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• Biographical Sketch of Louisa J. Roberts; With Extracts from Her Journal and Selections from Her Writings (Philadelphia: Press of A. J. Ferris, 1895), by Louisa Jewett Raymond Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Brief Sketch of the Life of Anna Backhouse, by One who Knew Her Well, Loved Her Much, and was Often Instructed by Her (Burlington, NJ: John Rodgers, 1852), by Eliza Paul Gurney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life and Spiritual Sufferings of That Faithful Servant of Christ Jane Hoskens, a Public Preacher Among the People Called Quakers (1771), by Jane Hoskens, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
• Diary and letters of Deborah Brooks Webb (Friends' Book Store, 1898), by Deborah B. Webb, Anna M. Townsend, and Anna M. Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memoir of Rebecca Dewees : late of Pennsville, Ohio. (W.H. Pile, 1883), by Rebecca Edgerton Dewees (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir of Martha C. Thomas, late of Baltimore, Maryland. (Printed by Joseph Rakestraw, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Witnessing : a concise account of a marvelous event with its happy results in the life of (E.L. Hildreth & Co., 1899), by Phebe B. Slocum (page images at HathiTrust)

• Through grace to glory : memory sketches from the life of Harriet Steer. (Concord, N.H. : Printed by Edward A. Jenks, 1887., 1887), by Sarah R. Steer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of Elizabeth Collins : of Upper Evesham, New Jersey, a minister of the Gospel of Christ, in the Society of Friends. (N. Kite, 1833), by Elizabeth Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• True narrative of the early settlement of New Jersey (Christian Publication Office, 1898) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir of Rachel Hicks (Written by Herself), Late of Westbury, Long Islamd, A Minister in the Society of Friends; Together With Some Letters and a Memorial of Westbury Monthly Meeting (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1880), by Rachel Hicks
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• From the Yearly Meeting of women Friends, held in Philadelphia, by adjournments, from the tenth of the fifth month, to the fourteenth of the same, inclusive, 1847, to the Quarterly, Monthly, and Preparative Meetings composing it. (T.E. Chapman, 1847), by Society of Friends (Hicksite). Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, Mary S. Lippincott, and Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends. Women's meeting (page images at HathiTrust)

• Minutes of Ohio Yearly Meeting of Women Friends : held at Salem 1859 (E. Harris, printer, 1859), by Ohio Yearly Meeting of Women Friends (page images at HathiTrust)

• From the Yearly Meeting of women Friends, held in Philadelphia, by adjournments, from the tenth of the fifth month, to the fourteenth of the same, inclusive, 1847, to the Quarterly, Monthly, and Preparative Meetings composing it. (T.E. Chapman, 1847), by Society of Friends (Hicksite). Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, Mary S. Lippincott, and Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends. Women's meeting (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir of Elizabeth Newport (Friends' Book Association, 1878), by Ann A. Townsend, Elizabeth Newport, and Friends' Book Association of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Testimony of the Monthly Meeting of Friends held in Philadelphia, concerning Ann Comfort. (s.n.], 1869), by Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)

• A short account of the early part of the life of Mary Mitchell, late of Nantucket, deceased, (Printed for Abraham Shearman, 1812), by Mary Mitchell and Abraham Shearman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life and Letters of Elizabeth L. Comstock (London: Headley Bros.; Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1895), by Elizabeth L. Comstock, ed. by Caroline Hare (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life and Letters of Elizabeth L. Comstock (second thousand; London: Headley Bros.; Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1895), by Elizabeth L. Comstock, ed. by Caroline Hare (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Rhoda M. Coffin: Her Reminiscences, Addresses, Papers and Ancestry (New York: Grafton Press, 1910), by Rhoda M. Coffin, ed. by Mary Coffin Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• The gospel ministry of women under the Christian dispensation : defended from scripture, and from the writings of John Locke, Josiah Martin, etc. (William Phillips, 1801), by William Rawes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three months in Great Britain (J. Miller M'Kim, 1841), by James Mott (page images at HathiTrust)
• A living testimony from the power and spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ in our faithful womens meeting and Christian Socity [sic] given forth in the universal union, and approbation thereof, according to our several proportions of faith and life in the same spirit. ([London : s.n., 1685]), by Mary Forster and Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting of Women Friends (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Memoir of the Life, Travels, and Religious Experience of Martha Routh: Written by Herself or Compiled from Her Own Narrative (York: W. Alexander and Son, et al., 1822), by Martha Winter Routh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the journal of the late Margaret Woods, from the year 1771 to 1821. (H. Longstreth ;, 1850), by Margaret Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Mary Ann Gilpin of Bristol : consisting chiefly of extracts from her diary and letters. (Fry ;, 1841), by Mary Ann Gilpin and Charles Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)

