SadRichGirls

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2	The Great Gatsby	Fitzgerald	Daisy Buchanan	Ennui discontented	Stays in the wealth prison
3	The Edwardians	Vita Sackville-West	Sebastian	Ennui discontented	Stays in the wealth prison	he is a SRB, but my favorite in the category
4	My Year of Rest and Relaxation	Ottessa Moshfegh	unnamed narrator	Sad and medicated, and pretty
5	The Beautiful and Damned	Fitzgerald	Gloria Gilbert			also anthony patch
6	Normal People	Sally Rooney	Marianne	Sad and unpopular
7	The Clique (Series)	Lisi Harrison	Massie Block	Vicious and popular
8	Brideshead Revisited	Evelyn Waugh	Julia Flyte	Ennui discontented, mores be damned initially and then change of heart (reversion to catholocism, like late-in-life Ryder and Waugh)	Marries for love, then renounces and returns to Traditional Values
9	The Red and the Black	Stendhal	Mathilde de la Mole	Ennui discontented, mores be damned	Renounces her family, is disowned, ruins herself for Julien
10	The Red and the Black	Stendhal	Madame du Renal	long-suffering and dutiful	Considers sacrificing herself, but is convinced to stay in the wealth prison by Julien	honorary sad rich girl (he's a boy)
11	ELOISE	Kay Thompson	Eloise	proto-discontented, give her a few years
12	Abigail	Magda Szabo	Gina	lost rich girl sent to boarding school	Matures/becomes a good person and gets along with others
13	Emma	Jane Austen	Emma	good-hearted, blinded by privilege
14	Howard's End	E. M. Forster	Margaret Schlegel	good-hearted	Is inserted into anohter family's inheritence battle, ends up winning the property even though she didn't fight for it
15	Washington Square	Henry James	Catherine Sloper	good-hearted, imprisoned by privilege (suspicions of golddigger fiance)	Father threatens to disinherit her, she does not marry (the fiance leaves her for unclear reasons -- for her own good ? Or bc she's been disinherited), father disinherits her anyway bc he doesn't want her to marry Charles after dad's death, she is alone and takes care of her father
16	Portrait of a Lady	Henry James	Isabel Archer	good-hearted, comes to be imprisoned in by privilege	Comes into great wealth (reward for her integrity), tricked by maniuplative actors
17	Death of the Heart	Elizabeth Bowen	Portia Quayne	lost rich girl sent to live with poor relatives
18	Journey to the River Sea (YA)	Eva Ibbotson	Maia	lost rich girl sent to live with poor relatives
19	Vanity Fair	Thackeray	Becky Sharp	Social Climber, anti-heroine
20	Custom of the Country	Edith Wharton	Undine Spragg	Social Climber, anti-heroine	Her husband can't become a diplomat (her greatest wish) because she's been divorced
21	Middlemarch	George Eliot	Rosamond Vincy	Social Climber
22	White Ivy	Susie Yang	Sylvia Speyer	Maneuvering, intent on maintaining family's social status
23	Margot	Wendell Steavenson	Margot	tbr
24	Self Care	Leigh Stein	Devin Avery
25	Worry	Alexandra Tanner	Jules and Poppy	guilt about first world problems		Parents are rich, they are not rich--modern SRGs are usually children of wealth but themselves not wealthy
26	The Book of Ayn	Lexi Freiman	Anna	Generational wealth, slob, unhappy, nepobaby guilt
27	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Roald Dahl	Veruca Salt	Spoiled, anti-heroine
28	The Clique (series)	Lisi Harrison	Massie Block	Spoiled, anti-heroine
29	We Were Liars	E. Lockhart	Narrator	Isolated, family trauma
30	The Eustace Diamonds	Anthony Trollope	Lizzie Eustace nee Greystock	tbr		Thank you Brian B. for suggesting! Can't wait to read
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32	Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	Scarlett O'Hara	She's meant to be a heroine but--- social climber postbellum
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39	I Capture the Castle	Dodie Smith	Rose Mortmain
40	Madame Bovary	Flaubert	Emma B
41	Dud Avocado	Elaine Dundy	Sally Jean			her uncle is rich and sends her to europe
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