I must have led a deprived childhood and teenhood and early and middle age adulthood 'cause up until that other thread I had never heard of Dejah Thoris.
After reading about her on that other thread, I googled the name and found there are 48,600 Internet hits for Dejah Thoris-I guess this thread makes at least 1 more.
"Dejah Thoris is a major character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Martian novels. She first appeared in the initial Mars novel, A Princess of Mars (1917), in which she is the princess of the title. She reappeared in subsequent volumes of the series, most prominently in the second, The Gods of Mars (1918), the third, The Warlord of Mars (1919), the eighth, Swords of Mars (1936), and the eleventh, John Carter of Mars (1964). Dejah Thoris is also mentioned or appeared in a minor role in other volumes of the series.
Princess of the Martian city state/empire of Helium, Dejah Thoris is the love interest and later the wife of John Carter, an Earthman mystically transported to Mars, and subsequently the mother of their son Carthoris and daughter Tara. She plays the role of the conventional damsel in distress who must be rescued from various perils, but is also portrayed as a competent and capable adventuress in her own right, fully capable of defending herself and surviving on her own in the wastelands of Mars.
Except for some jewelry, all of the planet's races seem to eschew clothing and look down upon Earth's inhabitants because they do wear clothing".