Help me think of a happily single (female) fictional character?

[HuckingFellHire]

I can't think of one? 🤔

Lara Croft

Lolly Willowes - she wasn't happy being taken for granted as the 'useful maiden aunt', so she makes her escape and has a terrific time. Fabulous book!

It's Mrs Danvers in Rebecca. But I think that is because housekeepers tended to be called Mrs in these kind if societies? There certainly doesn't appear to be a Mr Danvers anyway. Very hard to imagine there would ever have been one ever.

Lucia, from the Mapp and Lucia books.

Galadriel

Elizabeth 1, who although a real person, must have appeared in more novels than most fictional characters.

Quite a few Marvel women are happily single

Natasha Romanoff, Captain Marvel, Shuri, Nebula, Monica rambeau and darcy lewis. This list is not exhaustive!

Lucia was married to Pepino Lucas, hence her nickname. She married Georgie a couple of years after Pepino died. It was, by their mutual stipulation, a mariage blanc.

@echt Yes, thank you so much echt, but I do know why Lucia has her nickname, and the plots of all the Lucia books. I don't think her marriage of convenience to her gay best friend counts - in fact, one of the reasons she marries Georgie it is to stop all ideas about her ever marrying anyone else.

Does widowed a long time ago count? Lady Danbury from Bridgerton springs to mind, as does Aunt March from Little Women.
I'd echo the PPs who mentioned the Marvel women - Carole Danvers is a great example.

Staying single was Elizabeth I’s shrewdest move. She avoided having to answer to a husband, like her older sister, and she avoided becoming a hostage to nature like her stepmother Jane Seymour (and Catherine Parr in her subsequent marriage). I wonder if she was intelligent enough to speculate also that her family may not have been great breeding stock?

Staying single was Elizabeth I’s shrewdest move.

By not marrying a foreigner, she avoided the possibility of England being dragged into a foreign war, as happened in her sister's reign.

By not marrying an Englishman, she avoided setting up a powerful court faction such as the Woodvilles, the Boleyns and the Seymours, which would have caused jealousy and instability.

Do you mean Patricia Cornwall?

Kay is married to fbi agent Benton.

@HelenaRavenclaw

Frankly speaking, while I find some of them entertaining, I do wish she hadn't filled in details and backstories on nearly everything/everyone.

I was talking about this with my daughters today. They grew up reading Harry Potter books and love them still.
They feel the same, that they prefer to use their imaginations and, having spent a while on that site, I agree.
They were impressed at my knowledge that it exists though, and that doesn't happen much these days, so I'm very grateful

@LaMarschallin

Glad to be of help! Please tell your daughters that they need not accept everything wrote on that site; they can pick and choose the best bits.

Also, if you make an account on that site, you can be sorted into a house and receive a letter from a prefect of that house (written by Rowling herself), if they haven't changed the system in the past few years. I made an account some years ago and have now forgotten my login info, but I do remember the Ravenclaw letter was very nice and the additional details agreed well with my imagination, especially about the Ravenclaw common room, which I'd love to be a resident of! I just searched for the Ravenclaw letter on Google and found it on a different (unofficial) website: https://www.hogwartsishere.com/library/book/11007/chapter/3/

Wrong on both counts then! 😂 I’m sure she was single in the earlier books.

Well she was "widowed"

Elsa from frozen

No, but she definitely wasn't "happily-single".

Actually, for large parts of the book she wasn't officially single at all, but when she was she didn't want to be.

Anne Shirley and Emma Woodhouse might count, because if you'd said to either of them half-way through "you might never get married" they'd have been fine with that idea. Bridget would not.

Yes - people who are actively trying not to be single don’t count!