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List of literary works with eponymous heroines

The titles of the following works of literature consist of the name of the female protagonist only:

A

• Belle Kendrick Abbott: Leah Mordecai
• Jacob Abbott: Mary Erskine
• Henry Adams (writing as Frances Snow Compton): Esther
• Richard Adams: Maia
• Cecelia Ahern: Rosie Dunne (in the UK aka Where Rainbows End)
• Joan Aiken: Jane Fairfax
• Edward Albee: Tiny Alice
• Bess Streeter Aldrich: Miss Bishop
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Prudence Palfrey [1] and "Marjorie Daw"
• Clare Allan: Poppy Shakespeare
• Candace Allen: Valaida
• Grant Allen: Hilda Wade: A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose
• Isabel Allende: Eva Luna
• Julia Álvarez: ¡Yo!
• Pamela Anderson: Star
• Sherwood Anderson: Kit Brandon
• Jean Anouilh: Antigone
• Ludwig Anzengruber: Elfriede
• Aharon Appelfeld: Tzili
• Nelly Arcan: Putain
• Jeffrey Archer: "Christina Rosenthal"
• Aristophanes: Lysistrata
• Michael Arlen: Lily Christine
• Rebecca Agatha Armour: Marguerite Verne
• Elizabeth von Arnim: Vera and (writing as Alice Cholmondeley) Christine
• T. S. Arthur: Lizzy Glenn
• Louis Auchincloss: Sybil
• Jane Austen: Emma and Lady Susan

B

• Enid Bagnold: Lottie Dundass
• Temple Bailey: Mistress Anne and Judy
• Honoré de Balzac: Eugénie Grandet and Pamela Giraud
• Joan Barfoot: Plain Jane
• Helen Barolini: Umbertina
• Robert Barr: Jennie Baxter, Journalist
• Max Barry: Jennifer Government
• Sebastian Barry: Annie Dunne
• L. Frank Baum: Ozma of Oz, The Patchwork Girl of Oz and (writing as Edith Van Dyne) Aunt Jane's Nieces
• Vicki Baum: Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer
• Stephen Baxter: Lieserl
• Peter S. Beagle: Tamsin
• Thea Beckman: Marie-Claire, Saartje Tadema, Thura
• Max Beerbohm: Zuleika Dobson
• David Belasco: Madame Butterfly
• Edward Bellamy: Miss Ludington's Sister
• Arnold Bennett: Anna of the Five Towns and Hilda Lessways
• Emerson Bennett: Clara Moreland, Ella Barnwell: A Historical Romance of Border Life and Viola
• E.F. Benson: Mapp and Lucia
• Therese Bentzon: Jacqueline
• Walter Besant: Dorothy Forster
• Agustina Bessa-Luís: Fanny Owen
• David Bezmozgis: "Natasha"
• Maxim Biller: Esra
• Sandra Birdsell: Katya (aka The Russländer)
• William Black: Judith Shakespeare, Madcap Violet, and Yolande
• R.D. Blackmore: Lorna Doone
• Guy Boothby: Sheilah McLeod and Connie Burt
• Gordon Bottomley: Kate Kennedy
• Elizabeth Bowen: Eva Trout
• Martin Boyd: Lucinda Brayford
• "Pappy" Boyington: Tonya
• Clare Boylan: Emma Brown
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Aurora Floyd
• André Breton: Nadja
• Carol Ryrie Brink: Caddie Woodlawn
• Hermann Broch: Barbara
• Louis Bromfield: Mrs. Parkington
• Anne Brontë: Agnes Grey
• Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre and Shirley
• Gwendolyn Brooks: Maud Martha
• Kevin Brooks: Candy
• Nick Brooks: My Name Is Denise Forrester
• Rhoda Broughton: Nancy, Joan, Belinda, Lavinia, and Mrs. Bligh
• Alice Brown: Margaret Warrener
• Charles Brockden Brown: Clara Howard and Jane Talbot
• Kitt Brown: Alyssa Deane
• Larry Brown: Fay
• William Wells Brown: Clotel; or, The President's Daughter
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Aurora Leigh
• Martha Bensley Bruère: Mildred Carver, U.S.A.
• Steven Brust: Sethra Lavode
• Dorothy Bryant: Miss Giardino
• Robert Williams Buchanan: Effie Hetherington, Agnes, Corinne, Lucy Brandon, and Lady Gladys
• John Baldwin Buckstone: Agnes De Vere; or, The Wife's Revenge, Isabelle; or, A Woman's Life, and Victorine; or, I'll Sleep on It
• Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (writing as Owen Meredith): Lucile
• Frances Hodgson Burnett: Sara Crewe (aka A Little Princess)
• Fanny Burney: Evelina and Camilla
• Sarah Harriet Burney [2]: Clarentine and Geraldine Fauconberg

