The paper sets out to analyse female protagonists and representations of female sexuality in the British novels written in different historical periods: Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders (18th century), Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles (19th century), and Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair (20th century). The paper explores the status of real women and their sexuality across a three-century span, as well as the reactions of readers and publishers. However, the main focus of the paper is the analysis of the relationships these three heroines have with their sexuality through different hardships, such as Moll with prostitution, Tess with sexual abuse, and Sarah with adultery ; Ovaj rad će analizirati glavne protagonistkinje i prikaze ženske seksualnosti u britanskim romanima napisanim u različitim povijesnim razdobljima: Moll Flanders Daniela Defoea (18. stoljeće), Tess of the d’Urbervilles Thomasa Hardyja (19. stoljeće) i The End of the Affair Grahama Greenea (20. stoljeće). Rad istražuje položaj stvarnih žena i njihove seksualnosti u razdoblju od tri stoljeća, kao i reakcije čitatelja i izdavača. Međutim, glavni fokus rada je analiza odnosa ove tri junakinje sa svojom seksualnošću kroz različite poteškoće, kao što su Moll s prostitucijom, Tess s seksualnim zlostavljanjem i Sarah s preljubom.