1843 May 103/1 There is only one tale, of which Beatrice Desmond is the child-heroine.
1903 18 232/2 The child heroine is introduced..‘Alice [Emmie] most won my love’.
1997 16 Feb. (Review Suppl.) 30/2 Jane, the grave, sensible, put-upon child-heroine of Mona Simpson's unshowily intelligent third novel, was born in a commune.