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Heroines in literature
The titles of the following works of literature consist of the name of the female
protagonist
only:
Henry Adams
(writing as Frances Snow Compton):
Esther: A Novel
Bess Streeter Aldrich:
Miss Bishop
Isabel Allende
:
Eva Luna
Jean Anouilh
:
Antigone
Aristophanes
:
Lysistrata
Michael Arlen:
Lily Christine
Jane Austen
:
Emma
Honoré de Balzac
:
Eugénie Grandet
Vicki Baum:
Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer
Max Beerbohm
:
Zuleika Dobson
Arnold Bennett
:
Anna of the Five Towns
E.F. Benson
:
Mapp and Lucia
Maxim Biller:
Esra
R.D. Blackmore:
Lorna Doone
Elizabeth Bowen:
Eva Trout
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
:
Aurora Floyd
André Breton
:
Nadja
Anne Bronte
:
Agnes Grey
Charlotte Bronte
:
Jane Eyre
and
Shirley
Gwendolyn Brooks
:
Maud Martha
Kitt Brown:
Alyssa Deane
Larry Brown
:
Fay
Fanny Burney
:
Evelina
and
Camilla
James M. Cain
:
Mildred Pierce
Erskine Caldwell:
Claudelle
Vera Caspary:
Laura
Willa Cather
:
My Antonia
John Cleland
:
Fanny Hill or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
J. M. Coetzee
:
Elizabeth Costello
Colette
:
Gigi
D.G. Compton:
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe
Marie Corelli
:
Thelma
Josephine Cox:
Jinnie
Stephen Crane
:
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Victoria Crosse:
Anna Lombard
and
Martha Brown, MP
E.V. Cunningham:
Sally
Roald Dahl
:
Matilda
Owen Davis:
Jezebel
Daniel Defoe
:
Moll Flanders
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
:
Undine
R. F. Delderfield
:
Diana
Marquis de Sade
:
Justine
and
Juliette
Charles Dickens
:
Little Dorrit
Peter Dickinson:
Eva
Benjamin Disraeli
:
Vivian Grey
and
Sybil or, The Two Nations
Ménie Muriel Dowie:
Gallia
Theodore Dreiser
:
Sister Carrie
and
Jennie Gerhardt
Allen Drury:
Anna Hastings
George Eliot
:
Romola
Sebastian Faulks:
Charlotte Gray
Edna Ferber
:
Dawn O'Hara
Fanny Fern:
Ruth Hall
Gustave Flaubert
:
Madame Bovary
Theodor Fontane
:
Frau Jenny Treibel
and
Effi Briest
Margaret Forster
:
Georgy Girl
John Galsworthy
:
Jocelyn
Elizabeth Gaskell
:
Mary Barton
and
Ruth
Pam Gems
:
Mrs Frampton
Kaye Gibbons:
Ellen Foster
Ellen Gilchrist:
Sarah Conley
Ellen Glasgow
:
Virginia
H. Rider Haggard
:
She
and
Ayesha
Thomas Hardy
:
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Frances E.W. Harper:
Iola Leroy
Dennis Havens:
Lucinda
E.T.A. Hoffmann
:
Das Fräulein von Scuderi
Oliver Wendell Holmes
:
Elsie Venner
William Dean Howells
:
Annie Kilburn
Marsha Hunt:
Joy
Thomas Hürlimann:
Fräulein Stark
Zora Neale Hurston
: "Isis"
Henrik Ibsen
:
Hedda Gabler
Helen Hunt Jackson
:
Ramona
Henry James
:
Daisy Miller
Tama Janowitz:
Peyton Amberg
Mary Johnston:
Audrey
and
Miss Delicia Allen
Jack Kerouac
:
Maggie Cassidy
Martin Kessel:
Lydia Faude
Charles J. Kickham:
Sally Kavanagh
Jamaica Kincaid:
Lucy
Stephen King
:
Dolores Claiborne
Frederick Kohner:
Gidget
Gavin Lambert:
Inside Daisy Clover
Philip Larkin
:
Jill
Doris Lessing
:
Martha Quest
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
:
Emilia Galotti
and
Miss Sara Sampson
Sinclair Lewis
:
Ann Vickers
Eliza Lynn Linton:
Patricia Kemball
Bret Lott:
Jewel
Patrick McGrath:
Martha Peake
Heinrich Mann
:
Madame Legros
Valerie Martin:
Alexandra
William Somerset Maugham
:
Liza of Lambeth
,
Mrs Craddock
, and "Miss Thompson" (filmed as
Sadie Thompson
)
F.M. Mayor:
The Third Miss Symons
George Meredith
:
Sandra Belloni
Prosper Mérimée
:
Carmen
L.M. Montgomery
:
Anne of Green Gables
Brian Moore:
I Am Mary Dunne
George A. Moore
:
Esther Waters
Toni Morrison
:
Sula
Bharati Mukherjee
:
Jasmine
Julie Myerson
:
Laura Blundy
Vladimir Nabokov
:
Lolita
Freya North:
Chloe
,
Polly
and
Pip
Joyce Carol Oates
:
Marya: A Life
Peter O'Donnell
:
Modesty Blaise
John O'Hara
:
Elizabeth Appleton
Violet Paget (writing as Vernon Lee):
Miss Brown
[1]
Lesley Pearse:
Charlie
,
Georgia
and
Tara
Marge Piercy
:
Vida
Arthur Wing Pinero
:
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
Caroline Preston:
Lucy Crocker 2.0
Olive Higgins Prouty
:
Stella Dallas
Jean Racine
:
Andromaque
,
Athalie
,
Esther
and
Phedre
Samuel Richardson
:
Pamela
and
Clarissa
Susanna Rowson:
Charlotte Temple
Bernice Rubens
:
Madame Sousatzka
Willy Russell
:
Shirley Valentine
Mark Rutherford:
Clara Hopgood
Mary Anne Sadlier:
Bessy Conway; or, The Irish Girl in America
Arthur Schnitzler
:
Fräulein Else
and
Therese
Olive Schreiner
:
Undine
[1]
Catharine Maria Sedgwick:
Hope Leslie
Margery Sharp:
Cluny Brown
George Bernard Shaw
:
Major Barbara
Irwin Shaw:
Lucy Crown
Upton Sinclair
:
Sylvia
Sophocles
:
Antigone
Terry Southern & Mason Hoffenberg:
Candy
Adalbert Stifter
:
Brigitta
August Strindberg
:
Miss Julie
Booth Tarkington
:
Alice Adams
Leo Tolstoy
:
Anna Karenina
Gore Vidal
:
Myra Breckinridge
Elizabeth von Arnim:
Vera
Alice Walker
:
Meridian
Hugh Walpole:
Judith Paris
Mary Augusta Ward
:
Marcella
Fay Weldon:
Praxis
H.G. Wells
:
Ann Veronica
Rebecca West
:
Harriet Hume
Edith Wharton
:
Madame de Treymes
P.G. Wodehouse
:
Doctor Sally
Virginia Woolf
:
Mrs Dalloway
Herman Wouk
:
Marjorie Morningstar
Richard B. Wright:
Clara Callan
E.H. Young:
Miss Mole
Emile Zola
:
Nana
and
Therese Raquin
See also:
List of years in literature
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