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• The Golden Notebook (originally published 1962; with extensive online discussion from 2008 and 2009), by Doris Lessing (HTML with commentary at thegoldennotebook.org)
• The Enchanted April (New York: Pocket Books (Simon and Schuster, Inc.), 1993), by Elizabeth Von Arnim (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• A Noble Woman (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1871), by Ann S. Stephens (Gutenberg text)
• The School for Widows: A Novel (3 volumes; London: Printed for T. Hookham et al., 1791), by Clara Reeve
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at Google
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust
• Woman's Friendship: A Story of Domestic Life (London: Groombridge and Sons, 1850), by Grace Aguilar (multiple formats at Google)
• Emma, by Jane Austen
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Emma (based on the 1896 Macmillan edition), by Jane Austen, contrib. by Austin Dobson, illust. by Hugh Thomson (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Felicia to Charlotte: Being Letters From a Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town (published separately from a similarly-named sequel; London: Printed for R. Griffiths and G. Woodfall, 1749), by Mary Collyer
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Letters From Felicia to Charlotte, Volume Second (London: Printed for J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1749), by Mary Collyer (multiple formats at Google)
• Mapp and Lucia (1931), by E. F. Benson (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • searchable HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero (with illustrations by the author; New York: Harper and Bros., n.d.), by William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Passing (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1929), by Nella Larsen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cranford, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, illust. by C. E. Brock
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • illustrated HTML at victorian-studies.net
• The Fruit of the Tree, by Edith Wharton, illust. by Alonzo Kimball (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, by Alice Hegan Rice (Gutenberg text)

• The Dark Tide (London: Grant Richards, 1923), by Vera Brittain (multiple formats at Google)

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

• Best Friends and Marriage: Exchange Among Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Stacey J. Oliker (HTML at UC Press)

• Joe Burke's Last Stand (c2003), by John Moncure Wetterau (Gutenberg text)
• Sky Bounce (c2003), by Deanna Miller (PDF with commentary at deannamiller.com)
• The Prize in the Game (2002), by Jo Walton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• La Chair et le Sang (in French; Paris: Emile-Paul Freres, 1920), by François Mauriac (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sandy (New York: The Century Co., 1905), by Alice Hegan Rice
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • illustrated HTML at Emory
• Tish (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by May Wilson Preston (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions, by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by May Wilson Preston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• My Ántonia (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1994), by Willa Cather, ed. by Charles Mignon, contrib. by James Leslie Woodress, illust. by Wladyslaw T. Benda (illustrated HTML at unl.edu)
• The Waves (1931), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Hill: A Romance of Friendship, by Horace Annesley Vachell (Gutenberg text)
• Just Patty (New York: The Century Co., 1911), by Jean Webster, illust. by C. M. Relyea (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Just Patty (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1911), by Jean Webster, illust. by C. M. Relyea (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Legend (London: Heinemann, 1919), by Clemence Dane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The World of Henry Orient, by Nora Johnson (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Wowio)
• The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford (Gutenberg text)
• Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure Under the Open Stars (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1919), by James Oliver Curwood, illust. by Charles Livingston Bull (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure Under the Open Stars, by James Oliver Curwood (Gutenberg text)
• The Plunderer (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1912), by Roy Norton, illust. by Douglas Duer
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• My Ántonia (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1918), by Willa Cather, illust. by Wladyslaw T. Benda (HTML and PDF at Elegant Ebooks)
• My Antonia, by Willa Cather (Gutenberg text)

• The House by the River (New York: Knopf, 1921), by A. P. Herbert (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Marion Fay (3 volumes in 1; London: Chapman and Hall, 1882), by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (Bristol, UK: J. W. Arrowsmith; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1889), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by A. Frederics
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by A. Frederics (illustrated HTML at Forgotten Futures)
• Aaron's Rod, by D. H. Lawrence (Gutenberg text)
• The Ball and the Cross, by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text)
• Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Euphues and His England (Westminster: A. Constable and Co., 1900), by John Lyly, ed. by Edward Arber (searchable page images at Google; US access only)
• The Four Feathers, by A. E. W. Mason (Gutenberg text)
• The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Old Man and the Sea (as published in full in Life Magazine, September 1, 1952), by Ernest Hemingway, illust. by Noel Sickles (page images at Google)
• Ulysses, by James Joyce (multiple editions)
• Of Mice and Men (c1937), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Penrod and Sam, by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Penrod and Sam (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1916), by Booth Tarkington, illust. by Worth Brehm (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Women in Love, by D. H. Lawrence
  • HTML at Bibliomania
  • Gutenberg text
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (first edition and commentary), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1904), by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Hartford et al.: American Pub. Co., 1884), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper
  • volume I: HTML at Virginia
  • volume II: HTML at Virginia
• The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper (Gutenberg text)
• The Two Admirals: A Tale (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at MOA
• The Two Admirals: A Tale (New York : Hurd and Houghton, 1871), by James Fenimore Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Two Admirals: A Tale (New York : Hurd and Houghton, 1872), by James Fenimore Cooper, illust. by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (page images at HathiTrust)

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