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• The Copy-Cat & Other Stories, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The Givers, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (HTML at wilkinsfreeman.info)
• Hillsboro People, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn (Gutenberg text)
• A Humble Romance, and Other Stories, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (HTML at wilkinsfreeman.info)
• Jo's Boys, by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg text)
• The Love of Parson Lord, and Other Stories, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (HTML at wilkinsfreeman.info)
• Lovell's Folly (Cincinnati: Hubbard and Edmands, 1833), by Caroline Lee Hentz (negative page images at UNC)
• Mary Hollis: An Original Tale (New York: New York Unitarian Book Society, 1822), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (HTML and page images at Virginia)
• Meadow-Grass: Tales of New England Life, by Alice Brown (Gutenberg text)
• A New England Nun, and Other Stories, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (HTML at wilkinsfreeman.info)
• A New-England Tale: or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners (New York: E. Bliss and E. White, 1822), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (HTML at Virginia)
• Oldtown Folks (Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co., 1869), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Pink and White Tyranny: A Society Novel (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871), by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • page images at MOA
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Pot of Gold, and Other Stories, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
  • HTML at wilkinsfreeman.info
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Silence, and Other Stories, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (HTML at wilkinsfreeman.info)
• Six Trees, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (HTML at wilkinsfreeman.info)
• Tales of New England, by Sarah Orne Jewett (HTML at Coe College)
• Understudies, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (HTML at wilkinsfreeman.info)
• Young Lucretia, and Other Stories, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (HTML at wilkinsfreeman.info)
• Deephaven (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., c1905), by Sarah Orne Jewett (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Deephaven, and Selected Stories and Sketches, by Sarah Orne Jewett (Gutenberg text)
• The King of Folly Island, and Other People, by Sarah Orne Jewett (HTML at Coe College)
• Oldtown Fireside Stories (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1872), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• People of Our Neighborhood, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (HTML at wilkinsfreeman.info)
• Prudence Palfrey: A Novel (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874), by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (HTML and page images at Virginia)

• Bylow Hill, by George Washington Cable, illust. by F. C. Yohn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Tales and Sketches (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (HTML and page images at Virginia)

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• A New England Girlhood, Outlined From Memory, by Lucy Larcom (Gutenberg text)
• Among My Books (first series), by James Russell Lowell (Gutenberg text)
• Passages from the American Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1868, 1883), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. by Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
  • HTML at ibiblio.org
  • HTML with commentary at ibiblio.org

• A Modern Cinderella, or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other Stories, by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg text)

• Customs and Fashions in Old New England (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by Alice Morse Earle
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at Google
• The Sabbath in Puritan New England (seventh edition), by Alice Morse Earle (Gutenberg text)

• The Puritan in England and New England (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1896), by Ezra Hoyt Byington, contrib. by Alexander McKenzie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Puritan in England and New England (fourth edition, with a chapter on witchcraft in New England; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1900), by Ezra Hoyt Byington (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Chronicles of Quincy Adams Sawyer, Detective (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1912), by Charles Felton Pidgin and John M. Taylor, illust. by Harold James Cue (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ethelyn's Mistake, by Mary Jane Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• Ethelyn's Mistake: or, The Home in the West (New York: G. W. Carleton; London: S. Low, Son and Co., 1869), by Mary Jane Holmes (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks, by Charles Felton Pidgin (Gutenberg text)
• Home, by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (HTML and page images at Virginia)
• Jane Field, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
  • HTML at wilkinsfreeman.info
  • Gutenberg text
• A Marsh Island (book and magazine serial versions), by Sarah Orne Jewett (illustrated HTML at Coe College)
• Mercy Philbrick's Choice (1876), by Helen Hunt Jackson
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
  • Gutenberg text
• Pembroke, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
  • HTML at wilkinsfreeman.info
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Pettibone Name: A New England Story (Boston: D. Lothrop and Co., c1882), by Margaret Sidney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Portion of Labor, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
  • HTML at wilkinsfreeman.info
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks: A Picture of New England Home Life (revised edition; Boston: C. M. Clark Pub. Co., 1905), by Charles Felton Pidgin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Shoulders of Atlas: A Novel, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
  • HTML at wilkinsfreeman.info
  • Gutenberg text
• The End of the World: A Love Story (New York: O. Judd and Co., c1872), by Edward Eggleston, illust. by Frank Beard
  • HTML and page images at Virginia
  • multiple formats at Indiana
• Norwood: or, Village Life in New England (New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1868), by Henry Ward Beecher
  • HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• The Secret of Lonesome Cove (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1912), by Samuel Hopkins Adams, illust. by Frank E. Schoonover (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A White Heron, and Other Stories (some with magazine versions as well; collection published 1886), by Sarah Orne Jewett (HTML at Coe College)
• The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (Gutenberg text)
• The Ebony Idol (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1860), by Mrs. G. M. Flanders
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at Virginia
• Work: A Story of Experience (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1873), by Louisa May Alcott (page images at MOA)
• Work: A Story of Experience (1901 edition), by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg text)
• A Country Doctor, and Selected Stories and Sketches, by Sarah Orne Jewett (Gutenberg text)
• 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)
• Jo's Boys, by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg text)
• Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, by Harriet E. Wilson (Gutenberg text)

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