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• A Mid-Century Child and Her Books (New York: Macmillan, 1926), by Caroline M. Hewins
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

• Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom (with reviews; based on the edition of 1845), by Sylvester Judd (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom (revised edition; Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1851), by Sylvester Judd
  • Volume I: HTML and page images at Virginia
  • Volume II: HTML and page images at Virginia

• Janet and her dear Phebe (Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1909), by Clarissa Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Child of the Orient, by Demetra Vaka (Gutenberg ebook)

• Reading Fiction in Antebellum America: Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820-1865 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011), by James L. Machor (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Nina Baym (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Reading for moral progress : 19th century institutions promoting social change (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997), by Donald G. Davis, John Mark Tucker, David M. Hovde, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and Conference on Faith and History (1994 : Messiah College) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Getting the books out : papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America (Center for the Book, Library of Congress :, 1987), by Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America (1985), Michael R. Hackenberg, and Library of Congress. Center for the Book (page images at HathiTrust)

• Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), ed. by James Philip Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand (PDF with commentary at Wisconsin)