Both from The Guardian:
Where are all the heroines in YA fiction?: firebird
This feature wanders away, somewhat, from the original question, to discuss covers and marketing, but ends with some recommendations.
Here is
an obituary for Mary Stewart, who has passed away at the age of 97, by Rachel Hore. I found it sympathetic and enlightening about certain aspects of Stewart's books. I greatly enjoyed her romantic suspense novels.
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