizzie Bennet is witty and assertive. Emma Woodhouse is well-meaning, but her emotional intelligence is not the best. Anne Elliot is more mature but rueful. Fanny Price is morally upright, uptight, but passive. Catherine Morland is a typical teenage girl. Elinor Dashwood is officer calibre, but Marianne Dashwood is emotional. So my question is if Jane Austen had lived longer and had written more books, what would her other heroines have been like? Would she ever have made a heroine out of someone like the worldly woman, Mary Crawford, or adulteress, Maria Bertram, from Mansfield Park? Personally, Maria Bertram is the only character from any of Austen's books whose future I would have been interesting in hearing about.