Who is the most evil woman in literature?

Question

Which female literary character is the most evil, in your opinion? Who is your favorite literary bad girl?

Answer 1

Aunt Redd from The Looking Glass Wars and Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor

Answer 2

Goneril and Regan tie for Great Bad Girls of Shakespeare.

You could add Lady MacBeth to the mix, too.

Answer 3

Beatrice Lacey from Philippa Gregory's 'Wideacre'

Answer 4

Nurse Ratchet from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Answer 5

Cathy from John Steinbeck's East of Eden. She's a pure sociopath.  

Answer 6

Cruella DeVille

Answer 7

annie from misery

Answer 8

Miss Murdstone from David Copperfield. Also, I have to second the person who said Cathy(East of Eden). Demented girl...

Answer 9

Cathy from Wuthering Heights

or-

Bellatrix from Harry Potter.

EDIT: I think Miss Hannigan (I think that's her name) from Annie deserves a mention, too!

Plus, Carrie's mother, from the Stephen King novel, was pretty evil. Who could treat her own daughter like that?

Answer 10

Miss Hinch in the story "Miss Hinch".