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• Girls' stories from Dickens (John C. Winston, Co., 1929), by Charles Dickens, C. M. Burd, and Elizabeth Lodor Merchant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Dickens and his girl heroines (D. Appleton and company, 1911), by Belle Moses (page images at HathiTrust)

• Girls' stories from Dickens (John C. Winston, Co., 1929), by Charles Dickens, C. M. Burd, and Elizabeth Lodor Merchant (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Girlhood and the Politics of Place (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2016), ed. by Claudia Mitchell and Carrie A. Rentschler
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• The Girl and Her Chance: A Study of Conditions Surrounding the Young Girl Between Fourteen and Eighteen Years of Age in New York City (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1914), by Harriet McDoual Daniels (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! Helps for Girls, In School and Out (Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, c1886), by Annie H. Ryder (Gutenberg text)
• Our Girls (New York: Harper and Bros., 1874), by Dio Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Girl Wanted: A Book of Friendly Thoughts (Chicago: Forbes and Co., 1919), by Nixon Waterman (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Rural girls in the city for work; a study made for the Southern Woman's Educational Alliance (Garrett & Massie, Inc., 1930), by O. Latham Hatcher and Southern Woman's Educational Alliance (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American girl in the stockyards district (University of Chicago Press, 1913), by Louise Montgomery, University of Chicago. Chicago Alumnae Club, and University of Chicago. Settlement. Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• The girl (G. Bell and sons, ltd., 1920), by Katharine Cochran Dewar and Gladys Helen Dick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The adolescent girl; a book for parents and teachers (Macmillan, 1925), by Winifred V. Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The three gifts of life; a girl's responsibility for race progress (Dodd, Mead, & company, 1913), by Nellie May Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The upbringing of daughters (Longmans, Green and co., 1917), by Catherine Durning Whetham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The girl and her chance; a study of conditions surrounding the young girl between fourteen and eighteen years of age in New York city (Fleming H. Revell company, 1914), by Harriet McDoual Daniels and Association of neighborhood workers. New York (City) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Training the girl, by William A. McKeever. (The Macmillan company, 1914), by William A. McKeever (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young working girls : a summary of evidence from two thousand social workers (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, Albert J. Kennedy, and Robert Archey Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
• Other people's daughters. (Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin company, 1926., 1926), by Eleanor Harris Wembridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physical fitness for girls; a textbook for teacher education and a guide to teachers in curriculum revision (A.S. Barnes and company, incorporated, 1943), by Rosalind Cassidy and Hilda Clute Kozman (page images at HathiTrust)
• National physical achievements standards for girls; instruction book and scoring tables ... (New York city, 1936), by Amy Richmond Howland and National Recreation Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• New directions in physical education for the adolescent girl in high school and college; a guide for teachers in cooperative curriculum revision (A.S. Barnes and company, incorporated, 1938), by Rosalind Cassidy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fitness first, a physical fitness workbook for high school girls (A. S. Barnes and company, incorporated, 1943), by Hilda Clute Kozman and Rosalind Cassidy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farm boys and girls (The Macmillan Company, 1912), by William A. McKeever (page images at HathiTrust)
• Partners in play : recreation for young men and women together (A.S. Barnes, 1936), by Mary J. Breen, Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National Board, and National Recreation Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personality development in adolescent girls (Child Development Publications, 1953), by Lawrence K. Frank (page images at HathiTrust)
• The trend of the teens (F. J. Drake and co., 1920), by M. V. O'Shea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Health counseling for girls (A. S. Barnes and company, 1944), by Margaret L. Leonard (page images at HathiTrust)
• On being a girl (The Macmillan company, 1927), by Jessie Edith Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
• On being a girl (The Macmillan company, 1929), by Jessie Edith Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
• On being a girl (The Macmillan company, 1931), by Jessie Edith Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adolescent girl : a book for parents and teachers (Macmillan, 1926), by Winifred V. Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Queens; a book for girls about themselves (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1920), by Violet Trench (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leadership of girls' activities (The Methodist book concern, 1919), by Mary E. Moxcey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American country girl (Frederick A. Stokes company, 1915), by Martha Crow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten talks to girls on health : for club leaders (Woman's Press, 1921), by Augusta Rucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Developmental age in girls (Catholic University of America, 1934), by Celestine Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust)
