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• Domestic fiction, Australian
• Domestic fiction, English

• Domestic novels

• The Penhallow family; a story, (Boston, W. A. Wilde, [c1905]), by Cecilia Viets Dakin Jamison and Frank T. Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• An only child, (Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905), by Eliza Orne White, illust. by Katharine Pyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Ántonia / (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©1954), by Willa Cather (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• West Lawn, and The rector of St. Mark’s, by Mary Jane Holmes (Gutenberg ebook)
• Buddenbrookit 2: Erään suvun rappeutumistarina (in Finnish), by Thomas Mann, trans. by Siiri Siegberg (Gutenberg ebook)
• Buddenbrookit 1: Erään suvun rappeutumistarina (in Finnish), by Thomas Mann, trans. by Siiri Siegberg (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Wyvern mystery, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, illust. by Brinsley Le Fanu (Gutenberg ebook)
• Show Boat, by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg ebook)
• Œuvres complètes de Guy de Maupassant - volume 17 (in French), by Guy de Maupassant (Gutenberg ebook)
• El abuelo (Novela en cinco jornadas) (in Spanish), by Benito Pérez Galdós (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Lost Lady, by Willa Cather (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rouva Mayburnin kaksoiset (in Finnish), by John Habberton, trans. by Werner Anttila (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pikku-veikon kirja: Avioliittoromaani (in Finnish), by Gustaf af Geijerstam, trans. by Antti Kaila (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Painted Veil, by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg ebook)
• Un amant (in French), by Emily Brontë, trans. by Teodor de Wyzewa (Gutenberg ebook)
• True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life, by Sarah E. Farro (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Day of Small Things, by Anne Manning (Gutenberg ebook)
• Au temps de l'innocence (in French), by Edith Wharton, trans. by Madeleine Marie Louise Chevrillon Saint-René Taillandier (Gutenberg ebook)
• So Big, by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Old Maid (The 'Fifties), by Edith Wharton, illust. by Edward C. Caswell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Das Buch vom Brüderchen: Roman einer Ehe (in German), by Gustaf af Geijerstam, trans. by Francis Maro (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lover and Husband: A Novel, by Mrs. Molesworth (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pride and His Prisoners, by A. L. O. E., illust. by T. W. Holgate (Gutenberg ebook)
• Väter und Söhne (in German), by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Son at the Front, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Real Charlotte, by Martin Ross and E. Œ. Somerville (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago, by Mrs. Oliphant (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Reaping, by E. F. Benson (Gutenberg ebook)
• When She Came Home from College, by Marian Hurd McNeely and Jean Bingham Wilson, illust. by George Gibbs (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of a Baby, by Ethel Sybil Turner (Gutenberg ebook)
• Vaders en Zonen (in Dutch), by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, trans. by Arn. Saalborn (Gutenberg ebook)
• Le Vicaire de Wakefield (in French), by Oliver Goldsmith, trans. by Bernard Henri Gausseron, illust. by V. A. Poirson (Gutenberg ebook)
• 金瓶梅 (in Chinese), by Xiaoxiaosheng (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wakefieldin kappalainen (in Finnish), by Oliver Goldsmith, trans. by Samuli Suomalainen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Isät ja lapset: Romaani (in Finnish), by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, trans. by Samuli Suomalainen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Slechte Tijden (in Dutch), by Charles Dickens, trans. by C. M. Mensing, illust. by H. French (Gutenberg ebook)
• Viimevuotiset ystävämme (in Finnish), by Louisa May Alcott, trans. by Annikki Haahti (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mont Oriol; or, A Romance of Auvergne: A Novel, by Guy de Maupassant (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Daft Days, by Neil Munro (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pikku naisia (in Finnish), by Louisa May Alcott, trans. by Tyyni Tuulio (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Father and Daughter: A Tale, in Prose, by Amelia Opie, illust. by John Opie (Gutenberg ebook)
• Œuvres complètes de Gustave Flaubert, tome 1 (of 8): Madame Bovary (in French), by Gustave Flaubert (Gutenberg ebook)
• Aurora Floyd, Vol. 3: Fifth Edition, by M. E. Braddon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Aurora Floyd, Vol. 2: Fifth Edition, by M. E. Braddon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Aurora Floyd, Vol. 1: Fifth Edition, by M. E. Braddon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, trans. by C. J. Hogarth (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Forest Farm: Tales of the Austrian Tyrol, by Peter Rosegger, contrib. by Maude Egerton King and Julius Petersen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hesper, the Home-Spirit: A simple story of household labor and love, by Lizzie Doten (Gutenberg ebook)