C

• George Washington Cable: Madame Delphine
• James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce
• Erskine Caldwell: Claudelle
• Taylor Caldwell: Melissa
• Ivan Cankar: Gospa Judit
• Orson Scott Card: Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel and Leah
• William Carleton: Jane Sinclair; or, The Fawn of Springvale
• Tori Carrington: Sofie Metropolis
• Vera Caspary: Bedelia and Laura
• Willa Cather: Lucy Gayheart and My Ántonia
• Jerome Charyn: Marilyn the Wild
• Mary Ellen Chase: Mary Peters
• Barbara Chase-Riboud: Sally Hemings
• Mary Cholmondeley: Diana Tempest
• Colley Cibber: Ximena
• Jon Cleary: Spearfield's Daughter
• John Cleland: Fanny Hill; or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
• Lucy Clifford: Aunt Anne
• J. M. Coetzee: Elizabeth Costello
• Colette: Gigi
• D.G. Compton: The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe
• Ivy Compton-Burnett: Dolores
• Evan S. Connell: Mrs. Bridge
• Joseph Conrad: "Amy Foster"
• Catherine Cookson: Fanny McBride, Kate Hannigan and Katie Mulholland
• Susan Fenimore Cooper: Elinor Wyllys
• William Cooper (writing as H. S. Hoff): Trina, Rhea and Lisa
• Marie Corelli: Thelma
• Gérard de Cortanze: Laura
• Douglas Coupland: Miss Wyoming
• John Cournos: Miranda Masters
• Bryce Courtenay: Tandia, Jessica, and Sylvia
• Hedwig Courths-Mahler: Griseldis, Lena Warnstetten and Die schöne Miss Lilian
• Annie Sophie Cory writing as Victoria Cross: Anna Lombard and Martha Brown, MP
• Josephine Cox: Jinnie
• Stephen Crane: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
• Francis Marion Crawford: Katharine Lauderdale and Marietta: A Maid of Venice
• Danielle Crittenden: Amanda Bright@Home
• A. J. Cronin: Gracie Lindsay
• John Crowne: Juliana; or, The Princess of Poland
• Maria Susanna Cummins: Mabel Vaughan [3]
• E. V. Cunningham (aka Howard Fast): Alice, Cynthia, Helen, Lydia, Margie, Millie, Penelope, Phyllis, Sally, Samantha, Shirley, and Sylvia
• James Oliver Curwood: Isobel: A Romance of the Northern Trail

