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Single mothers.

Here are entered works on mothers who are single for various reasons. Works limited to mothers not married at the time of the birth of their children are entered under Unmarried mothers.

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• Mothers
• Single parents
• Single women

• Single mothers -- Fiction
• Single mothers -- Iowa
• Single mothers -- United States
• Divorced mothers
• Unmarried mothers

• Flight (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Walter White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, by Alice Hegan Rice (Gutenberg text)

• Stella Dallas: A Novel (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923), by Olive Higgins Prouty (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ashes (Cenere): A Sardinian Story (London and New York: J. Lane, 1908), by Grazia Deledda, trans. by Katharine Wylde
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Red Ruth: The Birth of Universal Brotherhood (different titles on different pages; Kansas City, MO: Burton Pub. Co., c1916), by Anna Ratner Shapiro, illust. by Carl S. Junge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1911), by Theodore Dreiser (Gutenberg text)
• Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1911), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Clara Hopgood, by William Hale White (Gutenberg text)

• Isabelle (in French), by André Gide (Gutenberg text)

• Night Sweats: An Unexpected Pregnancy (2013), by Linda Crossett (multiple formats at archive.org via newrambler.net)

• Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1993), by Ellen Lewin
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The President's Daughter (New York: Elizabeth Ann Guild, Inc., 1927), by Nan Britton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Report to Congress on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing (1995), by National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) (PDF at cdc.gov)

• Families Without Fatherhood (third edition, c2000), by Norman Dennis and George Erdos, contrib. by A. H. Halsey and Peter Saunders (PDF at Civitas)

• The Unmarried Mother: A Study of Five Hundred Cases (Criminal Science Monograph #3; 1918), by Percy Gamble Kammerer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Unmarried Mother and Her Child (Boston: Christopher Pub. House, c1951), by Katharine Corbin Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Families Without Fatherhood (third edition, c2000), by Norman Dennis and George Erdos, contrib. by A. H. Halsey and Peter Saunders (PDF at Civitas)

• And Sin No More: Social Policy and Unwed Mothers in Cleveland, 1855-1990 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Marian J. Morton (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• The Unmarried Mother and Her Child (Boston: Christopher Pub. House, c1951), by Katharine Corbin Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Unmarried Mother and Her Child (Boston: Christopher Pub. House, c1951), by Katharine Corbin Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Letters to Mothers (Hartford: Hudson and Skinner, 1838), by L. H. Sigourney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mother and Her Work (Boston: American Tract Society, c1862), by H. E. Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who Are Creating the Future (London: G.P. Putnam's Sons; Toronto: Musson Book Co., 1920), by Marie Carmichael Stopes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)

• My Son Wears Heels: One Mom's Journey From Clueless to Kickass (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2016), by Julie Tarney, contrib. by Diane Ehrensaft (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• To the Lighthouse (first published 1927), by Virginia Woolf (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• To the Lighthouse (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1927), by Virginia Woolf (page images at HathiTrust)

• Contraceptive Use and Controlled Fertility: Health Issues for Women and Children (1989), ed. by Allan M. Parnell (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk: Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Denise Roth Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie (Oxford: John Lichfield And James Short, 1622), by Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2009), ed. by Debra King and Gabrielle Meagher (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Clarissa W. Atkinson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Clarissa W. Atkinson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Mother, by Owen Wister (Gutenberg text)
• My Mother and I: A Love Story (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1874), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• The Old Maid (The 'Fifties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• Smoldering Flames: Adventures and Emotions of a Flapper (Chicago: Zuriel Pub. Co., c1928), by Clara Palmer Goetzinger, illust. by Glen Sheffer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Storm of Life (London: H. S. King and Co., 1876), by Hesba Stretton (multiple formats at Google)

• My Mother (London: Bishop and Co., ca. 1840), by Ann Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hymns for Mothers and Children (4th edition; Boston: Walker, Wise and Co., 1864), ed. by C. S. Guild (multiple formats at Google)

• The Female Client and the Health-Care Provider (1995), ed. by Janet Hatcher Roberts and Carol Vlassoff (PDF at IDRC)

• Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman and Claudia C. Klaver (PDF at Ohio State)
• Poems at the Edge of Differences: Mothering in New English Poetry by Women (2008), by Renate Papke (PDF in Germany)
• Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)
• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Maryline Lukacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• My Son Wears Heels: One Mom's Journey From Clueless to Kickass (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2016), by Julie Tarney, contrib. by Diane Ehrensaft (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.