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Man-woman relationships in literature

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• Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Heather Dubrow (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Siren songs : gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey (University of Michigan Press, 1995), by Lillian Eileen Doherty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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

• Love for a Deaf Rebel: Schizophrenia on Bowen Island (print, ebook, and audio editions; c2021), by Derrick King (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Jane Anger, Her Protection for Women (London: Printed by R. Jones and T. Orwin, 1589), by Jane Anger (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Men, Women and Emotions (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1899), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fascinating Womanhood, or, The Art of Attracting Men: A Practical Course of Lessons in the Underlying Principles By Which Women Attract Men, Leading to the Proposal and Culminating in Marriage (8 volumes; St. Louis: The Psychology Press, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman, by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Horace Greeley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman (new and complete edition; New York: The Tribune Association, 1869), by Margaret Fuller, ed. by Arthur B. Fuller, contrib. by Horace Greeley
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• The Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeld), Including Her Autobiography (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1858), by Lola Montez and C. Chauncey Burr (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeld), Including Her Autobiography (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1859), by Lola Montez and C. Chauncey Burr (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Subjection of Women (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869), by John Stuart Mill (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Beatrice (New York : J.S. Ogilvie, Publishers, [between 1900 and 1927?], 1900), by H. Rider Haggard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gordon Keith (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903., 1903), by Thomas Nelson Page, Margaret Armstrong, George Hand Wright, Charles Scribner's Sons, and Margaret Armstrong Binding Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marianela, (W.R. Jenkins, 1903), by Benito Pérez Galdós and Louis Marie Auguste Loiseaux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Love and Mr. Lewisham (Harper & Brothers, 1900), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Francesca da Rimini (Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1902), by Gabriele D'Annunzio and Arthur Symons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aethiopicorum libri decem (Sumptibus et typis B.G. Teubneri, 1855), by Heliodorus of Emesa and Immanuel Bekker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wisdom tooth : a fantastic comedy in three acts (New York : Samuel French, [1927], 1927), by Marc Connelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indelible : a story of life, love, and music in five movements (Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922, 1922), by Elliot Paul (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Gentlemen prefer blondes" : the illuminating diary of a professional lady (Boni & Liveright, 1925), by Anita Loos, Ralph Barton, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, and Boni & Liveright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tale of Genji (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925), by Lady Shikibu Murasaki and Arthur Waley (page images at HathiTrust)
• From a girl's point of view (Harper & Brothers, 1897), by Lilian Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lavender and old lace (New York : Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, [1902], 1902), by Myrtle Reed, Margaret Armstrong, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, and Grosset & Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poet and Penelope (New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902., 1902), by L. Parry Truscott and G.P. Putnam's Sons (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lectures of Lola Montez (Countess of Landsfeld) : including her autobiography. (Rudd & Carleton, 1859), by Lola Montez and John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Göthe von 1770-1773, oder seine Beziehungen zu Friederike von Sesenheim und Werther's Lotte. (Bauer & Raspe, 1850), by Julius Merz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unhappy loves of men of genius. (Harper & Brothers, 1891), by Thomas Hitchcock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles; a pure woman faithfully presented. (A.L. Burt Company, 1921), by Thomas Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das gelehrte Grunderthum im Bunde mit den geheimen Priesterinen der Venus. (G. Wolf, 1884), by Edgar Lartney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The presumption of sex : and other papers (Lee and Shepard, 1892), by Oscar Fay Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flower of the flame (Macaulay Co., 1925), by Louise Gerard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Christmas chime : a play in one act (New York ; London : Samuel French, 1910., 1910), by Margaret Cameron (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Burning sands (Grosset & Dunlap, 1921), by Arthur E. P. Brome Weigall, George Melford, and Grosset & Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Českým ženám: nejsme s vámi spokojeni! : upřímné slovo českého muže (V Praze : Nákladem spisovatele, [between 1897 and 1918], 1897), by Václav Štech (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Carmen (London : Hutchinson & Co., [1916], 1916), by Prosper Mérimée, René Bull, and A. E. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The blue window (Philadelphia : Penn Pub. Co., 1926., 1926), by Temple Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The counterfeit wife : a sophisticated maiden's confessions censored indiscreetly (Sears Publishing Company, Inc., 1930), by James G. Dunton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties, by Marie Carmichael Stopes (Gutenberg ebook)
• Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, by Helen Rowland, illust. by Henry S. Eddy (Gutenberg ebook)
• Leiðarvísir í ástamálum: I. Karlmenn (in Icelandic), by Ingimundur Sveinsson (Gutenberg ebook)

• Modern loves : the anthropology of romantic courtship & companionate marriage (University of Michigan Press, 2006), by Holly Wardlow and Jennifer S. Hirsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Českým ženám: nejsme s vámi spokojeni! : upřímné slovo českého muže (V Praze : Nákladem spisovatele, [between 1897 and 1918], 1897), by Václav Štech (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother (original 1700; modern acting edition edited for the Snarks Ltd., 1999), by Mary Pix, ed. by Sally Scanlon (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Creditor: A Play in One Act (London: Hendersons, 1914), by August Strindberg, trans. by Horace B. Samuel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Green Stockings: A Comedy in Three Acts (New York and London: S. French, c1914), by A. E. W. Mason
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Lost Silk Hat, by Lord Dunsany (PDF at astorialand.com)
• Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy, by Bernard Shaw
  • with "Revolutionist" appendices; HTML at Bartleby
  • introduction and play only; Gutenberg text
• The Merchant Prince of Cornville: A Comedy (fourth edition; Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally and Co., ca. 1899), by Samuel Eberly Gross (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Penelope: A Comedy in Three Acts (London: W. Heinemann, 1912), by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text)
• Pygmalion, by Bernard Shaw
  • illustrated HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Sir Patient Fancy, by Aphra Behn (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• The Taming of the Shrew (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. G. Boswell-Stone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Taming of the Shrew (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Taming of the Shrew (1631 Smithwicke edition), by William Shakespeare (page images here at Penn)
• The Taming of the Shrew (with annotations and scene index), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Philip Weller (searchable HTML with commentary at Shakespeare Navigators)
• Taming of the Shrew: A Comedy by William Shakspere, As Arranged by Augustin Daly, First Produced at Daly's Theatre, January 18, 1887, Receiving its One Hundredth Representation April 13, 1887, and Here Printed from the Prompter's Copy (Centenary edition; New York: Privately printed for Mr. Daly, 1887), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Augustin Daly, contrib. by William Winter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Trysting Place: A Farce in One Act (New York and London: S. French, c1923), by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Candida, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)
• A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952), by Eugene O'Neill (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Reunion In Vienna: A Play in Three Acts (c1932), by Robert E. Sherwood (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Convent of Pleasure (as first published in 'Plays, never before printed'; London: Printed by A. Maxwell, 1668), by Margaret Cavendish Newcastle (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Marianela, (W.R. Jenkins, 1903), by Benito Pérez Galdós and Louis Marie Auguste Loiseaux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Francesca da Rimini (Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1902), by Gabriele D'Annunzio and Arthur Symons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wisdom tooth : a fantastic comedy in three acts (New York : Samuel French, [1927], 1927), by Marc Connelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The taming of the shrew : being the original of Shakespeare's 'Taming of the shrew' (Duffield ;, 1908), by William Shakespeare, W. G. Boswell-Stone, and Frederick S. Boas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• As you like it. (Yale University Press, 1919), by William Shakespeare and Jack Randall Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Midsummer-night's dream (American Book Co., 1898), by William Shakespeare and W. J. Rolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• As you like it (Clarendon press, 1876), by William Shakespeare and William Aldis Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brown of Harvard : a play in four acts (New York ; London : Samuel French, [1909], 1909), by Rida Johnson Young, Samuel French, and Roger E. Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The taming of the shrew (The Macmillan company, 1912), by William Shakespeare and Frederick Tupper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hoffnung der Frauen (Verlag Der Sturm, 1916), by Oskar Kokoschka and Verlag Der Sturm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The taming of the shrew (Methuen, 1904), by William Shakespeare and R. Warwick Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The taming of the shrew (Yale University Press; [etc., etc.], 1921), by William Shakespeare and Henry Ten Eyck Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The taming of the shrew : with the famous Temple notes (Grosset & Dunlap, 1909), by William Shakespeare, Israel Gollancz, C. H. Herford, and Henry Norman Hudson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Merchant of Venice (Lippincott, 1888), by William Shakespeare and Horace Howard Furness (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hanske skuespil (Gyldendal (F. Hegel & søn), 1883), by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panurge's sheep; a comedy in one act (S. French; [etc., etc., 1915), by Henri Meilhac, Barrett H. Clark, and Ludovic Halévy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The taming of the shrew (T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1908), by William Shakespeare, Helen A. Clarke, and Charlotte Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nora; or, A doll's house (Et dukkehjem). A play (Lily publishing house, 1890), by Henrik Ibsen and Henrietta Frances Lord (page images at HathiTrust)
• The taming of the shrew (Chatto and Windus;, 1907), by William Shakespeare and W. G. Boswell-Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Americana : a Spanish-American comedy drama in three acts, for female characters only (W.H. Baker, 1917), by Anita Bradford (page images at HathiTrust)
• His word of honor : a comedy in three acts (W.H. Baker, 1911), by Charles Gott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The merchant prince of Cornville, a comedy (Privately printed at the University press, 1896), by Samuel Eberly Gross and Stone & Kimball (page images at HathiTrust)
• A close call, a farce in one act ... (W.H. Baker, 1901), by Grace Luce Irwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alias Brown, a satirical farce in three acts (W.H. Baker, 1914), by E. J. Whisler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Christmas chime : a play in one act (New York ; London : Samuel French, 1910., 1910), by Margaret Cameron (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A kiss for Cinderella: A comedy, by J. M. Barrie (Gutenberg ebook)
• Shakespeare and His Love: A Play in Four Acts and an Epilogue, by Frank Harris (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Vortex: A Play in Three Acts, by Noel Coward (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Bill of Divorcement: A Play in Three Acts, by Clemence Dane (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Daughter of Japan, by F. D. Bone (Gutenberg ebook)
• Candida (in Finnish), by Bernard Shaw, trans. by Helmi Krohn (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dealing in Futures: A Play in Three Acts, by Harold Brighouse (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ihminen ja yli-ihminen: Komedia ja filosofia (in Finnish), by Bernard Shaw, trans. by Aino Malmberg (Gutenberg ebook)
• De getemde feeks (in Dutch), by William Shakespeare, trans. by L. A. J. Burgersdijk (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Woman of No Importance, by Oscar Wilde, ed. by Temi Rose (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lady Huntworth's Experiment: An original comedy in three acts, by R. C. Carton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Profligate: A Play in Four Acts, by Arthur Wing Pinero (Gutenberg ebook)
• Merenneito: 5-näytöksinen näytelmä (in Finnish), by Henrik Ibsen, trans. by Yrjö Koskelainen (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Belle's Stratagem, by Hannah Cowley (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Bold Stroke for a Husband: A Comedy in Five Acts, by Hannah Cowley, contrib. by Mrs. Inchbald (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ensimmäinen rakkaus: Komedia yhdessä näytöksessä (in Finnish), by Eugène Scribe, trans. by Kaarlo Slöör (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mary Broome: A Comedy, in Four Acts, by Allan Monkhouse (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Devil, by Ferenc Molnár, contrib. by Oliver Herford (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Counterfeit Presentment; and, The Parlour Car, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kuinka äkäpussi kesytetään (in Finnish), by William Shakespeare, trans. by Paavo Emil Cajander (Gutenberg ebook)
• The New Woman: An Original Comedy, in Four Acts, by Sydney Grundy (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ariadne in Mantua: A Romance in Five Acts, by Vernon Lee (Gutenberg ebook)
• La méchante femme mise à la raison: Comédie (in French), by William Shakespeare, trans. by François Guizot (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Easiest Way: Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911, by Eugene Walter (Gutenberg ebook)

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