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• Bab: A Sub-Deb (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1917), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by May Wilson Preston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Evelina (based on the 1903 Macmillan edition, with additional illustrations from other editions), by Fanny Burney, contrib. by Austin Dobson, illust. by Hugh Thomson, W. Cubitt Cooke, and Arthur Rackham (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World, by Fanny Burney
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text

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• eGirls, eCitizens (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2015), ed. by Jane Bailey and Valerie M. Steeves (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• Girls and Women (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892), by Harriet E. Paine (page images at Harvard)
• Girls: Faults and Ideals, by J. R. Miller (Gutenberg text)
• Thoughts of Busy Girls (New York: Cassell Pub. Co., c1892), ed. by Grace H. Dodge
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Harvard
• Unsere Jungen Mädchen, und ihre Aufgaben in der Gegenwart: Ein Buch für Eltern und Töchter (in German; Berlin: L. Oehmigke, 1892), by Anna Sophie Charlotte Klapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Young Woman's Guide, by William A. Alcott (Gutenberg text)
• Your Affectionate Godmother (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1914), by Elinor Glyn, illust. by Grace Hart (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Family Monitor and Domestic Guide (uniform American edition of The Women of England, The Daughters of England, The Wives of England, and The Mothers of England; New York: E. Walker, ca. 1844), by Sarah Stickney Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Looking Out on Life: A Book for Girls on Practical Subjects Based on Many Letters From Wise Mothers (Boston: D. Lothrop, c1892), by Francis E. Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Girl Genius, by Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio (partial serial archives)

• A Garland for Girls, by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg text)
• The Hall With Doors (New York: The Womans Press, 1920), by Louise Hasbrouck Zimm, illust. by Clinton Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures to Young Women, by William Greenleaf Eliot (page images at MOA)
• Letters of Love and Counsel for "Our Girls" (Moundsville, WV: Gospel Trumpet Co., 1898), by Jennie Carpenter Rutty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pearls for Young Ladies, From the Later Works of John Ruskin: Including Letters and Advice on Education, Dress, Marriage, Influence, Work, Rights &c. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1881), by John Ruskin, ed. by Louisa C. Tuthill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Serious Hours of a Young Lady, by Charles Sainte-Foi, trans. by Philaletes (Gutenberg text)
• The Young Lady's Counsellor, by Daniel Wise (page images at MOA)
• The Young Misses Magazine: Containing Dialogues Between a Governess and Several Young Ladies of Quality, Her Scholars (2 volumes; Glasgow: J. A. Mundell, 1800), by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google

• Anna Christie, by Eugene O'Neill
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• No Name: A Drama in Five Acts, by William Bayle Bernard, contrib. by Wilkie Collins (HTML at github.io)
• No Name: A Drama, in Four Acts, by Wilkie Collins (HTML at github.io)

• The Young Misses Magazine: Containing Dialogues Between a Governess and Several Young Ladies of Quality, Her Scholars (2 volumes; Glasgow: J. A. Mundell, 1800), by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google

