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Forty-Three Year Old - Miss Jean Brodie
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Monica Douglas 16

The girls who loitered beneath the tree, shoulder to shoulder, very close to each other because of the boys, were all famous for something. Now, at sixteen, Monica Douglas was a prefect, famous mostly for mathematics which she could do in her brain, and for her anger which, when it was lively enough, drove her to slap out to right and left. She had a very red nose, winter and summer, long dark plaits, and fat, peg-like legs. Since she had turned sixteen, Monica wore her panama hat rather higher on her head than normal, perched as if it were too small and as if she knew she looked grotesque in any case.

Muriel Spark  ·  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Debbee Kensit

London Fields

Martin Amis

"Miss Debbee Kensit. Sixteen today. On your feet, girl..."

16

Meg Bailey

Don't Look At Me Like That

Diana Athill

"At sixteen the things I knew about my appearance were that my hair was straight, that my hands and feet were too big, and that I had horrible, pale eyes..."

16

Isabelle Borgé

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"She had been sixteen years old for six months..."

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Dorcas

Jazz

Toni Morrison

"Dorcas, at sixteen, has yet to wear silk hose and her shoes are those of someone much younger or very old..."

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Evey Hammond

V for Vendetta

Alan Moore

"B-but there's nothing to tell. I'm only sixteen. I haven't done anything."

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Rose Wilson

Brighton Rock

Graham Greene

"...the long experience of her sixteen years..."

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Rebecca Sharp

Vanity Fair: Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society

William Makepeace Thackeray

"...when Rebecca was sixteen years old, Miss Pinkerton majestically, and with a little speech, made her a present of a doll..."

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Blanche Dubois

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

"When I was sixteen, I made the discovery – love..."

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Margot Peters

Laughter in the Dark (kamepa-obckypa - Camera obscura)

Vladimir Nabokov

"Margot dreamed of becoming a model, and then a film star..."

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Elisabeth

Les Enfants Terribles aka The Holy Terrors

Jean Cocteau

"The door opened wide to reveal a girl of sixteen, with a strong physical resemblance to Paul..."

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Portia Quayne

The Death of the Heart

Elizabeth Bowen

"‘I do quite enjoy myself, even now.’"

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Sabina

A Spy in the House of Love

Anaïs Nin

"At sixteen Sabina took moon-baths, first of all because everyone else took sun-baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous..."