Heroines in literature

• Henry Adams (writing as Frances Snow Compton):
• Bess Streeter Aldrich: Miss Bishop
• Isabel Allende: Eva Luna
• Jean Anouilh: Antigone
• Aristophanes: Lysistrata
• Michael Arlen: Lily Christine
• Jane Austen: Emma
• Honoré de Balzac: Eugénie Grandet
• 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
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Aurora Floyd
• 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:
• 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
• Pam Gems: Mrs Frampton
• 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
• Heinrich Mann: Madame Legros
• 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:
• 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 [2]
• 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
• Adalbert Stifter: Brigitta
• 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

See also:

• List of years in literature

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