Bridget Jones, the woman who will not be defeated by a bad man and an American stick insect and will instead choose vodka ‘and Chaka Khan’, has been named the most inspirational fictional heroine. The fictional female protagonist of Helen Fielding’s hugely popular series of books pipped Hermione Granger , Jane Eyre , and Matilda Wormwood , to the top of the poll of 1000 British women, carried out to celebrate International Women’s Day.