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• The Old Man's Youth (London: W. Heinemann, 1921), by William De Morgan and Evelyn De Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• After Dark (1st edition, 2 volumes; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1856), by Wilkie Collins (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Dilemmas: Stories and Studies in Sentiment (London: E. Mathews; New York: F. A. Stokes, 1895), by Ernest Christopher Dowson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts: A Book of Stories, by Arthur Quiller-Couch (Gutenberg text)
• Richmond: or, Scenes in the Life of a Bow Street Operator (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1827)
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google
• Beechcroft at Rockstone, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Heir of Redclyffe, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• Anne Grey: A Novel (3 volumes; London: Saunders and Otley, 1834), by Mrs. Cradock, ed. by T. H. Lister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ayala's Angel (3 volumes in 1; London: Chapman and Hall, 1881), by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• Born In Exile, by George Gissing
  • HTML at victorian-studies.net
  • Gutenberg text
• Bracebridge Hall (London: MacMillan and Co., 1877), by Washington Irving, illust. by Randolph Caldecott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Bracebridge Hall: or, The Humorists (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v6; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
• Easy Money: The Genuine Book of Henry Mitch, His Diligent Search for Other Folk's Wealth, and His Urgent Fear of the Feminine (London: Grant Richards, 1908), by Bertram Atkey, illust. by G. L. Stampa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Godolphin, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Gutenberg text)
• The Grey Woman, and Other Tales (London: Smith Elder and Co., 1865), by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Half a Life-Time Ago, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Gutenberg text)
• Henrietta's Wish, by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • HTML at Indiana
  • Gutenberg text
• Hopes and Fears: or, Scenes from the Life of a Spinster (London and New York: Macmillan, 1899), by Charlotte M. Yonge, illust. by Herbert Gandy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Lizzie Leigh, and Other Tales (new edition, with four illustrations; London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1889), by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Magnum Bonum: or, Mother Carey's Brood, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• Modern Broods: or, Developments Unlooked For, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Moorland Cottage, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (HTML at victorian-studies.net)
• Penelope's English Experiences, by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (Gutenberg text)
• The Pillars of the House: or, Under Wode, Under Rode (2 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co., 1875), by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• Scenes and Characters: or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft (fifth edition; London and New York: Macmillan, 1889), by Charlotte M. Yonge, illust. by William John Hennessy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Scenes of Clerical Life, by George Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• A Secret Inheritance (3 volumes; London: Ward and Downey, 1887), by B. L. Farjeon
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google
• The Semi-Attached Couple, by Emily Eden (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Semi-Detached House, by Emily Eden (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Thinks I-to-Myself: A Serio-Ludicro, Tragico-Comico Tale, Written by Thinks-I-to-Myself Who? (4th edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1811), by Edward Nares (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Two Sides of the Shield, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Uncommercial Traveller, by Charles Dickens, illust. by Harry Furniss and Arthur Jule Goodman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Unkind Word, and Other Stories (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1870), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Yellow Face (New York: R. F. Fenno and Co.; London: F. V. White and Co., c1907), by Fred M. White (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Beth Book: Being a Study from the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius (London: W. Heinemann, 1898), by Sarah Grand (HTML at Emory)
• The Castle Builders (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1864), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Chantry House (London and New York: Macmillan, 1905), by Charlotte M. Yonge, illust. by William John Hennessy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Charles Tyrrell: or, The Bitter Blood (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1855), by G. P. R. James (both volumes: Gutenberg text)
• Founded on Paper: or, Uphill and Downhill Between the Two Jubilees (New York: T. Whittaker, 1897), by Charlotte M. Yonge, illust. by W. S. Stacey
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Hilda Lessways, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• Lady Hester: or, Ursula's Narrative, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• My Young Alcides: A Faded Photograph, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton, by George Eliot, contrib. by Grace Little Rhys (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Strolling Players: A Harmony of Contrasts (London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1893), by Charlotte M. Yonge and Christabel R. Coleridge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• That Stick (London and New York: Macmillan, 1892), by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Three Brides, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• The Vision Splendid (London: J. Murray, 1913), by D. K. Broster and G. Winifred Taylor (Gutenberg text)
• Lizzie Leigh, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Gutenberg text)
• The Poacher, by Frederick Marryat (Gutenberg text)
• Heartsease, or The Brother's Wife, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)
• 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)
• A Life for a Life (3 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1859), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Life for a Life (New York: Carleton, 1866), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

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