Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/List of literary works with eponymous heroines

The titles of the following works of literature generally consist of the name of the female protagonist only. The title need not include the character's entire name, and may even consist of a diminutive form, alias, nom de guerre, or nickname. Other information that may accompany the female protagonist's name in the title include: titles, such as "Lady Susan" or "Miss Julie"; parenthetical information referring directly to the character's name, such as "Dido, Queen of Carthage"; and other information generally included in addressing that character, such as "Liza of Lambeth."

A title is eponymous if its main title follows the above rules; additional information in subtitles will not disqualify it. In some cases, especially 19th century and earlier books, the full title included a longer preamble like "The History of...", but has been shortened in general use to just the heroine's name – for example, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders; these are included regardless of whether their entry is called by the full or shortened title.

The male counterpart of this list is List of literary works with eponymous heroes.

A

 * Belle Kendrick Abbott: Leah Mordecai
 * Jacob Abbott: Mary Erskine
 * Henry Adams (writing as Frances Snow Compton): Esther: A Novel
 * 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!
 * Eli Amir: Yasmine
 * 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
 * Steve Augarde: Celandine
 * Jane Austen: Emma and Lady Susan

B

 * Enid Bagnold: Lottie Dundass and National Velvet
 * Temple Bailey: Mistress Anne and Judy
 * Honoré de Balzac: Eugénie Grandet and Pamela Giraud
 * Joan Barfoot: Plain Jane
 * Kitty Barne: Barbie
 * Helen Barolini: Umbertina
 * Robert Barr: Jennie Baxter, Journalist
 * Max Barry: Jennifer Government
 * Sebastian Barry: Annie Dunne
 * L. Frank Baum: Ozma of Oz
 * Vicki Baum: Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer and Clarinda
 * 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
 * Francesca Lia Block: Weetzie Bat
 * 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
 * Pearl S. Buck: Peony
 * 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
 * Julie Buntin: Marlena
 * Frances Hodgson Burnett: Sara Crewe (aka A Little Princess)
 * Fanny Burney: Evelina and Camilla
 * Sarah Harriet Burney: Clarentine and Geraldine Fauconberg
 * Hester Burton: Kate Rider
 * F. M. Busby: Rissa Kerguelen (first part published separately as Young Rissa)

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
 * Brian Cleeve: Judith
 * 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
 * Bryce Courtenay: Tandia, Jessica, and Sylvia
 * Hedwig Courths-Mahler: Griseldis, Lena Warnstetten and Die schöne Miss Lilian
 * 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
 * Victoria Crosse: Anna Lombard and Martha Brown, MP
 * 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
 * Karen Cushman: Catherine, Called Birdy

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: A Novel of Love and Addiction and Isabelle the Navigator
 * Owen Davis: Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model and Jezebel
 * Rebecca Harding Davis: Frances Waldeaux
 * Abha Dawesar: Babyji
 * Frank De Felitta: Audrey Rose
 * 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
 * Mazo de la Roche: Mary Wakefield
 * 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 and 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
 * Hilda Doolittle (as H.D.): 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 and La Reine Margot
 * 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 (in The Alexandria Quartet)

E

 * Maria Edgeworth: The Modern Griselda, Belinda, Leonora, and Helen
 * George Eliot: Romola
 * Stanley Elkin: Mrs. Ted Bliss
 * John Breckenridge Ellis: Fran
 * Michael Ende: Momo
 * Marian Engel: Joanne
 * Rosemary Enright: Isobel
 * Louise Erdrich: Four Souls
 * Susan Ertz: Madame Claire, Nina and Mary Hallam
 * Euripides: Medea, Electra, Andromache, Hecuba and Helen
 * Hanns Heinz Ewers: Alraune

