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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 - C
- Henry Adams (writing as Frances Snow Compton): Esther: A Novel
- Edward Albee: Tiny Alice
- Bess Streeter Aldrich: Miss Bishop
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Prudence Palfrey [1]
- Candace Allen : Valaida
- Grant Allen:
- Isabel Allende: Eva Luna
- Pamela Anderson: Star
- Sherwood Anderson: Kit Brandon
- Jean Anouilh: Antigone
- Jeffrey Archer: "Christina Rosenthal "
- Aristophanes: Lysistrata
- Michael Arlen: Lily Christine
- Rebecca Agatha Armour : Marguerite Verne
- Jane Austen: Emma
- Enid Bagnold: Lottie Dundass
- Honoré de Balzac: Eugénie Grandet
- Joan Barfoot : Plain Jane
- Max Barry: Jennifer Government
- L. Frank Baum (writing as Edith Van Dyne): Aunt Jane's Nieces
- Vicki Baum: Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer
- Thea Beckman : Marie-Claire , Saartje Tadema , Thura
- Max Beerbohm: Zuleika Dobson
- Edward Bellamy: Miss Ludington's Sister
- Arnold Bennett: Anna of the Five Towns
- E.F. Benson: Mapp and Lucia
- Agustina Bessa-Luís : Fanny Owen
- Maxim Biller: Esra
- R.D. Blackmore: Lorna Doone
- Guy Boothby: Sheilah McLeod and Connie Burt
- Elizabeth Bowen: Eva Trout
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Aurora Floyd
- André Breton: Nadja
- Hermann Broch: Barbara
- Louis Bromfield: Mrs. Parkington
- Anne Brontë: Agnes Grey
- Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre and Shirley
- Gwendolyn Brooks: Maud Martha
- Rhoda Broughton: Nancy , Joan , Belinda, Lavinia , and Mrs. Bligh
- Charles Brockden Brown: Clara Howard and Jane Talbot
- Kitt Brown : Alyssa Deane
- Larry Brown: Fay
- Martha Bensley Bruère : Mildred Carver, U.S.A.
- Dorothy Bryant : Miss Giardino
- Robert Williams Buchanan: Effie Hetherington , Agnes , Corinne , Lucy Brandon , and Lady Gladys
- Frances Hodgson Burnett: Sara Crewe (aka A Little Princess)
- Fanny Burney: Evelina and Camilla
- George Washington Cable: Madame Delphine
- James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce
- Erskine Caldwell: Claudelle
- Taylor Caldwell: Melissa
- Ivan Cankar: Gospa Judit
- Vera Caspary : Laura
- Willa Cather: Lucy Gayheart and My Antonia
- Colley Cibber: Ximena
- Jon Cleary : Spearfield's Daughter
- 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
- Ivy Compton-Burnett: Dolores
- Evan S. Connell: Mrs. Bridge
- 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
- Douglas Coupland: Miss Wyoming
- Bryce Courtenay: Tandia
- Hedwig Courths-Mahler : Griseldis and Die schöne Miss Lilian
- Josephine Cox : Jinnie
- Stephen Crane:
- Danielle Crittenden: Amanda Bright@Home
- A. J. Cronin: Gracie Lindsay
- Victoria Crosse : Anna Lombard and Martha Brown, MP
- John Crowne: Juliana, or The Princess of Poland
- Maria Susanna Cummins: Mabel Vaughan [2]
- E.V. Cunningham (aka Howard Fast): Sally
D - H
- Fred D'Aguiar : Bethany Bettany
- Roald Dahl: Matilda
- Ita Daly : Ellen
- Clemence Dane : Cousin Muriel
- Owen Davis : Jezebel
- Warwick Deeping: Bess of the Woods , Mad Barbara , and Kitty
- Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders
- Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué: Undine
- R. F. Delderfield: Diana
- Patrick Dennis: Auntie Mame (later dramatised by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee)
- Jean Devanny : Cindie
- Charles Dibdin: Hannah Hewitt
- Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit
- Peter Dickinson: Eva
- Benjamin Disraeli: Vivian Grey and 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
- Wells Earl Draughon : Traci [3]
- Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt
- Allen Drury: Anna Hastings
- Daphne du Maurier: My Cousin Rachel
- Mark Dunn : Ella Minnow Pea
- Maria Edgeworth: Belinda, Leonora , and Helen
- George Eliot: Romola
- Stanley Elkin: Mrs. Ted Bliss
- Marian Engel: Joanne
- Euripides: Medea
- Lauren Fairbanks : Sister Carrie
- Sebastian Faulks: Charlotte Gray
- Jessie Redmon Fauset : Plum Bun
- Edna Ferber: Dawn O'Hara
- Fanny Fern : Ruth Hall
- Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary
