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Women and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500

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• Women and literature -- England -- History
• Women and literature -- History -- To 1500

• The Book of Margery Kempe, by Margery Kempe, ed. by Lynn Staley (HTML at Rochester)

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• The Naked Text: Chaucer's Legend of Good Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Sheila Delany (HTML at UC Press)

• Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1996), ed. by Shirley Nelson Garner and Madelon Sprengnether (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
• The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Mary Beth Rose (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical, by Mrs. Jameson (Gutenberg ebook)

• Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1996), ed. by Shirley Nelson Garner and Madelon Sprengnether (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
• The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Mary Beth Rose (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Mary Carleton Narratives, 1663-1673: A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914), ed. by Ernest Bernbaum (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mary Carleton narratives, 1663-1673, a missing chapter in the history of the English novel (Harvard University Press; [etc., etc.], 1914), by Ernest Bernbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aphra Behn, the incomparable Astrea (The Viking press, 1928), by V. Sackville-West (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Behn's biography a fiction : (The Modern language association of America, 1913), by Ernest Bernbaum (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World (London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1668), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Essays on Various Subjects, by the Author of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for J. and F. Rivington, 1772), by Catherine Talbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's "Clarissa" (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1982), by Terry Castle
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Mrs. Radcliffe: Her Relation Towards Romanticism; With an Appendix on the Novels Falsely Ascribed to Her (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1926), by Alida Alberdina Sibbellina Wieten (page images at delpher.nl)
• Ann Radcliffe in Relation to Her Time (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920), by Clara Frances McIntyre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Blue-stockings: Her Correspondence From 1720 To 1761 (2 volumes; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by Mrs. Montagu, ed. by Emily J. Climenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884), by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mary Wollstonecraft (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1890), by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman (London, New York, Mumbai: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898), by Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mary Wollstonecraft; a study in economics and romance (John Lane company, 1911), by George Robert Stirling Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

• George Eliot's Serial Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Carol A. Martin (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels (originally published 1971, revised 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alistair M. Duckworth (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Jane Austen Among Women (originally published 1992; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Deborah Kaplan (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Christina Rossetti in Context (1988), by Antony H. Harrison (HTML at Victorian Web)
• Wordsworth and the Cultivation of Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Judith W. Page (HTML at UC Press)
• Jane Austen's Novels: The Fabric of Dialogue (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1962), by Howard S. Babb
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• A Blighted Life: A True Story (London: London Publishing Office, 1880), by Rosina Bulwer Lytton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Emily Brontë (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1883), by A. Mary F. Robinson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Emily Brontë (second edition; London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1883), by A. Mary F. Robinson (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Ethics of George Eliot's Works (fourth edition; Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1884), by John Crombie Brown (Gutenberg text)
• The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley and Son, 1889), by Mrs. Julian Marshall, contrib. by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Mrs. Shelley (London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1890), by Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti (Gutenberg text)
• Harriet Martineau (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887), by Florence Fenwick Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An appreciation of the late Christina Georgina Rossetti (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ;, 1899), by Brooke Foss Westcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kritische studien zu E. B. Browning (H. Schöningh, 1909), by Wilhelm Pöling (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jane Austen and her works, by Sarah Tytler (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jane Austen and Her Country-house Comedy, by W. H. Helm (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker, by Agnes Giberne (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mary Lamb, by Anne Gilchrist (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume 2 (of 2), by Julian Marshall (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume 1 (of 2), by Julian Marshall (Gutenberg ebook)
• Harriet Martineau, by Florence Fenwick Miller (Gutenberg ebook)

• Doris Lessing : the poetics of change (University of Michigan Press, 1994), by Gayle Greene (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Inventing Womanhood: Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Tara Williams (PDF at Ohio State)
• Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Warren S. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women healers in medieval life and literature (King's crown press, 1943), by Muriel Joy Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les Idées Féministes de Christine de Pisan (thesis in French; 1911), by Rose Rigaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)