• City planning for girls : a study of the social machinery for case work with girls in Philadelphia, with comments on present methods, brief histories of past experiments, and recommended plans for the future (The University of Chicago press, 1928), by Henrietta Silvis Additon and Big sister association of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The conduct of physical education; its organization and administration (A. S. Barnes and company, 1939), by Mabel Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A few lives; a report of Dosoris, study and treatment home for adolescent girls, 1945-1947. (Family Service, Community Service Society of New York, 1948), by New York (N.Y.) Dosoris, Aileen C. Burton, and Community Service Society of New York. Family Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• De inrichtingen voor justitiemeisjes, door dame Marie-Ignatia ... ([Brasschaet (Antwerpen) Drukkerij de Bièvre], 1928), by dame Marie-Ignatia (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adolescent girl, a study from the psychoanalytic view point (Dodd, Mead and company, 1930), by Phyllis Mary Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Case studies of two high-school girls ... ([University of Chicago?, 1926), by Elsie May Smithies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deans and advisers of women and girls ... (Professional & technical press, 1928), by Anna Eloise Pierce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The changing girl : a little book for the girl of ten to fifteen (Revell, 1913), by Caroline Wormeley Latimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boys and girls in Salt Lake City; the results of a survey made for the Rotary club and the Business and professional women's club of Salt Lake City (Salt Lake City, Utah, 1929), by Arthur L. Beeley (page images at HathiTrust)
• What Maisie knew (Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1897), by Henry James, Frank Hazenplug, Henry James Collection (Library of Congress), and Herbert S. Stone & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Case studies of normal adolescent girls (D. Appleton, 1933), by Elsie May Smithies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Health and happiness : a message to girls from Eliza M. Mosher (Funk & Wagnalls co., 1912), by Eliza Maria Mosher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The girl in her teens (The Sunday school times, 1910), by Margaret Slattery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tama : the diary of a Japanese school girl (Womans Press, 1920), by Florence Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Health and happiness; a message to girls from Eliza M. Mosher ... (Funk & Wagnalls co., 1912), by Eliza Maria Mosher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adolescent girls; a nation-wide study of girls between eleven and eighteen years of age. ([Ann Arbor, 1957), by University of Michigan Survey Research Center and Girl Scouts of the United States of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our girls (Harper & Brothers, 1871), by Dio Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The girl of the period : and other social essays (Richard Bentley & Son, 1883), by E. Lynn Linton, Leona Bowman Carpenter Collection of English and American Literature, and Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mother and daughter : a book of ideals for girls (The Century, 1910), by Burton Chance and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hold up your heads, girls! : Helps for girls, in school and out (D. Lothrop, 1886), by Annie H. Ryder and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The girl today, the woman tomorrow (Allyn and Bacon, 1938), by Lucretia P. Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Varieties of adolescent experience (The Century co., 1926), by Evelyn Leigh Mudge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Building your girl ... (McClurg, 1911), by Kenneth H. Wayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adolescent girl, a study from the psychoanalytic viewpoint. (Dodd, 1924), by Phyllis Mary Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Girls and their problems; a manual for home economics classes (Ginn and company, 1931), by Millicent May Coss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Upbringing of daughters. (Longmans, 1917), by Catherine Durning Whetham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The girl and her religion (The Pilgrim press, 1913), by Margaret Slattery (page images at HathiTrust)
• The medical inspection of girls in secondary schools (Longmans, Green, and co., 1914), by Catherine Chisholm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Girls who did; stories of real girls and their careers (E. P. Dutton & company, 1927), by Helen Josephine Ferris and Virginia Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• For girls only : the doctor discusses the mysteries of womanhood (David McKay, 1960), by Frank Howard Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coming of age in Samoa; a psychological study of primitive youth for Western civilization. (W. Morrow, 1928), by Margaret Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Partners in play; recreation for young men and women together (National recreation association, 1934), by Mary J. Breen, Young women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National board, and National Recreation Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nos petites grand'mères. La jeune fille au XVIIIe siècle (A. Mame et fils, 1901), by Léo Claretie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The evolution of a girl's ideal, a little record of the ripening of the affections to the time of love's coming. (F. H. Revell company, 1902), by Clara E. Laughlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Happy school days (Forbes & company, 1912), by Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The girl wanted; a book of friendly thoughts (Forbes and company, 1913), by Nixon Waterman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adolescent girl; a study from the psychoanalytic viewpoint (Moffat, Yard, 1920), by Phyllis Mary Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The care of the adolescent girl; a book for teachers, parents, and guardians (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd., 1921), by Phyllis Mary Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Womanhood; hints and helps for young women. (T. Whittaker, 1895), by William Makepeace Thayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Girlhood and character (The Abingdon press, 1916), by Mary E. Moxcey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Talks to girls by one of themselves, on the difficulties, duties, and joys of a girl's life. (Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1894) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Girls: their work and influence. (W. Skeffington & Son, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die rathende Freundin; Mitgabe