Heroines in literature

• Bess Streeter Aldrich[?]: Miss Bishop[?]
• 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[?]
• R.D. Blackmore[?]: Lorna Doone
• Elizabeth Bowen[?]: Eva Trout[?]
• Anne Bronte: Agnes Grey[?]
• Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre and Shirley
• Gwendolyn Brooks[?]: Maud Martha[?]
• Larry Brown[?]: Fay[?]
• Fanny Burney: Evelina[?] and Camilla[?]
• James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce
• Erskine Caldwell[?]: Claudelle[?]
• Vera Caspary[?]: Laura[?]
• Willa Cather: My Antonia[?]
• Colette: Gigi
• D.G. Compton[?]: The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe[?]
• Frances Snow Compton[?] (pseudonym of Henry Adams): Esther: A Novel[?]
• Marie Corelli: Thelma[?]
• Stephen Crane: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets[?]
• Victoria Crosse[?]: Anna Lombard[?] and Martha Brown, MP[?]
• E.V. Cunningham[?]: Sally[?]
• Roald Dahl: Matilda
• Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders[?]
• Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué: Undine[?]
• R. F. Delderfield: Diana[?]
• Marquis de Sade: Justine[?] and Juliette[?]
• Peter Dickinson[?]: Eva[?]
• Ménie Muriel Dowie[?]: Gallia[?]
• Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt[?]
• George Eliot: Romola[?]
• Sebastian Faulks[?]: Charlotte Gray[?]
• 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[?]
• Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
• Frances E.W. Harper[?]: Iola Leroy[?]
• Oliver Wendell Holmes: Elsie Venner[?]
• William Dean Howells: Annie Kilburn[?]
• Marsha Hunt[?]: Joy[?]
• Zora Neale Hurston: "Isis[?]"
• Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler
• Helen Hunt Jackson[?]: Ramona[?]
• Henry James: Daisy Miller[?]
• 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[?]
• William Somerset Maugham: Liza of Lambeth and Mrs Craddock[?]
• F.M. Mayor[?]: The Third Miss Symons[?]
• George Meredith: Sandra Belloni[?]
• L.M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables
• George A. Moore: Esther Waters[?]
• Toni Morrison: Sula[?]
• Bharati Mukherjee[?]: Jasmine
• Julie Myerson[?]: Laura Blundy
• Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
• Freya North[?]: Polly[?]
• Joyce Carol Oates[?]: Marya: A Life[?]
• John O'Hara: Elizabeth Appleton[?]
• Marge Piercy[?]: Vida[?]
• Arthur Wing Pinero: The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
• Caroline Preston[?]: Lucy Crocker 2.0[?]
• 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: Therese[?]
• Olive Schreiner: Undine[?] [1] (http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa021402c.htm)
• 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[?]
• Mary Augusta Ward: Marcella[?]
• Fay Weldon[?]: Praxis
• H.G. Wells: Ann Veronica
• 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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