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• The Pearl of Lima: A Story of True Love, by Jules Verne, trans. by Anne T. Wood (Gutenberg text)

• Dota Sub Raportul Înstreinărei (in Romanian; Bârlad: Const. D. Lupașcu, 1913), by Joan J. Jonescu
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

• Looking for Love in the Legal Discourse of Marriage (c2014), by Renata Grossi (multiple formats at ANU E Press)

• The Canadian, Photoplay Title of The Land of Promise: A Novelization of W. Somerset Maugham's Play (with pictures from the photoplay; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by D. Torbett, contrib. by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Married Women's Property Acts of Ontario (Toronto: Willing & Williamson, 1874), by Richard Thomas Walkem (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Die Hose: Ein Bürgerliches Lustspiel (in German; Berlin: P. Cassirer, 1911), by Carl Sternheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• From Different Standpoints (Boston: D. Lothrop and Co., c1878), by Isabella Macdonald Alden and Faye Huntington (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Weighed in the Balance (New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1869), by Sarah Stuart Robbins (multiple formats at Google)
• The Thread of Flame (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1920), by Basil King (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Thread of Flame (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1920), by Basil King (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Yellow Poppy (third impression; London: Duckworth, 1926), by D. K. Broster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Orchids to Murder (c1945), by Hulbert Footner, contrib. by Christopher Morley (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Sally, Mrs. Tubbs (Boston: Lothrop Pub. Co., 1903), by Margaret Sidney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Masquerader, by Katherine Cecil Thurston (Gutenberg text)

• English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana
• A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cransworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana

• Trilby, the Fairy of Argyle (Boston: Lamson, Wolffe and Co., 1895), by Charles Nodier, trans. by Minna Caroline Smith
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Silver Keys: A Tale (London and Edinburgh: Gall and Inglis, ca. 1872), by A. L. O. E., illust. by S. Miller (at ufdc.ufl.edu page images at Florida)
• The Snowball (New York: Merriam Co., c1895), by Stanley John Weyman
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Three Wise Old Couples (London et al.: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., c1881), by Elizabeth T. Corbett, illust. by Livingston Hopkins (page images at ufl.edu)
• Grandma's Attic Treasures: A Story of Old-Time Memories (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co.; London: Griffith and Farran, 1882), by Mary D. Brine, illust. by George T. Andrew (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Legal Status of Homemakers in Rhode Island (Washington: Homemakers Committee, National Commission on the Observance on International Women's Year, 1977), by Sheila Cabral-Sousa and Mildred White Tracey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Marital Property in Conflict of Laws (Seattle: University of Washington Press, c1952), by Harold Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)

• English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana
• A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cransworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana

• A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton (HTML at Indiana)

• A Treatise on the Law of Settlements of Property, Made Upon Marriage and Other Occasions (2 volumes; London: H. Sweet and Co., et al, 1887), by John Savill Vaizey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Collection of Precedents and Forms, with References and Additions to "A Treatise on the Law of Settlements" (London: H. Sweet and Sons, 1888), by John Savill Vaizey (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Practical Guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act (online edition, 2011), by Native American Rights Fund (HTML and PDF with commentary at narf.org)

• The Campbell Divorce Bill; Women's Rights on Ontario; Parliament As a Court of Justice: Speech of the Hon. Wm. MacDougall, Counsel for Mrs. Campbell, Before the Committee of the Senate, Taken in Short Hand, by William MacDougall (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Looking for Love in the Legal Discourse of Marriage (c2014), by Renata Grossi (multiple formats at ANU E Press)
• Colasterion, by John Milton (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)
• The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, by John Milton (HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)
• Marriage Rites, Customs, and Ceremonies, of the Nations of the Universe (London: J. Smith, 1822), by Augusta Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tetrachordon, by John Milton (illustrated HTML with commentary at Dartmouth)

• English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana
• A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cransworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Indiana

• A Treatise on the Law of Settlements of Property, Made Upon Marriage and Other Occasions (2 volumes; London: H. Sweet and Co., et al, 1887), by John Savill Vaizey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Collection of Precedents and Forms, with References and Additions to "A Treatise on the Law of Settlements" (London: H. Sweet and Sons, 1888), by John Savill Vaizey (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Treatise on the Law Relating to Marriages in Lower Canada (Montreal: Printed by J. Lovell, 1857), by James Sherrard Armstrong (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Statistical Analysis of American Divorce (Studies in History, Economics and Public Law #360; New York: Columbia University Press; London: P. S. King and Son, 1932), by Alfred Cahen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Law for the Clergy, by Sanford A. Hudson (page images at MOA)

• Proceedings Upon the Trial of the Action Brought by Mary Elizabeth Smith Against the Right Hon. Washington Sewallis Shirley Earl Ferrers, for Breach of Promise of Marriage (London: W. Pickering, 1846), contrib. by Mary Elizabeth Smith and Washington Sewallis Shirley Ferrers (page images at HathiTrust)

• And They Built a Crooked House, by Ruth S. Martin
  • frame-dependent HTML at Lakeside Press
  • simpler HTML at Lakeside Press

• The Tragedy of Jane Shore (London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1714), by Nicholas Rowe (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)

• Sister Carrie (restored text; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981), by Theodore Dreiser, ed. by John C. Berkey, Alice M. Winters, James L. W. West, and Neda M. Westlake (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Idalia, or, The Unfortunate Mistress: A Novel (third edition; London: Dan Browne, 1725), by Eliza Fowler Haywood (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Sooner or Later: The Story of an Ingenious Ingénue (London: Chapman and Hall, 1904), by Violet Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser (Gutenberg text)
• Sister Carrie (New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1900), by Theodore Dreiser
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at Wayback Machine
• Sister Carrie (New York: B. W. Dodge and Co., 1907), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Orchids to Murder (c1945), by Hulbert Footner, contrib. by Christopher Morley (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Mistress Nell Gwyn: A Novel (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1926), by Marjorie Bowen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Alexander's Bridge, by Willa Cather
  • HTML at unl.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Great Gatsby (first edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Fortunate Mistress: or, A History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana (from a "Works of Daniel Defoe" set, with a posthumously published continuation, and an introduction by Maynadier; New York: G. D. Sproul, 1908), by Daniel Defoe, contrib. by Howard Maynadier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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