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• The Kellys and the O'Kellys, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Case of Jennie Brice (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1913), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by M. Leone Bracker (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë
  • HTML with numbered paragraphs at victorian-studies.net
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale (based on a reprint of the 1800 J. Johnson edition), by Maria Edgeworth (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale, by Maria Edgeworth (Gutenberg text)

• Nibsy's Christmas, by Jacob A. Riis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Darkness at Pemberley (c1932), by T. H. White (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The New Republic: or, Culture, Faith, and Philosophy in an English Country House (New York: Scribner and Welford, 1878), by W. H. Mallock (HTML at pseudopodium.org)
• The Spoils of Poynton (based on the 1897 Heinemann edition), by Henry James (HTML with commentary at the Ladder)
• The Circular Staircase (New York: Review of Reviews Co., c1908), by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Circular Staircase (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1908), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by Lester Ralph (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Moonstone (novel), by Wilkie Collins
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Return of the Soldier (New York: The Century Co., 1918), by Rebecca West (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Woman in White (novel), by Wilkie Collins
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Mansfield Park (Everyman's Library edition; London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1913), by Jane Austen, contrib. by R. Brimley Johnson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Howards End, by E. M. Forster (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (HTML with numbered paragraphs at victorian-studies.net)
• Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (London: Service and Paton, 1897), by Charlotte Brontë, illust. by F. H. Townsend (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (copyright edition by "Currer Bell", 2 volumes; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1850), by Charlotte Brontë (images at MOA)

• Bealby: A Holiday (Chicago and New York: M. A. Donohue and Co., 1915), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ape's-Face (London and New York: J. Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockburn, 1914), by Marion Inez Douglas Fox
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The House of the Seven Gables (with introduction by Lathrop), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, contrib. by George Parsons Lathrop (Gutenberg text)
• The House of the Seven Gables (edited for school use; Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1902), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. by Robert Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The House on the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson (Gutenberg text)
• Cold Harbour (London et al,: W. Collins Sons and Co., c1924), by Francis Brett Young
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Last Tenant (New York: F. M. Lupton Pub. Co., c1893), by B. L. Farjeon
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at Google
• Sinister House (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919), by Leland Hall, illust. by Haydon Jones (page images at Google; US access only)

• The Thing From the Lake (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1921), by Eleanor M. Ingram (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Dorothy on a House-Boat (New York: Platte and Peck Co., c1909), by Evelyn Raymond, illust. by Rudolf Mencl (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Old Manor House (London: J. Bell, 1793; Reprinted London: Pandora Press, 1987), by Charlotte Smith (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Old Herbaceous, by Reginald Arkell, illust. by John Minton (illustrated HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Old Manor House (based on the British Novelists two-volume edition, 1810-1820), by Charlotte Smith, ed. by Mrs. Barbauld (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• Rosehead (c2014), by Ksenia Anske (multiple formats with commentary at kseniaanske.com)

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

• Better Homes in America: Plan Book for Demonstration Week, October 9 to 14, 1922, by Better Homes in America (Gutenberg text)

• The Principles and Practice of Modern House-Construction (6 volumes; London et a.: Blackie and Son, Ltd., ca. 1899), ed. by G. Lister Sutcliffe
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org

• Supplement to Bicknell's Village Builder, Containing Eighteen Modern Designs for Country and Suburban Houses of Moderate Cost, With Elevations, Plans, Sections, and a Variety of Details (New York: A. J. Bicknell and Co, 1871) (page images at ohiomemory.org)

• More Other Homes and Garbage: Designs for Self-Sufficient Living (originally published 1981), by Jim Leckie, Gilbert M. Masters, Harry Whitehouse, and Lily Y. Young (PDF at Cornell)

• The Lighting Pattern Book for Homes (online edition, 2007), by Russell P. Leslie and Kathryn M. Conway (PDF files with commentary at RPI)

• The Home Mechanic: A Manual for Industrial Schools and Amateurs (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1905), by John Wright
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Samoan House Building, Cooking, and Tattooing (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #15; Honolulu: The Museum, 1924), by E. S. Craighill Handy and Willowdean C. Handy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Home Security Handbook, by Crime and Violence Prevention Center (Calif.) (PDF at UCSC)

• The Bungalow Book (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Charles E. White (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text)

• A Manual on School-Houses and Cottages for the People of the South, by C. Thurston Chase (page images at MOA)

• The Architecture of Country Houses: Including Designs for Cottages, Farm-Houses, and Villas; With Remarks on Interiors, Furniture, and the Best Modes of Warming and Ventilating (fifteenth thousand; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1859), by A. J. Downing (page images at HathiTrust)
• The House: A Pocket Manual of Rural Architecture: or, How to Build Country Houses and Out-Buildings, by Daniel Harrison Jacques (page images at MOA)
• Rural Homes: or, Sketches of Houses Suited to American Country Life, With Original Plans, Designs, &c. (New York: C. Scribner, 1852), by Gervase Wheeler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)

• When to Do House Cleaning Jobs (1972), by United States Department of Agriculture
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at archives.gov; pages may be in reverse order in some browsers

More items available under broader and related terms at left.