Women's Names

Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
Sula Toni Morrison
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Jezebel Katherine Sutcliffe

Make Way for Lucia, by E.F. Benson
Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
Helen in Egypt, by H.D.
Elsie Dinsmore on the Loose, by Josie Turner
Jack and Jill, by Louisa May Alcott

Hmm, looks like author touchstones are on strike today!

Rose Madder by Stephen King
Elisabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim
About Grace by Anthony Doerr
Stella Descending by Linn Ullmann
Inez of my soul by Isabel Allende

Arabella by Georgette Heyer
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton
Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish by Dorothy Gilman
Mrs. Drew Plays Her Hand by Carla Kelly
Nancy's Mysterious Letter by Carolyn Keene

Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Mary by Janis Cooke Newman
Alex, The Life of a Child by Frank Deford
Ana's Story by Jenna Bush
Angela's Ashes byFrank McCourt
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Caril by Ninette Beaver
Christy by Catherine Marshall

Sophie's Choice William Styron
Emma Jane Austen
Tess of the D'Urbyvilles Thomas Hardy
Rebecca of Sunnybrooke Farm Kate Wiggen
Vision of Emma Blau
Ursula Hegi

Emma and I by Sheila Hocken
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
Jessica by Bryce Courtenay
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

Pamela, or Virtue rewarded, by Samuel Richardson
Clarissa, or the history of a young lady, by Samuel Richardson
Evelina, or, The history of a young lady's entrance into the world by Fanny Burney
Camilla, or, A picture of youth by Fanny Burney
Roxana, or the fortunate mistress by Daniel Defoe

...hmm - plundering the 18th century is a bit too easy!

...and another go, with accidental girl's names:

Cat's eye by Margaret Atwood
The darling buds of May by H.E. Bates
Yanking up the YoYo by Michael Carson ("Three little maids from school are we...)
A fearful Joy by Joyce Cary
Pearls are a nuisance by Raymond Chandler

ETA: Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet

Guess who mixed up his Yum Yum with his Yo Yo...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Black Maria by Diana Wynne Jones
Celandine by Steve Augarde
Clemency Pogue, Fairy Killer by JT Petty
The Constellation of Sylvie by Roderick Townley

Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
Saving Samantha by Samantha Weaver
Olivia's Luck by Catherine Alliott
The Romancipation of Maggie Hunter by Jane Sigaloff
Persuading Annie by Melissa Nathan

Carrie by Stephen King
Christine by Stephen King
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lori by Robert Bloch
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding
Lucy by Ellen Feldman
Mary called Magdalene by Margaret George
Are you there God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym
Petunia by Roger Duvoisin
Isobelle by Mary Lide
Frederica by Georgette Heyer
Gigi by Colette

Drowning Ruth
Ruth
The Book of Ruth
Olive Kitteridge
Katherine
Harold and Maude

Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
Ireland's Pirate Queen: The True Story of Grace O'Malley by Anne Chambers
Lisey's Story by Stephen King
Princess Nevermore by Dian Curtis Regan

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
St Joan by George Bernard Shaw
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwwod

Pope Joan by Donna Cross
The Ghost of Hannah Mendes by Naomi Ragen
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Jane Austin Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

Hanna's Daughters - Marianne Fredriksson
Janet And Me - Stan Mack
Judith's Pavilion: The Haunting Memories Of A Neurosurgeon - Marc Flitter
Daughter Of The Queen Of Sheba Jackie Lyden
Emma's War - Deborah Scroggins

What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
Isabel the Fair by Margaret Campbell Barnes
The Claudine Novels by Colette
Fanny Hill:or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland

Amanda/Miranda by Richard Peck
Boadicea: Warrior Queen of the Celts by John Matthews
Calypso by Ed McBain
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

Cleopatra by Michael Grant
Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare
Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins
Harriette Wilson's Memoirs by Harriet Wilson
Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
Lucrezia Borgia by Maria Bellonci
Mary Tudor: The Spanish Tudor by H.F.M. Prescott

The Ballad of Frankie Silver
Freddy and Fredericka
If I Ever Return, Pretty Peggy-o
My Antonia
Pandora by Holly Hollander
Podkayne of Mars
Raney
Sister Carrie
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels
Venus Plus X
Surprised by Joy

Josie and Jack, Kelly Braffet
Emmeline, Judith Rossner
Lyddie, Katherine Paterson
Ava's Man, Rick Bragg
Rose of No Man's Land, Michelle Tea

All by Trollope:

