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• Tess of the D'Urbervilles; a pure woman faithfully presented. (A.L. Burt Company, 1921), by Thomas Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Narrative of Lucretia P. Cannon (Printed for the publishers, 1842), by E. E. Barclay and Clinton Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The last speech, confession & prayer of Joyce Ebbs, to several ministers in the presse-yard at Newgate, and at the place of execution in Smithfield Rounds on Thursday last in the fore-noon. Immediately before she was bound to the stake, to be burnt alive, to ashes, for that horrid act and bloody murdering of her own husband at Dog and Bitch Yard near Drury Lane. : As also, the several passages that happened before her death; her heavie groans and shrieks in the fire, and the providing of a half sheet spread over with pitch, to shorten the time of her miserable torment. (London, : Printed for G. Chambers, 1662), by Joyce Ebbs (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A true copy of the paper delivered by Margaert [sic] Martels own hand, before she went to the place of execution, July the 16th, 1697 (London : Printed by Mary Edwards ..., [1697]), by Margaret Martel (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true translation of a paper written in French, delivered by Margaret Martell to the under-sheriff at the time and place of her execution, at Suffolk-street end, July 16, 1697, for the barbarous murther of Elizabeth Pullen, wife of Paul Pullen, Esq. (London : Printed for E. Mallet ..., 1697), by Margaret Martel (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Tess of the D'Urbervilles; a pure woman faithfully presented (Harper & Brothers, 1921), by Thomas Hardy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles : a pure woman (B. Tauchnitz, 1892), by Thomas Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles : a pure woman (James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1891), by Thomas Hardy and Riviere & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bride of Lammermoor. (The Scott Society, 1800), by Walter Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catherine. (Dent, 1903), by William Makepeace Thackeray, C. E. Brock, and Walter Jerrold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles; a pure woman faithfully presented. (A.L. Burt Company, 1921), by Thomas Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Female victimizer (Published by Arthur R. Orton, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Buffalo., 1856), by Ellen Irving, G. A. Coffin, Frederick J. Pilliner, A. R. Orton, and Robert B. Russel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lammermoorin morsian (in Finnish), by Walter Scott, trans. by Julius Krohn (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tessin tarina (in Finnish), by Thomas Hardy, trans. by Uuno Helve (Gutenberg ebook)
• La promessa sposa di Lammermoor, Tomo 3 (of 3) (in Italian), by Walter Scott (Gutenberg ebook)
• La promessa sposa di Lammermoor, Tomo 2 (of 3) (in Italian), by Walter Scott (Gutenberg ebook)
• La promessa sposa di Lammermoor, Tomo 1 (of 3) (in Italian), by Walter Scott (Gutenberg ebook)

• Η Φόνισσα (in Greek), by Alexandros Papadiamantes (Gutenberg ebook)

• Horrible, mysterious and awful disclosures in the life of the Creole murderess Zilla Fitz James, paramour and accomplice of Green H. Long, the treble murderer for the space of six years (Published by A.R. Orton, 1852), by Zilla Fitz James, A. R. Orton, and A. Richards (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die beiden Freundinnen und ihr Giftmord (in German), by Alfred Döblin, ed. by Rudolf Leonhard (Gutenberg ebook)