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, Salammbô
 * Susan Fletcher: Eve Green
 * Antonio Fogazzaro: Leila
 * Theodor Fontane: Cécile, Frau Jenny Treibel, Mathilde Möhring and Effi Briest
 * Hulbert Footner: Madame Storey and Cap'n Sue
 * 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
 * Anatole France: Thaïs
 * Marianne Fredriksson: Inge and Mira
 * Benedict and Nancy Freedman: Mrs. Mike
 * 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 and 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
 * Heike Geißler: Rosa
 * Martha Gellhorn: Liana
 * Pam Gems: Mrs Frampton
 * Jean Craighead George: Julie
 * Kaye Gibbons: Ellen Foster
 * André Gide: Isabelle
 * Ellen Gilchrist: Sarah Conley
 * George Gissing: Isabel Clarendon and Veranilda
 * Ellen Glasgow: Virginia
 * Susan Glaspell: Brook Evans
 * Elinor Glyn: Halcyone
 * Anna Gmeyner: Manja
 * 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, Demelza and Bella Poldark (in The Poldark Novels)
 * 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: Ayesha, Nada the Lily, and She
 * 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
 * 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, Sr.: Elsie Venner
 * Hazel Holt: Leonora
 * Winifred Holtby: Poor Caroline
 * Christina Hopkinson: Izobel Brannigan.com
 * Ödön von Horváth and 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
 * Mark Clinton Jones (1st edition published under pseudonym of Philippa Perry): Tabitha Miggins, Ship's Cat (on the Pill Ferry)
 * 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: Carrie, Christine, Misery and 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 and Camilla Dickinson
 * Maureen Lee: Liverpool Annie
 * Ella Leffland: Mrs. Munck
 * Ursula K. Le Guin: Lavinia
 * 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 and Cass Timberlane
 * 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
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Evangeline
 * Bret Lott: Jewel
 * Marie Belloc Lowndes: Letty Lynton
 * Lois Lowry: Anastasia Krupnik
 * Richard A. Lupoff: Lisa Kane

M

 * Anne McCaffrey: Damia, Killashandra, Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern, The Rowan
 * Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon: Sassinak
 * J. H. McCarthy amd 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
 * Christopher Marlowe: Dido, Queen of Carthage
 * 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, Catalina, 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
 * Sami Michael: Victoria
 * Susan Miles: Lettice Delmer
 * Isabel Miller: Patience and Sarah
 * 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: Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Lolita, and Mary (Mashen'ka)
 * John Henry Cardinal Newman: Callista; A Sketch of the Third Century
 * Marie NDiaye: Rosie Carpe
 * Chris Niles: Grace Falco
 * Garth Nix: Sabriel and Lirael
 * Barbara Noble: Doreen
 * 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
 * Scott O'Dell: Zia
 * 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
 * Baroness Orczy: Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
 * Ouida: Folle-Farine, Idalia and Wanda
 * Daniel Owen: Gwen Tomos

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 and Marianela
 * Tom Perrotta: ‘’Mrs. Fletcher’’
 * 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 Puddle-Duck, 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
 * Francine Prose: Marie Laveau
 * Olive Higgins Prouty: Stella Dallas
 * Elizabeth and 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, Perri
 * George Sand: Indiana and Marianne
 * Friedrich Schiller: The Bride of Messina
 * Elke Schmitter: Frau Sartoris
 * James H. Schmitz (posthumously, with Eric Flint): Telzey Amberdon
 * 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
 * Anya Seton: Katherine and The Winthrop Woman
 * 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
 * Barbara Sleigh: Jessamy
 * Charlotte Turner Smith: Emmeline, Celestina, and Ethelinde
 * Russell Smith: Muriella Pent
 * Sophocles: Antigone and Electra
 * Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg: Candy
 * Robert Southey: Joan of Arc
 * 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 Steel: Zoya
 * Ann S. Stephens: Malaeska
 * Simon Stephens: Harper Regan
 * D. E. Stevenson: Katherine Wentworth, Kate Hardy, Charlotte Fairlie
 * Helen Stevenson: Mad Elaine
 * Robert Louis Stevenson: Catriona
 * Adalbert Stifter: Brigitta
 * Tom Stoppard: Hapgood
 * Theodor Storm: Veronika and Renate
 * Peter Straub: Julia
 * Noel Streatfeild: Gemma, Aunt Clara, and Judith
 * 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, Miss Mackenzie, Linda Tressel, Nina Balatka and Lady Anna

U

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

V

 * Andrew Vachss: Flood, Strega, Blue Belle, Blossom (all parts of The Burke series and Shella)
 * Martin Vale: The Two Mrs. Carrolls
 * Juan Valera: Pepita Jiménez
 * Aritha van Herk: Judith
 * Jack Vance: Madouc
 * 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
 * Sylvia Townsend Warner: Lolly Willowes
 * Evelyn Waugh: Helena
 * 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