D

• Fred D'Aguiar: Bethany Bettany
• Roald Dahl: Matilda
• Ita Daly: Ellen
• Clemence Dane: Cousin Muriel
• Tina Daniell: Maquesta Kar-Thon
• Maria Thompson Daviess: Phyllis [4]
• Luke Davies: Candy and Isabelle the Navigator
• Owen Davis: Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model and Jezebel
• Rebecca Harding Davis: Frances Waldeaux [5]
• Abha Dawesar: Babyji
• Eduardo De Filippo: Filumena Marturano
• John William De Forest: Kate Beaumont, Justine Vane, Irene Vane, and Irene, the Missionary
• Jan de Hartog: Stella (filmed as The Key)
• Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué: Undine
• Warwick Deeping: Bess of the Woods, Mad Barbara, and Kitty
• Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
• R. F. Delderfield: Diana
• Rafael Delgado: Angelina
• Joolz Denby: Billie Morgan
• Henry Denker: Kate Kincaid
• Patrick Dennis: Auntie Mame (later dramatised by Jerome Lawrence & Robert Edwin Lee)
• Raymond Deslandes: Antoinette Rigaud
• Jean Devanny: Cindie
• Charles Dibdin: Hannah Hewitt
• Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit
• Monica Dickens: Mariana and Kate and Emma
• Peter Dickinson: Eva
• Benjamin Disraeli: Sybil, or, The Two Nations
• Philippe Djian: Betty Blue (aka 37,2° Le Matin)
• Steven Donahue: Amanda Rio
• H.D. (aka Hilda Doolittle): HERmione
• Ménie Muriel Dowie: Gallia
• Roddy Doyle: Paula Spencer
• Wells Earl Draughon: Traci [6]
• Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt
• Allen Drury: Anna Hastings
• Lisa Dugan: Doris Winsby
• Alexandre Dumas, père: Louise de la Valliere
• Sara Jeannette Duncan [7]: Cousin Cinderella
• Patricia Duncker: Miss Webster and Chérif
• Mark Dunn: Ella Minnow Pea
• Thomas D'Urfey: Madam Fickle
• Lawrence Durrell: Justine and Clea

E

• Maria Edgeworth: The Modern Griselda, Belinda, Leonora, and Helen
• George Eliot: Romola
• Stanley Elkin: Mrs. Ted Bliss
• John Breckenridge Ellis: Fran
• Marian Engel: Joanne
• Rosemary Enright: Isobel
• Louise Erdrich: Four Souls
• Susan Ertz: Madame Claire, Nina and Mary Hallam
• Euripides: Medea

F

• Lauren Fairbanks: Sister Carrie
• Lilian Faschinger: Magdalena Sünderin (translated as Magdalena the Sinner)
• Sebastian Faulks: Charlotte Gray
• Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette: La Princesse de Clèves
• Ellen Fechner: Meine Frau Teresa
• Ellen Feldman: Lucy
• Edna Ferber: Dawn O'Hara
• Fanny Fern: Ruth Hall
• Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary
• Henry Fielding: Amelia and Shamela
• Jane Findlater: Rachel
• Mary Findlater: Betty Musgrave
• Clyde Fitch: Barbara Frietchie
• Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
• Susan Fletcher: Eve Green
• Antonio Fogazzaro: Leila
• Theodor Fontane: Cécile, Frau Jenny Treibel, Mathilde Möhring and Effi Briest
• Paul Leicester Ford: Janice Meredith
• Tullio Forgiarini: Miss Mona: Roman de gare en cinq actes et un épilogue
• Margaret Forster: Georgy Girl
• Karen Joy Fowler: Sarah Canary
• Marianne Fredriksson: Inge and Mira
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Jane Field
• Shama Futehally: Tara Lane
• Jacques Futrelle: Elusive Isabel [8]