• An Account of the seizing or apprehending, behaviour, confession, and commitment to Newgate of Mary St. Dunstan (born near Temple-bar), the bloody midwife's servant committed by warrant from the right honourable Sir John Fleet, knight, Lord Mayor : with an account of reasons for the midwife's poysoning of her self in Newgate. ([London] : Printed for John Wallis near the Green Dragon Tavern in Fleet-street, [1693]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Miss Mary Blandy's Own Account of the Affair Between Her and Mr. Cranstoun, From the Commencement of Their Acquaintance in the Year 1746 to the Death Of her Father in August 1751, with All the Circumstances Leading to That Unhappy Event (London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752), by Mary Blandy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mrs. Victor's life story ([publisher not identified], 1888), by Sarah Maria Victor and Harriet L. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• The Female Offender (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1895), by Cesare Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero, contrib. by William Douglas Morrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Little sisters and the law. (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1978), by American Bar Association. Female Offender Resource Center and United States Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The mentality of the criminal woman; a comparative study of the criminal woman, the working girl, and the efficient working woman, in a series of mental and physical tests (Warwick & York, Inc., 1916), by Clara Jean Weidensall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the LEAA Task Force on Women. (LEAA, 1975), by United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. Task Force on Women (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of women delinquents in New York state (The Century co., 1920), by Mabel Ruth Fernald, Beardsley Ruml, Almena Dawley, and Mary Holmes Stevens Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women in crime (I. Washburn, Inc., 1941), by Florence Monahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• An experimental study of psychopathic delinquent women (Pub. for the Bureau of social hygiene by Rand, McNally & company, 1923), by Edith R. Spaulding (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• What should be done for Chicago's women offenders? (Hale-Crossley printing co., 1916), by Chicago (Ill.) Crime commission. Committee on penal and correctional institutions and Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penal discipline (G. Routledge & sons, 1922), by Mary Louisa Gordon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The female offender (D. Appleton & co., 1915), by Cesare Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero (page images at HathiTrust)
• La donna delinquente, la prostituta e la donna normale. (Fratelli Bocca;, 1923), by Cesare Lombroso, Gina Lombroso-Ferrero, and Guglielmo Ferrero (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sketch of the origin and results of ladies' prison associations with hints for the formation of local associations. (J. and A. Arch [etc.], 1832), by British Society of Ladies for Promoting the Reformation of Female Prisoners (page images at HathiTrust)
• La femme amoureuse dans la vie et dans la littérature; étude psycho-physiologique. Les mal mariées; dépareillées et désaccordées; le mari, la femme et l'autre; les crimes passionnels. (A. Michel, 1926), by Henri d' Alméras (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Social non-conformity: an analysis of four hundred and twenty cases of delinquent girls and women ([Philadelphia?, 1919), by Frances Quinter Holsopple (page images at HathiTrust)
• She stands accused; being a series of accounts of the lives and deeds of notorious women, murderesses, cheats, cozeners, on whom justice was executed, and of others, who, accused of crimes, were acquitted at least in law; drawn from authenticated sources (J.B. Lippincott company, 1935), by Victor MacClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female offender (D. Appleton, 1895), by Cesare Lombroso, William Douglas Morrison, and Guglielmo Ferrero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Work among the fallen as seen in the prison cell : a paper read before the Ruri-Decanal Chapter of St. Margaret's and St. John's, Westminster, in the Jerusalem Chamber, on Thursday, July 17, 1890 (Ward, Lock, 1890), by G. P. Merrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'alcoolisme féminin. (Storck, 1899), by Raymond de Ryckère (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Visits to female prisoners at home and abroad. (Wertheim and Macintosh, 1852), by Matilda Wrench and England) British Ladies' Society for Promoting the Reformation of Female Prisoners (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketch of the origin and results of ladies' prison associations : with hints for the formation of local associations. (J. and A. Arch, 1827), by Elizabeth Gurney Fry (page images at HathiTrust)
• La femme en prison et devant la mort. Étude de criminologie. (A. Storck, 1898), by R. de Ryckère (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women in prison. (Doubleday, 1952), by Joan Henry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crook Janes; a study of the woman criminal the world over. (Stanley Paul, 1926), by Netley Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verbrechen und Wahnsinn beim Weibe mit Ausblicken auf die Criminal-Anthropologie überhaupt : klinisch-statistische, anthropologisch-biologische und craniologische Untersuchungen (Braumüller, 1894), by Paul Näcke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der weib als Sexualverbrecherin; ein Handbuch für Juristen, Verwaltungsbeamte und Ärzte, mit kriminalistischen Originalaufnahmen (Dr. P. Langenscheidt, 1923), by Erich Wulffen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Female life in prison. (Hurst and Blackett, 1862), by F. W. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female offender (D. Appleton and Co., 1916), by Cesare Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The female offender (Appleton, 1900), by Cesare Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Female life in prison (Hurst and Blackett, 1862), by F. W. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female offender (Charleston, Massachusetts : Acme Bookbinding, 2001., 2001), by Cesare Lombroso, William Douglas Morrison, and William Ferrero (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The female offender (D. Appleton, 1898), by Cesare Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female offender (Appleton, 1909), by Cesare Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female offender (D. Appleton, 1920), by Cesare Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Woman and crime. (T.W. Laurie, 1912), by Hargrave Lee Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve bad women : illustrations and reviews of feminine turpitude set forth by impartial hands (T.F. Unwin, 1911), by A. Vincent (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• (Das) Weib als Verbrecherin und Prostituirte; anthropologische Studien gegründet auf eine Darstellung der Biologie und Psychologie des normalen Weibes (Richter, 1894), by Cesare Lombroso (page images at HathiTrust)
• La donna delinquente; la prostituta e la donna normale ... (Fratelli Bocca, 1903), by Cesare Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Criminalità femminile (A. Maglioni, 1898), by Antonio Orsini (page images at HathiTrust)
• La delinquenza feminile a Napoli. (L. Pierro, 1904), by Ettore Botti (page images at HathiTrust)
• La femme criminelle. (Doin, 1906), by Camille Granier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Weib als Verbrecherin und Prostituirte; anthropologische Studien, gegründet auf eine Darstellung der Biologie und Psychologie des normalen Weibes (Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1894), by Cesare Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero (page images at HathiTrust)
• A digest of laws establishing reformatories for women in the United States (Reprinted for Bureau of Social Hygiene, inc., 1922), by Helen Worthington Rogers Rogers and Marion Canby Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ladies of the underworld; the beautiful, the damned, and those who get away with it (The Goldsmith Pub. Co., 1927), by Netley Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Female offenders and the war. (Central Howard association, 1944), by Eugene S. Zemans and Mary Nell Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les Prisons de femmes (M. Rivière, 1923), by Albert Letellier and Robert Debled (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The female offender (T. F. Unwin, 1895), by Cesare Lombroso and Guglielmo Ferrero (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vocational training at the California Institution for Women : an evaluation (Research Division, Dept. of Corrections, State of California, 1971), by Carol Spencer and John E. Berecochea (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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