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• English fiction -- 19th century
• 19th century

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• The Argosy (British magazine, 1865-1901) (full serial archives)

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• The Best British Short Stories of 1922, ed. by Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos (Gutenberg text)
• The Best British Short Stories of 1923, and Yearbook of the British Short Story (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1923), ed. by Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, contrib. by Michael Arlen, Stacy Aumonier, Clifford Bax, Boyd D. F., Gerald Bullett, Thomas Burke, A. E. Coppard, Norman Davey, W. L. George, Richard Hughes, A. S. M. Hutchinson, F. Tennyson Jesse, Sheila Kaye-Smith, D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, W. Somerset Maugham, Ethel Colburn Mayne, C. E. Montague, Elinor Mordaunt, Liam O'Flaherty, Edwin Pugh, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Lance Sieveking, Osbert Sitwell, Hugh Walpole, and Mary Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Courage and Conflict: A Series of Stories (London and Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1901), contrib. by G. A. Henty, Frank Thomas Bullen, George Manville Fenn, Captain C. North, Harold Bindloss, Andrew Balfour, and Frederick Whishaw, illust. by W. Boucher (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Great Modern English Stories: An Anthology (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1919), ed. by Edward J. O'Brien
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• International Short Stories: American (New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1910), ed. by William Patten (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• International Short Stories: English (New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1910), ed. by William Patten (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Old Wine in New Bottles (London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d.), by Elinor Mordaunt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Two Stories ("Three Jews" and "The Mark on the Wall"; Richmond, UK: Hogarth Press, 1917), by Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf, illust. by Dora de Houghton Carrington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Short Story (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1916), by Barry Pain (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Grand Magazine (UK magazine, 1905-1940) (partial serial archives)
• The New Magazine (partial serial archives)
• The Novel Magazine (partial serial archives)
• The Quiver (partial serial archives)

• The Lady's Realm: Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #5; 1981), by Margaret Versteeg, Sue Thomas, and Joan Huddleston (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)

• Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter, Translated From the German (2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1874), by Johann Karl August Musäus, Ludwig Tieck, and Jean Paul, trans. by Thomas Carlyle
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Stories by English Authors
  • volume 1 (London): Gutenberg text
  • volume 2 (England): Gutenberg text
  • volume 3 (Ireland): Gutenberg text
  • volume 4 (Italy): Gutenberg text
  • volume 5 (France): Gutenberg text
  • volume 6 (Africa): Gutenberg text
  • volume 7 (The Orient): Gutenberg text
  • volume 8 (Scotland): Gutenberg text
  • volume 9 (Germany, etc.): Gutenberg text
  • volume 10 (The Sea): Gutenberg text

• Victorian Fiction Research Guides (bibliography series, 1979-) (partial serial archives)
• Time, Murray's Magazine, and The Quarto: Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #4; 1980), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• The Windsor Magazine (1895-1910): Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #32; 2004), by Catharine Vaughan-Pow (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• Chambers's Journal, 1854-1910: Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #17; 1989), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• Pall Mall Magazine: Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #9; 1983), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• Cassell's Family Magazine (Cassell's Magazine): Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #12; 1987), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• Harmsworth Magazine (London Magazine): Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #10; 1984), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• Tinsley's Magazine (The Novel Review): Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #7; 1981), by Sue Thomas (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)
• The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740-1815; With a Catalogue of 1375 Magazine Novels and Novelettes (Evanston: Northwestern University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1962), by Robert D. Mayo (page images at HathiTrust)

• Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, c2018), by Nasser Mufti (multiple formats at escholarship.org)
• Economic Women: Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), ed. by Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport (PDF at Ohio State)
• Primitive Minds: Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Anna Neill (PDF at Ohio State)
• London, Radical Culture, and the Making of the Dickensian Aesthetic (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Sambudha Sen (PDF at Ohio State)
• Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Plotting Money and the Novel Genre, 1815-1901 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Tamara S. Wagner (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Lion and the Cross: Early Christianity in Victorian Novels (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Royal W. Rhodes (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Antonia Jacqueline Losano (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007), by Kurt Koenigsberger (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and The Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Deborah Lutz (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Jennifer Ruth (PDF at Ohio State)
• Victorian Sensations: Essays on Extravagant and Unnatural Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), ed. by Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina (PDF at Ohio State)
• Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, c2005), by Lisa A. Surridge (PDF at ohioswallow.com)
• Plots of Opportunity: Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2004), by Albert D. Pionke (PDF at Ohio State)
• Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2000), by Audrey Jaffe (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Joseph Litvak (HTML at UC Press)
• Victorian Fiction Research Guides (bibliography series, 1979-) (partial serial archives)
• Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Robyn R. Warhol (PDF at Ohio State)
• Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siècle: The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Molly Youngkin (PDF at Ohio State)
• Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle (c2008), by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (HTML at Michigan)
• The Newgate Novel, 1830-1847: Bulwer, Ainsworth, Dickens and Thackeray (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1963), by Keith Hollingsworth, illust. by George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne, and William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Framing Anna Karenina: Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Amy Mandelker (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• The Psychological Element in the English Sociological Novel of the Nineteenth Century (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1927), by Sijna de Vooys (page images at delpher.nl)
• Some Aspects of Business Life in Early Victorian Fiction (Purmerend, Netherlands: J. Muusses, 1926), by Herman Jansonius (page images at delpher.nl)
• Dickens, Reade, and Collins, Sensation Novelists: A Study in the Conditions and Theories of Novel Writing in Victorian England (New York: Columbia University Press, 1919), by Walter Clarke Phillips
  • HTML at github.io
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• My Contemporaries in Fiction (London: Chatto and Windus, 1897), by David Christie Murray (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997), by Lisa L. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Jan Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740-1815; With a Catalogue of 1375 Magazine Novels and Novelettes (Evanston: Northwestern University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1962), by Robert D. Mayo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1897), by Mrs. Oliphant, E. Lynn Linton, Mrs. Alexander, Katharine S. Macquoid, Louisa Parr, Emma Marshall, Charlotte M. Yonge, Adeline Sergeant, and Edna Lyall (Gutenberg text)
• Wilhelm Meister and His English Kinsmen: Apprentices to Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 1930), by Susanne Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gothic Romance (dissertation in German; Leipzig: Buchdruckerei Grimme und Trömel, 1902), by Hans Reinhard Möbius
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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