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Vanessa Abrams. Irene Adler. Aunt Agatha. Akivasha. Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) Cathy Ames. Cherry Ames. Anactoria. Angelica (character)
Women in Shakespeare is a topic within the especially general discussion of Shakespeare 's dramatic and poetic works. Main characters such as Dark Lady of the sonnets have elicited a substantial amount of criticism, which received added impetus during the second-wave feminism of the 1960s. A considerable number of book-length studies and ...
The Harpies, birds with the heads of women. Lamia, a child-eating, disfigured monster. Metis, an oceanid and first wife of Zeus. The Nereids, oceanids. Scylla and Charybdis, sea monsters living on opposite sides of a narrow strait. The Sirens, women combined with birds, whose songs lured sailors to wreck their ships.
M. Queen Mab. Lady Macbeth. Lady Macduff. Margaret of Anjou. Maria (Twelfth Night) Miranda (The Tempest)
The strong female character is a stock character, the opposite of the damsel in distress. In the first half of the 20th century, the rise of mainstream feminism and the increased use of the concept in the later 20th century have reduced the concept to a standard item of pop culture fiction. This narrative cliche is separate and distinct from ...
A. List of female action heroes and villains. List of American Girl characters.
Bradamante is depicted as one of the greatest female knights in literature. She is an expert fighter, and wields a magical lance that unhorses anyone it touches. She is also one of the main characters in several novels including Italo Calvino's surrealistic, highly ironic novel Il Cavaliere inesistente (The Nonexistent Knight).
A Tear for a Drop of Water by Luc-Olivier Merson (1903). Esmeralda (French: [ɛs.me.ʁɑl.da]), born Agnès, is a fictional character in Victor Hugo 's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris). She is a French Roma girl (near the end of the book, it is revealed that her biological mother was a French woman).