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• Martha, Lady Giffard, Her Life and Correspondence (1664-1722): A Sequel to the Letters of Dorothy Osborne (London: George Allen and Sons, 1911), by Martha Giffard, ed. by Julia Georgiana Longe, contrib. by Edward Abbott Parry (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• A book of sibyls : Mrs. Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Opie, Miss Austen (Smith, Elder, 1883), by Anne Thackeray Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women novelists of Queen Victoria's reign : a book of appreciations (Hurst & Blackett, 1897), by Mrs. Oliphant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Barbauld and her contemporaries : sketches of some eminent literary and scientific Englishwomen (Longmans, Green, 1877), by Sir Jerom Murch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our village : sketches of rural character and scenery (George Bell, 1879), by Mary Russell Mitford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women writers : their works and ways ... (Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co., 1892), by C. J. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Out of due time; a novel (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906), by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notable women authors of the day. (D. Bryce & Son, 1893), by Helen C. Black, Robert Maclehose, and Scotland) David Bryce and Son (Glasgow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760, by Myra Reynolds (Gutenberg ebook)

• Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, Who Have Been Celebrated for Their Writings or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts and Sciences (Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson for the author, 1752), by George Ballard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoirs of the life and correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More (Harper, 1835), by William Roberts, Sarah Vaill Norcross, and Emily Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The letters and works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (G. Bell and Sons, 1898), by Mary Wortley Montagu, W. Moy Thomas, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley Wharncliffe, and Louisa Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The letters and works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Baudry, 1837), by Mary Wortley Montagu and James Archibald Stuart-Wortley Wharncliffe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Victorian Women Writers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Gail Turley Houston (PDF at Ohio State)
• Portraits of the Artist as a Young Woman: Painting and the Novel in France and Britain, 1800-1860 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Alexandra Wettlaufer (PDF at Ohio State)

• Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1885), by Horatia K. F. Gatty Eden, contrib. by Juliana Horatia Ewing (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Harriet Martineau's autobiography (J. R. Osgood and company, 1877), by Harriet Martineau, Henry Oscar Houghton, Maria Weston Chapman, and James R. Osgood and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harriet Martineau's autobiography (Smith, Elder, 1877), by Harriet Martineau, Maria Weston Chapman, and Elder Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs and poetical remains of the late Jane Taylor : with extracts from her correspondence (B.J. Holdsworth, 1826), by Jane Taylor and Isaac Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harriet Martineau (Roberts, 1885), by F. Fenwick Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life, letters, and journals of Louisa May Alcott. (Roberts brothers, 1890), by Louisa May Alcott and Ednah Dow Cheney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Selections From the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis (London: Trübner and Co., 1864), by Caroline Frances Cornwallis, ed. by M. C. P. (M. C. Power) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the life and correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More (Harper, 1835), by William Roberts, Sarah Vaill Norcross, and Emily Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (Macmillan and co. ;, 1897), by Dorothy Wordsworth and William Angus Knight (page images at HathiTrust)

• Diary and notebook, 1833-1839 and 1851. (1833), by Jane Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Literary Women of England, Including a Biographical Epitome of All the Most Eminent to the Year 1700: And Sketches of the Poetesses to the Year 1850; With Extracts from Their Works, and Critical Remarks (London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1861), by Jane Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notable Women Authors of the Day (London: Maclaren and Co., 1906), by Helen C. Black (multiple formats at archive.org)
• English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1863), by Julia Kavanagh
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google; cover page may give different title
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google; cover page may give different title
• The Life of Florence L. Barclay: A Study in Personality (London and New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921), by One of Her Daughters (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The life of Charlotte Brontë (Oxford University Press, 1919), by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and Clement King Shorter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the literary ladies of England, from the commencement of the last century. (AMS Press, 1973), by Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notable women authors of the day. (D. Bryce & Son, 1893), by Helen C. Black, Robert Maclehose, and Scotland) David Bryce and Son (Glasgow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pen-portraits of literary women : by themselves and others, Volume 2 (of 2), ed. by Helen Gray Cone and Jeannette L. Gilder (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pen-portraits of literary women : by themselves and others, Volume 1 (of 2), ed. by Helen Gray Cone and Jeannette L. Gilder (Gutenberg ebook)
• Michael Field, by Mary Sturgeon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Notable Women Authors of the Day: Biographical Sketches, by Helen C. Black (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen, by Anne Thackeray Ritchie (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mrs. Hungerford: Notable Women Authors of the Day, by Helen C. Black (Gutenberg ebook)

• Further records, 1848-1883 : a series of letters (R. Bentley and Son, 1890), by Fanny Kemble and Sarah Orne Jewett (page images at HathiTrust)

• The female advocate; a poem occasioned by reading Mr. Duncombe's Feminead. (Printed for Joseph Johnson, 1774), by Mary Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• [The] Distressed child, or, The Cruel uncle (London : Printed by D. Brown, [1700?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Fragments containing reference to Love's labour's won ([England, 1603), by Ernest Ingold, Solomon Pottesman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), and R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• To the most illustrious and serene prince, his royal Highness (London : Printed for Thomas Salusbury, at the Sign of the Temple near Temple-Bar, 1688) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Two royal achrostichs on the Dutch in the ditch ([London : s.n., 1672?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A catalogue of books printed for Thomas Basset, and are to be sold at his shop at the George near Cliffords Inne in Fleet-Street. (London : Printed by R. Battersby for Thomas Bassett ..., 1672) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Advertisement. Annals, being a large and learned history of church and state affairs in English manuscript, relating especially to England for 800 years ending 1626 ... compiled by Thomas Harding, B.D. late of the University of Oxford. ... If any person be willing to purchase this history, they may see it at the dwelling house of Euclid Speidel in Angel Alley near White-Chappel Church, London, any afternoon, at three of the clock ... ([London : s.n., 1695]), by Thomas Harding and Euclid Speidell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Advertisement. The history of the bucaniers of America; or, A true account of the most remarkable assaults committed ... upon the coasts of the West-Indies ... Written by John Esquemeling, and Basil RIngrose ... in this second edition is added the dangerous voyages and bold attempts of Capt. Cook and Cap. Sharp in the South-Sea ... with the effigies of the bucaniers, curiously done in nineteen copper plates. In four parts compleat.. ([London : William Whitwood, and Anthony Feltham, 1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• There is newly published, the four following usefull and necessary books. The queens closet opened ... The exact dealer refined ... the third edition, enlarged. ... The young secretary's guide: or, A speedy help to learning. In two parts. ... The strange and prodigious religions, customs, and manners, of sundry nations ... the second edition. All four printed for Henry Rhodes ... ([London : H. Rhodes, ca. 1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Het kunstgenootschap "Nil Volentibus Arduum" (G. Brouwer, 1875), by Albertus Jacob Kronenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Letter from Dublin in Ireland containing a remarkable discovery of a horrid design of the papists to destroy that city by fire : discovered to the lord justices : together with their lordships proclamation for commanding all papists to depart ten miles out of the city : with other remarkable occurrences relating to that kingdom. (London : Printed for Richard Baldwin ..., 1690) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Gouierno Polytico de Agricultura : contiene tres partes principales (por la viuda de Alonso Martin de Balboa, 1618), by Lope de Deza and Alonso Martín de Balboa (page images at HathiTrust)

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