G

• Lisa Gabriele: Tempting Faith DiNapoli
• Neil Gaiman: Coraline
• Ernest J. Gaines: Catherine Carmier
• Mary Gaitskill: Veronica
• Zona Gale: Miss Lulu Bett
• Christophe Gallaz & Roberto Innocenti: Rose Blanche
• John Galsworthy: Jocelyn
• Federico García Lorca: Doña Rosita la soltera
• Jane Gardam: Faith Fox
• Hamlin Garland: Rose of Dutcher's Coolly
• Romain Gary: Lady L
• Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton, Ruth, and Cousin Phillis
• Théophile Gautier: Mademoiselle de Maupin
• John Gay: Polly
• Ernest Gebler: Eileen O'Roon
• Maggie Gee: Grace
• Heike Geißler: Rosa
• Martha Gellhorn: Liana
• Pam Gems: Mrs Frampton
• Kaye Gibbons: Ellen Foster
• André Gide: Isabelle
• Ellen Gilchrist: Sarah Conley
• George Gissing: Isabel Clarendon and Veranilda
• Ellen Glasgow: Virginia
• Elinor Glyn: Halcyone [9]
• Curt Goetz: Ingeborg and Tatjana
• Catherine Gore: Theresa Marchmont; or, The Maid of Honour and Mrs Armytage
• Georg Grabenhorst: Merve. Der Roman eines jungen Mädchens
• Winston Graham: Marnie, Stephanie, Cordelia and Bella Poldark
• Sarah Grand: Ideala
• Julien Green: Adrienne Mesurat
• Rudolf Greinz: Äbtissin Verena, Regina Rautenwald and Gertraud Sonnweber
• Ken Grimwood: Elise
• Jens Christian Grøndahl: Lucca

H

• H. Rider Haggard: She and Ayesha
• Jennifer Haigh: Mrs. Kimble
• Cicely Hamilton: Diana of Dobson's
• Knut Hamsun: Victoria. En kjærlighedshistorie
• Eva Hanagan: Alice
• Arthur Sherburne Hardy: Aurélie
• Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
• Henry Harland: Mrs. Peixada
• Marion Harland: Miriam
• Frances E.W. Harper: Iola Leroy
• Beatrice Harraden: "Hilda Strafford" and Rachel
• Joel Chandler Harris: Sister Jane
• Jim Harrison: Dalva
• Noëlle Harrison: Beatrice
• Bret Harte: Cressy and Flip: A California Romance
• L. P. Hartley: Poor Clare
• Amy Hassinger: Nina: Adolescence
• Gerhart Hauptmann: Rose Bernd and Wanda
• Dennis Havens: Lucinda
• Eliza Haywood: Idalia; or, The Unfortunate Mistress
• Ann Hazard: Emma Stanley; or, The Orphans
• Alexander Heimann: Lisi
• Robert A. Heinlein: Friday and Podkayne of Mars
• Louis Hémon: Lizzie Blakeston and Maria Chapdelaine
• George Wylie Henderson: Ollie Miss [10]
• Mary E. Herbert: Woman As She Should Be; or, Agnes Wiltshire
• Joseph Hergesheimer: Linda Condon
• Hermann Hesse: Gertrud
• Georgette Heyer: Arabella, Cousin Kate and Helen
• Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse: "Andrea Delfin"
• James Hilton: Catherine Herself
• E.T.A. Hoffmann: Das Fräulein von Scuderi
• Henry Holl: Grace Huntley
• Mary Jane Holmes: Cousin Maude, Dora Deane, Maggie Miller and Rosamond; or, The Youthful Error
• Oliver Wendell Holmes: Elsie Venner
• Hazel Holt: Leonora
• Winifred Holtby: Poor Caroline
• Christina Hopkinson: Izobel Brannigan.com
• Ödön von Horváth & Traugott Krischke: Das Fräulein Pollinger
• Bronson Howard: Young Mrs. Winthrop
• William Dean Howells: Annie Kilburn
• Fergus Hume: Madame Midas
• Marsha Hunt: Joy
• Rachel Hunter: Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villany and Letitia; or, The Castle Without a Spectre
• Thomas Hürlimann: Fräulein Stark
• Zora Neale Hurston: "Isis"

I

• Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler
• Jean Ingelow: Sarah de Berenger
• Jorge Isaacs: María
• Susan Isaacs: Lily White

