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• Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Jeanne Rosier Smith (HTML at UC Press)
• Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Lisa Yaszek (PDF at Ohio State)
• Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), ed. by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Susan Sniader Lanser (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), ed. by Marleen S. Barr (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex) Soviet and American Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Susan Hardy Aiken, Adele Marie Barker, M. M. Koreneva, and E. A. Stetsenko (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Daughters of Aesculapius: Stories Written by Alumnae and Students of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and Co., 1897)
  • page images at Drexel
  • frame-dependent page images at Harvard
• Yermah the Dorado ; the story of a lost race (Alice Harriman Company, 1913), by Frona Eunice Wait Colburn and Alice Harriman Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new Penelope, and other stories and poems. (A. L. Bancroft & Company, printers, 1877), by Frances Fuller Victor and A.L. Bancroft & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bell in the fog and other stories (Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1905., 1905), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A modern Mephistopheles, and A whisper in the dark. (Roberts brothers, 1889), by Louisa May Alcott and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anita : a story of the Rocky Mountains (The Arlo Publishing Company, 1920), by Bertha B. Cobb, Anita Pettibone, L. J. Bridgman, Louis Charles McClure, Ernest Cobb, and Arlo Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Rocky Mountain feud (C.M. Clark Publishing Company, 1910), by Hattie Horner Louthan and C.M. Clark Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The forbidden trail (Frederick A Stokes company, 1919), by Honoré Morrow, Robert Emmett Owen, and Frederick A. Stokes Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The heart of Night Wind : a story of the great North west (Grosset & Dunlap, 1913), by Vingie E. Roe, George Gibbs, and Grosset & Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
• The three Tetons : a story of the Yellowstone (Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1887), by Alice Wellington Rollins and Cassell & Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lost man's lane : a second episode in the life of Amelia Butterworth (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1898), by Anna Katharine Green and Knickerbocker Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Three thousand dollars (R. G. Badger, 1910), by Anna Katharine Green and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Saintsbury affair (Little, Brown and Company, 1912), by Lily A. Long, J. V. McFall, Mass.) Colonial Press (Boston, Brown and Company Little, and Decorative Designers (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Wheaton month ([New York, 1907), by Wheaton Club of New York, Sarah Foster Greene, Lucy Larcom, Kate Upson Clark, Susan Hayes Ward, and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)

• The woman's story : as told by twenty American women (Hurst, 1889), by Laura C. Holloway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Castle nowhere (J. Neish, 1889), by Constance Fenimore Woolson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The woman's story : as told by twenty American women (John B. Alden, 1892), by Laura C. Holloway (page images at HathiTrust)

• Making the Difference: North Carolina Women Writers and Their Works (1996), by Virginia Daley (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by Laura Laffrado (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)
• Mutha' is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by LaMonda Horton-Stallings (PDF at Ohio State)
• I Made You to Find Me: The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Jane Hedley (PDF at Ohio State)
• Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Cari M. Carpenter (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Living Female Writers of the South (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1872), by Mary T. Tardy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Southland Writers: Biographical and Critical Sketches of the Living Female Writers of the South, With Extracts From Their Writings (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1870), by Mary T. Tardy (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Work of the Afro-American Woman (second edition; Philadelphia: G. S. Ferguson Co., 1908), by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Alabama women in literature. (Selma printing co.], 1895), by Mary La Fayette Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New Jersey scrap book of women writers. (Advertiser Printing House, 1893), by Margaret Tufts Yardley, Margaret Tufts Yardley, New Jersey. Board of women managers of the exhibits of the state of New Jersey. World's Columbian exposition, Ill.) World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, and New Jersey. Board of Women Managers of the Exhibits of the State of New Jersey (page images at HathiTrust)
• What can a woman do (Eagle Pub. Co., 1893), by M. L. Rayne, Rose Hartwick Thorpe, and Eagle Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The work of the Afro-American woman (Philadelphia : Geo. S. Ferguson Company, 1894., 1894), by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Paula M. L. Moya (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1990), ed. by Bonnie Kime Scott (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)

• Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Taylor Hagood (PDF at Ohio State)

