Love -- Early works to 1800

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• Love

• Marriage -- Early works to 1800
• Love -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800

• Dialoghi di Amore (in Italian; Venice: G. de' Cavalli, 1565), by León Hebreo
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Phaedrus, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)
• Symposium, by Plato, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (Gutenberg text)

• The Comforts of Matrimony, or Love's Last Shift: Consisting of Matrimonial Dialogues Between Persons of All Ranks and Degrees, From the Peer to the Peasant (London: Fielding and Walker, 1780), by Edward Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Judgment of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce, by Martin Bucer, trans. by John Milton (HTML at munseys.com)
• The Ladies Defence: or, The Bride-Woman's Counsellor Answer'd (London: Printed for J. Deeve, 1701), by Mary Lee Chudleigh (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Munster Village: A Novel (2 volumes; London: Printed for Robson and Co., et al., 1778), by Mary Hamilton (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• To His Wife (Ad Uxorem), by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

• Marriage Duties Briefely Couched Togither (originally published 1620), by Thomas Gataker, ed. by Ronald Wayne Cooley (HTML at usask.ca)

• On Monogamy, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• To His Wife (Ad Uxorem), by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

• The Fire of Love and The Mending of Life, by Richard Rolle, trans. by Richard Misyn (HTML at CCEL)
• Revelations of Divine Love (language somewhat modernized), by Julian of Norwich, ed. by G. Warrack (HTML at CCEL)
• The Shewings of Julian of Norwich, by Julian of Norwich, ed. by Georgia Ronan Crampton (frame-dependent HTML at Rochester)
• The Spirit of Love, by William Law (HTML at CCEL)
• Treatise on the Love of God, by Saint Francis de Sales (multiple formats at CCEL)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Ananga-Ranga (Cosmopoli: Kama Shastra society of London and Benares, 1885), trans. by Richard Francis Burton (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Medieval in the Renaissance (2 volumes), by Vernon Lee
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Falling in Love and Loving, by Francesco Alberoni (PDF at alberoni.it)
• The Great Word (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1905), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (searchable page images at Google; US access only)
• I Love You (A Theory of Love), by Francesco Alberoni (PDF at alberoni.it)
• The Kama Sutra, by Vātsyāyana, trans. by Richard Francis Burton (HTML at Bibliomania)
• Love as the Foundation of Moral Education and Character Development, ed. by Luis Ugalde, Nicholas Barros, and George F. McLean (HTML at crvp.org)
• A Platonick Discourse Upon Love (London: Grant Richards, c1914), by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, ed. by Edmund Garratt Gardner, trans. by Thomas Stanley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sex and Love, by Francesco Alberoni (PDF at alberoni.it)
• To Love is To Be Happy With, by Barry Neil Kaufman
  • HTML at mun.ca
  • HTML at option.org

• In Vino Veritas (The Banquet), by Søren Kierkegaard, trans. by Lee M. Hollander (HTML at CCEL)

• Northern Love: An Exploration of Canadian Masculinity (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), by Paul Nonnekes (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-making (Toronto: W. Briggs, c1893), by Annie S. Swan (page images at canadiana.org)

• The Divine Love and Wisdom (multiple translations), by Emanuel Swedenborg
  • Dole edition: HTML at theheavenlydoctrines.org
  • Rogers edition: HTML at theheavenlydoctrines.org
  • Harley and Harley edition: HTML at theheavenlydoctrines.org

• Desiring God: Meditations of A Christian Hedonist (1996 edition), by John Piper (frame-dependent HTML at desiringgod.org)
• St. Teresa's Own Words: or, Instructions on The Prayer of Recollection, by Saint Teresa of Avila (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Treatise on the Love of God, by Saint Francis de Sales (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Way of Perfection, by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by E. Allison Peers (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Way of Perfection, and Conceptions of Divine Love (London: C. Dolman, 1852), by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by John Dalton (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy, by John Piper (PDF with commentary at desiringgod.org)