- Jane Findlater : Rachel
- Mary Findlater: Betty Musgrave
- Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
- Antonio Fogazzaro: Leila
- Theodor Fontane: Cécile , Frau Jenny Treibel , Mathilde Möhring and Effi Briest
- Paul Leicester Ford: Janice Meredith
- Margaret Forster: Georgy Girl
- Karen Joy Fowler : Sarah Canary
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Jane Field
- Shama Futehally : Tara Lane
- Jacques Futrelle: Elusive Isabel [4]
- Neil Gaiman: Coraline
- Zona Gale: Miss Lulu Bett
- John Galsworthy: Jocelyn
- Romain Gary: Lady L
- Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton, Ruth , and Cousin Phillis
- Ernest Gebler : Eileen O'Roon
- Heike Geißler : Rosa
- Martha Gellhorn: Liana
- Pam Gems: Mrs Frampton
- Kaye Gibbons : Ellen Foster
- Ellen Gilchrist : Sarah Conley
- Ellen Glasgow: Virginia
- Catherine Frances Grace Gore : Theresa Marchmont; or, The Maid of Honour and Mrs Armytage
- Winston Graham: Marnie, Stephanie , Cordelia and Bella Poldark
- Julien Green : Adrienne Mesurat
- H. Rider Haggard: She and Ayesha
- 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
- Bret Harte: Cressy and
- L. P. Hartley: Poor Clare
- Amy Hassinger :
- Gerhart Hauptmann: Rose Bernd and Wanda
- Dennis Havens : Lucinda
- Eliza Haywood: Idalia; or, The Unfortunate Mistress
- Ann Hazard : Emma Stanley; or, The Orphans
- Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse: "Andrea Delfin "
- E.T.A. Hoffmann: Das Fräulein von Scuderi
- Oliver Wendell Holmes: Elsie Venner
- Hazel Holt : Leonora
- Winifred Holtby : Poor Caroline
- Bronson Howard : Young Mrs. Winthrop
- William Dean Howells: Annie Kilburn
- Fergus Hume: Madame Midas
- Marsha Hunt: Joy
- Thomas Hürlimann: Fräulein Stark
- Zora Neale Hurston: "Isis "
I - N
O - S
- Joyce Carol Oates:
- 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
- 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
- Violet Paget (writing as Vernon Lee): Miss Brown [6]
- Marcel Pagnol: Fanny
- John Howard Payne: Julia, or, The Wanderer and Clari, or, The Maid of Milan
- Lesley Pearse : Charlie , Georgia and Tara
- David Graham Phillips:
- Marge Piercy: Vida
- Arthur Wing Pinero: The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
- Eleanor H. Porter: Pollyanna
- Caroline Preston : Lucy Crocker 2.0
- Antoine François Prévost: Manon Lescaut
- Reynolds Price: Kate Vaiden and Roxanna Slade
- Olive Higgins Prouty: Stella Dallas
- Raymond Queneau: Odile
- Jean Racine: Andromaque , Athalie , Esther and Phedre
- Ernest Raymond : Mary Leith
- Charles Reade: Angela and Christie Johnstone
- Thomas Wemyss Reid: Gladys Fane
- Anne Rice (writing as Anne Rampling): Belinda
- Samuel Richardson: Pamela and Clarissa
- Mazo de la Roche : Mary Wakefield
- Nicholas Rowe: Jane Shore
- Susanna Rowson : Charlotte Temple
- Bernice Rubens: Madame Sousatzka
- Willy Russell: Shirley Valentine
- Mark Rutherford : Clara Hopgood
- Rafael Sabatini: Mistress Wilding
- Marquis de Sade: Justine and Juliette
- Mary Anne Sadlier : Bessy Conway; or, The Irish Girl in America
- George Sand: Indiana and Marianne
- Elke Schmitter : Frau Sartoris
- Arthur Schnitzler: Fräulein Else and Therese
- Olive Schreiner: Undine [7]
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Hope Leslie
- Ina Seidel : Michaela. Die Aufzeichnungen des Jürgen Brook
- Margery Sharp : Cluny Brown
- George Bernard Shaw: Candida and Major Barbara
- Irwin Shaw: Lucy Crown
- Mary Shelley: Matilda
- R. C. Sherriff: Miss Mabel
- Carol Shields: Swann (U.K. title: Mary Swann)
- William Gilmore Simms: "Helen Halsey "
- May Sinclair: Audrey Craven , Kitty Tailleur and
- Upton Sinclair: Sylvia
- Sophocles: Antigone
- Terry Southern & Mason Hoffenberg : Candy
- E. D. E. N. Southworth: , Sybil Brotherton , and Gertrude Haddon
- Johanna Spyri: Heidi
- Anne Louise Germaine de Staël: Corinne and Delphine
- Helen Stevenson : Mad Elaine
- Adalbert Stifter: Brigitta
- Marlene Streeruwitz : Jessica, 30
- August Strindberg: Miss Julie
- Eugène Sue: Mathilde
- J.M. Synge: Deirdre of the Sorrows
T - Z
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