List of literary works with eponymous heroines
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The titles of the following works of literature consist of the name of the female protagonist only:
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A - C
- Henry Adams (writing as Frances Snow Compton): Esther: A Novel
- Cecelia Ahern: Rosie Dunne (in the UK aka Where Rainbows End)
- Edward Albee: Tiny Alice
- Bess Streeter Aldrich: Miss Bishop
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Prudence Palfrey [1] (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/eafbin2/toccer-eaf?id=Aeaf450&tag=public&data=/www/data/eaf2/private/texts&part=0)
- Candace Allen: Valaida
- Grant Allen: Hilda Wade: A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose
- 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
- Louis Auchincloss: Sybil
- Jane Austen: Emma
- Enid Bagnold: Lottie Dundass
- Honoré de Balzac: Eugénie Grandet
- Joan Barfoot: Plain Jane
- Max Barry: Jennifer Government
- 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
- 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
- Gordon Bottomley: Kate Kennedy
- Elizabeth Bowen: Eva Trout
- Clare Boylan: Emma Brown
- 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
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Aurora Leigh
- 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
- Sarah Harriet Burney [2] (http://www.chawton.org/biography.php?AuthorID=38): Clarentine and Geraldine Fauconberg
- 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
- Barbara Chase-Riboud: Sally Hemings
- Alice Cholmondeley: Christine and 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
- Douglas Coupland: Miss Wyoming
- Bryce Courtenay: Tandia
- Hedwig Courths-Mahler: Griseldis and Die schöne Miss Lilian
- Josephine Cox: Jinnie
- Stephen Crane: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- 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 [3] (http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=wright2;idno=wright2-0673)
- 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
- Rebecca Harding Davis: Frances Waldeaux [4] (http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/fwald10.txt)
- 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
- 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
- Wells Earl Draughon: Traci [5] (http://tregolwyn.tripod.com/id115.html)
- Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt
- Allen Drury: Anna Hastings
- Daphne du Maurier: My Cousin Rachel
- Sara Jeannette Duncan [6] (http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1349): Cousin Cinderella
- Mark Dunn: Ella Minnow Pea
- Maria Edgeworth: Belinda, Leonora, and Helen
- George Eliot: Romola
- Stanley Elkin: Mrs. Ted Bliss
- John Breckenridge Ellis: Fran
- Marian Engel: Joanne
- Euripides: Medea
- Lauren Fairbanks: Sister Carrie
- Sebastian Faulks: Charlotte Gray
- Edna Ferber: Dawn O'Hara
- Fanny Fern: Ruth Hall
- Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary
- Henry Fielding: Amelia
- Jane Findlater: Rachel
- Mary Findlater: Betty Musgrave
- 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
- Margaret Forster: Georgy Girl
- Karen Joy Fowler: Sarah Canary
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Jane Field
- Shama Futehally: Tara Lane
- Jacques Futrelle: Elusive Isabel [7] (http://www.blackmask.com/thatway/books142c/elisadex.htm)
- Lisa Gabriele: Tempting Faith DiNapoli
- Neil Gaiman: Coraline
- Zona Gale: Miss Lulu Bett
- John Galsworthy: Jocelyn
- Hamlin Garland: Rose of Dutcher's Coolly
- Romain Gary: Lady L
- Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton, Ruth, and Cousin Phillis
- John Gay: Polly
- 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
- Elinor Glyn: Halcyone [8] (http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/5/3/13530/13530-8.txt)
- Catherine 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 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
- 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
- Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler
- Jean Ingelow: Sarah de Berenger
- Jorge Isaacs: María
- Susan Isaacs: Lily White
- Helen Hunt Jackson: Ramona
- Margaret Weymouth Jackson: Jenny Fowler and Sarah Thornton
- Henry James: Daisy Miller
- Elizabeth Janeway: Daisy Kenyon
- Tama Janowitz: Peyton Amberg
- 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 and Constance Herbert
- Mary Johnston: Audrey and Miss Delicia Allen
- 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
- Martin Kessel: Lydia Faude
- Charles J. Kickham: Sally Kavanagh
- Jamaica Kincaid: Lucy
- Stephen King: Dolores Claiborne
- Heinrich von Kleist: Die Marquise von O ...
