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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
- Candace Allen: Valaida
- Grant Allen:
- Isabel Allende: Eva Luna
- Pamela Anderson: Star
- Jean Anouilh: Antigone
- Aristophanes: Lysistrata
- Michael Arlen: Lily Christine
- Rebecca Agatha Armour: Marguerite Verne
- Jane Austen: Emma
- 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
- 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: 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
- 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 [1] (http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=wright2;idno=wright2-0673)
- E.V. Cunningham (aka Howard Fast): Sally
D - H
- Roald Dahl: Matilda
- Ita Daly: Ellen
- Clemence Dane: Cousin Muriel
- Owen Davis: Jezebel
- 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
- Steven Donahue: Amanda Rio
- H.D. (aka Hilda Doolittle): HERmione
- Ménie Muriel Dowie: Gallia
- Wells Earl Draughon: Traci [2] (http://tregolwyn.tripod.com/id115.html)
- 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
- 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
- Shama Futehally: Tara Lane
- Jacques Futrelle: Elusive Isabel [3] (http://www.blackmask.com/thatway/books142c/elisadex.htm)
- 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
- Knut Hamsun: Victoria. En kjærlighedshistorie
- Eva Hanagan: Alice
- 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
- 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
- William Dean Howells: Annie Kilburn
- Fergus Hume: Madame Midas
- Marsha Hunt: Joy
- Thomas Hürlimann: Fräulein Stark
- Zora Neale Hurston: "Isis"
I - N
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: Magdalen Hepburn, Miss Marjoribanks, and Hester
- Edward Phillips Oppenheim: Anna, the Adventuress and Jeanne of the Marshes
- Violet Paget (writing as Vernon Lee): Miss Brown [5] (http://www.iplus.zetnet.co.uk/introduces/lee.htm)
- 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
- 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 [6] (http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa021402c.htm)
- 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
- Carol Shields: Swann (U.K. title: Mary Swann)
- William Gilmore Simms: "Helen Halsey"
- Upton Sinclair: Sylvia
- Sophocles: Antigone
- Terry Southern & Mason Hoffenberg: Candy
- 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
(Please add to this list. If you have read any of the books above, why not write an article for Wikipedia?)
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