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• Bygone England: Social Studies in Historic Byways and Highways (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1892), by William Andrews
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• English Life, Social and Domestic, in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century, Considered in Reference to Our Position as a Community of Professing Christians (London: B. Fellowes, 1847), by Elizabeth Whately (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, by Washington Irving (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v2; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
• The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (2 volume "Van Tassel" edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894-1895), by Washington Irving, illust. by Allan F. Barraud, Frederick S. Church, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Arthur Rackham, and Julian Rix (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Hills and the Vale (London: Duckworth and Co., 1909), by Richard Jefferies, contrib. by Edward Thomas (Gutenberg text)
• Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the Years 1826, 1827, 1828, and 1829, With Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, and Anecdotes of Distinguished Public Characters, in a Series of Letters (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1833), by Hermann Pückler-Muskau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments, by Edmund Gosse (Gutenberg text)
• Ten Years of Upper Canada in Peace and War, 1805-1815: Being the Ridout Letters (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1890), by Thomas Ridout and Matilda Ridout Edgar (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Anne Grey: A Novel (3 volumes; London: Saunders and Otley, 1834), by Mrs. Cradock, ed. by T. H. Lister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ayala's Angel (3 volumes in 1; London: Chapman and Hall, 1881), by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• Born In Exile, by George Gissing
  • HTML at victorian-studies.net
  • Gutenberg text
• Bracebridge Hall (London: MacMillan and Co., 1877), by Washington Irving, illust. by Randolph Caldecott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Bracebridge Hall: or, The Humorists (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v6; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
• Easy Money: The Genuine Book of Henry Mitch, His Diligent Search for Other Folk's Wealth, and His Urgent Fear of the Feminine (London: Grant Richards, 1908), by Bertram Atkey, illust. by G. L. Stampa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Godolphin, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Gutenberg text)
• The Grey Woman, and Other Tales (London: Smith Elder and Co., 1865), by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Half a Life-Time Ago, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Gutenberg text)
• Henrietta's Wish, by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • HTML at Indiana
  • Gutenberg text
• Hopes and Fears: or, Scenes from the Life of a Spinster (London and New York: Macmillan, 1899), by Charlotte M. Yonge, illust. by Herbert Gandy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Lizzie Leigh, and Other Tales (new edition, with four illustrations; London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1889), by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Magnum Bonum: or, Mother Carey's Brood, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• Modern Broods: or, Developments Unlooked For, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Moorland Cottage, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (HTML at victorian-studies.net)
• Penelope's English Experiences, by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Gutenberg text)
• The Pillars of the House: or, Under Wode, Under Rode (2 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co., 1875), by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• Scenes and Characters: or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft (fifth edition; London and New York: Macmillan, 1889), by Charlotte M. Yonge, illust. by William John Hennessy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Scenes of Clerical Life, by George Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• A Secret Inheritance (3 volumes; London: Ward and Downey, 1887), by B. L. Farjeon
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google
• The Semi-Attached Couple, by Emily Eden (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Semi-Detached House, by Emily Eden (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Thinks I-to-Myself: A Serio-Ludicro, Tragico-Comico Tale, Written by Thinks-I-to-Myself Who? (4th edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1811), by Edward Nares (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Two Sides of the Shield, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Uncommercial Traveller, by Charles Dickens, illust. by Harry Furniss and Arthur Jule Goodman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Unkind Word, and Other Stories (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1870), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Yellow Face (New York: R. F. Fenno and Co.; London: F. V. White and Co., c1907), by Fred M. White (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Beth Book: Being a Study from the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius (London: W. Heinemann, 1898), by Sarah Grand (HTML at Emory)
• The Castle Builders (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1864), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Chantry House (London and New York: Macmillan, 1905), by Charlotte M. Yonge, illust. by William John Hennessy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Charles Tyrrell: or, The Bitter Blood (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1855), by G. P. R. James (both volumes: Gutenberg text)
• Founded on Paper: or, Uphill and Downhill Between the Two Jubilees (New York: T. Whittaker, 1897), by Charlotte M. Yonge, illust. by W. S. Stacey
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Hilda Lessways, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• Lady Hester: or, Ursula's Narrative, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• My Young Alcides: A Faded Photograph, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton, by George Eliot, contrib. by Grace Little Rhys (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Strolling Players: A Harmony of Contrasts (London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1893), by Charlotte M. Yonge and Christabel R. Coleridge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• That Stick (London and New York: Macmillan, 1892), by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Three Brides, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Vision Splendid (London: J. Murray, 1913), by D. K. Broster and G. Winifred Taylor (Gutenberg text)
• Lizzie Leigh, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Gutenberg text)
• The Poacher, by Frederick Marryat (Gutenberg text)
• Heartsease, or The Brother's Wife, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (HTML with numbered paragraphs at victorian-studies.net)
• Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (London: Service and Paton, 1897), by Charlotte Brontë, illust. by F. H. Townsend (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (copyright edition by "Currer Bell", 2 volumes; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1850), by Charlotte Brontë (images at MOA)
• A Life for a Life (3 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1859), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Life for a Life (New York: Carleton, 1866), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

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