J

• Helen Hunt Jackson: Ramona
• Margaret Weymouth Jackson: Jenny Fowler and Sarah Thornton
• Henry James: Daisy Miller, The Princess Casamassima and Louisa Pallant
• Elizabeth Janeway: Daisy Kenyon
• Tama Janowitz: Peyton Amberg
• Brian Jacques: Mariel of Redwall
• Edgar Jepson: Sibyl Falcon and Ann Annington
• Douglas William Jerrold: Black-Ey'd Susan and Martha Willis, the Servant-Girl
• Geraldine Jewsbury: Zoë: The History of Two Lives, Marian Withers and Constance Herbert
• Pamela Hansford Johnson: Catherine Carter
• Mary Johnston: Audrey and Miss Delicia Allen
• Pat Jordan: a.k.a. Sheila Doyle and a.k.a. Sheila Weinstein

K

• Karin Kallmaker [11]: Sugar
• Erich Kästner: Das doppelte Lottchen (translated as Lottie and Lisa, filmed as The Parent Trap)
• Sheila Kaye-Smith: Joanna Godden and Mrs Gailey
• Isabella Kelly: Joscelina; or, The Rewards of Benevolence
• Anne Ker: Emmeline; or, The Happy Discovery
• Jack Kerouac: Maggie Cassidy and Tristessa
• Jean Kerr: Mary, Mary
• Martin Kessel: Lydia Faude
• Hans Werner Kettenbach: Minnie oder Ein Fall von Geringfügigkeit
• Charles J. Kickham: Sally Kavanagh
• Thomas Killigrew: Cicilia and Clorinda; or, Love in Arms [12]
• Jamaica Kincaid: Annie John and Lucy
• Nanci Kincaid: Verbena
• Stephen King: Dolores Claiborne
• Charles Kingsley: Hypatia
• Heinrich von Kleist: Die Marquise von O ...
• Joy Kogawa: Obasan
• Frederick Kohner: Gidget
• Judith Krantz: Princess Daisy
• A. C. Kuiper: Elsje and Anneke
• Ann Kurtz: Pendy

L

• Alphonse de Lamartine: Graziella
• Martha J. Lamb: Spicy
• Gavin Lambert: Inside Daisy Clover
• Meta Lander: Marion Graham; or, Higher Than Happiness
• Rose Wilder Lane: Cindy
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Francesca Carrara and Ethel Churchill
• Hartmut Lange: Frau von Kauenhofen
• Valery Larbaud: Fermina Márquez
• Philip Larkin: Jill
• Eric Laurrent: Clara Stern
• Mary Lavin: Mary O'Grady
• Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla
• Madeleine L'Engle: Ilsa [13]
• Maureen Lee: Liverpool Annie
• Ella Leffland: Mrs. Munck
• Charlotte Lennox: Henrietta, Sophia and Euphemia
• Doris Lessing: Martha Quest
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Emilia Galotti and Miss Sara Sampson
• Amy Levy: Miss Meredith
• Kevin Lewis: Kaitlyn
• Sinclair Lewis: Ann Vickers
• Laura Jean Libbey: Mischievous Maid Faynie
• Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking
• Heiner Link: Frl. Ursula
• Eliza Lynn Linton: Patricia Kemball
• George Lippard: Bel of Prairie Eden
• Caren Lissner: Carrie Pilby
• Norah Lofts: Jassy
• Bret Lott: Jewel
• Marie Belloc Lowndes: Letty Lynton
• Lois Lowry: Anastasia Krupnik