• Sister Carrie (restored text; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981), by Theodore Dreiser, ed. by John C. Berkey, Alice M. Winters, James L. W. West, and Neda M. Westlake (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Ormond (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1937), by Charles Brockden Brown, ed. by Ernest Marchand (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Virgin and the Gipsy (1930), by D. H. Lawrence (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Alice Adams, by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Belinda (from the 1857 Tales and Novels collection), by Maria Edgeworth (Gutenberg text)
• The Bent Twig, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Gutenberg text)
• The Bishop's Purse (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1913), by Cleveland Moffett and Oliver Herford, illust. by Charles L. Wrenn
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text; 2 MB
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Bleak House (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Chance Acquaintance (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1873), by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• The Daisy Chain, or, Aspirations, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• Evangelines Genvordigheder: Til Kvinder med Rødt Haar (Danish translation of "The Vicissitudes of Evangeline"; Copenhagen and Oslo; Martins Forlag, 1921), by Elinor Glyn, trans. by Hedvig Magnussen (Gutenberg text)
• Evelina (based on the 1903 Macmillan edition, with additional illustrations from other editions), by Fanny Burney, contrib. by Austin Dobson, illust. by Hugh Thomson, W. Cubitt Cooke, and Arthur Rackham (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World, by Fanny Burney
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• The Fifth Wheel: A Novel (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1916), by Olive Higgins Prouty, illust. by James Montgomery Flagg (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Flirt, by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• The Getting of Wisdom, by Henry Handel Richardson (Gutenberg text)
• Glasses, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• Gold Elsie (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and co., 1868), by E. Marlitt, trans. by A. L. Wister (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Kitty's Conquest (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1890), by Charles King (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Lost Girl (New York: T. Seltzer, 1921), by D. H. Lawrence (Gutenberg text)
• Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Mansfield Park (Everyman's Library edition; London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1913), by Jane Austen, contrib. by R. Brimley Johnson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Marcella, by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • Volume I: HTML at Indiana
  • Volume II: HTML at Indiana
  • Gutenberg text
• Memoirs of a Midget (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1922), by Walter De la Mare
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Memoirs of Emma Courtney (2 volumes in 1; New York: Printed for Hugh Griffith, 1802), by Mary Hays (page images at Google)
• Moods (Boston: Loring, c1864), by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• My Brilliant Career, by Miles Franklin (Gutenberg text)
• Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• North and South, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  • HTML at victorian-studies.net
  • Gutenberg text
• Pauline's Passion and Punishment, by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg text)
• Phemie Frost's Experiences (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co., London: S. Low, Son, and Co., 1874), by Ann S. Stephens (Gutenberg text)
• Phoebe Deane (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1909), by Grace Livingston Hill, illust. by Edward Lamson Henry (page images at Google; US access only)
• Phoebe, Junior, by Mrs. Oliphant (Gutenberg text)
• Prudence Palfrey: A Novel (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874), by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • multiple formats at Google
  • HTML at Northwestern
• Red Hair (published earlier as "The Vicissitudes of Evangeline"; New York: Authors' Press, c1905), by Elinor Glyn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Reigning Belle: A Society Novel (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1885), by Ann S. Stephens (Gutenberg text)
• The Rose and the Key (3 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1871), by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Schemers: A Tale of Modern Life (Boston: L.C. Page and Co., 1903), by E. F. Harkins, illust. by E. Fosbery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser (Gutenberg text)
• Sister Carrie (New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1900), by Theodore Dreiser
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at Wayback Machine
• Sister Carrie (New York: B. W. Dodge and Co., 1907), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Story of an African Farm, by Olive Schreiner
  • Volume I: HTML at Indiana
  • Volume II: HTML at Indiana
  • Gutenberg text
• Their Hearts (London: S. Paul and Co., c1921), by Violet Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Vicissitudes of Evangeline (London: Duckworth and Co., 1905), by Elinor Glyn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Voyage Out, by Virginia Woolf (Gutenberg text)
• The End of a Childhood: The Complete Stories of Henry Handel Richardson (1934), by Henry Handel Richardson (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Anna Unelmavuodet (Anne of the Island in Finnish; Porvoo: WSOY, 1921), by L. M. Montgomery, trans. by Toini Kalima (Gutenberg text)
• Anne of the Island, by L. M. Montgomery
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at CMU
• Cecilia: or, Memoirs of an Heiress, by Fanny Burney
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
  • volume III: Gutenberg text
• Consequences (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by E. M. Delafield (Gutenberg text)
• Daisy Miller (1870s edition), by Henry James
  • illustrated HTML at ibiblio.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Daisy Miller (1909 New York edition), by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)
• Daisy's Aunt (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, c1910), by E. F. Benson (Gutenberg text and illusrated HTML)
• Dream Life and Real Life: A Little African Story, by Olive Schreiner (Gutenberg text)
• Dreams, by Olive Schreiner (Gutenberg text)
• Eleanor's Victory (3 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1863), by M. E. Braddon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emily Fox-Seton: Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst", by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illust. by C. D. Williams (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Fair Barbarian, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Gutenberg text)
• Fatherless Fanny, or a Young Lady's First Entrance into Life: Being the Memoirs of a Little Mendicant and her Benefactors (author attribution uncertain (may or may not be Reeve); fourth edition; Manchester, UK: J. Gleave, 1822), contrib. by Clara Reeve (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fatherless Fanny, or a Young Lady's First Entrance into Life: Being the Memoirs of a Little Mendicant and Her Benefactors (author attribution uncertain (may or may not be Reeve); London: Printed for T. Kelly, 1839), contrib. by Clara Reeve (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fatherless Fanny: or, Memoirs of a Little Mendicant and Her Benefactors (author attribution uncertain (may or may not be Reeve); London: J. Emans, n.d.), contrib. by Clara Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Heart of Hyacinth (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1903), by Onoto Watanna, illust. by Kiyokichi Sano (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Jess, by H. Rider Haggard (Gutenberg text)
