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• Agnes Grey, by Anne Brontë
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML with numbered paragraphs at victorian-studies.net
• 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)
• Mademoiselle Ixe (London: T. F. Unwin, 1891), by Lanoe Falconer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Gutenberg text)
• Anne Hereford (3 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1868), by Mrs. Henry Wood
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• Miss Bunting (c1945), by Angela Thirkell (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• East Lynne, by Mrs. Henry Wood (Gutenberg text)

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• Explorers of the Dawn (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1922), by Mazo De la Roche, contrib. by Christopher Morley
  • Gutenberg text and page images
  • multiple formats at Google
• The Children of Wilton Chase, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Esther: A Book for Girls, by Rosa Nouchette Carey (Gutenberg text)
• Katy's Christmas (volume 1 of The Doll's Club series; Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1871), by Virginia W. Johnson (illustrated HTML at readseries.com)
• Julia Maitland: or, Pride Goes Before a Fall (London: Griffith and Farran; New York, E. P. Dutton and Co., 1882), by Mary Kirby and Elizabeth Kirby, illust. by John Absolon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mrs. Leonowens (Montreal: Gazette Printing Co., ca. 1915), by John Macnaughton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok (Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co., 1870), by Anna Harriette Leonowens
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok, by Anna Harriette Leonowens (Gutenberg text)

• Mrs. Leonowens (Montreal: Gazette Printing Co., ca. 1915), by John Macnaughton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok (Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co., 1870), by Anna Harriette Leonowens
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok, by Anna Harriette Leonowens (Gutenberg text)

• Misreading Jane Eyre: A Postformalist Paradigm (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1996), by Jerome Beaty (PDF at Ohio State)

• Decline and Fall (revised edition, c1962), by Evelyn Waugh (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Little Demon (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1916), by Fyodor Sologub, trans. by John Cournos and Richard Aldington
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• The Woman in White (novel), by Wilkie Collins
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
  • PDF at gasl.org

• Self Condemned (c1954), by Wyndham Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Christopher Quarles, College Professor and Master Detective (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1914), by Percy James Brebner (Gutenberg text)
• The Professor's House (1925), by Willa Cather (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Blind Spot, by Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint, contrib. by Forrest J. Ackerman (Gutenberg text)
• That Hideous Strength (c1945), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Perelandra (c1943), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Out of the Silent Planet (c1938), by C. S. Lewis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Thinking Machine: Being a True and Complete Statement of Several Intricate Mysteries Which Came Under the Observation of Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., M.D., Etc. (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1907), by Jacques Futrelle, illust. by Troy Kinney and Margaret West Kinney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thinking Machine on the Case (without frontispiece; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1908), by Jacques Futrelle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cunning Workmen (Boston: Lothrop Pub. Co., c1875), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hay-Wire (1928), by B. M. Bower (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Villette, by Charlotte Brontë
  • HTML at victorian-studies.net
  • Gutenberg text
• Villette ("by Currer Bell"; New York: Harper and Bros., 1855), by Charlotte Brontë (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Villette (illustrated edition; New York: Harper and Bros., n.d.), by Charlotte Brontë (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Professor, by Charlotte Brontë
  • HTML at victorian-studies.net
  • Gutenberg text
• The Professor (with The Poems of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869), by Charlotte Brontë, contrib. by Anne Brontë and Emily Brontë (page images at HathiTrust)

• Regiment of Women (New York et al.: Macmillan, 1922), by Clemence Dane (Gutenberg text)
• Regiment of Women (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by Clemence Dane (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Longest Journey, by E. M. Forster (Gutenberg text)

• The Peacemaker (1934), by C. S. Forester (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana, Revised With an Introduction and Notes on the District by the Author (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1871), by Edward Eggleston, illust. by Frederick Burr Opper and William Edward Bloomfield Starkweather (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana, Revised With an Introduction and Notes on the District by the Author (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1899), by Edward Eggleston, illust. by Frederick Burr Opper and William Edward Bloomfield Starkweather (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Botchan (Master Darling), by Sōseki Natsume, trans. by Yasotaro Mori (Gutenberg text)

• Kilmeny of the Orchard (New York: A. L. Burt, c1910), by L. M. Montgomery
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text

• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (published under "John Milton Edwards" pen name; Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org

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