für junge Mädchen beim Eintritt in's Leben. (J.P. Bachem, 1893), by Marie von Lindeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Tochter in Haus und Welt. Wegweiser zur Weiterbildung nach dem Austritt aus der Schule. (Schwabacher, 1901), by Elise Roth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les conversations d'Émilie. (Maestricht, 1784), by Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles Epinay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Susan, be smooth! a hand-book of good-grooming for girls, especially girls under twenty, who want to be seen and heard. (Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1940), by Nell Giles and Winifred W. Coffin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A survey of the working experience and future plans of the girls in the secondary schools of St. Paul in relation to various educational and economic factors ([publisher not identified], 1938), by Clara Brown Arny, Agnes M. Larson, and Saint Paul (Minn.). Department of Education (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Famous girls of the White House (Thomas Y. Crowell company, 1930), by Kate Dickinson Sweetser (page images at HathiTrust)
• The girl today, The woman tomorrow (Allyn and Bacon, 1932), by Lucretia P. Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Building a girl's personality, a social psychology of later girlhood (The Abingdon press, 1932), by Ruth Shonle Cavan and Jordan T. Cavan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The girl reserve movement, a manual for advisers. (The Womans press, 1924), by Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Understanding girls. (Association Press, 1957), by Clarence G. Moser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strictly confidential (for young girls) (Board of Parish Education, 1944), by Alice M. Hustad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Susan, be smooth! a hand-book of good grooming for girls, especially girls under twenty, who want to be seen and heard. (Ralph T. Hale & co., 1944), by Nell Giles and Winifred W. Coffin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal problems of the high school girl (The Lakewood high school print shop, 1935), by Frances Sue Miller and Helen Laitem (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adolescent girls; a nation-wide study of girls between eleven and eighteen years of age made for Girls Scouts of the U.S.A. ([New York, 1957), by Girl Scouts of the United States of America and University of Michigan Survey Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• I ragazzi e la loro educazione nei proverbii italiani ... (F. Battiato, 1916), by Dino Provenzal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Go right on, girls! : Develop your bodies, your minds, your characters (D. Lothrop company, 1891), by Annie H. Ryder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The daughter at school. (Bridgman and Childs, 1865), by John Todd (page images at HathiTrust)
• If I were a girl again (F.H. Revell, 1904), by Lucy Elliot Keeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• For girls and the mothers of girls; a book for the home and the school concerning the beginnings of life (The Bobbs-Merrill company, 1914), by Mary Gould Hood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic girls; stories of girls who have influenced the history of their times (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1887), by Elbridge S. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father and daughter; a story for girls (American Medical Association Press, 1913), by Winfield Scott Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The training school of popularity; the letters of Jane Willard to Peggy MacIntyre, her adorée in high school (George H. Doran company, 1922), by Muriel White Dennis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The girl's own treasury : specially designed for the amusement and instruction of young ladies. (G. Routledge, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A longitudinal study of high school girls ̕friendship patterns, social clss, and clothing (Michigan State University, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1974), by Joanne Bubolz Eicher, Eleanor A. Kelley, and Betty Wass (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flirts: silhouettes de jeunes filles étrangères. (P.-V. Stock, 1903), by A. Monnier-Wissocq (page images at HathiTrust)
• The girl of the period and other social essays (B. Tauchnitz, 1884), by E. Lynn Linton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (B. Tauchnitz, 1904), by Kate Douglas Wiggin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bundle of letters to busy girls on practical matters (Funk & Wagnalls, 1887), by Grace Hoadley Dodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The girl wanted : a book of friendly thoughts (Forbes and company, 1919), by Nixon Waterman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anecdotes for girls : entertaining narratives and anecdotes, illustrative of principles and character (Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1853), by Harvey Newcomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal help for girls; vital help for girls from early adolescence to the dawn of young womanhood on "learning to live"; including inspiring "heart to heart talks" on choice of companions, proper conduct and dress, developing character, safeguarding reputation and promoting health, happiness, influence and power ... (The S. A. Mullikin company, 1918), by Louise Francis Spaller and Thomas W. Shannon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Talks to girls. (American Tract Society, 1891), by Eleanor A. Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Your teens and mine (Doubleday, 1961), by Eleanor Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les conversations d'Émilie. (Belin, 1788), by Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles Epinay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Health and happiness; a message to girls (Funk & Wagnalls company, 1912), by Eliza Maria Mosher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten talks to girls on health (The Womans press, 1921), by Augusta Rucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Koradine letters : a girl's own book (A.B. Stockham & Co., 1893), by Alice B. Stockham and Lida Hood Talbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tipos de apercepción en un grupo de niñas cubanas. (Imp. de "Cuba pedagógica", 1915), by Arturo Montori (page images at HathiTrust)
