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• Poems at the Edge of Differences: Mothering in New English Poetry by Women (2008), by Renate Papke (PDF in Germany)
• Little Songs: Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1975), by Amy Christine Billone (PDF at Ohio State)

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• Poems by the Most Eminent Ladies of Great Britain and Ireland: Re-Published From the Collection of G. Colman and B. Thornton, Esqrs., With Considerable Alterations, Additions, and Improvements (2 volumes; London: W. Stafford, n.d.), ed. by George Colman and Bonnell Thornton, contrib. by Mary Barber, Aphra Behn, Frances Brooke, Elizabeth Carter, Mary Lee Chudleigh, Catharine Trotter, Constantia Grierson, Mary Jones, Anne Killigrew, Mary Leapor, Mary Masters, Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Monck, Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, Katherine Philips, Laetitia Pilkington, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Anne Kingsmill Finch Winchilsea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of British Poetesses, Selected and Chronologically Arranged (London: T. Rodd and S. Prowett, 1825), ed. by Alexander Dyce (multiple formats at Google)
• Specimens of British Poetesses, Selected and Chronologically Arranged (London: T. Rodd, 1827), ed. by Alexander Dyce (page images at HathiTrust)

• Masked Atheism: Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Maria LaMonaca (PDF at Ohio State)

• Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Paula M. L. Moya (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2008), by Jaspal Kaur Singh (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by Laura Laffrado (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fractured Borders: Reading Women's Cancer Literature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Mary K. DeShazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mutha' is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by LaMonda Horton-Stallings (PDF at Ohio State)
• I Made You to Find Me: The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Jane Hedley (PDF at Ohio State)
• Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Cari M. Carpenter (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Living Female Writers of the South (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1872), by Mary T. Tardy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Southland Writers: Biographical and Critical Sketches of the Living Female Writers of the South, With Extracts From Their Writings (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1870), by Mary T. Tardy (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Work of the Afro-American Woman (second edition, 1908), by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (illustrated HTML at nypl.org)

• Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Taylor Hagood (PDF at Ohio State)

• Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Jeanne Rosier Smith (HTML at UC Press)
• Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Lisa Yaszek (PDF at Ohio State)
• Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), ed. by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (PDF at Ohio State)
• Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), ed. by Marleen S. Barr (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex) Soviet and American Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Susan Hardy Aiken, Adele Marie Barker, M. M. Koreneva, and E. A. Stetsenko (page images at HathiTrust)

• I Made You to Find Me: The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Jane Hedley (PDF at Ohio State)

• Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), ed. by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (PDF at Ohio State)

• Greenwor(l)ds: Ecocritical Readings of Canadian Women's Poetry (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c1999), by Diana M. A. Relke (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women's Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), ed. by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory (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)
• Woman's Work in English Fiction, From the Restoration to the Mid-Victorian Period (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910), by Clara Helen Whitmore (Gutenberg text)
• 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)

• Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2008), by Jaspal Kaur Singh (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• The Culture and Rhetoric of the Answer-Poem, 1485-1625, by Christopher Boswell (HTML with commentary at cultureandrhetoric.net)
• Literature and Art (New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1852), by Margaret Fuller, contrib. by Horace Greeley (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Mystical Poets of the English Church (London: SPCK; New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Percy H. Osmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Studies in Poetry and Criticism (London: George Bell and Sons, 1905), by John Churton Collins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Convention and Revolt in Poetry (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1919), by John Livingston Lowes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Imagination and Fancy: or, Selections From the English Poets, Illustrative of Those First Requisites of Their Art, With Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question "What is Poetry?" (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1848), ed. by Leigh Hunt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Poet's Poet: Essays on the Character and Mission of the Poet As Interpreted in English Verse of the Last One Hundred and Fifty Years, by Elizabeth Atkins (Gutenberg text)
• English Critical Essays (Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) (London: Oxford University Press, c1922), ed. by Edmund D. Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hypnotic Poetry: A Study of Trance-Inducing Technique in Certain Poems, and Its Literary Significance (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930), by Edward Douglas Snyder, contrib. by James H. Leuba (page images at HathiTrust)

• Biographia Literaria, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Gutenberg text)

• The Mystical Poets of the English Church (London: SPCK; New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Percy H. Osmond (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher, by Henry Jones (Gutenberg text)

• Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Lauren Silberman (HTML at UC Press)
• Epic to Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1974), by Thomas E. Maresca (PDF at Ohio State)
• Theory and Practice of English Narrative Verse Since 1833 (Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers, 1932), by Willem van Doorn (page images at delpher.nl)

• Transforming Desire: Erotic Knowledge in Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Lauren Silberman (HTML at UC Press)

• English Fairy Poetry, From the Origins to the 17th century (London: H. Frowde; Paris: H. Didier, 1912), by Floris Delattre (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Poems at the Edge of Differences: Mothering in New English Poetry by Women (2008), by Renate Papke (PDF in Germany)

• Dryden and the Tradition of Panegyric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), by James D. Garrison (HTML at UC Press)

• Swinburne's Medievalism: A Study in Victorian Love Poetry (1988), by Antony H. Harrison (HTML at Victorian Web)

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