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Letting Go of Your Characters  As a writer what is your reason for getting rid of a character and how do you make them exit from the story?     Studying for a degree in English Literature requires enormous amounts of reading. Quite a number of these books have been a pleasure to read, but many of them contain female protagonist who meet a premature death. Most of these books are 19 th century literature and the female’s death is the result of not following the feminine rules that men and society imposed upon women. A woman’s place was in the home taking care of the family, husband and entertaining guests. Women were not allowed in the men’s sphere and there were not many options available for education.   In the 19 th century, it was unheard of for women to be a feminist; this was long before Jane Fonda.