| ISABELARCHER | Eponymous heroine of the 1881 Henry James novel The Portrait of a Lady (6,6) |
| ALADY | 1881 Henry James novel featuring the character Isabel Archer (3,8,2,1,4) |
| THEPORTRAITOF | 1881 Henry James novel featuring the character Isabel Archer (3,8,2,1,4) |
| OSMOND | Gilbert -; antagonist in Henry James' novel The Portrait of a Lady who marries Isabel Archer (6) |
| JAMES | Henry -; author of The Wings of the Dove whose 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady was adapted to screen by Jane Campion (5) |
| LADY | Nicole Kidman played heiress Isabel Archer in the 1996 film adaptation of Henry James's novel, The Portrait Of A ... |
| ISABEL | ____ Archer, title character in Henry James's novel The Portrait Of A Lady (6) |
| JOHANNASPYRI | Swiss-born author most famous for the 1881 children's book Heidi (7,5) |
| WATCHANDWARD | Henry James novel first published in book form in 1878 (5,3,4) |
| MARKTWAIN | Pseudonym of the US author of the 1881 historical novel The Prince and the Pauper (4,5) |
| ANNAKARENINA | Eponymous heroine has ones opposed to king in sporting stadium (4,8) |
| SCREW | Henry James novel, "The Turn of the ___" (5) |
| TRILBY | Style of hat named after the eponymous heroine of a novel penned by George du Maurier (6) |
| SPYRI | Surname of the writer of the 1881 novel Heidi (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 |
| NANCY | Drew, the eponymous heroine of a mystery fiction series created by Edward Stratemeyer (5) |
| MRSDALLOWAY | Clarissa, the eponymous heroine of Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel |
| JANE | Eponymous heroine of a Charlotte Bronte novel (4,4) |
