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• Mothers in literature
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• Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962 -- Characters -- Mothers
• Rachilde, 1860-1953 -- Characters -- Mothers
• Sand, George, 1804-1876 -- Characters -- Mothers
• Stendhal, 1783-1842 -- Characters -- Mothers

• Moms

• Letters to Mothers (Hartford: Hudson and Skinner, 1838), by L. H. Sigourney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mother and Her Work (Boston: American Tract Society, c1862), by H. E. Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who Are Creating the Future (London: G.P. Putnam's Sons; Toronto: Musson Book Co., 1920), by Marie Carmichael Stopes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Family Monitor and Domestic Guide (uniform American edition of The Women of England, The Daughters of England, The Wives of England, and The Mothers of England; New York: E. Walker, ca. 1844), by Sarah Stickney Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

• To the Lighthouse (first published 1927), by Virginia Woolf (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• To the Lighthouse (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1927), by Virginia Woolf (page images at HathiTrust)

• Contraceptive Use and Controlled Fertility: Health Issues for Women and Children (1989), ed. by Allan M. Parnell (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk: Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Denise Roth Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie (Oxford: John Lichfield And James Short, 1622), by Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2009), ed. by Debra King and Gabrielle Meagher (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Clarissa W. Atkinson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Clarissa W. Atkinson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Mother, by Owen Wister (Gutenberg text)
• My Mother and I: A Love Story (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1874), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• The Old Maid (The 'Fifties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• Smoldering Flames: Adventures and Emotions of a Flapper (Chicago: Zuriel Pub. Co., c1928), by Clara Palmer Goetzinger, illust. by Glen Sheffer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Flight (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Walter White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, by Alice Hegan Rice (Gutenberg text)

• Stella Dallas: A Novel (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923), by Olive Higgins Prouty (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ashes (Cenere): A Sardinian Story (London and New York: J. Lane, 1908), by Grazia Deledda, trans. by Katharine Wylde
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Red Ruth: The Birth of Universal Brotherhood (different titles on different pages; Kansas City, MO: Burton Pub. Co., c1916), by Anna Ratner Shapiro, illust. by Carl S. Junge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1911), by Theodore Dreiser (Gutenberg text)
• Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1911), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Clara Hopgood, by William Hale White (Gutenberg text)

• Isabelle (in French), by André Gide (Gutenberg text)

• The Storm of Life (London: H. S. King and Co., 1876), by Hesba Stretton (multiple formats at Google)

• My Mother (London: Bishop and Co., ca. 1840), by Ann Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Maternal Diet, Breast-Feeding Capacity, and Lactational Infertility, ed. by R. G. Whitehead (HTML at UNU Press)

• Nutrition During Lactation (1991), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Hymns for Mothers and Children (4th edition; Boston: Walker, Wise and Co., 1864), ed. by C. S. Guild (multiple formats at Google)

• Candles in the Roman Rite (third edition; Baltimore: A. Gross Candle Co., 1937), by Edwin Ryan, illust. by James R. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1993), by Ellen Lewin
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Repaying Debts (New York: Council of State Governments Justice Center, c2007), by Rachel L. McLean and Michael D. Thompson (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Preventing Low Birthweight: Summary (1995), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1993), by Ellen Lewin
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The President's Daughter (New York: Elizabeth Ann Guild, Inc., 1927), by Nan Britton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Report to Congress on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing (1995), by National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) (PDF at cdc.gov)

• Night Sweats: An Unexpected Pregnancy (2013), by Linda Crossett (multiple formats at archive.org via newrambler.net)

• Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing (1987), ed. by Sandra L. Hofferth and Cheryl D. Hayes (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Access to and Use of Vocational Education in Teen Parent Programs, by Gail Zellman, Christine Feifer, and Amy Hirsch (PDF files at rand.org)

• Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1987), by Patricia Zavella (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Female Client and the Health-Care Provider (1995), ed. by Janet Hatcher Roberts and Carol Vlassoff (PDF at IDRC)

• Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman and Claudia C. Klaver (PDF at Ohio State)
• Poems at the Edge of Differences: Mothering in New English Poetry by Women (2008), by Renate Papke (PDF in Germany)
• Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)
• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

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