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

  • Henry Adams (writing as Frances Snow Compton): Esther: A Novel
  • Bess Streeter Aldrich: Miss Bishop
  • Candace Allen: Valaida
  • Isabel Allende: Eva Luna
  • Pamela Anderson: Star
  • Jean Anouilh: Antigone
  • Aristophanes: Lysistrata
  • Michael Arlen: Lily Christine
  • Jane Austen: Emma
  • Honoré de Balzac: Eugénie Grandet
  • Max Barry: Jennifer Government
  • Vicki Baum: Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer
  • Thea Beckman: Marie-Claire, Saartje Tadema, Thura
  • Max Beerbohm: Zuleika Dobson
  • 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
  • Anne Brontë: Agnes Grey
  • Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre and Shirley
  • Gwendolyn Brooks: Maud Martha
  • 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
  • Fanny Burney: Evelina and Camilla
  • James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce
  • Erskine Caldwell: Claudelle
  • Ivan Cankar: Gospa Judit
  • 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
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett: Dolores
  • Catherine Cookson: Fanny McBride, Kate Hannigan and Katie Mulholland
  • Marie Corelli: Thelma
  • Bryce Courtenay: Tandia
  • Josephine Cox: Jinnie
  • Stephen Crane: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
  • 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
  • Euripides: Medea
  • Sebastian Faulks: Charlotte Gray
  • Edna Ferber: Dawn O'Hara
  • Fanny Fern: Ruth Hall
  • Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
  • Antonio Fogazzaro: Leila
  • Theodor Fontane: Cécile, Frau Jenny Treibel, Mathilde Möhring and Effi Briest
  • Margaret Forster: Georgy Girl
  • John Galsworthy: Jocelyn
  • Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton and Ruth
  • Heike Geißler: Rosa
  • Pam Gems: Mrs Frampton
  • Kaye Gibbons: Ellen Foster
  • Ellen Gilchrist: Sarah Conley
  • Ellen Glasgow: Virginia
  • Winston Graham: Marnie, Stephanie, Cordelia and Bella Poldark
  • H. Rider Haggard: She and Ayesha
  • Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  • Frances E.W. Harper: Iola Leroy
  • Beatrice Harraden: "Hilda Strafford" and Rachel
  • Joel Chandler Harris: Sister Jane
  • Dennis Havens: Lucinda
  • E.T.A. Hoffmann: Das Fräulein von Scuderi
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes: Elsie Venner
  • Hazel Holt: Leonora
  • 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
  • Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking
  • Heiner Link: Frl. Ursula
  • 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
  • Frank Frankfort Moore: Phyllis of Philistia
  • 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: Marya: A Life
  • 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
  • Violet Paget (writing as Vernon Lee): Miss Brown [1] (http://www.iplus.zetnet.co.uk/introduces/lee.htm)
  • Lesley Pearse: Charlie, Georgia and Tara
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rafael Sabatini: Mistress Wilding
  • Mary Anne Sadlier: Bessy Conway; or, The Irish Girl in America
  • Elke Schmitter: Frau Sartoris
  • Arthur Schnitzler: Fräulein Else and Therese
  • Olive Schreiner: Undine [2] (http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa021402c.htm)
  • Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Hope Leslie
  • Margery Sharp: Cluny Brown
  • George Bernard Shaw: Candida and Major Barbara
  • Irwin Shaw: Lucy Crown
  • Mary Shelley: Matilda
  • Upton Sinclair: Sylvia
  • Sophocles: Antigone
  • Terry Southern & Mason Hoffenberg: Candy
  • Adalbert Stifter: Brigitta
  • Marlene Streeruwitz: Jessica, 30
  • August Strindberg: Miss Julie
  • Eugène Sue: Mathilde
  • J.M. Synge: Deirdre of the Sorrows
  • Booth Tarkington: Alice Adams
  • Catherine Texier: Victorine
  • Alice Thompson: Justine
  • Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
  • Adriana Trigiani: Lucia, Lucia
  • Anthony Trollope: Rachel Ray, Lady Anna, Linda Tressel and Nina Balatka
  • Gore Vidal: Myra Breckinridge
  • Elizabeth von Arnim: Vera
  • Alice Walker: Meridian
  • Hugh Walpole: Judith Paris
  • Mary Augusta Ward: Marcella
  • John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
  • Fay Weldon: Praxis
  • H.G. Wells: Ann Veronica
  • Rebecca West: Harriet Hume
  • Edith Wharton: Madame de Treymes
  • Oscar Wilde: Vera; or, the Nihilists [3] (http://users.pandora.be/moonen/wilde/woman2.html)
  • Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs
  • P.G. Wodehouse: Doctor Sally
  • Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
  • Herman Wouk: Marjorie Morningstar
  • Richard B. Wright: Clara Callan
  • William Butler Yeats: Deirdre
  • E.H. Young: Miss Mole
  • Emile Zola: Nana and Therese Raquin

(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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