• Amours de Voyage, by Arthur Hugh Clough (Gutenberg text)
• Coloured Stars: Versions of Fifty Asiatic Love Poems (Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1918), ed. by E. Powys Mathers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• For Eager Lovers (New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922), by Genevieve Taggard (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Garden Of Bright Waters: One Hundred And Twenty Asiatic Love Poems, ed. by E. Powys Mathers (Gutenberg text)
• India's Love Lyrics, by Laurence Hope (Gutenberg text)
• Underwoods (London: Cambridge University Press Warehouse, 1905), by Ben Jonson
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Jerry (London; New York; Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, c1907), by Jean Webster (Gutenberg text)
• Jerry Junior (New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1907), by Jean Webster, illust. by Orson Lowell (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Jerry Junior (New York: The Century Co., 1907), by Jean Webster, illust. by Orson Lowell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Louisa: or, The Cottage on the Moor (London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1787), by Elizabeth Helme
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• Violet: A Fairy Story (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1856), by C. S. Guild (multiple formats at Google)

• Asian Cross-Border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues (2010), ed. by Wen-Shan Yang and Melody Chia-Wen Lu (PDF in the Netherlands)
• Before Marriage and After Marriage, by Peter M. Buss (HTML at archive.org)
• Family Relationships: Ten Topics Toward Happier Homes (study guide; Elizabethtown, PA: Continental Press, c1948), by Elizabeth S. Force and Edgar M. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Family Relationships: Ten Topics Toward Happier Homes: A Handbook for Administrators and Teachers Who Use the Accompanying Study Guide (teacher's guide; Elizabethtown, PA: Continental Press, c1948), by Elizabeth S. Force and Edgar M. Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Happiness and Marriage (1904), by Elizabeth Towne (Gutenberg text)
• Harmonics of Evolution: The Philosophy of Individual Life, Based Upon Natural Science, as Taught by Modern Masters of the Law (first volume of Harmonic Series, 10th edition; Chicago: Indo-American book company, 1910), by Florence Huntley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History and Philosophy of Marriage: or, Polygamy and Monogamy Compared (Boston: James Campbell, 1869), by E. N. Jencks (HTML with commentary at truthbearer.org)
• The Intimate Marriage, by Howard John Clinebell and Charlotte H. Clinebell (HTML at religion-online.org)
• Know Thyself: or, Nature's Secrets Revealed (Marietta, OH: The S. A. Mullikin company, 1911), by Samuel Fallows and William J. Truitt (PDF files at lvulvu.us)
• Little Essays of Love and Virtue (from a 1937 compilation), by Havelock Ellis (HTML at Virginia)
• The Man for Her, by Leo J. Kinsella (text at EWTN)
• Marriage and the American Ideal (1960), by Floyd Mansfield Martinson (HTML and PDF at ipce.info)
• Marriage Is For Love, by Richard L. Strauss (HTML at bible.org)
• The Modern Marriage Market, by Marie Corelli, Susan Mary Elizabeth Stewart-Mackenzie Jeune, Flora Annie Webster Steel, and Susan Malmesbury (illustrated HTML at Indiana)
• Morals and Marriage: The Catholic Background to Sex (1936), by Thomas Gilby (text at EWTN)
• Nuptiae Sacrae, Or, An Inquiry Into the Scriptual Doctrine of Marriage and Divorce: Addressed to the Two Houses of Parliament (London: John Murray, 1821), by John Ireland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• One Woman's Experience of Emancipation (published in or after 1898), by Caroline Fairfield Corbin (page images at HathiTrust)
• One Woman's Experience of Emancipation (fourth edition, ca. 1904), by Caroline Fairfield Corbin (multiple formats with rotated pages at archive.org)
• The Physiology of Marriage, by Honoré de Balzac (Gutenberg text)
• Search Lights on Health, Light on Dark Corners: A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice to Maiden, Wife and Mother, Love, Courtship and Marriage (Toronto: J.L. Nichols, ca.1894), by Benjamin Grant Jefferis and James Lawrence Nichols (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Some Reflections Upon Marriage, Occasion'd by the Duke and Dutchess of Mazarine's Case; Which is Also Considered (first edition; London: Printed for J. Nutt, 1700), by Mary Astell (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Some Reflections Upon Marriage; With Additions (fourth edition; London: Printed for W. Parker, 1730), by Mary Astell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three Things (New York: Hearst's International Library Co., c1915), by Elinor Glyn (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• A Treatise on the Christian Doctrine of Marriage, by Hugh Davey Evans (page images at MOA)
• Tried as by Fire: or, The True and the False, Socially (New York: Woodhull and Claflin, 1874), by Victoria C. Woodhull (page images with commentary at sc.edu)
• When You Marry (revised edition; New York: Association Press, c1953), by Evelyn Millis Duvall and Reuben Hill, contrib. by Sylvanus Milne Duvall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Wife Desired, by Leo J. Kinsella (text at EWTN)

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