- Joy Kogawa: Obasan
- Frederick Kohner: Gidget
- Judith Krantz: Princess Daisy
- Ann Kurtz: Pendy
- 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
- Philip Larkin: Jill
- Mary Lavin: Mary O'Grady
- Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla
- Madeleine L'Engle: Ilsa [9] (http://flyingdreams.home.mindspring.com/lengle.htm#ilsa)
- Charlotte Lennox: Henrietta, Sophia and Euphemia
- Doris Lessing: Martha Quest
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Emilia Galotti and Miss Sara Sampson
- Amy Levy: Miss Meredith
- Sinclair Lewis: Ann Vickers
- Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking
- Heiner Link: Frl. Ursula
- Eliza Lynn Linton: Patricia Kemball
- Caren Lissner: Carrie Pilby
- Bret Lott: Jewel
- Marie Belloc Lowndes: Letty Lynton
- J. H. McCarthy & R. C. Critchett: Nurse Benson
- 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
- Heinrich Mann: Madame Legros
- Victor Margueritte: La Garçonne
- Rosamond Marshall: Kitty
- Valerie Martin: Alexandra
- Carole Maso: Ava
- Edward Maturin: Bianca
- William Somerset Maugham: Liza of Lambeth, Mrs Craddock, Lady Frederick, Penelope, and Mrs Dot
- W. B. Maxwell: Mrs Thompson and Gabrielle
- F.M. Mayor: The Third Miss Symons
- George Meredith: Diana of the Crossways and Sandra Belloni
- Prosper Mérimée: Carmen
- Deborah Moggach: Porky
- Allan Monkhouse: Mary Broome and My Daughter Helen
- L.M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables
- 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
- Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
- Freya North: Chloe, Polly and Pip
- Flora Nwapa: Efuru
O - S
- 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
- 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 [10] (http://www.iplus.zetnet.co.uk/introduces/lee.htm)
- 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: Susan Lenox: Her Rise and Fall
- 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
- Damon Runyon: "Little Miss Marker"
- 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
- Lisa St. Aubin De Teran: Joanna
- George Sand: Indiana and Marianne
- Elke Schmitter: Frau Sartoris
- Arthur Schnitzler: Fräulein Else and Therese
- Olive Schreiner: Undine [11] (http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa021402c.htm)
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Hope Leslie
- Charles Sedley: Bellamira; or, The Mistress
- 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 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
- 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
- Helen Stevenson: Mad Elaine
- Adalbert Stifter: Brigitta
- Marlene Streeruwitz: Jessica, 30
- August Strindberg: Miss Julie
- Jan Struther: Mrs Miniver
- Eugène Sue: Mathilde
- J.M. Synge: Deirdre of the Sorrows
T - Z
- Booth Tarkington: Alice Adams
- Bayard Taylor: Hannah Thurston
- Elizabeth Taylor: Angel
- Catherine Texier: Victorine
- Nancy Thayer: Nell
- Angela Thirkell: Miss Bunting
- Audrey Thomas: Mrs. Blood and Isobel Gunn
- Alice Thompson: Justine
- Kay Thompson: Eloise
- Alan Titchmarsh: Rosie
- Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
- Pamela L. Travers: Mary Poppins
- William Trevor: The Story of Lucy Gault
- Adriana Trigiani: Lucia, Lucia
- Anthony Trollope: Rachel Ray, Lady Anna, Linda Tressel and Nina Balatka
- Yvonne Vera: Nehanda
- Sigrid Undset: Kristin Lavransdatter
- Gore Vidal: Myra Breckinridge
- Cynthia Voigt: Izzy, Willy-Nilly
- Elizabeth von Arnim: Vera
- 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
- Dee Wells: Jane
- H.G. Wells: Ann Veronica
- Rebecca West: Harriet Hume
- Jack Weyland: Stephanie
- Stanley John Weyman: Sophia
- Edith Wharton: Madame de Treymes
- Tony White: Foxy-T
- Oscar Wilde: Vera; or, the Nihilists [12] (http://users.pandora.be/moonen/wilde/woman2.html) and Salomé
- Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs
- Owen Wister: Lady Baltimore
- 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
- William Butler Yeats: Deirdre
- Charlotte Mary Yonge: Countess Kate
- E. H. Young: Miss Mole
- Marguerite Young: Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
- Emile Zola: Nana and Therese Raquin
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