• God's Mighty Power Magnified, As Manifested and Revealed in His Faithful Handmaid Joan Vokins; Also Some Account of Her Exercises, Works of Faith, Labour of Love, and Great Travels in the Work of The Ministry, for the Good of Souls (new edition; Cockermouth, Cumbria: D. Fidler, 1871), by Joan Vokins, ed. by Oliver Sansom
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• A Brief Account of My Exercises from My Childhood: Left With My Dear Daughter Guilielma Maria Penn (Philadelphia, 1848), by Mary Penington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Quaker women, 1650-1690 (Duckworth & co., 1915), by Mabel Richmond Brailsford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Memoirs of Elizabeth Dudley, Consisting Chiefly of Selections from Her Journal and Correspondence: Interspersed with Extracts from the Diary and Letters of Her Sister, Charlotte Dudley (London: A. W. Bennett, 1861), by Elizabeth Dudley, ed. by Charles Tylor, contrib. by Charlotte Dudley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some Account of the Life and Religious Exercises of Mary Neale, Formerly Peisley, Principally Compiled from Her Own Writings (title page missing; probably Dublin: J. Gough, 1795), by Mary Neale, ed. by Samuel Neale (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Mary Dudley: Including an Account of Her Religious Engagements and Extracts from Her Letters; With an Appendix Containing Some Account of the Illness and Death of Her Daughter Hannah Dudley (London: J. and A. Arch, et al., 1825), by Mary Dudley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Selections from the letters and manuscripts of the late Susanna Mason : with a brief memoir of her life by her daughter. (s.n.], 1836), by Susanna Mason (page images at HathiTrust)

• A novelty: or, a government of vvomen distinct from men, erected amoungst some of the people, call'd Quakers. Detected in an epistle, occasionally written to a man-judge, upon a young man's refusing (for good conscience sake) to submit to their authority in marriage, seeing that relations and friends were already satisfied. To which is added, a lamentation for the fall of so many of that people. Published for no other end, but to deter all honest hearts of the said people, from erecting the like unscriptural government. Tho' this may not so far prevail with such women as has a secret command of their husbands purses; together with those preachers that reap profit by such a female government, as to consent to the disanulling the same. Written by William Mather, a dear lover of the said people, who has for several years been much troubled, that some of them should fall from there primitive institution, as to set up women's and men's meetings, as guides in government, ... (London : printed for Sarah Howkins, in George-yard, Lumbard-street, [1694?]), by W. Mather (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A brief treatise of religious womens meetings services & testimonies. According to the scriptures of truth. [A]lso, something concerning womens prophecying and teaching, &c. [W]ith some other things, (distinguishing the holy from the unholy) in the scriptures cited ... / [Wr]itten for the satisfaction of all that desire to be informed, by one, who by the free grace of God is become a searcher of the scriptures, and a lover of truth in the inward parts ... ([London] : Printed and sold by Andrew Sowle, 1684), by Hugh Wood (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• York, the 24th. and 25th. of the 4th. month, 1696 ([London : s.n., 1696]), by Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, Margaret Breckon, and Katharine Winn (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Rachel Dyer : A North American story, by John Neal (Gutenberg ebook)

• An epistle from the Women's Quarterly Meeting for the county of York : held at Leeds, the 26th and 27th of the 12th month, 1781, to the Monthly and Preparative Meetings constituting the same. (Printed by James Phillips ..., 1782), by Society of Friends. Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting of Women Friends, Mary Birkbeck, and Society of Friends. Yorkshire Monthly Meeting of Women Friends (page images at HathiTrust)

• A letter from Rachel Chandler, to ministers and elders. (printed at the Bible in George-Yard, Lombard-Street, 1766), by Rachel Chandler and Luke Hinde (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sketches of my schoolmates (Carlton & Phillips, 1856), by Helen P. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The radiant life of Vera B. Blinn (Dayton, Ohio : Otterbein Press, 1921., 1921), by J. Hal Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography and letters (Beebe & Elkins, printers, 1858), by Ellen Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern persecution, or Married woman's liabilities, as demonstrated by the action of the Illinois Legislature (Case, Lockwood & Brainard, printers and binders., 1874), by E. P. W. Packard and Lockwood & Brainard Co Case (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recollections of Past Days: The Autobiography of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2006), by Patience Loader Archer, ed. by Sandra Ailey Petree
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• Elizabeth the Disinherited Daughter, by Elizabeth Arnold Hitchcock (Gutenberg text)
• Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman (Philadelphia: Collins, 1863), by Elizabeth (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The dealings of God, man, and the devil : as exemplified in the life, experience, and travels of Lorenzo Dow, in a period of over half a century : together with his polemic and miscellaneous writings, complete : to which is added The vicissitudes of life, by Peggy Dow (Cornish, Lamport & Co., 1850), by Lorenzo Dow, John Dowling, and Peggy Dow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amanda Smith : an autobiography (Hodder & Stoughton, 1894), by Amanda Smith and Charles G. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Valley of Baca : a record of suffering and triumph (Hitchcock & Walden, 1877), by Jennie Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Mrs. Julia M. Olin : and an account of a memorial service at St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, May 15, 1879. (s.n., 1879), by Edward Otheman and Edward Otheman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Her name was Achsah (Art Press, 1954), by Benjamin Franklin Crawford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Autobiography and letters (Beebe & Elkins, printers, 1858), by Ellen Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman, by Old Elizabeth (Gutenberg ebook)

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