• Women Poets and the American Sublime (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1990), by Joanne Feit Diehl (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
• I Made You to Find Me: The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Jane Hedley (PDF at Ohio State)
• A Poetics of Resistance: Women Writing in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Mary K. DeShazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rossetti to Sexton : six women poets at Texas (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 1992), by Dave Oliphant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson : the feminist poetics of self-restraint (University of Michigan Press, 2002), by Kirstin Hotelling Zona (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cultures of modernism : Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Else Lasker-Schüler, gender and literary community in New York and Berlin (University of Michigan Press, 2005), by Cristanne Miller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)
• 20th century Mormon women's autobiographical acts (Utah State University Press, 2004), by Laura L. Bush (page images at HathiTrust)
• The female prose writers of America. (E. H. Butler & co., 1852), by John Seely Hart (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Form of American Romance (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Zayatz Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)
• The American Novel (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Carl Van Doren (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Some American Story Tellers (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1911), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Steven Mailloux (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), ed. by Kenneth Huntress Baldwin and David Kirby, contrib. by Edgar A. Dryden, J. V. Ridgely, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis D. Rubin, Carlos Baker, Philip Momberger, James E. Miller, James Baird, and Edward Mendelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The advance of the English novel (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1916), by William Lyon Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• The almosts; a study of the feeble-minded (Houghton Mifflin;, 1970), by Helen MacMurchy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient Rome in the English novel; a study in English historical fiction ... (Philadelphia, 1923), by Randolph Faries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American novel in Germany, 1871-1913 (Americana Germanica press, 1918), by Clement Vollmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Definitions; essays in contemporary criticism (Second series) (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1924), by Henry Seidel Canby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern novel; some aspects of contemporary fiction (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926), by Elizabeth A. Drew (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American novel (The Macmillan company, 1921), by Carl Van Doren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love and death in the American novel. (Criterion Books, 1960), by Leslie A. Fielder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rediscovery of the frontier (University of Chicago Press, 1931), by Percy Holmes Boynton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemporary American novelists, 1900-1920 (The Macmillan company, 1922), by Carl Van Doren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia life in fiction (Dallas, 1922), by Jay B. Hubbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architecture in English fiction. (Yale University Press, 1934), by Warren Hunting Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The novel in English (R. R. Smith, inc., 1931), by Grant C. Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Definitions; essays in contemporary criticism (Jonathan Cape, ltd, 1925), by Henry Seidel Canby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American novel (The Macmillan company, 1927), by Carl Van Doren (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boys in the back room : notes on California novelists. (Colt Press, 1941), by Edmund Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The novel of democracy in America; a contribution to the study of the progress of democratic ideas in the American novel (J. H. Furst company, 1923), by Alice Jouveau Du Breuil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Provincial types in American fiction. (Kennikat Press, 1968), by Horace Spencer Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early American novel (New York, 1907), by Lillie Loshe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early American novel (Columbia University Press, 1907), by Lillie Loshe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The college novel in America. With a pref. by Harry T. Moore. (Southern Illinois University Press, 1962), by John Ormsby Lyons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The shapers of American fiction, 1798-1947. (Cooper Square Publishers, 1961), by George D. Snell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature and insurgency; ten studies in racial evolution: Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Frank Norris, David Graham Phillips, Stewart Edward White, Winston Churchill, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Atherton, and Robert W. Chambers (M. Kennerley, 1914), by John Curtis Underwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of the novel from 1700 to the present time (The Macmillan company, 1933), by Pelham Edgar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social thought in American fiction (1910-1917) (Southern California Sociological Society, University of Southern California, 1918), by Hazel Clare Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Provincial types in American fiction (The Chautauqua press, 1907), by Horace Spencer Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
• Businessmen in fiction; the capitalist and executive in American novels. (Amos Tuck School of Business Administration [Dartmouth College, 1955), by Robert A. Kavesh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American novel (The Macmillan company, 1935), by Carl Van Doren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Pamphlets in philology and the humanities. Vol. 17] (s.n., 1897), by Harold Prell Breitenbach, Richard E. Helbig, Thomas P. Johnson, Clarence Linton Meader, James Rowland Angell, John Hays Gardiner, Mary Elizabeth Laing, Warren Washburn Florer, Charles Horton Cooley, Francis Barton Gummere, Edward Everett Hale, Raymond Macdonald Alden, Elmer Edgar Stoll, Ferdinand Brunetière, James Lane Allen, Irving Babbitt, William J. Shearer, Rollo Ogden, A. D. Lindsay, Ernest Sutherland Bates, Arlo Bates, Maurice Maeterlinck, William Warner Bishop, R. M. Wenley, Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, John Dewey, Walter Avenel, William Eleroy Curtis, Fred Newton Scott, Otto Jespersen, W. P. Ratigan, C. B. Moulinier, John C. Stevens, William Shakespeare, Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson, Raymond Durbin Miller, Palmer Cobb, James Finch Royster, Oliver Towles, Michigan Schoolmasters' Club. German Section, Boston Public Library, New England Association of Teachers of English, and Rochester Equestres Party (East High School (page images at HathiTrust)
• Provincial types in American fiction (The Chautauqua Press, 1903), by Horace Spencer Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American novel in Germany, 1871-1913 (International printing co., 1918), by Clement Vollmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Superlatives (A. A. Knopf, 1925), by Grant Cochran Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le roman américan d'aujourd'hui, critique d'une civilization (Boivin & Cie, éditeurs, 1926), by Régis Michaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The novel of democracy in America; a contribution to the study of the progress of democratic ideas in the American novel (J.H. Furst Company, 1923), by Alice Jouveau Du Breuil (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American historical novel : on American themes, before 1860 (University of Illinois, 1923), by Ernest Erwin Leisy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American short story; a study of the influence of locality in its development. (AMS Press, 1970), by Elias Lieberman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les nouveaux romanciers américains (Calmann-Levy, 1885), by Th. Bentzon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social types in southern prose fiction ... (Edwards brothers, 1921), by Marion Clifford Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in contemporary criticism (J. Cape, 1922), by Henry Seidel Canby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The early American novel, 1789-1830. (F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1958), by Lillie Deming Loshe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American novel in Germany, 1871-1913. (International printing co., 1918), by Clement Vollmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to British and American novels : being a comprehensive manual of all forms of popular fiction in Great Britain, Australasia, and America from its commencement down to 1893 (Digby, Long, 1894), by Percy Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some American story tellers (G. Richards, 1912), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The advance of the English novel (Dodd, Mead, 1927), by William Lyon Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)

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