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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

 * 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 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

 * 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 : Clarentine and Geraldine Fauconberg

C

 * 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
 * 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

 * Fred D'Aguiar: Bethany Bettany
 * Roald Dahl: Matilda
 * Ita Daly: Ellen
 * Clemence Dane: Cousin Muriel
 * Tina Daniell: Maquesta Kar-Thon
 * Maria Thompson Daviess: Phyllis
 * Luke Davies: Candy and Isabelle the Navigator
 * Owen Davis: Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model and Jezebel
 * Rebecca Harding Davis: Frances Waldeaux
 * 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
 * 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 : Cousin Cinderella
 * Patricia Duncker: Miss Webster and Chérif
 * Mark Dunn: Ella Minnow Pea
 * Thomas D'Urfey: Madam Fickle
 * Lawrence Durrell: Justine and Clea

E

 * 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

 * 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

G

 * 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
 * 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

 * 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
 * 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

 * Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler
 * Jean Ingelow: Sarah de Berenger
 * Jorge Isaacs: María
 * Susan Isaacs: Lily White

J

 * 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

 * Karin Kallmaker : 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
 * 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

 * 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
 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * Violet Paget (writing as Vernon Lee): Miss Brown
 * Marcel Pagnol: Fanny
 * Armando Palacio Valdés: Maximina
 * Peggy Parish: Amelia Bedelia
 * Gilbert Parker: Mrs. Falchion
 * 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
 * Barbara Pym: Jane and Prudence

Q

 * Raymond Queneau: Odile

R

 * 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

 * 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
 * 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
 * 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

 * 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

 * Sigrid Undset: Kristin Lavransdatter
 * John Updike: S.

V

 * 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

 * 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
 * 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
 * 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

Y

 * 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"

Z

 * Feridun Zaimoglu: Leyla
 * Howard Zinn: Emma
 * Chiara Zocchi: Olga
 * Emile Zola: Nana and Therese Raquin