| MRSDALLOWAY | Clarissa, the eponymous heroine of Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel |
| TRILBY | Style of hat named after the eponymous heroine of a novel penned by George du Maurier (6) |
| CLARISSA | First name of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (8) |
| NANCY | Drew, the eponymous heroine of a mystery fiction series created by Edward Stratemeyer (5) |
| ISABELARCHER | Eponymous heroine of the 1881 Henry James novel The Portrait of a Lady (6,6) |
| JANE | ___ Eyre 1847 novel by Charlotte Bronte which depicts the story of Mr. Rochester and the eponymous heroine |
| AGNES | Forename of the eponymous heroine and daughter of Mr and Mrs Grey in Anne Bronte's first novel (5) |
| ANNA | And 9 Eponymous heroine of an 1878 Leo Tolstoy novel; the sister of Stepan Oblonsky (4,8) |
| LORNA | and 51ac, Eponymous heroine of R D Blackmore's novel subtitled A Romance of Exmoor |
| DOONE | see 53ac, Eponymous heroine of R D Blackmore's novel subtitled A Romance of Exmoor |
| EYRE | Eponymous heroine of a Charlotte Bronte novel (4,4) |
| JANEEYRE | Eponymous heroine of a Charlotte Bronte novel (4,4) |
| AGNESGREY | Eponymous heroine of an Anne BrontA« novel (5,4) |
| OCTAVIA | One of the eponymous heroines in a series of romance novels by Jilly Cooper that includes Bella, Emily, Harriet, Imogen and Prudence (7) |
| DREWE | Rom-com with Gemma Arterton as the eponymous heroine, Tamara ___ (5) |
| HEDDAGABLER | Murderous eponymous heroine of a Henrik Ibsen play (5,6) |
| HARLOWE | Surname of the heroine of the novel Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson (7 |
| EMMA | Eponymous heroine making a comeback at the end of the programme (4) |
| DALLOWAY | Virginia Woolf's Clarissa |
| THELIGHTHOUSE | To ___ writer Virginia Woolf's novel about the Ramsay family's visits to the Isle of Skye: 2 wds. |
