And while his heroines are interesting and angular people, they're still only romantic heroines, whose role is to appreciate the wonderful hero. The eccentric felons of the title, the ones with strange and admirable ideas, are men. Saki had individualistic female protagonists in several of his stories, as Shaw did in his plays; so it shouldn't have been so unthinkable for Chesterton. A product of his times and his times are past-- very fortunately.
And while his heroines are interesting and angular people, they're still only romantic heroines, whose role is to appreciate the wonderful hero. The eccentric felons of the title, the ones with strange and admirable ideas, are men. Saki had individualistic female protagonists in several of his stories, as Shaw did in his plays; so it shouldn't have been so unthinkable for Chesterton. A product of his times and his times are past-- very fortunately.
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