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List of literary works with eponymous heroines
The titles of the following works of literature consist of the name of the female protagonist only:
A - C
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Henry Adams (writing as Frances Snow Compton): Esther: A Novel
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Edward Albee: Tiny Alice
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Bess Streeter Aldrich: Miss Bishop
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Prudence Palfrey [1]
- Candace Allen : Valaida
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Grant Allen:
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Isabel Allende: Eva Luna
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Pamela Anderson: Star
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Sherwood Anderson: Kit Brandon
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Jean Anouilh: Antigone
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Jeffrey Archer: "Christina Rosenthal "
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Aristophanes: Lysistrata
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Michael Arlen: Lily Christine
- Rebecca Agatha Armour : Marguerite Verne
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Jane Austen: Emma
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Enid Bagnold: Lottie Dundass
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Honoré de Balzac: Eugénie Grandet
- Joan Barfoot : Plain Jane
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Max Barry: Jennifer Government
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L. Frank Baum (writing as Edith Van Dyne): Aunt Jane's Nieces
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Vicki Baum: Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer
- Thea Beckman : Marie-Claire , Saartje Tadema , Thura
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Max Beerbohm: Zuleika Dobson
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Edward Bellamy: Miss Ludington's Sister
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Arnold Bennett: Anna of the Five Towns
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E.F. Benson: Mapp and Lucia
- Agustina Bessa-Luís : Fanny Owen
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Maxim Biller: Esra
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R.D. Blackmore: Lorna Doone
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Guy Boothby: Sheilah McLeod and Connie Burt
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Elizabeth Bowen: Eva Trout
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Aurora Floyd
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André Breton: Nadja
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Hermann Broch: Barbara
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Louis Bromfield: Mrs. Parkington
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Anne Brontë: Agnes Grey
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Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre and Shirley
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Gwendolyn Brooks: Maud Martha
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Rhoda Broughton: Nancy , Joan , Belinda, Lavinia , and Mrs. Bligh
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Charles Brockden Brown: Clara Howard and Jane Talbot
- Kitt Brown : Alyssa Deane
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Larry Brown: Fay
- Martha Bensley Bruère : Mildred Carver, U.S.A.
- Dorothy Bryant : Miss Giardino
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Robert Williams Buchanan: Effie Hetherington , Agnes , Corinne , Lucy Brandon , and Lady Gladys
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Frances Hodgson Burnett: Sara Crewe (aka A Little Princess)
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Fanny Burney: Evelina and Camilla
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George Washington Cable: Madame Delphine
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James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce
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Erskine Caldwell: Claudelle
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Taylor Caldwell: Melissa
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Ivan Cankar: Gospa Judit
- Vera Caspary : Laura
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Willa Cather: Lucy Gayheart and My Antonia
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Colley Cibber: Ximena
- Jon Cleary : Spearfield's Daughter
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John Cleland: Fanny Hill or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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J. M. Coetzee: Elizabeth Costello
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Colette: Gigi
- D.G. Compton : The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe
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Ivy Compton-Burnett: Dolores
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Evan S. Connell: Mrs. Bridge
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Catherine Cookson: Fanny McBride , Kate Hannigan and Katie Mulholland
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Susan Fenimore Cooper: Elinor Wyllys
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William Cooper (writing as H. S. Hoff): Trina , Rhea and Lisa
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Marie Corelli: Thelma
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Douglas Coupland: Miss Wyoming
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Bryce Courtenay: Tandia
- Hedwig Courths-Mahler : Griseldis and Die schöne Miss Lilian
- Josephine Cox : Jinnie
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Stephen Crane:
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Danielle Crittenden: Amanda Bright@Home
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A. J. Cronin: Gracie Lindsay
- Victoria Crosse : Anna Lombard and Martha Brown, MP
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John Crowne: Juliana, or The Princess of Poland
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Maria Susanna Cummins: Mabel Vaughan [2]
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E.V. Cunningham (aka Howard Fast): Sally
D - H
- Fred D'Aguiar : Bethany Bettany
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Roald Dahl: Matilda
- Ita Daly : Ellen
- Clemence Dane : Cousin Muriel
- Owen Davis : Jezebel
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Warwick Deeping: Bess of the Woods , Mad Barbara , and Kitty
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Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders
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Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué: Undine
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R. F. Delderfield: Diana
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Patrick Dennis: Auntie Mame (later dramatised by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee)
- Jean Devanny : Cindie
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Charles Dibdin: Hannah Hewitt
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Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit
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Peter Dickinson: Eva
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Benjamin Disraeli: Vivian Grey and Sybil or, The Two Nations
- Philippe Djian : Betty Blue (aka 37,2° Le Matin )
- Steven Donahue : Amanda Rio
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H.D. (aka Hilda Doolittle): HERmione
- Ménie Muriel Dowie : Gallia
- Wells Earl Draughon : Traci [3]
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Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt
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Allen Drury: Anna Hastings
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Daphne du Maurier: My Cousin Rachel
- Mark Dunn : Ella Minnow Pea
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Maria Edgeworth: Belinda, Leonora , and Helen
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George Eliot: Romola
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Stanley Elkin: Mrs. Ted Bliss
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Marian Engel: Joanne
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Euripides: Medea
- Lauren Fairbanks : Sister Carrie
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Sebastian Faulks: Charlotte Gray
- Jessie Redmon Fauset : Plum Bun
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Edna Ferber: Dawn O'Hara
- Fanny Fern : Ruth Hall
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Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary
- Jane Findlater : Rachel
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Mary Findlater: Betty Musgrave