• The three gifts of life; a girl's responsibility for race progress (Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1918), by Nellie May Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pflege der schulentlassenen weiblichen jugend; vorbericht und verhandlungen der 6. konferenz der Zentralstelle für volkswohlfahrt in Danzig am 17. juni 1912. (C. Heymann, 1913), by Germany) Zentralstelle für Arbeiter-Wohlfahrtseinrichtungen (Germany). Konferenz 1912 : Danzig and Zentralstelle für Volkswohlfahrt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Leaders of girls (Abingdon Press, 1915), by Clara Ewing Espey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japanese girls & women. (Houghton, 1892), by Alice Mabel Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nos filles; qu'en ferons-nous? (Lévy, 1898), by Hugues Le Roux (page images at HathiTrust)
• The charm of fine manners : being a series of letters to a daughter (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1920), by Helen Ekin Starrett and J.B. Lippincott Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• While you are a girl (Pilgrim Press, 1913), by Lily Rice Foxcroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our girls (Clarke Bros., 1883), by Dio Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• A plan for a preservatory and reformatory for the benefit of deserted girls and penitent prostitutes (Printed for R. Francklin, 1990), by John Fielding (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Daughters of India (Republican-Atlas Print. Co., 1908), by Mary Jane Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• For girls only; the doctor discusses the mysteries of womanhood. (Tupper and Love, 1953), by Frank Howard Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young maids & old china (Marcus Ward & co., limited, 1888), by Francis William Bourdillon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Training the girl. (Macmillan, 1919), by William A. McKeever (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divided; the story of a poem (F.H. Revell Company, 1904), by Clara E. Laughlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young maiden's mirror. (C. Stone and Company, 1857), by E. Porter Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coming of age in Samoa; a psychological study of primitive youth for Western civilization. (Blue Ribbon books, 1932), by Margaret Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our girls and our times. (W. A. Wilde company, 1927), by Caroline French Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adolescent girl. (Dodd, Mead and company, 1926), by Phyllis Mary Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plans for 1918 (College Station, Texas : Extension Service, 1918., 1918), by Laura F. Neale, United States Department of Agriculture, and Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Extension Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Girls' 4-H Club work in Texas (College Station, Texas : Extension Service, [1938], 1938), by Onah Jacks, United States Department of Agriculture, and Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Extension Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• The upward trail. (College Station, Texas : Extension Service, 1938., 1938), by Paul W. Stauffer, Cletis Clinton, Elizabeth Harrison, Onah Jacks, United States Department of Agriculture, and Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Extension Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emotional differences of delinquent and non-delinquent girls of normal intelligence (New York, 1931), by Andrée Courthial (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zwei Mädchentagebücher (G. Fischer, 1927), by Charlotte Malachowski Buhler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Einfluss der negativen Phase auf soziales Verhalten und literarische Produktion pubertierender Mädchen (G. Fischer, 1926), by Hildegard Hetzer and Lucia Vec̆erka (page images at HathiTrust)
• Renouned history of Little Red Riding Hood (London : Printed for John Souter, at the School Library, 1819., 1819), by Edmund Hemsted and John Souter (page images at HathiTrust)
• If I were a girl. What is truth? or, Pilate's query answered. Juvenile delinquency preventive. American patriotic handbook. Guide to Scripture. (American Book Press, 1950), by Robert Newton Wilson and Harry Ivan Davidson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Finding my place; a girl's outlook on life and vocation (The Abingdon press, 1927), by Mary Eliza Moxcey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plan d'études et programmes de l'enseignement secondaire des jeunes filles. (Vuibert, 1911), by France. Ministère de l'éducation nationale (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Inasmuch; a résumé of twenty-two years in the House of Mercy (Edwin S. Gorham, 1923), by Lillian M. Yeo (page images at HathiTrust)
• If I were adviser to girls. ([Ill. Univ.], 1916), by Thomas Arkle Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The three gifts of life : a girl's responsibility for race progress (Dodd, Mead, 1936), by Nellie May Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Your roommate's roommate. ([P. Gordon], 1941), by Margueritte Harmon Bro (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Goose girl of Nürnberg (Suttonhouse, 1936), by Harriet Smith Hawley and Willy Pogány (page images at HathiTrust)
• A girl of the Limberlost (C. Scribners̓ Sons, 1916), by Gene Stratton-Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The industrial training of the girl. (Macmillan, 1914), by William A. McKeever and William A. McKeever (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farm boys and girls (Macmillan, 1913), by William A. McKeever (page images at HathiTrust)
• Womanhood in the making (New York : George H. Doran Company, [©1923], 1923), by Margaret W. Eggleston (page images at HathiTrust)
• West Side Studies: Boyhood and Lawlessness; The Neglected Girl, contrib. by Pauline Goldmark and Ruth S. True, illust. by Lewis Wickes Hine (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays, Vol. 2 (of 2), by E. Lynn Linton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays, Vol. 1 (of 2), by E. Lynn Linton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Our Girls, by Dio Lewis (Gutenberg ebook)
• Farm Boys and Girls, by William A. McKeever (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Girl in Her Teens, by Margaret Slattery (Gutenberg ebook)

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