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• Widows (2 volumes; Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987), ed. by Helena Znaniecka Lopata, contrib. by Robert L. Rubinstein, Jaya Sarma Gujral, Jasoon Koo, Marsel A. Heisel, Jacquiline Touba, Ruth Katz, Nitza Ben-Dor, Evangelina Novero Blust, Linda Roseman, Arthur D. Shulman, Denise R. Barnes, Christine L. Fry, Lauree Garvin, Shirley L. O'Bryant, Anne Victoria Neale, Rubye Wilkerson Beck, Trudy B. Anderson, Jessyna M. McDonald, Margaret Gentry, Linda Rosenman, Phyllis R. Silverman, Anabel O. Pelham, William F. Clark, Anne Martin Matthews, Carol D. H. Harvey, Gordon E. Barnes, Leonard J. Greenwood, and Rose Kabahenda-Nyakabwa (page images at HathiTrust)

• Infant Marriage and Enforced Widowhood in India: Being a Collection of Opinions, For and Against (Mumbai: Printed at the "Voice of India" Printing Press, 1887), by Behramji M. Malabari
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Widows (2 volumes; Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987), ed. by Helena Znaniecka Lopata, contrib. by Robert L. Rubinstein, Jaya Sarma Gujral, Jasoon Koo, Marsel A. Heisel, Jacquiline Touba, Ruth Katz, Nitza Ben-Dor, Evangelina Novero Blust, Linda Roseman, Arthur D. Shulman, Denise R. Barnes, Christine L. Fry, Lauree Garvin, Shirley L. O'Bryant, Anne Victoria Neale, Rubye Wilkerson Beck, Trudy B. Anderson, Jessyna M. McDonald, Margaret Gentry, Linda Rosenman, Phyllis R. Silverman, Anabel O. Pelham, William F. Clark, Anne Martin Matthews, Carol D. H. Harvey, Gordon E. Barnes, Leonard J. Greenwood, and Rose Kabahenda-Nyakabwa (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)

• The Widow Barnaby (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1839), by Frances Milton Trollope
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text

• The Plumed Serpent (c1926), by D. H. Lawrence (Gutenberg text)
• Dark Hollow (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1914), by Anna Katharine Green, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text)
• The Inner Shrine: A Novel of Today (1909), by Basil King, illust. by Frank Craig (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Jezebel's Daughter, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• Lady Susan, by Jane Austen
  • HTML with commentary at pemberley.com
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
• Mistress Branican (new and cheaper illustrated edition; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., n.d.), by Jules Verne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, by Alice Hegan Rice (Gutenberg text)
• A Widow's Tale, and Other Stories (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1898), by Mrs. Oliphant, contrib. by J. M. Barrie (Gutenberg text)
• What Became of Anna Bolton (c1944), by Louis Bromfield (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Lerouge Affair (v3 in a set of Gaboriau's novels; New York: W. R. Caldwell and Co., c1908), by Emile Gaboriau, illust. by John Alonzo Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lerouge Case, by Emile Gaboriau (Gutenberg text)
• The Old Ladies (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1924), by Hugh Walpole (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The School for Widows: A Novel (3 volumes; London: Printed for T. Hookham et al., 1791), by Clara Reeve
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at Google
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust
• The Third Window (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920), by Anne Douglas Sedgwick (Gutenberg text)
• The American, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• The Claverings (with illustrations from the magazine and book editions), by Anthony Trollope, illust. by Mary Ellen Edwards (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Democracy: An American Novel, by Henry Adams (Gutenberg text)
• The Fruit of the Tree, by Edith Wharton, illust. by Alonzo Kimball (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Worn Doorstep (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1917), by Margaret Pollock Sherwood
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Rosa (New York : A.A. Knopf, 1926), by Knut Hamsun, trans. by Arthur G. Chater (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Administratrix (New York: J. B. Alden, 1889), by Emma Ghent Curtis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sights and Insights: Patience Strong's Story of Over the Way (2 volumes; Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1879), by A. D. T. Whitney
  • Volume I: page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
  • Volume II: page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys (10th edition, 1904), by Gulielma Zollinger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Chester Rand: or, The New Path to Fortune, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Widows (2 volumes; Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987), ed. by Helena Znaniecka Lopata, contrib. by Robert L. Rubinstein, Jaya Sarma Gujral, Jasoon Koo, Marsel A. Heisel, Jacquiline Touba, Ruth Katz, Nitza Ben-Dor, Evangelina Novero Blust, Linda Roseman, Arthur D. Shulman, Denise R. Barnes, Christine L. Fry, Lauree Garvin, Shirley L. O'Bryant, Anne Victoria Neale, Rubye Wilkerson Beck, Trudy B. Anderson, Jessyna M. McDonald, Margaret Gentry, Linda Rosenman, Phyllis R. Silverman, Anabel O. Pelham, William F. Clark, Anne Martin Matthews, Carol D. H. Harvey, Gordon E. Barnes, Leonard J. Greenwood, and Rose Kabahenda-Nyakabwa (page images at HathiTrust)

• Widows (2 volumes; Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987), ed. by Helena Znaniecka Lopata, contrib. by Robert L. Rubinstein, Jaya Sarma Gujral, Jasoon Koo, Marsel A. Heisel, Jacquiline Touba, Ruth Katz, Nitza Ben-Dor, Evangelina Novero Blust, Linda Roseman, Arthur D. Shulman, Denise R. Barnes, Christine L. Fry, Lauree Garvin, Shirley L. O'Bryant, Anne Victoria Neale, Rubye Wilkerson Beck, Trudy B. Anderson, Jessyna M. McDonald, Margaret Gentry, Linda Rosenman, Phyllis R. Silverman, Anabel O. Pelham, William F. Clark, Anne Martin Matthews, Carol D. H. Harvey, Gordon E. Barnes, Leonard J. Greenwood, and Rose Kabahenda-Nyakabwa (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the New York State Commission on Relief for Widowed Mothers: Transmitted to the Legislature March 27, 1914 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Co., 1914), by New York State Commission on Relief for Widowed Mothers, contrib. by Sophie Irene Loeb (page images at HathiTrust)

• Infant Marriage and Enforced Widowhood in India: Being a Collection of Opinions, For and Against (Mumbai: Printed at the "Voice of India" Printing Press, 1887), by Behramji M. Malabari
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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• Burning Bright (c1950), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Fall of Valor (c1946), by Charles Jackson (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
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• So Well Remembered (c1945), by James Hilton (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
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