M

• Anne McCaffrey: Damia, Killashandra, and Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern
• Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Moon: Sassinak
• J. H. McCarthy & R. C. Critchett: Nurse Benson
• George Barr McCutcheon: Jane Cable and Viola Gwyn
• Betty MacDonald: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
• George MacDonald: Adela Cathcart and Mary Marston
• Patrick McGrath: Martha Peake
• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis: Helena
• Percy Wallace MacKaye: Hazel Kirke
• Stephen McKenna: Sonia
• Compton Mackenzie: Sylvia Scarlett
• Ian Maclaren: Kate Carnegie
• Charles Major: Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
• Heinrich Mann: Madame Legros
• J. Nozipo Maraire: Zenzele
• Victor Margueritte: La Garçonne
• Stephen Marlowe: Francesca
• Catherine Marshall: Christy and Julie
• Rosamond Marshall: Kitty
• Valerie Martin: Alexandra and Mary Reilly
• Carole Maso: Ava
• Edward Maturin: Bianca
• William Somerset Maugham: Liza of Lambeth, Mrs Craddock, Lady Frederick, Penelope, and Mrs Dot
• Daphne du Maurier: My Cousin Rachel
• George du Maurier: Trilby
• W. B. Maxwell: Mrs Thompson and Gabrielle
• F.M. Mayor: The Third Miss Symons
• Robin McKinley: Beauty and Sunshine
• George Meredith: Diana of the Crossways and Sandra Belloni
• Prosper Mérimée: Carmen
• A. A. Milne: Ariadne, Belinda, Sarah Simple, and Chloe Marr
• Deborah Moggach: Porky
• Allan Monkhouse: Mary Broome and My Daughter Helen
• L.M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables series, Emily of New Moon, Pat of Silver Bush and Mistress Pat
• Michael Moorcock: Gloriana; or, The Unfulfill'd Queen
• Ann Moore: Gracelin O'Malley
• Brian Moore: I Am Mary Dunne
• Frank Frankfort Moore: Phyllis of Philistia
• George Moore: Esther Waters, Evelyn Innes and Sister Teresa
• Christopher Morley: Kitty Foyle and Kathleen
• Mary McGarry Morris: Fiona Range
• Toni Morrison: Sula
• Nicholas Mosley: Judith and Natalie Natalia
• Armin Mueller-Stahl: Hannah
• Bharati Mukherjee: Jasmine
• Julie Myerson: Laura Blundy

N

• Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
• John Henry Cardinal Newman: Callista; A Sketch of the Third Century
• Marie NDiaye: Rosie Carpe
• Chris Niles: Grace Falco
• Jost Nolte: Eva Krohn oder Erkundigungen nach einem Modell
• Freya North: Chloe, Polly and Pip
• Christine Nöstlinger: Fiery Frederica
• Amélie Nothomb: Antéchrista
• Flora Nwapa: Efuru

O

• Joyce Carol Oates: Marya: A Life
• Patrick O'Brian: Clarissa Oakes
• Kate O'Brien: Mary Lavelle
• Peter O'Donnell: Modesty Blaise
• John O'Hara: Elizabeth Appleton
• Eugene O'Neill: Anna Christie
• Geraldine O'Neill: Tara Flynn
• Margaret Oliphant: Mrs Margaret Maitland, Magdalen Hepburn, Effie Ogilvie, Miss Marjoribanks, and Hester
• Amelia Opie: Adeline Mowbray
• Edward Phillips Oppenheim: Anna, the Adventuress and Jeanne of the Marshes
• Ouida: Folle-Farine, Idalia and Wanda

P

• Violet Paget (writing as Vernon Lee): Miss Brown [14]
• Marcel Pagnol: Fanny
• Armando Palacio Valdés: Maximina
• Peggy Parish: Amelia Bedelia
• Gilbert Parker: Mrs. Falchion [15]
• John Howard Payne: Julia, or, The Wanderer and Clari, or, The Maid of Milan
• Lesley Pearse: Charlie, Georgia and Tara
• Benito Pérez Galdós: Tristana
• Julia Peterkin: Scarlet Sister Mary
• Maud Petitt: Beth Woodburn
• David Graham Phillips: Susan Lenox: Her Rise and Fall
• Marge Piercy: Vida
• Arthur Wing Pinero: The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
• Gillian Plowman: Cecily
• Edgar Allan Poe: "Annabel Lee", "Ligeia", "Lenore", and "Eleonora"
• Eleanor H. Porter: Pollyanna
• Beatrix Potter: The Story of Miss Moppet, The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, and The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
• Peter Prange: Miss Emily Paxton
• Caroline Preston: Lucy Crocker 2.0
• Antoine François Prévost: Manon Lescaut
• J. B. Priestley: Jenny Villiers: A Story of the Theatre
• Reynolds Price: Kate Vaiden and Roxanna Slade
• V. S. Pritchett: Clare Drummer and Shirley Sanz
• Olive Higgins Prouty: Stella Dallas
• Elizabeth & Jane Purbeck: Honoria Sommerville [16]
• Barbara Pym: Jane and Prudence

