My list? Well, I adore good kid's books, so you may find a theme here...
From the Land of Oz (a fantasy world loaded with strong females --no doubt because L. Frank Baum's mother was a suffragette): Dorothy Gale, Princess Ozma, Glinda the Sorceress, the Good Witch of the North, Tiny Trot, Betsy Bobbin, General Jinjur, Scraps the Patchwork Girl The Little Engine That Could (read the original Watty Piper tale from 1938 -- the engine is called "she"!) Weyrwoman Lessa of Ruatha Hold (Anne McCaffrey's Dragonrider books) -- and Ramoth her queen dragon. Menolly the bard, same source Eowyn ("I am no man!") of Rohan The Little Red Hen (a single mother who did all the work with no help from the freeloaders) Dab-Dab the Duck from the Dr. Doolittle books (the good Dr.'s housekeeper) Mrs. Hudson from the Sherlock Holmes tales Irene Adler, the same.
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From the Land of Oz (a fantasy world loaded with strong females --no doubt because L. Frank Baum's mother was a suffragette): Dorothy Gale, Princess Ozma, Glinda the Sorceress, the Good Witch of the North, Tiny Trot, Betsy Bobbin, General Jinjur, Scraps the Patchwork Girl
The Little Engine That Could (read the original Watty Piper tale from 1938 -- the engine is called "she"!)
Weyrwoman Lessa of Ruatha Hold (Anne McCaffrey's Dragonrider books) -- and Ramoth her queen dragon.
Menolly the bard, same source
Eowyn ("I am no man!") of Rohan
The Little Red Hen (a single mother who did all the work with no help from the freeloaders)
Dab-Dab the Duck from the Dr. Doolittle books (the good Dr.'s housekeeper)
Mrs. Hudson from the Sherlock Holmes tales
Irene Adler, the same.
Those are just off the top of my head.