The titles of the following works of literature consist of the name of the female protagonist only:

A - C

• Henry Adams (writing as Frances Snow Compton): Esther: A Novel
• Edward Albee: Tiny Alice
• Bess Streeter Aldrich: Miss Bishop
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Prudence Palfrey [1]
• Candace Allen : Valaida
• Grant Allen:
• 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
• Jane Austen: Emma
• Enid Bagnold: Lottie Dundass
• Honoré de Balzac: Eugénie Grandet
• Joan Barfoot : Plain Jane
• Max Barry: Jennifer Government
• L. Frank Baum (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
• Elizabeth Bowen: Eva Trout
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Colley Cibber: Ximena
• Jon Cleary : Spearfield's Daughter
• 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
• Ivy Compton-Burnett: Dolores
• Evan S. Connell: Mrs. Bridge
• 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:
• 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 [2]
• 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
• 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
• Peter Dickinson: Eva
• Benjamin Disraeli: Vivian Grey and 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 [3]
• Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt
• Allen Drury: Anna Hastings
• Daphne du Maurier: My Cousin Rachel
• Mark Dunn : Ella Minnow Pea
• Maria Edgeworth: Belinda, Leonora , and Helen
• George Eliot: Romola
• Stanley Elkin: Mrs. Ted Bliss
• Marian Engel: Joanne
• Euripides: Medea
• Lauren Fairbanks : Sister Carrie
• Sebastian Faulks: Charlotte Gray
• Jessie Redmon Fauset : Plum Bun
• Edna Ferber: Dawn O'Hara
• Fanny Fern : Ruth Hall
• Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary
• Jane Findlater : Rachel
• Mary Findlater: Betty Musgrave
• Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
• 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 [4]
• Neil Gaiman: Coraline
• Zona Gale: Miss Lulu Bett
• John Galsworthy: Jocelyn
• Romain Gary: Lady L
• Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton, Ruth , and Cousin Phillis
• 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
• Catherine Frances Grace 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
• L. P. Hartley: Poor Clare
• Amy Hassinger :
• 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
• 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
• Mary Johnston : Audrey and Miss Delicia Allen
• Erich Kästner: Das doppelte Lottchen (translated as Lisa and Lottie , filmed as The Parent Trap)
• Sheila Kaye-Smith: Joanna Godden and Mrs Gailey
• 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 ...
• Frederick Kohner : Gidget
• Ann Kurtz : Pendy
• Martha J. Lamb : Spicy
• Gavin Lambert : Inside Daisy Clover
• Meta Lander : Marion Graham; or, Higher Than Happiness
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Francesca Carrara and Ethel Churchill
• Philip Larkin: Jill
• Mary Lavin : Mary O'Grady
• Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla
• Madeleine L'Engle: Ilsa [5]
• 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
• Heinrich Mann: Madame Legros
• 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
• 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
• 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:
• 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 [6]
• 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:
• 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
• 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
• George Sand: Indiana and Marianne
• Elke Schmitter : Frau Sartoris
• Arthur Schnitzler: Fräulein Else and Therese
• Olive Schreiner: Undine [7]
• Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Hope Leslie
• 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
• Upton Sinclair: Sylvia
• Sophocles: Antigone
• Terry Southern & Mason Hoffenberg : Candy
• E. D. E. N. Southworth: , Sybil Brotherton , and Gertrude Haddon
• Johanna Spyri: Heidi
• Anne Louise Germaine de Staël: Corinne and Delphine
• Helen Stevenson : Mad Elaine
• Adalbert Stifter: Brigitta
• Marlene Streeruwitz : Jessica, 30
• August Strindberg: Miss Julie
• 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
• 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
• Gore Vidal: Myra Breckinridge
• Cynthia Voigt: Izzy, Willy-Nilly
• Elizabeth von Arnim: Vera
• Alice Walker: Meridian
• Hugh Walpole: Judith Paris
• Annie Wang : Lili
• Mary Augusta Ward: Marcella
• 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 [8]
• 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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