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• Joseph Vance: An Ill-Written Autobiography (New York: H. Holt and Co., c1906), by William De Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Flirt, by Booth Tarkington (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Simple Case of Susan (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1908), by Jacques Futrelle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Miss Mackenzie, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Agony Column, by Earl Derr Biggers (Gutenberg text)
• The American, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• A Cathedral Courtship (illustrations omitted; London: Gay and Bird, 1893), by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (Gutenberg text)
• A Cathedral Courtship (London: Gay and Bird, 1901), by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, illust. by C. E. Brock (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Eustace Diamonds, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen (London: Holden and Hardingham, 1913), by Sybil G. Brinton (Gutenberg text)
• 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

• A Tale of Red Roses (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1914), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coelebs in Search of a Wife (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1859), by Hannah More (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Transformation of Philip Jettan (based on the 1923 edition published under Heyer's "Stella Martin" pseudonym), by Georgette Heyer, illust. by J. C. Leyendecker (Gutenberg text)
• Emma, by Jane Austen
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Lady Susan, by Jane Austen
  • HTML with commentary at pemberley.com
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen (London: Holden and Hardingham, 1913), by Sybil G. Brinton (Gutenberg text)

• Ayala's Angel, by Anthony Trollope (HTML at Virginia)

• La Porte Étroite (in French; Paris: Societe de Mercure de France, 1909), by André Gide (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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

• Fascinating Womanhood, or, The Art of Attracting Men: A Practical Course of Lessons in the Underlying Principles By Which Women Attract Men, Leading to the Proposal and Culminating in Marriage (8 volumes; St. Louis: The Psychology Press, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-Making (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1894), by Annie S. Swan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare (HTML at folger.edu)
• Much Ado About Nothing (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• Much Ado About Nothing (with annotations and scene index), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Philip Weller (HTML at shakespeare-navigators.com)
• Much Adoe About Nothing (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. G. Boswell-Stone, contrib. by F. W. Clarke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Midsommer Nights Dreame (London: Thomas Fisher, 1600), by William Shakespeare (page images at uvic.ca)
• A Midsommer Nights Dreame (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1907), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Frederick James Furnivall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (with annotations and scene index), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Philip Weller (HTML at shakespeare-navigators.com)

• Love Letters (c2007), by Eberhard Arnold and Emmy Arnold (PDF at plough.com)

• The Man of Mode: or, Sir Fopling Flutter, by George Etherege (HTML at Bibliomania)

• Oliver of the Mill: A Tale (Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1876), by Maria Louisa Charlesworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1898), by Kirk Munroe, illust. by W. A. Rogers (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Flower Princess (with "The Little Friend", "The Mermaid's Child", and "The Ten Blowers"; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1904), by Abbie Farwell Brown
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Laddie (ca. 1894), by Evelyn Whitaker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lily and the Cross: A Tale of Acadia (Boston: Lee and Shepard, c1874), by James De Mille
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Pretty Sister of José (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland (London: Longmans, Green and Co., n.d.), by Andrew Lang, illust. by Richard Doyle and Edmund Evans (page images at ufl.edu)
• A Roman Reporter (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; et al., ca. 1893), by Arthur Aikin Brodribb (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Tip Cat (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1884), by Evelyn Whitaker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Parliament of Fowles, by Geoffrey Chaucer (HTML at mcllibrary.org)

• Love Letters (c2007), by Eberhard Arnold and Emmy Arnold (PDF at plough.com)

• Love Customs in Eighteenth-Century Spain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Carmen Martín Gaite, trans. by Maria G. Tomsich (HTML at UC Press)

• A Proposal Under Difficulties: A Farce (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1905), by John Kendrick Bangs (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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

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