| Character | Lover | Romantic Rival |
| Elizabeth Bennet | |
| Juliet Capulet | |
| Queen Guinevere | |
| Eurydice | |
| Scarlett O'Hara | |
| Jane Eyre | |
| Maid Marian | |
| Esmeralda | |
| Buttercup | |
| Desdemona | |
| Anne Shirley | |
| Princess Anna Arkadyevna Karenina | |
| Marianne Dashwood | |
| Fermina Daza | |
| Mercédès Herrera | |
| | Character | Lover | Romantic Rival |
| Constance, Lady Chatterley | |
| Isolde of Ireland | |
| Roxane | |
| Lady Rowena | |
| Doctor Yuri Zhivago | |
| Marius Pontmercy | |
| Bathsheba Everdene | |
| Philip Pirrip (Pip) | |
| Pierre Bezukhov | |
| Daisy Buchanan | |
| Maximilian (Maxim) de Winter | |
| Catherine Earnshaw | |
| Pamela Andrews | |
| Christine Daaé | |
| Emily (Emelia) | |
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