Lady Anna
Rachel Ray
Marion Fay
Nina Balatka and Linda Tressel
Miss Mackenzie

Mapp & Lucia by E.F. Benson
For Esme with Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger
Elizabeth Rex by Timothy Findley
Queen Victoria's Daughters by E.F. Benson
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
Henrietta's House by Elizabeth Goudge

Marta by Eliza Orzeszkowa
Constance Ring by Amalie Skram
Polinka Saks by Aleksandr Druzhinin
Indiana by George Sand
Marianna Sirca by Grazia Deledda

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
The Anastasia Syndrome and other stories by Mary Higgins Clark
A Song for Mary by Dennis Smith
Ruby by Ann Hood
Miss Bianca by Margery Sharp

Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married by Marian Keyes
Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
Queen Camilla by Sue Townsend
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan
Annie's New Life by Maureen Martella
Janice Gentle Gets Sexy by Mavis Cheek
Juno and Juliet by Julian Gough
Peter an Mary Have a Row by Damien Owens

Finally I've done quite well in one of these games!

Belinda
Lucia
Katherine
Catherine, Called Birdy
Holly Would Dream
Christine Falls
Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys
Forever Amber
Emma
Agnes Grey
Villette
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt

Olivia by Judith Rossner
Jemima J by Jane Green
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn by Janis Hallowell
Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani

Creek Mary's Blood by Dee Brown
Darcy and Elizabeth by Linda Berdoll
Maggie-Now by Betty Smith
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett

Mariana by Monica Dickens
Keeping up with Magda by Isla Dewar
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew by Mary Wesley
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis

Dear Sarah Bernhardt by Francoise Sagan
The Passion of Artemesia by Susan Vreeland
I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
Lily White by Susan Isaacs
Hedda Gabbler by Henrik Ibsen

Cousin Phillis
Christy
Elizabeth Gail and the Mystery at the Johnson Farm
Jenna Starborn
Sharon Osbourne Extreme

Romeo and Juliet
Paula and Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Go Ask Alice by anonymous
How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan

Circle of Grace by Penelope Stokes
Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
Ruskin's Rose by Mimma Balia
Bridget Jones's: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding

The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman
Etta by Gerald Kolpan
The Diary of Mattie Spencer by Sandra Dallas
Tiare in Bloom by Celestine Vaite
Mrs Kimble by Jennifer Haigh

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
Eloise by Kay Thompson
The Saskiad by Brian Hall
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Winter Rose by Patricia McKilip
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Roseanna by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
Hope by Glen Duncan

The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
The Young Clementina by D. E. Stevenson
Kilmeny of the Orchard by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Chalet School and Jo by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

Hope Leslie or, Early Times in the Massachusetts by Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Belinda by Maria Edgeworth

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson

Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

Lydia Bailey by Kenneth Roberts

Emma, by Jane Austen
Ramona the Pest, by Beverly Cleary
Sima's Undergarments for Women, by Ilana Stanger-Ross
Cleopatra's Daughter, by Michelle Moran
Ophelia Speaks, by Sara Shandler

Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time by Fanny Fern

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

For the Sake of Elena by Elizabeth George

Effie Briest by Theodor Fontane

Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

Aliceʻs Adventures in Wonderland
b y Lewis Carroll

Romola by George Eliot

Esther Waters by George Moore

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Mary by Sholem Asch

Cheri by Colette

Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

What Maisie Knew by Henry James

Daisy Miller by Henry James

Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett

Rosie by Anne Lamott
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Madeline by Ludwig Bememlmans
Cindie by Jean Devanney
Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh

Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrove Manor by Stephanie Baron
Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather
Otherwise Known as Shiela the Great by Judy Blume
Katie Mulholland by Catherine Cookson
Deidre and Don Juan by Jo Beverley

Carmilla: A Vampyre Tale by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon by Marjorie Kellogg

Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery

Gracie: A Love Story by George Burns
The Misadventures of Maude March by Audrey Couloumbis
Jennie by Paul Gallico
Ethel and the Naked Spy by Marc Lovell
Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore

Electra by Sophocles

Antigone by Sophocles

Medea by Euripides

Nana by Emile Zola

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell

Gray Dawn by Albert Payson Terhune
Nop's Hope by Donald McCaig
Amazing Gracie: A Dog's Tale by Dan Dye
Jenny Willow by Mike Gaddis
Rose in a Storm by Jon Katz

Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser

Joan and Peter by H. G. Wells

Jane Austen Ruined my Life by Beth Pattillo

Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan

Alice Adams by Booth tarkington