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• Abused women -- Fiction
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• Abused women -- South Africa
• Abused women -- United States
• Abused wives
• Abused women in literature

• Battered women

• Victory: An Island Tale (London: Methuen and Co., 1917), by Joseph Conrad (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Victory: An Island Tale (with an author's note from 1920), by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)

• The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (4 volumes), by Eliza Fowler Haywood (Gutenberg text)
• The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (2 volumes; Dublin: Printed for R. Main, 1752), by Eliza Fowler Haywood
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust
• The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (fourth edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for L. Gardner, 1768), by Eliza Fowler Haywood
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at Google
  • Volumes I-III: page images at HathiTrust

• "Trivial Complaints": The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law And activism in the U.S. (c2008), by Kirsten S. Rambo (HTML and PDF at gutenberg-e.org)

• Domestic Violence Handbook: A Survivor's Guide (revised edition, 2008), by Crime and Violence Prevention Center (Calif.) (PDF at ojp.gov)

• Violence Against Women: A National Survey (2003), by Shahana Rasool, Kerry Vermaak, Robyn Pharoah, Antoinette Louw, and Aki Stavrou (PDF with commentary at issafrica.org)

• Violence Against Women: A National Survey (2003), by Shahana Rasool, Kerry Vermaak, Robyn Pharoah, Antoinette Louw, and Aki Stavrou (PDF with commentary at issafrica.org)

• The Shuttle, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Gutenberg text and Librivox audio)
• The Shuttle (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1907), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memoirs of Mrs. Abigail Bailey, Who Had Been the Wife of Major Asa Bailey (Boston: S. T. Armstrong, 1815), by Abigail Abbot Bailey, ed. by Ethan Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memoirs of Mrs. Abigail Bailey, Who Had Been the Wife of Major Asa Bailey (Boston: S. T. Armstrong, 1815), by Abigail Abbot Bailey, ed. by Ethan Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Child Protection in Families Experiencing Domestic Violence (second edition; Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2018), by Kristen Selleck, Jeannie Newman, and Debra Gilmore (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• Child Protection in Families Experiencing Domestic Violence (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2003), by H. Lien Bragg (PDF at govinfo.gov)

• Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, c2005), by Lisa A. Surridge (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

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

• Third Parties: Victims and the Criminal Justice System (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1996), by Leslie Sebba (PDF at Ohio State)

• I'm Nobody's Child (Ardmore, PA: Whitman Pub. Co., c1982), by Kenneth J. Herrmann (PDF with commentary at Brockport)

• A Mankind Witch (included on a Baen CD image; c2005), by Dave Freer
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• The Way of a Man with a Maid (from a 1908 edition) (RTF at archive.org)
• The Border Legion, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• The Border Legion (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1916), by Zane Grey, illust. by Lillian Wilhelm Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Border Legion (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1916), by Zane Grey, illust. by Lillian Wilhelm Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Border Legion (illustrated with scenes from the now-lost 1924 Paramount film adaptation; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, ca. 1924), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clarissa Harlowe, or, The History of a Young Lady, by Samuel Richardson
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
  • volume III: Gutenberg text
  • volume IV: Gutenberg text
  • volume V: Gutenberg text
  • volume VI: Gutenberg text
  • volume VII: Gutenberg text
  • volume VIII: Gutenberg text
  • volume IX: Gutenberg text
• Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady, by Samuel Richardson (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded, by Samuel Richardson (Gutenberg text)
• The U. P. Trail, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• The U. P. Trail (home library edition; New York: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, 1918), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The U. P. Trail (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1918), by Zane Grey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Requiem for a Wren (c1955), by Nevil Shute (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert (HTML at classicreader.com)
• Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, ed. by Eleanor Marx Aveling (Gutenberg text)
• Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province (2 volumes, in French; Paris: A. Lemerre, 1857), by Gustave Flaubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane (Gutenberg text)
• Mrs. Dalloway (1925), by Virginia Woolf (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)

• Crimes of the Community: Honour-Based Violence in the UK (c2008), by James Brandon and Salam Hafez (PDF at Civitas)

• Third Parties: Victims and the Criminal Justice System (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1996), by Leslie Sebba (PDF at Ohio State)

• Repaying Debts (New York: Council of State Governments Justice Center, c2007), by Rachel L. McLean and Michael D. Thompson (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Victim's Rights: The Biblical View of Civil Justice (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1990), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women's Activism (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, c2012), ed. by Elizabeth A. Sheehy (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? Perceptions, Prescriptions, Problems in the Congo and Beyond (London and New York: Zed Books, c2013), by Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern (PDF with commentary at Diva)

• Ensuring the Effective Use of DNA Evidence to Solve Rape Cases Nationwide: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, December 15, 2009 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? Perceptions, Prescriptions, Problems in the Congo and Beyond (London and New York: Zed Books, c2013), by Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern (PDF with commentary at Diva)

• Crime-Victim Stories: New York City's Urban Folklore (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1988), by Eleanor F. Wachs (HTML with commentary at Indiana)

• New Tactics in Human Rights: A Resource for Practitioners (Minneapolis: Center for Victims of Torture, c2004), by Tricia Cornell, Kate Kelsch, and Nicole Palasz (PDF with commentary at newtactics.org)

• Domestic Violence Handbook: A Survivor's Guide (revised edition, 2008), by Crime and Violence Prevention Center (Calif.) (PDF at ojp.gov)

• New Tactics in Human Rights: A Resource for Practitioners (Minneapolis: Center for Victims of Torture, c2004), by Tricia Cornell, Kate Kelsch, and Nicole Palasz (PDF with commentary at newtactics.org)

• Victimisation in Tanzania: Surveys of Crime in Arusha, Dar es Salaam and Mtwara (2004), by Aki Stavrou and Jennifer O'Riordan (PDF files at issafrica.org)

• Crime and the Family (Springfield, IL: C. C. Thomas, c1985), by Alan Jay Lincoln and Murray A. Straus (PDF at Wayback Machine)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.