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• Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Françoise Lionnet (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• 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)

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

• Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1998), by Susan Clair Imbarrato (PDF at Tennessee)
• Strindberg and Autobiography (London: Ubiquity Press and Norvik Press, 2013), by Michael Robinson (PDF at Ubiquity Press)
• Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), ed. by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (HTML at UC Press)
• Confessions of a Prosaic Dreamer: Charles Lamb's Art of Autobiography (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1984), by Gerald Monsman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rousseau's Occasional Autobiographies (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by Susan K. Jackson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fractured Borders: Reading Women's Cancer Literature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Mary K. DeShazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996), by Fred L. Gardaphé (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Moore and the Autogenous Self: The Autobiography and Fiction (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1994), by Elizabeth Grubgeld (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)

• Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (25th anniversary edition; New York et al.: P. Lang, 2020), by A. Robert Lee
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at peterlang.com
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Chinese Autobiographical Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts (Seattle: University of Washington Press, c2023), ed. by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Cong Zhang, and Ping Yao (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Auto/Biography (British Sociological Association journal; volumes online cover 2004-2006) (partial serial archives)

• Indian Captivities, or, Life in the Wigwam: Being True Narratives of Captives Who Have Been Carried Away by the Indians, From the Frontier Settlements of The United States, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Auburn, NY: Derby and Miller; Buffalo: Derby, Orton and Mulligan, 1853), ed. by Samuel G. Drake (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Life among the Indians: or, The Captivity of the Oatman Girls Among the Apache & Mohave Indians (San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1935), by R. B. Stratton, contrib. by Lindley Bynum, Lorenzo D. Oatman, and Olive Ann Oatman, illust. by Mallette Dean (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captivity of the Oatman Girls: Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apache and Mohave Indians (New York: Pub. for the author by Carlton and Porter, 1858), by R. B. Stratton, contrib. by Lorenzo D. Oatman and Olive Ann Oatman (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Incidents Connected with the Life of Selim Aga, a Native of Central Africa (Aberdeen, Scotland: Published for the author, 1846), by Selim Aga (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854), by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Life of Rev. Robert Anderson (Macon, GA: Printed for the author, 1892), by Robert Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Neither Fugitive Nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel (New York and London: NYU Press, c2009), by Edlie L. Wong (PDF files with commentary at JSTOR)

• Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831 (extracted from the American Historical Review; Washington: American Historical Association, 1925), by Omar ibn Said, ed. by J. Franklin Jameson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Before the War, and After the Union: An Autobiography (Boston: Gold Mind, c1929), by Sam Aleckson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-Four Years a Slave (Chicago: Daily Tribune Book and Job Printing Office, 1857), by William J. Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Famous Authors (Women) (fourth impression; Johnston not credited in this edition; Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1906), by E. F. Harkins, contrib. by Charles H. L. Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Pilgrimages Among the Women Who Have Written Famous Books (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1902), by E. F. Harkins and Charles H. L. Johnston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Lady of the Last Century (Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu), Illustrated In Her Unpublished Letters; Collected and Arranged, with a Biographical Sketch, and a Chapter on Blue Stockings (London: R. Bentley and Son, 1873), by Dr. Doran, contrib. by Mrs. Montagu (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Women of the French Salons, by Amelia Gere Mason (Gutenberg text)

• List of Books Sent by Home and Foreign Committees to the Library of the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, by World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Board of Lady Managers, ed. by Edith E. Clarke (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Room of One's Own (1929), by Virginia Woolf (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• The Arc and the Sediment (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2007), by Christine Diane Allen-Yazzie
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Country of the Pointed Firs (21-chapter version), by Sarah Orne Jewett (Gutenberg text)
• The Country of the Pointed Firs (24-chapter version, 1910), by Sarah Orne Jewett (HTML at Bartleby)
• Hagar (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by Mary Johnston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Time of Roses (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Daddy-Long-Legs (with illustrations by the author and scenes from the play; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1912), by Jean Webster (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• Daddy-Long-Legs (New York: The Century Co., 1912), by Jean Webster (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Setä Pitkäsääri (Daddy-Long-Legs in Finnish; Porvoo: W. Söderström, 1918), by Jean Webster, trans. by Tyyni Tuulio (Gutenberg text)
• Vadertje Langbeen (Daddy-Long-Legs in Dutch, with illustrations by the author; Amsterdam: Scheltema en Holkema, n.d.), by Jean Webster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Murder of Delicia (London: Skeffington and Son, 1896), by Marie Corelli (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Murder of Delicia (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1896), by Marie Corelli (Gutenberg multiple formats)

• The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920), by Myra Reynolds
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• A Room of One's Own (1929), by Virginia Woolf (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), ed. by James Philip Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand (PDF with commentary at Wisconsin)

• Florilegio de Escritoras Cubanas (3 volumes in Spanish; 1910-1919), ed. by Antonio González Curquejo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Illustrious Irishwomen: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Noted Irishwomen From the Earliest Ages to the Present Century (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1877), by E. Owens Blackburne
  • Volume I: multiple foprmats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust

• Hanakatsura: The Works of Famous Literary Women in Japan (originally published 1903; this edition with added biographies; Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2022), ed. by Paul Royster, trans. by Tei Fujiu, contrib. by Kaho Miyake, Ichiyō Higuchi, Usurai Kitada, and Ōtsuka Kusuoko (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)

• Journalism for Women: A Practical Guide (ca. 1898), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)

• Specimens of British Poetesses, Selected and Chronologically Arranged (London: T. Rodd and S. Prowett, 1825), ed. by Alexander Dyce (multiple formats at Google)
• Specimens of British Poetesses, Selected and Chronologically Arranged (London: T. Rodd, 1827), ed. by Alexander Dyce (page images at HathiTrust)

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