Q

• Raymond Queneau: Odile

R

• Jean Racine: Andromaque, Athalie, Esther and Phèdre
• Candice F. Ransom: Amanda
• St. George Rathborne: Miss Pauline of New York and Miss Caprice
• Ernest Raymond: Mary Leith
• Charles Reade: Angela, Christie Johnstone and Peg Woffington
• Thomas Wemyss Reid: Gladys Fane
• Anne Rice (writing as Anne Rampling): Belinda
• Samuel Richardson: Pamela and Clarissa
• Mary Roberts Rinehart: Tish and Miss Pinkerton
• William Rivière: Kate Caterina
• Keith Roberts: Molly Zero
• Mazo de la Roche: Mary Wakefield
• Emmanuel Roidis: Papissa Ioanna
• Nicholas Rowe: Jane Shore
• Susanna Rowson: Charlotte Temple
• Bernice Rubens: Madame Sousatzka
• Damon Runyon: "Little Miss Marker"
• Willy Russell: Shirley Valentine
• Mark Rutherford: Clara Hopgood

S

• Rafael Sabatini: Mistress Wilding
• Marquis de Sade: Justine and Juliette
• Mary Anne Sadlier: Bessy Conway; or, The Irish Girl in America
• Lisa St. Aubin De Teran: Joanna
• Ernst von Salomon: Die schöne Wilhelmine
• Felix Salten: Olga Frohgemuth
• George Sand: Indiana and Marianne
• Friedrich Schiller: The Bride of Messina
• Elke Schmitter: Frau Sartoris
• Bart Schneider: Beautiful Inez
• Arthur Schnitzler: Frau Berta Garlan, Fräulein Else, and Therese
• Olive Schreiner: Undine [17]
• Sir Walter Scott: The Bride of Lammermoor and Anne of Geierstein
• Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Hope Leslie
• Charles Sedley: Bellamira; or, The Mistress
• Ina Seidel: Michaela. Die Aufzeichnungen des Jürgen Brook
• Raphael Selbourne: Beauty
• Annemarie Selinko: Désirée
• Laura Shamas: Amelia Lives
• Shabnam Sharma: Kavya Kunj and Anmol Rattan
• Margery Sharp: Cluny Brown and Miss Bianca
• George Bernard Shaw: Candida, Major Barbara, and Saint Joan
• Irwin Shaw: Lucy Crown
• Mary Shelley: Matilda
• R. C. Sherriff: Miss Mabel
• Carol Shields: Swann: A Mystery (UK title: Mary Swann)
• William Gilmore Simms: "Helen Halsey"
• Lister Sinclair: Hilda Morgan
• May Sinclair: Audrey Craven, Kitty Tailleur and Mary Olivier: A Life
• Upton Sinclair: Sylvia
• Charlotte Turner Smith: Emmeline; or, The Orphan of the Castle and Ethelinde; or, The Recluse of the Lake
• Russell Smith: Muriella Pent
• Sophocles: Antigone
• Terry Southern & Mason Hoffenberg: Candy
• E. D. E. N. Southworth: Gloria: A Novel, Sybil Brotherton, and Gertrude Haddon
• Johanna Spyri: Heidi
• Anne Louise Germaine de Staël: Corinne and Delphine
• Danielle Steele: Zoya
• Ann S. Stephens: Malaeska [18]
• Simon Stephens: Harper Regan
• Helen Stevenson: Mad Elaine
• Adalbert Stifter: Brigitta
• Theodor Storm: "Veronika" and "Renate"
• Marlene Streeruwitz: Jessica, 30
• August Strindberg: Miss Julie
• Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge
• Jan Struther: Mrs Miniver
• Eugène Sue: Mathilde
• Jacqueline Susann: Dolores
• J.M. Synge: Deirdre of the Sorrows

