List of literary works with eponymous heroines edit
The titles of the following works of literature consist of the name of the female protagonist only:
A edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler
- Jean Ingelow: Sarah de Berenger
- Jorge Isaacs: María
- Susan Isaacs: Lily White
J edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
R edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
V edit
- 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 edit
- 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
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- 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"
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[[Category:Literature lists|Eponymous heroines]]
[[Category:Lists of fictional characters|Eponymous heroines]]