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• The Half Sisters: A Tale (cheap edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1854), by Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tragic Muse (based on the 1-volume 1891 edition, with commentary), by Henry James, ed. by Adrian Dover (HTML at the Ladder)
• The Tragic Muse (London: Macmillan and Co., 1921), by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• Mistress Nell Gwyn: A Novel (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1926), by Marjorie Bowen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Phantom Herd (1916), by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)

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

• Hollywood Undressed: Observations of Sylvia as Noted by Her Secretary (New York: Brentano's, 1931), contrib. by Sylvia of Hollywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shadows of the Stage (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by William Winter (Gutenberg text)

• Mimic Life, or, Before and Behind the Curtain: A Series of Narratives (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856), by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (page images at MOA)

• An American Comedy (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and co., 1928), by Harold Lloyd and Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies For Image Making (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Laura Engel (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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

• The "Mind the Paint" Girl (comedy in 4 acts), by Arthur Wing Pinero (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML with music, and page images)

• Silver Screen (partial serial archives)

• An American Comedy (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and co., 1928), by Harold Lloyd and Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)

• Silver Screen (partial serial archives)

• Behind the Screen (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Samuel Goldwyn
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Filmbulletin (in German) (partial serial archives)

• Talking Screen (full serial archives)
• Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (partial serial archives)

• Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by Cynthia Willett and Julie A. Willett (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• No Great Magic (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1963), by Fritz Leiber (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• A Maid of Many Moods (Toronto: Copp Clark Co., 1902), by Virna Sheard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Without the Limelight: Theatrical Life As It Is (London: Chatto and Windus, 1900), by George R. Sims (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Actor-Manager (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by William Dean Howells (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Comedienne (c1920), by Władyslaw Stanisław Reymont, trans. by Edmund Obecny (Gutenberg text)
• Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (2 volumes; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1917), by David Graham Phillips
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Indiana
  • both volumes (but no illustrations): Gutenberg text

• The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1841), by Henry Cockton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Position of Peggy Harper (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by Arthur Wing Pinero (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (published under "John Milton Edwards" pen name; Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success (c1996), by Donald Maass (PDF in Canada)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction (London: Grant Richards, 1901) (Gutenberg text)
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing (New York: Riverside Literary Bureau, C. T. Dillingham and Co., c1894), by Sherwin Cody
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing: A Practical Study of Technique (London: Bellairs and Co., 1895), by Sherwin Cody (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Primer of the Novel (New York: Random House, c1950), by Vincent McHugh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fiction Catalog (partial serial archives)
• English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest A. Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Manual of Ready Reference to Classic Fiction: Containing Brief Analyses of the World's Great Stories, and Analytical Indexes of the Chief Elements Found Therein (New York, Authors Press, c1909), by Marion Mills Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos (second edition, in Spanish; Bilbao: Sr. Administrator de el Mensajero del Corazón de Jesús, ca. 1911), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos Juzgados en Orden de Naciones: Júzganse 2,057 Novelistas: 288 Españoles, 97 Hispanoamericanos, 24 Portugueses, 65 Italianos, 1173 Franceses, 143 Ingleses, 98 Alemanes, 169 Rusos, Belgas, Escandinovos, etc. (in Spanish; Bogotá: Impr. Eléctrica, 1910), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Checklist: A Complete, Cumulative Checklist of Lesbian, Variant and Homosexual Fiction, in English or Available in English Translation, With Supplements of Related Material, for the Use of Collectors, Students and Librarians (Rochester, TX: M. Z. Bradley, c1960), ed. by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Gene Damon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (20 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, c1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
  • Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google

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