T

• Booth Tarkington: Alice Adams and Claire Ambler
• Bayard Taylor: Hannah Thurston
• Elizabeth Taylor: Angel
• Tom Taylor: Lady Clancarty
• Catherine Texier: Victorine
• William Makepeace Thackeray: Catherine
• Nancy Thayer: Nell
• Alexander Theroux: Laura Warholic
• Angela Thirkell: Miss Bunting
• Audrey Thomas: Mrs. Blood and Isobel Gunn
• Alice Thompson: Justine
• Kay Thompson: Eloise
• Kristen Thomson: I, Claudia
• Matt Thorne: Cherry
• Alan Titchmarsh: Rosie
• Marilyn Todd: I, Claudia: A Roman Mystery, 13 BC
• Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
• Estela Portillo Trambley: Trini
• Pamela L. Travers: Mary Poppins
• Kuni Tremel-Eggert: Barb. Der Roman einer deutschen Frau and Sanna Spitzenpfeil
• William Trevor: The Story of Lucy Gault
• Adriana Trigiani: Lucia, Lucia
• Anthony Trollope: Rachel Ray, Lady Anna, Linda Tressel and Nina Balatka

U

• Sigrid Undset: Kristin Lavransdatter
• John Updike: S.

V

• Andrew Vachss: Flood, Strega, Blue Belle, Blossom, and Shella
• Martin Vale: The Two Mrs. Carrolls
• Juan Valera: Pepita Jiménez
• Aritha van Herk: Judith
• Gábor von Vaszary: Kuki
• Yvonne Vera: Nehanda
• Jules Verne: Mistress Branican
• Metta Victoria Victor: Alice Wilde, the Raftsman's Daughter
• Gore Vidal: Myra Breckinridge
• Elio Vittorini: Erica e suoi fratelli
• Cynthia Voigt: Izzy, Willy-Nilly

W

• Alice Walker: Meridian
• Hugh Walpole: Judith Paris and Vanessa
• Annie Wang: Lili
• Mary Augusta Ward: Daphne, Eleanor, Marcella, Miss Bretherton and Lady Connie
• John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
• Fay Weldon: Praxis
• Carolyn Wells: Vicky Van [19] [20]
• Dee Wells: Jane
• H.G. Wells: Ann Veronica
• Jessamyn West: Cress Delahanty
• Rebecca West: Harriet Hume and Cousin Rosamund
• Jack Weyland: Stephanie
• Stanley John Weyman: Sophia
• Edith Wharton: Madame de Treymes
• Tony White: Foxy-T
• John Greenleaf Whittier: "Barbara Frietchie"
• Kate Douglas Wiggin: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
• Oscar Wilde: Vera; or, the Nihilists and Salomé
• Ethel Wilson: Hetty Dorval [21]
• Snoo Wilson: Sabina
• Christa Winsloe: Child Manuela (filmed as Mädchen in Uniform)
• Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs
• Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman: Fabiola, or The Church of the Catacombs
• Dirk Wittenborn: Zoë
• P.G. Wodehouse: Doctor Sally
• Tom Wolfe: I Am Charlotte Simmons
• Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
• Herman Wouk: Marjorie Morningstar
• Richard B. Wright: Clara Callan

Y

• William Butler Yeats: Deirdre
• Frank Yerby: A Woman Called Fancy and Gillian
• Anzia Yezierska: Salome of the Tenements
• Charlotte Mary Yonge: Countess Kate
• E. H. Young: Miss Mole
• Marguerite Young: Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
• Marguerite Yourcenar: La nouvelle Eurydice and "Anna soror"

Z

• Feridun Zaimoglu: Leyla
• Howard Zinn: Emma
• Chiara Zocchi: Olga
• Emile Zola: Nana and Therese Raquin

See also

• List of literary works with eponymous heroes

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