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): Miss Bishop
• Valaida
• Isabel Allende: Eva Luna
• Pamela Anderson: Star
• Jean Anouilh: Antigone
• Aristophanes: Lysistrata
• Michael Arlen: Lily Christine
• Jane Austen: Emma
• Honoré de Balzac: Eugénie Grandet
• Max Barry: Jennifer Government
• Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer
• Marie-Claire, Saartje Tadema, Thura
• Max Beerbohm: Zuleika Dobson
• Arnold Bennett: Anna of the Five Towns
• E.F. Benson: Mapp and Lucia
• Fanny Owen
• Maxim Biller: Esra
• R.D. Blackmore: Lorna Doone
• Elizabeth Bowen: Eva Trout
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Aurora Floyd
• André Breton: Nadja
• Hermann Broch: Barbara
• Mrs. Parkington
• Anne Brontë: Agnes Grey
• Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre and Shirley
• Gwendolyn Brooks: Maud Martha
• Alyssa Deane
• Larry Brown: Fay
• Mildred Carver, U.S.A.
• Miss Giardino
• Robert Williams Buchanan: Effie Hetherington, Agnes, Corinne, Lucy Brandon, and Lady Gladys
• Fanny Burney: Evelina and Camilla
• James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce
• Erskine Caldwell: Claudelle
• Gospa Judit
• Laura
• Willa Cather: My Antonia
• Colley Cibber: Ximena
• John Cleland: Fanny Hill or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
• J. M. Coetzee: Elizabeth Costello
• Colette: Gigi
• The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe
• Ivy Compton-Burnett: Dolores
• Catherine Cookson: Fanny McBride, Kate Hannigan and Katie Mulholland
• Marie Corelli: Thelma
• Bryce Courtenay: Tandia
• Jinnie
• Stephen Crane: Anna Lombard and Martha Brown, MP
• E.V. Cunningham (aka Howard Fast): Sally
• Roald Dahl: Matilda
• 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
• Gallia
• Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt
• Allen Drury: Anna Hastings
• George Eliot: Romola
• Euripides: Medea
• Charlotte Gray
• Edna Ferber: Dawn O'Hara
• Ruth Hall
• Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
• Antonio Fogazzaro: Leila
• Theodor Fontane: Cécile, Frau Jenny Treibel, Mathilde Möhring and Effi Briest
• Margaret Forster: Georgy Girl
• John Galsworthy: Jocelyn
• Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton and Ruth
• Rosa
• Pam Gems: Mrs Frampton
• Ellen Foster
• Sarah Conley
• Ellen Glasgow: Virginia
• Winston Graham: Marnie, Stephanie, Cordelia and Bella Poldark
• H. Rider Haggard: She and Ayesha
• Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
• Iola Leroy
• Hilda Strafford" and Rachel
• Joel Chandler Harris: Sister Jane
• Gerhart Hauptmann: Rose Bernd and Wanda
• Lucinda
• E.T.A. Hoffmann: Das Fräulein von Scuderi
• Oliver Wendell Holmes: Elsie Venner
• Leonora
• William Dean Howells: Annie Kilburn
• Marsha Hunt: Joy
• Fräulein Stark
• Zora Neale Hurston: "Isis"
• Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler
• Helen Hunt Jackson: Ramona
• Henry James: Daisy Miller
• Tama Janowitz: Peyton Amberg
• Audrey and Miss Delicia Allen
• Jack Kerouac: Maggie Cassidy
• Lydia Faude
• Sally Kavanagh
• Jamaica Kincaid: Lucy
• Stephen King: Dolores Claiborne
• Gidget
• Inside Daisy Clover
• Philip Larkin: Jill
• Doris Lessing: Martha Quest
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Emilia Galotti and Miss Sara Sampson
• Sinclair Lewis: Ann Vickers
• Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking
• Frl. Ursula
• Patricia Kemball
• Jewel
• Martha Peake
• Heinrich Mann: Madame Legros
• Alexandra
• William Somerset Maugham: Liza of Lambeth, Mrs Craddock, and "Miss Thompson" (filmed as Sadie Thompson)
• The Third Miss Symons
• George Meredith: Sandra Belloni
• Prosper Mérimée: Carmen
• L.M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables
• Brian Moore: I Am Mary Dunne
• Frank Frankfort Moore: Phyllis of Philistia
• George A. Moore: Esther Waters
• Toni Morrison: Sula
• Armin Mueller-Stahl: Hannah
• Bharati Mukherjee: Jasmine
• Julie Myerson: Laura Blundy
• Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
• Chloe, Polly and Pip
• Joyce Carol Oates: Patrick O'Brian: Clarissa Oakes
• Mary Lavelle
• Peter O'Donnell: Modesty Blaise
• John O'Hara: Elizabeth Appleton
• Eugene O'Neill: Anna Christie
• Violet Paget (writing as Charlie, Georgia and Tara
• Marge Piercy: Vida
• Arthur Wing Pinero: The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
• Pollyanna
• Lucy Crocker 2.0
• Antoine François Prévost: Manon Lescaut
• Reynolds Price: Kate Vaiden and Roxanna Slade
• Olive Higgins Prouty: Stella Dallas
• Jean Racine: Andromaque, Athalie, Esther and Phedre
• Samuel Richardson: Pamela and Clarissa
• Charlotte Temple
• Bernice Rubens: Madame Sousatzka
• Willy Russell: Shirley Valentine
• Clara Hopgood
• Rafael Sabatini: Mistress Wilding
• Bessy Conway; or, The Irish Girl in America
• Frau Sartoris
• Arthur Schnitzler: Fräulein Else and Therese
• Olive Schreiner: Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Hope Leslie
• Cluny Brown
• George Bernard Shaw: Candida and Major Barbara
• Irwin Shaw: Lucy Crown
• Mary Shelley: Matilda
• Upton Sinclair: Sylvia
• Sophocles: Antigone
• Terry Southern & Candy
• Adalbert Stifter: Brigitta
• Jessica, 30
• August Strindberg: Miss Julie
• Eugène Sue: Mathilde
• J.M. Synge: Deirdre of the Sorrows
• Booth Tarkington: Alice Adams
• Victorine
• Alice Thompson: Justine
• Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
• Lucia, Lucia
• Anthony Trollope: Rachel Ray, Lady Anna, Linda Tressel and Nina Balatka
• Gore Vidal: Myra Breckinridge
• Elizabeth von Arnim: Vera
• Alice Walker: Meridian
• Hugh Walpole: Judith Paris
• Mary Augusta Ward: Marcella
• John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
• Fay Weldon: Praxis
• H.G. Wells: Ann Veronica
• Rebecca West: Harriet Hume
• Edith Wharton: Madame de Treymes
• Oscar Wilde: Maisie Dobbs
• P.G. Wodehouse: Doctor Sally
• Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
• Herman Wouk: Marjorie Morningstar
• Clara Callan
• William Butler Yeats: Deirdre
• Miss Mole
• Emile Zola: Nana and Therese Raquin

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