• Familjen i dalen: Berättelse (in Swedish), by Emilie Flygare-Carlén (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ylpeys ja ennakkoluulo (in Finnish), by Jane Austen, trans. by O. A. Joutsen (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Pillars of the House; Or, Under Wode, Under Rode, Vol. 2 (of 2), by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Family of Noblemen: The Gentlemen Golovliov, by Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov, trans. by Avrahm Yarmolinsky (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bud: A Novel, by Neil Munro (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ansa: Yhteiskunnallinen kuvaus Pariisin työväen elämästä toisen keisarikunnan aikana (in Finnish), by Émile Zola, trans. by Paavo Warén (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hathercourt, by Mrs. Molesworth (Gutenberg ebook)
• Happy House, by Betsey Riddle Hutten zum Stolzenberg (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, ed. by R. W. Chapman (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Pirate: Andrew Lang Edition, by Walter Scott, ed. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story Book Girls, by Christina Gowans Whyte (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time, by Fanny Fern (Gutenberg ebook)
• Margaret Vincent: A Novel, by W. K. Clifford (Gutenberg ebook)
• Elsie's Widowhood: A Sequel to Elsie's Children, by Martha Finley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Eunice, by Margaret M. Robertson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sous la neige (in French), by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Adeline Mowbray; or, The Mother and Daughter, by Amelia Opie (Gutenberg ebook)
• Raison et sensibilité, ou les deux manières d'aimer (Tome 4) (in French), by Jane Austen, trans. by Isabelle de Montolieu (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Return of the Soldier, by Rebecca West (Gutenberg ebook)
• Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, by Louisa May Alcott, illust. by Frank T. Merrill (Gutenberg ebook)
• Home Influence: A Tale for Mothers and Daughters, by Grace Aguilar (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Pastor's Wife, by Elizabeth Von Arnim, illust. by Arthur Litle (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rose of Dutcher's Coolly, by Hamlin Garland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Unlucky: A Fragment of a Girl's Life, by Caroline Austin (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Squatter and the Don: A Novel Descriptive of Contemporary Occurrences in California, by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Perhe Giljellä: Kuvaus neljänneltä vuosikymmeneltä (in Finnish), by Jonas Lie (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker: A Novel, by John Strange Winter (Gutenberg ebook)
• Raison et sensibilité, ou les deux manières d'aimer (Tome 3) (in French), by Jane Austen, trans. by Isabelle de Montolieu (Gutenberg ebook)
• Raison et sensibilité, ou les deux manières d'aimer (Tome 2) (in French), by Jane Austen, trans. by Isabelle de Montolieu (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts, by James Fenimore Cooper (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of a Father and Son, by George Meredith, ed. by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (Gutenberg ebook)
• Το βιβλίο του μικρού αδερφού: Μυθιστόρημα ενός Γάμου (in Greek), by Gustaf af Geijerstam, trans. by Kostantinos Chatzopoulos (Gutenberg ebook)
• Raison et sensibilité, ou les deux manières d'aimer (Tome 1) (in French), by Jane Austen, trans. by Isabelle de Montolieu (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Spoils of Poynton, by Henry James (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Spy: Condensed for use in schools, by James Fenimore Cooper (Gutenberg ebook)
• Siska van Roosemael (in Dutch), by Hendrik Conscience (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 19, by Lloyd Osbourne and Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Boken om lille-bror: Ett äktenskaps roman (in Swedish), by Gustaf af Geijerstam (Gutenberg ebook)
• Aunt Jane of Kentucky, by Eliza Calvert Hall, illust. by Beulah Strong (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Captain's Bunk: A Story for Boys, by M. B. Manwell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Vixen, Volume III., by M. E. Braddon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Vixen, Volume II., by M. E. Braddon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Vixen, Volume I., by M. E. Braddon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Littlebourne Lock, by F. Bayford Harrison (Gutenberg ebook)
• Gevoel en verstand (in Dutch), by Jane Austen, trans. by Gonne Loman-van Uildriks (Gutenberg ebook)
• In the Mist of the Mountains, by Ethel Sybil Turner, illust. by J. MacFarlane (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Circuit Rider's Wife, by Corra Harris (Gutenberg ebook)
• Monte-Cristo's Daughter, by Edmund Flagg (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Simple Story, by Mrs. Inchbald, ed. by Lytton Strachey (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers, by Ian Maclaren (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hunter's Marjory: A Story for Girls, by Margaret Bruce Clarke (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Ántonia, by Willa Cather (Gutenberg ebook)
• At Home with the Jardines, by Lilian Bell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Harvest of Years, by Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Home in the Valley, by Emilie Flygare-Carlén, trans. by Elbert Perce (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth Von Arnim (Gutenberg ebook)

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