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Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
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Antonio Fogazzaro: Leila
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Theodor Fontane: Cécile , Frau Jenny Treibel , Mathilde Möhring and Effi Briest
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Paul Leicester Ford: Janice Meredith
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Margaret Forster: Georgy Girl
- Karen Joy Fowler : Sarah Canary
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Jane Field
- Shama Futehally : Tara Lane
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Jacques Futrelle: Elusive Isabel [4]
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Neil Gaiman: Coraline
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Zona Gale: Miss Lulu Bett
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John Galsworthy: Jocelyn
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Romain Gary: Lady L
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Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton, Ruth , and Cousin Phillis
- Ernest Gebler : Eileen O'Roon
- Heike Geißler : Rosa
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Martha Gellhorn: Liana
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Pam Gems: Mrs Frampton
- Kaye Gibbons : Ellen Foster
- Ellen Gilchrist : Sarah Conley
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Ellen Glasgow: Virginia
- Catherine Frances Grace Gore : Theresa Marchmont; or, The Maid of Honour and Mrs Armytage
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Winston Graham: Marnie, Stephanie , Cordelia and Bella Poldark
- Julien Green : Adrienne Mesurat
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H. Rider Haggard: She and Ayesha
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Cicely Hamilton: Diana of Dobson's
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Knut Hamsun: Victoria. En kjærlighedshistorie
- Eva Hanagan : Alice
- Arthur Sherburne Hardy : Aurélie
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Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Henry Harland: Mrs. Peixada
- Marion Harland : Miriam
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Frances E.W. Harper: Iola Leroy
- Beatrice Harraden : "Hilda Strafford " and Rachel
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Joel Chandler Harris: Sister Jane
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Bret Harte: Cressy and
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L. P. Hartley: Poor Clare
- Amy Hassinger :
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Gerhart Hauptmann: Rose Bernd and Wanda
- Dennis Havens : Lucinda
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Eliza Haywood: Idalia; or, The Unfortunate Mistress
- Ann Hazard : Emma Stanley; or, The Orphans
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Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse: "Andrea Delfin "
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E.T.A. Hoffmann: Das Fräulein von Scuderi
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: Elsie Venner
- Hazel Holt : Leonora
- Winifred Holtby : Poor Caroline
- Bronson Howard : Young Mrs. Winthrop
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William Dean Howells: Annie Kilburn
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Fergus Hume: Madame Midas
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Marsha Hunt: Joy
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Thomas Hürlimann: Fräulein Stark
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Zora Neale Hurston: "Isis "
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O - S
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Joyce Carol Oates:
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Patrick O'Brian: Clarissa Oakes
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Kate O'Brien: Mary Lavelle
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Peter O'Donnell: Modesty Blaise
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John O'Hara: Elizabeth Appleton
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Eugene O'Neill: Anna Christie
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Margaret Oliphant: Mrs Margaret Maitland , Magdalen Hepburn , Effie Ogilvie , Miss Marjoribanks, and Hester
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Amelia Opie: Adeline Mowbray
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Edward Phillips Oppenheim: Anna, the Adventuress and Jeanne of the Marshes
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Violet Paget (writing as Vernon Lee): Miss Brown [6]
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Marcel Pagnol: Fanny
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John Howard Payne: Julia, or, The Wanderer and Clari, or, The Maid of Milan
- Lesley Pearse : Charlie , Georgia and Tara
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David Graham Phillips:
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Marge Piercy: Vida
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Arthur Wing Pinero: The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
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Eleanor H. Porter: Pollyanna
- Caroline Preston : Lucy Crocker 2.0
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Antoine François Prévost: Manon Lescaut
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Reynolds Price: Kate Vaiden and Roxanna Slade
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Olive Higgins Prouty: Stella Dallas
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Raymond Queneau: Odile
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Jean Racine: Andromaque , Athalie , Esther and Phedre
- Ernest Raymond : Mary Leith
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Charles Reade: Angela and Christie Johnstone
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Thomas Wemyss Reid: Gladys Fane
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Anne Rice (writing as Anne Rampling): Belinda
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Samuel Richardson: Pamela and Clarissa
- Mazo de la Roche : Mary Wakefield
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Nicholas Rowe: Jane Shore
- Susanna Rowson : Charlotte Temple
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Bernice Rubens: Madame Sousatzka
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Willy Russell: Shirley Valentine
- Mark Rutherford : Clara Hopgood
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Rafael Sabatini: Mistress Wilding
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Marquis de Sade: Justine and Juliette
- Mary Anne Sadlier : Bessy Conway; or, The Irish Girl in America
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George Sand: Indiana and Marianne
- Elke Schmitter : Frau Sartoris
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Arthur Schnitzler: Fräulein Else and Therese
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Olive Schreiner: Undine [7]
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Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Hope Leslie
- Ina Seidel : Michaela. Die Aufzeichnungen des Jürgen Brook
- Margery Sharp : Cluny Brown
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George Bernard Shaw: Candida and Major Barbara
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Irwin Shaw: Lucy Crown
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Mary Shelley: Matilda
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R. C. Sherriff: Miss Mabel
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Carol Shields: Swann (U.K. title: Mary Swann)
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William Gilmore Simms: "Helen Halsey "
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May Sinclair: Audrey Craven , Kitty Tailleur and
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Upton Sinclair: Sylvia
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Sophocles: Antigone
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Terry Southern & Mason Hoffenberg : Candy
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E. D. E. N. Southworth: , Sybil Brotherton , and Gertrude Haddon
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Johanna Spyri: Heidi
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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël: Corinne and Delphine
- Helen Stevenson : Mad Elaine
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Adalbert Stifter: Brigitta
- Marlene Streeruwitz : Jessica, 30
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August Strindberg: Miss Julie
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Eugène Sue: Mathilde
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J.M. Synge: Deirdre of the Sorrows
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Last updated: 08-18-2005 01:09:53
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