Both books are filled with unhappy revelations about the price of being a real-life romantic heroine.

This role, as a romantic heroine, was to color the direction of many of her subsequent roles in the late 1990s.

Try as she might, Emma cannot succeed as a romantic heroine.

She is both one of Babylon 5's key religious figures and its key romantic heroine.

She identified strongly with the sentiments of the romantic heroines.

Or does she only behave as she believes a romantic heroine would?

In short, she sees a wide gap between her life with Charles and that of a romantic heroine.

She remained with the series until they decided to age the character and make her one of the show's romantic heroines.

And she really should be playing a romantic heroine, of the imperiled or comic variety.

Claudia, he says, needs to be the kind of romantic heroine with whom everyone wants to identify.