• Jess: Épisode de la Guerre du Transvaal (translated into French; Paris: Hachette et cie, 1914), by H. Rider Haggard, trans. by M. Dronsart (Gutenberg text)
• A Little Rebel: A Novel (Montreal: John Lovell and Son, c1891), by The Duchess
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Olive (3 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1850), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
  • Volume I: HTML at Indiana
  • Volume II: HTML at Indiana
  • Volume III: HTML at Indiana
• Olive (illustrated edition; 1875), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, illust. by G. Bowers (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Persuasion, by Jane Austen
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Persuasion (based on the 1906 Stoneleigh edition, with added illustrations), by Jane Austen, contrib. by R. Brimley Johnson, illust. by C. E. Brock and Hugh Thomson (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Persuasion (in French; Paris: Hachette, 1882), by Jane Austen, trans. by Madame Letorsay (Gutenberg text)
• A Room with a View, by E. M. Forster (Gutenberg text)
• Work: A Story of Experience (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1873), by Louisa May Alcott (page images at MOA)
• Work: A Story of Experience (1901 edition), by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg text)
• A Clergyman's Daughter (1935), by George Orwell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• "But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928), by Anita Loos, illust. by Ralph Barton
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady (London: Brentano's, 1926), by Anita Loos, illust. by Ralph Barton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Clever Woman of the Family, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• Fidelity: A Novel (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1915), by Susan Glaspell
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925), by Anita Loos, illust. by Ralph Barton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1925), by Anita Loos, illust. by Ralph Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gevoel en Verstand (Sense and Sensibility in Dutch; Amsterdam: Maatschappij voor Goede en Goedkoope Lectuur, 1922), by Jane Austen, trans. by Gonne Loman-van Uildriks (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Heroine (with a new introduction; London: H. Frowde, 1909), by Eaton Stannard Barrett, contrib. by Walter Raleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Heroine: or, Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader (3 volumes; London: Printed for H. Colburn, 1813), by Eaton Stannard Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Heroine: or, Adventures of Cherubina (third edition, 3 volumes in 1; London: Printed for H. Colburn, 1815), by Eaton Stannard Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hilda Lessways, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• An Imperative Duty, by William Dean Howells (HTML at wsu.edu)
• Marriage (Edinburgh edition; 1881), by Susan Ferrier (Gutenberg text)
• Marriage: A Novel (second edition, 3 volumes; Edinburgh: W. Blackwood; London: J. Murray, 1819), by Susan Ferrier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Middlemarch, by George Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe (Gutenberg text)
• The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry (third edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795), by Ann Radcliffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nature and Art, by Mrs. Inchbald, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• No Name (novel), by Wilkie Collins
  • illustrated HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Northanger Abbey (London: J. M Dent and Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1907), by Jane Austen, contrib. by R. Brimley Johnson, illust. by C. E. Brock (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
  • illustrated hypertext at pemberley.com
  • searchable HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text and audio readings
• Pride and Prejudice: A Novel in Two Volumes (third edition; London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1817), by Jane Austen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Raison et Sensibilité, ou Les Deux Manières d'Aimer (4 volumes in French; Paris: Arthus-Bertrand, 1815), by Jane Austen, trans. by Isabelle de Montolieu
  • Tome 1: Gutenberg text
  • Tome 2: Gutenberg text
  • Tome 3: Gutenberg text
  • Tome 4: Gutenberg text
• Rose of Dutcher's Coolly (Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1895), by Hamlin Garland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• Sense and Sensibility (Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1864), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sense and Sensibility (London and New York: Macmillan, 1902), by Jane Austen, contrib. by Austin Dobson, illust. by Hugh Thomson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Last September (New York: L. MacVeagh; Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1929), by Elizabeth Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quicksand (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1928), by Nella Larsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bostonians, by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)
• The Career of Katherine Bush (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1916), by Elinor Glyn, illust. by Edmund Frederick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Christopher and Columbus (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1919), by Elizabeth Von Arnim, illust. by Arthur Litle
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• Emma, by Jane Austen
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Emma (based on the 1896 Macmillan edition), by Jane Austen, contrib. by Austin Dobson, illust. by Hugh Thomson (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Factory Girl (originally published 1814; with extensive added notes), by Sarah Savage, ed. by Duncan Faherty and Ed White (PDF with commentary at common-place.org)
• Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life (3 volumes; London: Macmillan, 1884), by Mrs. Oliphant
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text
• Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life (London: Macmillan, 1884), by Mrs. Oliphant (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (HTML with numbered paragraphs at victorian-studies.net)
• Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (London: Service and Paton, 1897), by Charlotte Brontë, illust. by F. H. Townsend (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (copyright edition by "Currer Bell", 2 volumes; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1850), by Charlotte Brontë (images at MOA)
• The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
  • searchable HTML with commentary at Bartleby
  • HTML at Bibliomania
  • Gutenberg text
• A Modern Mephistopheles; and A Whisper in the Dark (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by Louisa May Alcott (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Moneychangers, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• Rahanvaihtajat (The Moneychangers translated into Finnish; 1915), by Upton Sinclair, trans. by Yrjö Sirola (Gutenberg text)
• Setä Pitkäsääri (Daddy-Long-Legs in Finnish; Porvoo: W. Söderström, 1918), by Jean Webster, trans. by Tyyni Tuulio (Gutenberg text)
• The Song of the Lark (1915), by Willa Cather (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)
• Wives and Daughters: An Every-Day Story, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (HTML in Japan)
• Wives and Daughters: An Every-Day Story (with illustrations from the Cornhill and Smith, Elder editions), by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, illust. by George Du Maurier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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