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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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