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• Marriage proposals -- Drama
• Marriage proposals -- Fiction

• Proposals of marriage

• A Proposal Under Difficulties: A Farce (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1905), by John Kendrick Bangs (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Tale of Red Roses (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1914), by George Randolph Chester (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-Making (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1894), by Annie S. Swan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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)
• This Passion Called Love (Auburn, NY: Authors' Press, c1925), by Elinor Glyn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era, 1900-1930 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Dan Azoulay (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era, 1900-1930 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Dan Azoulay (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare (HTML at folger.edu)
• Much Ado About Nothing (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• Much Ado About Nothing (with annotations and scene index), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Philip Weller (HTML at Shakespeare Navigators)
• Much Adoe About Nothing (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. G. Boswell-Stone, contrib. by F. W. Clarke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)
• Quality Street: A Comedy (New York: C. Scribners Sons, 1920), by J. M. Barrie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Quality Street: A Comedy (New York: C. Scribners Sons, 1923), by J. M. Barrie (Gutenberg text)

• Drawing Rooms, Second Floor, and Attics: A Farce, in One Act (London: T. H. Lacy, ca. 1864), by John Maddison Morton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Man of Mode: or, Sir Fopling Flutter, by George Etherege (HTML at Bibliomania)

• Ayala's Angel (3 volumes in 1; London: Chapman and Hall, 1881), by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)

• Joseph Vance: An Ill-Written Autobiography (New York: H. Holt and Co., c1906), by William De Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Belinda, by Maria Edgeworth (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Flirt, by Booth Tarkington (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Simple Case of Susan (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1908), by Jacques Futrelle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Marion's Faith (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1890), by Charles King (Gutenberg text)
• Miss Mackenzie, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Second Floor Mystery: Photoplay Title of The Agony Column (with illustrations from the Warner Bros. film; bound also with Fifty Candles; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, ca. 1930), by Earl Derr Biggers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Agony Column, by Earl Derr Biggers (Gutenberg text)
• The American, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• A Cathedral Courtship (illustrations omitted; London: Gay and Bird, 1893), by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Gutenberg text)
• A Cathedral Courtship (London: Gay and Bird, 1901), by Kate Douglas Wiggin, illust. by C. E. Brock (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Chronicles of the Imp: A Romance (new and cheaper edition; London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1915), by Jeffery Farnol (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Eustace Diamonds, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Eustace Diamonds (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912), by Anthony Trollope, illust. by George Willis Bardwell (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen (London: Holden and Hardingham, 1913), by Sybil G. Brinton (Gutenberg text)
• Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
  • illustrated hypertext at pemberley.com
  • searchable HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text and audio readings
• Pride and Prejudice: A Novel in Two Volumes (third edition; London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1817), by Jane Austen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Chronicles of the Imp: A Romance (new and cheaper edition; London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1915), by Jeffery Farnol (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Coelebs in Search of a Wife (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1859), by Hannah More (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Transformation of Philip Jettan (based on the 1923 edition published under Heyer's "Stella Martin" pseudonym), by Georgette Heyer, illust. by J. C. Leyendecker (Gutenberg text)
• Emma, by Jane Austen
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Emma (based on the 1896 Macmillan edition), by Jane Austen, contrib. by Austin Dobson, illust. by Hugh Thomson (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Lady Susan, by Jane Austen
  • HTML with commentary at pemberley.com
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen (London: Holden and Hardingham, 1913), by Sybil G. Brinton (Gutenberg text)

• Oliver of the Mill: A Tale (Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1876), by Maria Louisa Charlesworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1898), by Kirk Munroe, illust. by W. A. Rogers (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The End of a Coil (London: J. Nisbet and Co., ca. 1880), by Susan Warner (Gutenberg text)
• The Flower Princess (with "The Little Friend", "The Mermaid's Child", and "The Ten Blowers"; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1904), by Abbie Farwell Brown
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Laddie (ca. 1894), by Evelyn Whitaker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lily and the Cross: A Tale of Acadia (Boston: Lee and Shepard, c1874), by James De Mille
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Pretty Sister of José (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland (London: Longmans, Green and Co., n.d.), by Andrew Lang, illust. by Richard Doyle and Edmund Evans (page images at ufl.edu)
• A Roman Reporter (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; et al., ca. 1893), by Arthur Aikin Brodribb (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• "Sister": A Chronicle of Fair Haven (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1898), by Evelyn Everett-Green (page images at Florida)
• Tip Cat (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1884), by Evelyn Whitaker (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.