30 Days Disney Challenge: Day 3 - Favorite Heroine

Jane Porter is definitely my favorite heroine who is not a Disney Princess. All right, she is not exactly a heroine. She's a deuteragonist of Tarzan, his love interest. But she is the closest figure that instantly popped into my mind when I think of a non-princess-heroine.

She's a highly educated British, so she's naturally (or probably because people expected her to) graceful and proper, too proper at a first glance. But she is smart, curious and eager for new adventures. She is everything a young lady should look up to: educated, because that is important ladies, adventurous, respects tradition and has very good manners but smart enough to remember that this is her life and she is free to decide what she wants to do with it. She is patient, into arts and books, and doesn't start as the bravest person in Disney Universe, but she is willing to conquer her fears.

Also, she is probably the great great grandmother of Princess Belle.