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• Mrs. Dalloway (1925), by Virginia Woolf (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Circular Staircase (New York: Review of Reviews Co., c1908), by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Circular Staircase (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1908), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by Lester Ralph (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Young Women Past Forty: A Modern Sex and Health Primer of the Critical Years (New York: Herald Pub. Co., c1934), by Edward Podolsky (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Convert (main text from Women's Press reprint, 1980), by Elizabeth Robins (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Awakening of Helena Richie, by Margaret Deland (Gutenberg text)
• The Convert (New York: Macmillan, 1913), by Elizabeth Robins (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (facsimile of 1621 edition; with Pamphilia to Amphilanthus appended), by Mary Wroth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dernières Lettres de Femmes (in French; Paris: A. Lemerre, 1897), by Marcel Prévost (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Flaming Youth (published under "Warner Fabian" pseudonym; New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (Gutenberg text)
• A Flash of Summer: The Story of a Simple Woman's Life (London: Methuen and Co., 1895), by Mrs. Clifford (HTML at Emory)
• The Foolish Virgin, by Thomas Dixon (Gutenberg text)
• The Foolish Virgin: A Romance of Today (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1915), by Thomas Dixon, illust. by Walter Tittle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Gossip's Story, and a Legendary Tale (second edition, 2 volumes in 1; London: Printed for T. N. Longman, 1797), by Jane West (page images at Google)
• Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Julia: A Novel, Interspersed With Some Poetical Pieces (2 volumes; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1790), by Helen Maria Williams (HTML at Michigan)
• Letters of Women (New York: Meyer Bros. and Co., 1897), by Marcel Prévost, trans. by Arthur Hornblow
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Lettres de Femmes (in French; Paris: A. Lemerre, 1892), by Marcel Prévost (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft (Gutenberg text)
• Mary: A Fiction, by Mary Wollstonecraft (Gutenberg text)
• Mizora: A Prophecy (New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1890), by Mary E. Bradley Lane (Gutenberg text and page images)
• New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (London: Tower Pub. Co.; Newcastle-on-Tyne: Lambert and Co., ca. 1889), by Mrs. George Corbett (Gutenberg text)
• Nouvelles Lettres de Femmes (in French; Paris: A. Lemerre, n.d.), by Marcel Prévost (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Silent Struggles (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1865), by Ann S. Stephens
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Simply Women: Selections from the Works of Marcel Prévost (New York: Macaulat, 1910), by Marcel Prévost, trans. by R. I. Brandon-Vauvillez (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "The Ladies!" A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, by L. Adams Beck (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Women (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1925), by Booth Tarkington (Gutenberg text)
• Meanwhile: The Picture of a Lady (c1927), by H. G. Wells (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Arqtiq: A Story of the Marvels at the North Pole (1899), by Anna Adolph
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Beulah, by Augusta J. Evans (Gutenberg text)
• The Cottagers of Glenburnie; With a Memoir of the Life of the Author (London and Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers. 1859), by Elizabeth Hamilton (page images at Google)
• The Dangerous Age: Letters and Fragments from a Woman's Diary (New York: John Lane Company, 1911), by Karin Michaëlis, contrib. by Marcel Prévost
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Diplomatic Woman (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1900), by Huan Mee
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Female Quixote: or, The Adventures of Arabella, by Charlotte Lennox (multiple formats with commentary at girlebooks.com)
• The Female Quixote: or, The Adventures of Arabella (second edition, 2 volumes; London: A. Millar, 1752), by Charlotte Lennox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Female Quixote, or, The Adventures of Arabella (text from an 1810 edition and illustrations from a 1799 edition), by Charlotte Lennox, ed. by Mrs. Barbauld, illust. by Richard Corbould and Thomas Kirk (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Lilian (London et al.: Cassell and Co., c1922), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• The White Riband: or, A Young Female's Folly (New York: G. H. Doran Co., 1921), by F. Tennyson Jesse (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Victory: An Island Tale (London: Methuen and Co., 1917), by Joseph Conrad (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Victory: An Island Tale (with an author's note from 1920), by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)

• Vernon's Aunt, Being the Oriental Experiences of Miss Lavinia Moffit (London: Chatto & Windus, 1894), by Sara Jeannette Duncan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ave Maria: A Tale (1895), by Marie Louise Burgess (text at Github)

• The Masked Woman (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1920), by Johnston McCulley, illust. by Paul Stahr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jew Detective: or, The Beautiful Convict (Beadle's New York Dime Library #662; New York: Beadle and Adams, 1891), by Prentiss Ingraham (mlutiple foramts at niu.edu)

• Anno Domini 2000: or, Woman's Destiny (London: Hutchinson, 1889), by Julius Vogel
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Josiah Allen on the Woman Question (New York et al.: F. H. Revell Co., c1914), by Marietta Holley
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (London: Tower Pub. Co.; Newcastle-on-Tyne: Lambert and Co., ca. 1889), by Mrs. George Corbett (Gutenberg text)
• Terrania: or, The Feminization of the World (Boston: Christopher Publishing House, c1930), by Columbus Bradford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Behind a Mask: or, A Woman's Power, by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg text)
• The Crux: A Novel (New York: Charlton Company, 1911), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Interior Life (with other writings; originally published 1990 under "Katherine Blake" pseudonym; revised version c2016), by Dorothy J. Heydt (multiple formats with commentary at kithrup.com)
• Princess of Wands (included on the Unto the Breach Baen CD image; c2006), by John Ringo
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 190 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 190 MB

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