List of tomboys in fiction

A tomboy is a girl that behaves like a spirited, boisterous boy. [ cite book|http://books.google.com/books?id=14cUAAAACAAJ|year=1989|title=Oxford English Dictionary|quote=A girl who behaves like a spirited or boisterous boy:a wild romping girl; a hoyden.|isbn=0198611862 ] A number of fictional characters have been described as having tomboy characteristics. [ [http://www.springerlink.com/content/m359560rl6872gr3/ “I am no lady!”: the tomboy in children's fiction] ] [ [http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Tomboys/Michelle-Ann-Abate/e/9781592137220/ Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History] ]
* Akane Tendo from "Ranma ½" cite book|last = Napier|first = Susan J.|title = |year = 2005|publisher = Palgrave Macmillan|pages = p. 51 ]
* Ashley Funicello Spinelli from Recess (TV series) [ citation|title=Recess: The Spinelli Story|publisher=UK-TV-Guide|year=2008|url=http://uk-tv-guide.com/programme-details/Disney+Cinemagic/11+September+2008/14:30/Recess:+The+Spinelli+Story/Film ]
* Caddie Woodlawn from "Caddie Woodlawn" [ cite book|title=Wimmin, Wimps & Wallflowers: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Gender|pages=273|isbn=1877864803|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=8rgUeEpWfbsC|author=Philip Herbst ]
* Georgina (George) Kirrin from "The Famous Five (characters)" (by Enid Blyton) [ Libby Purves, "Today's tomboys not getting on so famously," "Times Educational Supplement" 4753 (9/7/2007): 27. Abstract: "The author, a British novelist and broadcaster, comments on social pressures on girls in 21st-century Great Britain. She begins with a reference to a planned play in which author Enid Blyton's "Famous Five" characters are shown as adults, and she wonders how tomboy George will be portrayed. She states that modern girls are expected to be so many things, including sporty, brave, and beautiful and wonders if idleness and indifference are the few remaining forms of rebellion". ] [ David Rudd, "Children's Literature in Education" 26.3 (Sep95): 185. Abstract: "Examines the sexism issue in the "Famous Five" series of children's books by Enid Blyton. Critics' comments on the series; Focus on the tomboy character named George; Characterizations; Gender struggles in the book". ]
* Idgie Threadgoode from "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café" (1987 novel and 1991 Fried Green Tomatoes (film)) cite book|last = Lindenfeld|first = Laura|year =|chapter = Women Who Eat Too Much: Femininity and Food in Fried Green Tomatoes|editor = Avakian, Arlene Voski; Haber, Barbara|title = From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food|publisher = University of Massachusetts Press|location = Boston|isbn = 1-55849-512-6|pages = 221-245 ]
* Josephine "Jo" March from "Little Women" [ Richard K. Ashford, "TOMBOYS & SAINTS: Girls' Stories of the Late Nineteenth Century," "School Library Journal" 26.5 (Jan80): 23. Abstract: "Focuses on literature about American girls in middle 19th century. Social conditions during the middle 19th century; "Little Women", by Louisa May Alcott; Susan Warner's "The Wide, Wide World"; Ann Douglas's "The Feminization of American Culture"." ]
* Mitsune Konno [ [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/love-hina/dvd-2 Love Hina DVD 2: Go West! Review] ] from "Love Hina".
* Nan from "Little Men" [ cite book|quote=Like Jo, Nan provides a middle ground for diverging tendencies: as a tomboy|title=Regendering the School Story: Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys|author=Beverly Lyon Clark|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-gr_1fhnwJUC|isbn=0415928915|year=1996|publisher=Routledge ]
* Rachel ("Hellfire") Hotchkiss from Mark Twain's "Hellfire Hotchkiss" [ "Hellfire Hotchkiss", Mark Twain in "Satires and Burlesques", University of California, 1967. The character's creator explicitly refers to her as a "tomboy," and this is echoed by the volume's editor. "Hellfire" Hotchkiss was introduced as a female counterpart to Oscar "Thug" Carpenter, whose gentleness makes him seem feminine by the standards of that time and place. Hellfire herself describes their difficulties in life as being due to their "misplaced sexes" (Everett H. Emerson, "", pp. 231-232). See also Linda A. Morris, "The Eloquent Silence in 'Hellfire Hotchkiss", in "The Mark Twain Annual 3 (2005), pp. 43–51. ]
* Scout from "To Kill A Mockingbird" [ citation|title=Outspoken Tomboys and Arrogant Women: Four 10th-Grade Girls' Talk about Female Characters in English Class|author=Pamela Hartman|publisher=The Women in Literacy and Life Assembly of The National Council of Teachers of English|volume=14|year=2005|url=http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/WILLA/fall05/hartman.html ]

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