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• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life (T. Nelson, 1906), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hortense: the romance of a year : a temperance novel (Acme Publishing Company, 1902), by Bernice McCally Pollock and Acme Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miller of Angibault (Roberts Brothers, 1887), by George Sand (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South, by Thomas Dixon (Gutenberg text)
• The Man in Gray: A Romance of the North and South (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1921), by Thomas Dixon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Cudjo's Cave (Boston: J. E. Tilton and Co., 1864), by J. T. Trowbridge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Before the crisis (John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1904), by Frederick B. Mott, N.Z.) Caxton Press (Christchurch, Husted Linotype Co, and John Lane Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The man in gray; a romance of north and South (D. Appleton and company, 1921), by Thomas Dixon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Time and chance; a romance and a history: being the story of the life of a man (Roycrofters, 1899), by Elbert Hubbard and Roycroft Shop (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Ebony Idol (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1860), by Mrs. G. M. Flanders
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at Virginia

• Dorothy Angsleigh : a story of war times (W.B. Conkey Company, 1907), by Agnes Potter McGee and Max Bihn (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Golden Notebook (originally published 1962; with extensive online discussion from 2008 and 2009), by Doris Lessing (HTML with commentary at thegoldennotebook.org)
• Christine: or, Woman's Trials and Triumphs (New York: De Witt and Davenport, c1856), by Laura Curtis Bullard (multiple formats at Google)
• Memoirs of Emma Courtney (2 volumes in 1; New York: Printed for Hugh Griffith, 1802), by Mary Hays (page images at Google)
• The Woman Who Did (Boston; London: Roberts; J. Lane, 1895), by Grant Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Woman Who Did, by Grant Allen (Gutenberg text)
• The Story of an African Farm, by Olive Schreiner
  • Volume I: HTML at Indiana
  • Volume II: HTML at Indiana
  • Gutenberg text
• The Bostonians, by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)
• The story of an African farm (Little, Brown, and Co., 1924), by Olive Schreiner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Career of Claudia, by Frances Mary Peard (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Convert (main text from Women's Press reprint, 1980), by Elizabeth Robins (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Sturdy Oak: A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1917), by Samuel Merwin, Harry Leon Wilson, Fannie Hurst, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Henry Kitchell Webster, Anne O'Hagan, Mary Heaton Vorse, Alice Duer Miller, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Marjorie Benton Cooke, William Allen White, Mary Austin, and Leroy Scott, ed. by Elizabeth Garver Jordan, illust. by Henry Raleigh
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • without illustrations: Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• William, An Englishman (London: Skeffington and Son, n.d.), by Cicely Hamilton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• William, An Englishman (London: Skeffington and Son, 1919), by Cicely Hamilton (Gutenberg text)
• The Convert (New York: Macmillan, 1913), by Elizabeth Robins (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• To-day. (B. Tauchnitz, 1913), by Percy White (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The mating impulse, by Edwin Balmer (Gutenberg ebook)
• I Pose, by Stella Benson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Julia France and Her Times: A Novel, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Her Infinite Variety, by Brand Whitlock, illust. by Howard Chandler Christy and Ralph Fletcher Seymour (Gutenberg ebook)

• I Pose (London: Macmillan and Co., 1915), by Stella Benson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Making people happy (W.J. Watt and company, 1911), by Thompson Buchanan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ideala (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893), by Sarah Grand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ideala, by Sarah Grand (Gutenberg text)

• Love for two (Harrison Smith, 1932), by Mildred Evans Gilman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Marching Men, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg text)
• The Bread-Winners: A Social Study (New York: Harper and Bros., 1884), by John Hay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Bread-Winners: A Social Study (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1901), by John Hay (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The bread-winners : a social study. (London : F. Warne & Co., 1884., 1884), by John Hay, Chester W. Topp, and Chester W. Topp collection of Victorian yellowbacks and paperbacks (Emory University. MARBL) (page images at HathiTrust)

• John March, Southerner, by George Washington Cable (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• John March, Southerner (Scribner, 1899), by George Washington Cable (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The reformer (Advance Publishing Co. ;, 1902), by Charles M. Sheldon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The chainbreakers (The Roxburgh Publishing Company, Inc., 1914), by Richard James Talbot, Warren Y. Cluff, and Roxburgh Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Man the Reformer, by Ralph Waldo Emerson (HTML at emersoncentral.com)
• Die Begründung des Prinzips der Sozialreform: Eine Literarhistorische Untersuchung über Manchestertum und Katherdersozialismus (in German; Jena: G. Fischer, 1914), by Hans Gehrig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Henry Demarest Lloyd, 1847-1903 : a biography (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912), by Caro Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sozialreformer und Unternehmer : Unparteiische Betrachtungen (G. Fischer, 1904), by Richard Ehrenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern agitators: or, Pen portraits of living American reformers (Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856), by D. W. Bartlett, George Marston, and John Chester Buttre (page images at HathiTrust)
• The moral reformer and teacher on the human constitution (Published by Light & Horton, 1835), by Roger E. Stoddard, James C. Whitten, William A. Alcott, and James C. Whitten Collection on the History of Vegetarianism (Schlesinger Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harriet Martineau's autobiography. (Gregg International Publishers, 1969), by Harriet Martineau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Monsieur Vincent; a sketch of a Christian social reformer of the 17th century (Longmans, Green & co.;, 1901), by J. G. Adderley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Harriet Martineau's autobiography ... (Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1879), by Harriet Martineau, Cynthia Morgan St. John, Maria Weston Chapman, and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miller of Angibault (Roberts Brothers, 1887), by George Sand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lord Shaftesbury : peer and philanthropist (National Sunday School Union, 1924), by R. Ed Pengelly and National Sunday School Union (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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