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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)
• Cranford (Macmillian, 1898), by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Hugh Thomson, and Anne Thackeray Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The enchanted April (Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923., 1923), by Elizabeth Von Arnim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vanity fair; a novel without a hero (Harper & brothers, 1899), by William Makepeace Thackeray and Minnie Maddern Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cranford (Crowell, 1892), by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and Anne Thackeray Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch (Century Co., 1903), by Alice Hegan Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cranford (The Macmillan Company ;, 1905), by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Martin W. Sampson, and Martin Wright Sampson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The woman's kingdom. A love story. (Harper & Brothers, 1869), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emma : a novel : in three volumes (Printed for John Murray, 1816), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pindar: the Olympian and Pythian odes (University Press, 1893), by Pindar and C. A. M. Fennell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emma (Little, Brown, 1902), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cranford (Macmillan and Co., 1891), by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Hugh Thomson, and Anne Thackeray Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cranford (American Book Company, 1907), by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and Charles Elbert Rhodes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vanity fair : a novel without a hero (J. M. Dent, 1901), by William Makepeace Thackeray and Walter Jerrold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sense and sensibility, etc. (T. Nelson and sons, 1903), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cranford (Educational Publishing Co., 1909), by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Margaret Abbott Whiting, and Margaret A. Whiting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lovel the Widower. (Estes & Lauriat, 1891), by William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vanity Fair; a novel without a hero (Smith, Elder, & co., 1886), by William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emma (Roberts Brothers, 1892), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cranford (Macmillan, 1923), by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Hugh Thomson, and Anne Thackeray Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vanity Fair : a novel without a hero, to which is added Novels by eminent hands and The diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche, Esq., with his letters (Siegel-Cooper, 1900), by William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tish plays the game, by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Princess Sonia, by Julia Magruder, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cranford, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, contrib. by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, illust. by Hugh Thomson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Intrusions of Peggy, by Anthony Hope (Gutenberg ebook)
• La foire aux vanités, Tome II (in French), by William Makepeace Thackeray, trans. by Georges Guiffrey (Gutenberg ebook)
• La foire aux vanités, Tome I (in French), by William Makepeace Thackeray, trans. by Georges Guiffrey (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth Von Arnim (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Dark Tide (London: Grant Richards, 1923), by Vera Brittain (multiple formats at Google)
• Cranford (Macmillan, 1892), by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Hugh Thomson, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, R. & R. Clark (Firm), and Macmillan & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Emma (Little, Brown, & Co., 1901), by Jane Austen (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• The enchanted April (Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923., 1923), by Elizabeth Von Arnim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vom neuen Weibe und seiner Liebe : ein Buch für reife Geister (Schuster & Loeffler, 1901), by Elisabeth Dauthendey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cranford (Macmillan, 1923), by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Hugh Thomson, and Anne Thackeray Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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

• Six girls grown up : a story (W.A. Wilde, 1912), by Marion Ames Taggart and William F. Stecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Newnham friendship. (Blackie, 1901), by Alice Stronach, Harold Copping, and Blackie & Son (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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